What Pixars FIRST Buzz Lightyear Movie Reveals About 2022s Lightyear

What Pixar’s FIRST Buzz Lightyear Movie Reveals About 2022’s Lightyear

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Pixar is giving Buzz Lightyear a proper origin story in 2022’s Lightyear, but it’s not the first movie based around the Toy Story character.

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What Pixars FIRST Buzz Lightyear Movie Reveals About 2022s Lightyear

Pixar is delivering a Buzz Lightyear prequel film in 2022 with Lightyear, but this won’t be the first time the popular Toy Story character has starred in his own movie. All the way back in the year 2000, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios produced an animated direct-to-video film entitled Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, which kicked off a short-lived cartoon on UPN and ABC. While that film has been largely lost to time, it looks like the new Lightyear movie is taking inspiration from it in a few key ways.

When Pixar first broke out onto the cinematic stage in 1995 with the first of the Toy Story movies, Buzz Lightyear became an instant hit. The space toy who believed he was a spaceman, only to fall down a hole of existential crisis and eventually find new purpose as part of a child’s life was compelling, innovative, and thoroughly entertaining to watch. Buzz’s arc through the various sequels was equally fun to watch, and the character has sat comfortably in the upper echelon of beloved movie characters for decades.

Now, with the upcoming release of Lightyear, Buzz’s canonical backstory will finally be explored. There are some notable changes already, such as the fact that this will be the story of Buzz the character, not Buzz the toy, and that Lightyear has been recast from Tim Allen to Chris Evans. However, the new movie is still taking plenty from Toy Story, as well as from the forgotten Buzz Lightyear movie Disney and Pixar released in 2000.

Pixar’s Forgotten Buzz Lightyear Movie Explained

What Pixars FIRST Buzz Lightyear Movie Reveals About 2022s Lightyear

In the year 2000, Pixar was on a hot streak. The studio had just released Toy Story 2, its biggest film yet, to widespread acclaim, solidifying Pixar as one of the most exciting names in animation. It would continue its string of hits with 2001’s Monsters, Inc., 2003’s Finding Nemo, and 2004’s The Incredibles. However, before those films were released, Pixar took a slight detour to co-develop a Buzz Lightyear spinoff movie with Disney Animation Studios. The idea was to show the sci-fi lore hinted at in the Toy Story films, answering questions about the Buzz Lightyear character and setting up a cartoon that would develop that world even further.

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The result was Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins – a 70-minute, direct-to-video animated feature showing Buzz’s ongoing battle with the evil Emperor Zurg. The film was the first and only direct-to-video movie Pixar has ever worked on, and it received a far less positive reception than either of the preceding Toy Story movies. The TV series that spawned from the film, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, was also short-lived, running for less than six months. Allen returned to voice Buzz Lightyear in the film, starring alongside a supporting cast that included Patrick Warburton, Adam Corolla, and Wayne Knight as Lightyear’s nemesis, the evil Emperor Zurg.

What Happened In Disney’s Original Buzz Lightyear Movie

What Pixars FIRST Buzz Lightyear Movie Reveals About 2022s Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins isn’t so much an origin story as it is a story about life in the Universe Protection Unit. At the start of the film, Buzz is already one of the most awarded and respected members of the Star Command. He and his partner, Warp Darkmatter (Diedrich Bader), launch an infiltration mission on one of Zurg’s secret labs to save some of the Little Green Men – a hivemind species with close ties to Star Command. Buzz and Warp successfully find the LGMs and are about to get away when Zurg triggers a self-destruct sequence, trapping Warp in a pile of rubble and presumably killing him with the explosion.

Devastated and riddled with survivor’s guilt, Buzz swears that he’ll never take on another partner, and that he’ll strictly be a lone wolf for Star Command. The upcoming Chris Evans movie looks like it will focus more on Buzz’s early days in the corps — although for most of the original film, he’s a jaded, pessimistic veteran. Over time, Star Command’s higher-ups recommend a number of potential partners for Buzz, including the robotic XR, the comedic janitor-turned-space-ranger Booster, and the superpowered princess Mira Nova. Lightyear continues to brush off the offers of help for most of the movie, until his hour of need.

Towards the end of the film, Zurg executes his master plan by stealing the Uni-Mind – the sentient, living supercomputer that connects the brains of all the Little Green Men. He then corrupts the Uni-Mind and uses it to turn all of Star Command – save for Buzz and his team – into mindless puppets in his evil game. Like in Toy Story, Lightyear admits that he needs his friends to get the job done. Buzz and co. launch a desperate final mission on Zurg’s homeworld of Planet Z to undo the corruption of the Uni-Mind, only to be confronted by the deadly and mysterious Agent Z, an evil operative of the emperor who fights Buzz several times throughout the movie, and who is revealed to be none other than his old partner Warp, who was actually evil the whole time. Team Lightyear defeats Zurg and Agent Z, heals the Uni-Mind, and saves the galaxy.

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What Lightyear Is Taking From The First Buzz Lightyear Movie

A brief breakdown of Lightyear trailer reveals that the new movie is taking a different approach to Buzz’s backstory, but there are some things that the new film seems to be taking from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Zurg isn’t shown directly, but there is a shot of a hallway filled with yellow robots – the kind seen in the Buzz Lightyear video game in Toy Story 2, and in the action scenes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Much of the look and feel of Star Command is also similar, and the female space ranger who is seen working with Buzz at the end of the trailer could be loosely inspired by the original film’s Mira Nova. There’s also a scene of Buzz inspecting an alien planet with a robot similar to XR by his side.

One of the bigger differences between the two movies seems to be the Buzz Lightyear timeline relative to Toy Story, with the original movie focusing on his later career, and the new film centered more around his rise to fame and prestige within Star Command. Neither film has any direct ties to Toy Story, but it’s still fun to see the beloved Buzz character take on new adventures to infinity and beyond. Hopefully, Lightyear will deliver a better overall experience than Buzz Lightyear of Star Command did in 2000.

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