Lightyear’s First Teaser Trailer Is Giving Captain Marvel

The concept of Pixar returning to the world of Toy Story with the intention to dig deeper into the lives of flesh and blood people may not sound like probably the most promising premise on its face, however the first teaser trailer for director Angus McClain’s Lightyear makes it looks like the studio’s discovered a approach to pull the idea off.

Though Buzz Lightyear was only a (very fancy) toy when he was first launched in Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story again in 1995, Lightyear tells the story of the dwelling (although fictional) astronaut whose adventures into area impressed the motion determine line. In this Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans), you may see bits and items of the outsized, cartoonish character the entire Buzz Lightyear dolls right here imbued with within the Toy Story films. But the teaser provides you extra of a way of the place these facets of Lightyear’s identification come from, and what it was about him particularly that made toy producers wish to flip him right into a fast-selling collectible.

What’s form of humorous, and never all that shocking in regards to the teaser is how a lot of Lightyear’s gags and plot factors seem to have been a minimum of partially impressed by Marvel Studio’s Captain Marvel, which drew inspiration from movies like Top Gun. Though Toy Story’s signature three-eyed aliens don’t make appearances, we’re proven temporary glimpses of different Star Command officers, a robotic ginger cat Buzz appears to befriend, and a handful of beautiful photographs of him launching into area to seemingly slingshot round a neighborhood star.

The cat and photographs of Lightyear frantically making an attempt to take care of a swarm of tentacles making an attempt to eat him each really feel like nods to Captain Marvel, a company cousin to Lightyear, which is…tremendous. But one can solely hope that the film is sparing in these sorts of references, as a result of the film feels prefer it has the potential to be one thing fairly visually spectacular and narratively intriguing— significantly if the film finally ends up being extra of a deep dive into what sort of individual Buzz Lightyear actually was past his fame and outsized chin.

Lightyear blasts into theaters on June 17, 2022.

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