And look at the years that same Screenrant article tries put each into to make each "make sense":
The biggest mistake of Toy Story 4 was naming it Toy Story 4.
Because the title is not creative or because it had almost none of the previous characters and it completely ruined the message/theme of the previous 3 movies?
The ladder. I think the movie was fine but it failed to give us a satisfying story from beginning to end. The filmmakers ditched the original characters to focus on a new set of characters that didn't have much going for them, at least not enough for me to care. The message was one of maturing and moving on which I am 50/50 on. There's a life lesson to be told in each Toy Story film.
While I thought 4 was not great and I've had zero desire to watch it again. Personally I think the end of 3 is where the series went wrong. Toy story 2 established that Woody is an "old family toy". The way Andys mom says it in that scene tells me it's been in the family for years. But at the end he is just given to some kid. Made worse by the fact that Emily ends up not caring about him in 4. Toy story 3 should have ended with Andy pulling Woody out of storage and handing him to his kid. I know, way too much thought about a movie with toys that are alive. Lol
To be fair, Andy wanted to bring Woody to college with him but Woody made the decision to get in the box with the other toys. He has to let Andy go. Pretty beautiful and perfect for me.
