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Tin Toy

Tin Toy

Animation · Family · 1988

Babies are hardly monster-like, unless you're a toy. After escaping a drooling baby, Tinny realizes that he wants to be played with after all. But in the amount of time it takes him to discover this, the baby's attention moves on to other things only an infant could find interesting.

Movie details

Tin Toy

“A scared, Tin Toy realizes he really wants to play.”

1988 Animation · Family 5m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

Babies are hardly monster-like, unless you're a toy. After escaping a drooling baby, Tinny realizes that he wants to be played with after all. But in the amount of time it takes him to discover this, the baby's attention moves on to other things only an infant could find interesting.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Tin Toy?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

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Directed by

John Lasseter

Written by

John Lasseter

S

Sárközi Olivér

Tinny / Billy (voice)

Court is in session

Put Tin Toy on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.