Factual error: The film gets basic physics wrong while trying to depict relativity. Buzz Lightyear leaves T'Kani Prime for a trip around its sun, travels with near-light speed, and returns four years later. This could only have happened if T'Kani Prime's sun were at least two lightyears away! It gets more ridiculous. Buzz's last trip takes 26 years, even though he has traveled at faster-than-light speed. Overall, T'Kani Prime is experiencing either a mysterious time slow-down or a rapid orbit expansion.
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I watched this movie on Disney +.
This movie doesn't know what it wants to be. And I mean that from a lore perspective. This is supposed to be the movie that Andy watched as a kid in the 90s to have his Buzz Lightyear toy from and be a fan of. Yet it was already established that the cartoon series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was supposed to be the show that Andy watched and liked the toy from. This film tries retcon that and be that original film. However this fails at feeling like a 90s movie at all. Including injecting modern political propaganda into it. Believe what you will one way or the other on having a lesbian couple have a child in a sci-fi future in modern movies, whatever. But there is absolutely no way that such a thing would have been in a 90s or even late 80s kids film that Andy would have watched.
The plot of the film doesn't make much sense, and it really diminishes Buzz as a hero. He's not an action star like he's supposed to be, kicking but and taking name against alien forces. No he's a guy who fails his mission, gets his whole crew stranded on a planet, then fails multiple attempts at going into light speed where he screws up time and watches everybody he knows die of old age while he continues to fail and fail and fail. Wow, great hero for Andy to look up to there.
Then the twist with Zurg at the end is extremely stupid and opens up so many time traveling plot holes that it would make Doc Brown's head spin.
Then there's the fact they shafted Tim Allen for this film. Sure, Chris Evans actually does a pretty good job in the role all things considered. He even kinda sounds like a younger Tim Allen. But it's not Allen, and he would be your selling point for the film. He's been loved in the role since the 90s and recasting him was one of Disney's biggest mistakes with this movie. That no doubt hurt the film.
in the end, this film bastardizes Toy Story lore, it neuters Buzz as a hero, it tries to force political propaganda in that doesn't fit, it creates gaping time travel plot holes, and it shafted the lead actor who should have voiced Buzz.
it's a bad movie. Easy 2 out of 5 stars.
Mistake Status: I might do it some day. Low priority.
More mistakes in Lightyear
Trivia: Spoiler! There is a mid-credits scene with Commander Burnside. He is complimenting his space shield that also zaps giant bugs.
Question: How is it that Old Buzz doesn't know who Izzy is? Since Buzz knows everything and everyone, shouldn't Old Buzz also have the same knowledge?
Answer: While he would have been "introduced" to her prior to the last voyage, it was the same way that the current Buzz was introduced to her. Through the video that Hawthorne left him. Old Buzz didn't get to know Izzy the same way current Buzz did. Because of that, he just wanted to complete his original mission. He didn't care that his best friend was able to move on and have a family, he just wanted to get everyone home even though they had all moved on.