
It’s honestly a gambit - taking a fictional movie-within-a-movie and making it real - that I’ve wanted to see attempted before.

We aren’t exactly through the looking glass, but we may be through the Happy Meal. It’s a potentially clever bit of reverse engineering by the Walt Disney Co., which, after decades of growing merchandizing out of its films, has reversed course. It isn’t a prequel to “Toy Story,“ exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio’s flagship franchise.


“In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie.
