In Pixar’s forthcoming film “Toy Story 5,” the toys have a new problem to solve: technology.
After their kid, Bonnie, receives a new Tablet-like toy, Jessie, Rex, Forky and the rest of the gang must fight to keep her playing.
“It’s not even really about a battle so much as the realization of an existential problem: that nobody’s really playing with toys anymore,” director Andrew Stanton told Empire Magazine in November 2025. “Technology has changed everybody’s lives, but we’re asking what that means for us — and to our kids.”
“Pixar is naming something that parents feel but struggle to articulate,” says child psychiatrist and author of “Why We Suffer and How We Heal” Suzan Song, “that kids aren’t meant to grow up primarily inside an algorithmic world.”
So, could “Toy Story 5,” out June 19, ultimately help parents steer their kids away from spending too much time on their screens?
