Quentin Tarantino has stated that he definitely does not want to watch the fourth part of the “Toy Story” saga, “A Toy Story” – simply because he thinks the first three parts of the Pixar films are perfect. The director said this in the podcast “Club Random” with Bill Maher.
Tarantino, who has never made a trilogy before – only two consecutive films, “Kill Bill, Vol. I” and “Kill Bill, Vol. II”, which he now describes as “one big film” – can, however, imagine the difficulty of completing a trilogy satisfactorily.
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“I don’t watch all the cartoons, but I’m a huge fan of the Toy Story trilogy,” he said in a clip that has since gone viral on X (formerly known as Twitter). “I think there’s only one trilogy that works completely and to the Nth degree, and that’s ‘A Fistful of Dollars,’ ‘For a Few Dollars More,’ and ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.'” So no “Star Wars” and “Lord of the Rings.”
For the 51-year-old director, Sergio Leone’s “Dollar” trilogy is the measure of all things. The Italian film series starring Clint Eastwood, which founded the Spaghetti Western genre, was successful “because it followed the vision of a single director in all three films,” the filmmaker Sergio Leone.
“It does what no other trilogy has ever done,” Tarantino said on the podcast. “The first film is great, but the second film is so great and puts the whole idea on such a big screen that it overshadows the first. And then the third film does the same thing to the second, and that somehow never happens. You see this big jump from the first film to the second, and the third doesn’t really land.”
According to Tarantino, this development was not achieved in the “Mad Max” series, for example, whose third part, “Beyond Thunderdome,” became too humorous.
And he also loves the “Toy Story” films – the first three. Like the “Dollars” trilogy, Tarantino says, the Disney animated series is also capable of achieving this feat, and for this reason he has no interest in looking beyond the first part.
“I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done”
“In the case of Toy Story, the third one is just great,” he explained to podcaster Maher, who said he’s never seen the films. “It’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve seen the other two, it’s just mind-blowing. But the thing is, then three years later or something, they made a fourth one, and I have no desire to see it. They literally ended the story as perfectly as they could, so no, I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done.”
Then Quentin Tarantio might not care that “Toy Story 5” is currently in development. At this year’s “D23 Expo”, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Andrew Stanton (the director of the original film) will be directing again. The film, which is about what happens when children become obsessed with technology, is scheduled to be released on June 19, 2026. Part four, “A Toy Story”, received significantly worse reviews than the first three – so Tarantino might feel confirmed here that some of the work is simply superfluous.
