totally fired everyone up
and inspired everyone
to really do the impossible.
Nine months before
it's supposed to come out,
John threw the vast majority
of the movie out and started over,
which is unheard of.
With Tom Schumacher
overseeing production for Disney,
even he knew this was
beyond the studio's control.
After a while, he said,
"Guys, you know better than I do
"what it's gonna take
to make this, so just go.
"You have no time to wait
for my approvals.
"Just go, go, go, go, go. "
There's kind of
a chemistry with us.
We just spin off each other well,
or build on top of each other.
It's always this core group of guys
keeping each other in check.
We were able to finish
each other's sentences
and take each other's ideas
and heighten them,
and someone else
would heighten it even more.
They broadened
the scope of Toy Story 2,
introducing new characters
and special effects,
rivaling those of the best
live-action epics.
The animators were pushed
to their limits.
The amount of footage
that was going through that studio
was staggering.
Seeing the work that's
coming out of the animators,
it's actually inspired me as a director.
Give it to a good animator,
"Okay, make this special,
make this funny,
"make this entertaining
for this moment. "
Some animators have
the clear character stamps,
like Doug Sweetland.
I was thinking that Woody would be
coming outta the saloon.
Give us something like... boof!
There's reasons for every
single movement he does,
which is hilarious.
He's not, like, looking at her.
He's kind of, like,
looking over her shoulder, like,
"Say, little missy,
seen any trouble around these parts?"
Say, little missy, you notice any
trouble around these parts?
Nary a bit!
Not with Sheriff Woody around!
Wait, wait, wait! I got it, I got it.
This is great.
Okay, the bandits got the critters
tied up in the burning barn,
and now for the best part!
"Help us! The barn's on fire!"
"I've got you, critters. No need to worry.
Woody saves the day again!"
You're trying to find what you
would hope the audience would feel
when they're watching this movie.
Every other department is
on board to use the environment,
the color, the lighting, the animation,
to make the strongest
possible statement
that when people are
in a theater they're gonna,
"Wow, this is something special.
"This is something that really
affected me. "
Emily was just the same.
She was my whole world.
When somebody
loved me...
I thought it was
a very brave thing for them to do,
to think that five-year-olds would
sit still for three minutes of montage
and a ballad and something,
you know, very sad, really.
And when she was sad
I was there to dry her tears
And when she was happy
So was I
When she loved me
Tim Allen and I actually saw the movie
together at the same time
when it was all done,
and we had an understanding
of what everything goes on.
But then when Jessie's song came up,
we were just 40-year-old men
crying our eyes out
over this abandoned cowgirI doll.
Every hour
we spent together
lives within my heart
When she loved me
At that moment you know
that no one's thinking
"Well, this is just a cartoon.
"It's just a bunch of pencil drawings
on paper,
"or this is a bunch
of just computer data. "
You know. No. These characters
are alive and they're real.
Tot Story 2
made its debut
in theaters on its scheduled
release date,
Thanksgiving Day, 1999,
joining that rare number of sequels
judged to be as good as
or better than the original.
That was probably the
greatest sense of accomplishment
I'd ever had, and I think the studio's
ever had, in their life.
Everybody was so
dedicated to it and loved Tot Story
and those characters so much,
and loved the new movie so much,
that we killed ourselves to make it.
And it, you know, it took some people
a year to recover.
It was tough. It was too tough.
Toy Sfory 2 was the pivotal moment
in this