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It is always difficult for a sequel to live up to an award winning movie, but Toy Story 2 does an admirable job. Back with most of the same characters and with many of the same voices, Toy Story 2 picks up a few years after Toy Story. Woody is stolen and Buzz and the guys go on a rescue mission. Woody finds out he is the center piece of a larger collection from an old TV Show - Woody's Roundup. We meet the other Toys in the collection and they become part of the fun in the mission to get Woody home. Pixar's animation is usual, which is to say astounding. It improves upon the original Toy Story but almost seemlessly. Al, the toy shop owner and thief who stole Woody, was a pathetic but all too familiar character in the toy collecting world. Movie merchandise, especially Disney and others in the fantasy genre, are a collectors haven. Anyone familiar with the "toy collecting" underworld of seedy opportunists and profiteers will know the Al character very well - in fact he looks like most of them. It is hilarious to see Pixar and Disney calling these vultures out and exposing them for the slime that they (usually) are. The whole bit about the Prospector (in it's original box!) and his apparent value is dead on, as is the scheme to sell to the Japanese, who pay very high dollar for icons of American culture. Toy Story 2 is a very good movie - not as good as the original, but it holds up in its own right as one of the best animated features Disney has ever made.