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Toy Story 2 (1999)
Home Media & Streaming Options
“The toys are back!”
Storyline
While Andy is away at summer camp, Woody gets accidentally snatched by Al McWhiggin, a greedy toy collector and owner of Al’s Toy Barn, who recognizes the cowboy as an incredibly rare, multi-million dollar vintage asset. Taken to Al’s apartment penthouse, Woody discovers his hidden media lineage as the star of the 1950s TV show *Woody’s Roundup*, meeting his collection peers: Jessie the cowgirl, Bullseye the horse, and Stinky Pete the Prospector. As Al plans to sell the complete collection ledger to a museum registry in Tokyo, Buzz Lightyear leads a high-stakes tactical rescue mission across urban streets, toy stores, and airport luggage matrices to bring Woody back to Andy’s room.
Vocal Performance Cast
Trivia & Production History
- The Direct-to-Video Rescue: In a legendary piece of studio history, Disney originally ordered the project to be manufactured as a cheap, 60-minute direct-to-video asset. Recognizing the exceptional quality of the early layouts, Pixar executives fought to expand it into a full-scale, theatrical widescreen release.
- The Historic 9-Month Remake: After a creative overhaul completely scrapped the original script late in the production pipeline, Pixar teams pulled off a brutal engineering miracle, rebuilding, re-rendering, and finishing the entire movie from scratch in just nine months to hit its original 1999 Thanksgiving launch window.
- The Heartbreaking Song Masterpiece: Sarah McLachlan’s performance of Randy Newman’s “When She Loved Me” redefined emotional tracking in animated films, securing a Grammy Award and establishing massive long-tail pop culture relevance for Jessie’s backstory.
- Flawless Critical Reception Baseline: The sequel achieved a incredibly rare, permanent milestone in entertainment tracking registries, launching as one of the few cinematic features to maintain a 100% “Fresh” rating configuration on Rotten Tomatoes with hundreds of indexed reviews.
Box Office Performance Metrics
| Production Capital Footprint | $90,000,000 |
| Opening Weekend Chart Gross (US) | $57,388,839 |
| Worldwide Cumulative Payload | $497,366,869 (Massive leap over the 1995 original baseline) |
The Trailer
A Still from the Movie
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