PixMix Episode 30: Lightyear

In this episode of PixMix, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2022 Pixar film Lightyear, a spinoff film from the Toy Story franchise that focuses on the origins on Buzz Lightyear. Buzz and his commanding officer Alisha Hawthorne are exploring a planet to find life, but danger lurks with a monster plant is threatening the lives of the Space Rangers and sinking their ship, Buzz tries to escape by himself ending up being marooned with no escape. Feeling guilty, Buzz volunteers to test traveling into hyperspace to find a way to leave the planet. However, minutes in hyperspace took years and Buzz tries over and over until decades passed with no luck. Buzz's recent test has him meeting up with Izzy Hawthorne, Alisha's granddaughter and her two teammates Mo Morrison and Darby Steel. They're trying to attack the Evil Emperor Zurg's ship and return to their colony. Buzz accompanies them and learns to work together as a team. When the film premiered in theaters, it had mixed opinions and became one of the lowest grossing Pixar films on its opening weekend. Pixar and Disney had hoped that this would be its big theatrical comeback after two years and three films released on Disney+ due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was crushed due to other films such as Jurassic World: Dominion, Top Gun: Maverick, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and The Bad Guys being out around the same time. It became even worse when The Minions: Rise of Gru was released a month later. What did Patricia and Arun think of the film? Listen and find out.