Tag: Tim Allen

Bringing Christmas spirit to a cold, corporate world, The Santa Clause brings gooey sentimentality to a family story, but that works in context.

With more energy and brazen story ideas, Santa Clause 2 isn't a great movie, but embraces escapism to tell a unique Christmas tale.

The better of the two sequels, The Santa Clause 3 brings the series' themes to a proper close, even if the humor only rises to a sitcom level.

Plush Rush For the fourth time, the characters of Toy Story face abandonment. They end up lost, accidentally separated from their kid, and spend the rest of Toy Story …

Poisoning the Water Hole Some two decades after Star Wars upended the film industry and setting in place the summer blockbuster, Toy Story produced a similar cascading effect. American …

Poultry Man Between Toy Story’s 1995 release and Toy Story 2 in 1999, the internet happened to the collector’s market. At once, a litany of classic items became available …

To College and Beyond Toy Story is about Andy. The whole series. Woody and Buzz Lightyear sell action figures, but Andy sells the series’ heart. For three films, Andy …

This is fresh, peppy entertainment for kids

Toy Story 3 loves that nostalgia people already have for this franchise.

How any film about talking toys could possibly elicit a strong sense of happiness and sadness is baffling. Leave it to Pixar.

Think back briefly to 1995, where home computers were just moving away from the dinosaur that was Windows 3.1, and video gamers were just getting into 3-D with the …

A truly hardened, experienced, and involved geek will tell you “Never give up, and never surrender.”