"Galactic Good Guy Learns a Lesson"
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What You Need To Know:
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND is a funny movie with a great story and a lesson in teamwork. Tim Allen as Buzz does a fantastic job making his character come alive, merely using his voice. Though moral and quite humorous, even for adults, there are some mildly questionable elements, including cartoon violence. Phrases like “jim crappin’ dandy” are few, though out of place. Thus, MOVIEGUIDE® recommends discernment for some younger children
Content:
(BBB, Pa, L, VV, MM) Moral worldview of characters fighting against evil with one character having the ability to walk through walls & talk of a “unimind” among alien creatures; no obscenities or profanities but 4 uses of “blast!” & some questionable phrases like “that’s stupid,” “stinkin’ buckethead,” “sweet mother of Venus,” & “jim crappin’ dandy”; moderate cartoon violence including explosions & machines firing at spacemen, man trapped underneath beam, implied death in explosion, depicted enemy creatures falling, man blasted in chest but no depicted wounds, & lazer gun battles; no sex or nudity, but robot is shown reading “Victoria’s Circuits,” a comic reference to a well-known lingerie magazine in the real world; and, deception later rebuked, revenge & some mild self-realization elements.
More Detail:
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND is a direct-to-video release, partnered with a cartoon television series. Although the video doesn’t have the unique animation of its popular TOY STORY predecessors, the plot and voice talents of Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear keep much of the quality.
In the first scene, TOY STORY favorites, Hamm, Woody, Rex and the others, joke lightheartedly about Buzz’s new video (interestingly, Woody is voiced by Jim Hanks, brother of Tom Hanks). They put the movie into the VCR, and they see Buzz at his headquarters known as Star Command trying to help the LGMs (the Little Green Men). The tiny aliens are distressed because the evil Zurg (voiced by Wayne Knight of TV’s SEINFELD who played the evil toy collector in TOY STORY 2) has captured three other LGMs and is testing them, trying to find out how they are all linked together emotionally. Three LGMs, feeling the pain of their counterparts, stow away on Buzz’s spaceship. When Buzz and his partner, Warp Darkmatter (voiced by Deidrich Bader), arrive at one of Zurg’s hideouts, they find the captured LGMs, but as they leave, an explosion traps Warp, and Buzz returns to Star Command without a partner.
Devastated, Buzz refuses to accept a new partner appointed to him by Commander Nebula (voiced by Adam Carolla). This new partner, Mira Nova (voiced by Nicole Sullivan), is from Tangia, and has “ghosting power” that enables her to pass through walls. She reminds Buzz that it is Star Command regulation for space rangers to have backup on their missions, but her words fall on deaf ears. He does accept a robot ranger, however, named XR or “experimental robot.” Built by the LGMs, XR copies and repeats everything Buzz does, much to his annoyment. However, when Zurg steals the LGM’s “Unimind,” Buzz learns a lesson not only in fighting for justice, but fighting for it with friends.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND is a funny movie with a great story and a lesson in teamwork. Tim Allen as Buzz does a fantastic job making his character come alive, merely using his voice. Though moral and quite humorous, even for adults, there are some mildly questionable elements. Phrases like “jim crappin’ dandy” are few, though out of place. Thus, MOVIEGUIDE® recommends discernment for some younger children, including regarding the cartoon violence.
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