Bad Bunny and Alan Cumming join Toy Story 5 as the gang face off with technology
By Carla Feric, Press Association Entertainment Reporter
Rapper Bad Bunny and actor Alan Cumming have been revealed as the latest stars set to appear in Toy Story 5, as a new trailer for the highly-anticipated animated film has been released.
The Puerto Rican rapper will play Pizza With Sunglasses while US Traitors host Cumming will voice the evil alter ego to horse Bullseye in the latest instalment of the hit film franchise.
They will join the star-studded cast including Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack for the film, which will follow the toys as they band together to try and save their owner Bonnie from her new Lilypad smart tablet.
In the final trailer for the film, released by Disney on Tuesday, superhero action figure Buzz Lightyear (Allen) is seen riding on the back of a winged unicorn doll and leading an army of toys as the gang prepare to face off with technology.
It opens with the sound of a blaring alarm, which is then revealed to be coming from the Lilypad smart tablet, and as Buzz is urged to turn the noise off he exclaims: “I can’t, I have plastic fingers.”
Woody, who left the gang in the fourth instalment of the franchise to become a “lost toy”, is reunited with his friends and now has a shiny bald spot at the back of his head – to which one of the toys jokes he “needs a brown marker”.
The pull-string cowboy doll, voiced by Hanks, then greets Buzz who tells him “it’s been too long” as they share an embrace, and he responds: “I came here as fast as I could after Jessie called for help.”
The trailer then shows their owner being thrilled to receive her new smart tablet, while Buzz insists: “We’ve got it handled.”
Cowgirl Jessie (Cusack) then reveals she is going to confront the tablet and tell it “how things are run around here” and approaches the new device with sidekick Bullseye.
As she gets confrontational and pokes the Lilypad tablet, it says “no touching, Jessica” causing her fellow toys to gasp due to the use of “the J-word”, and the cowgirl lunges at the device and attacks it.
The trailer also sees Woody and Buzz in pursuit of Lilypad the tablet, voiced by Greta Lee, which later throws the toys outside Bonnie’s room and then insults Woody, calling him “Stuffalo Bill”.
Another clip sees the toys boxed up and locked away, and little girl Bonnie is seen holding her toys and depicted as an outcast as her peers sit on their smart tablets.
Jessie is seen watching on as Bonnie plays on her tablet, and Lilypad says: “Bonnie doesn’t want to play with toys anymore. She needs me.”
As the trailer culminates, cowgirl Jessie insists: “Bonnie still needs us. Our time ain’t over yet.”
Buzz says the group need back-up in their fight against technology, and then summons an army of many Buzz Lightyear action figures in a nod to Toy Story 2.
The action figure then leads the clan of toys while riding atop a toy unicorn, accompanied by his companions Woody and Jessie, as the group ride down a busy road and into the sunset.
The trailer ends as Jessie shouts out a warning that a car is approaching, and the toys immediately drop to the floor and pretend to be lifeless, motionless objects to keep their sentience a secret.
You’ve Got A Friend In Me, the classic theme song from the films by Oscar-winning singer Randy Newman, can be heard playing during the trailer.
In between clips, text on screen says: “This June, the battle for playtime begins.”
Toy Story 5 will be available to watch in cinemas in Ireland from June 19th.
