Is he saying it's the audience's fault?

Strange World is actually closer to a Buzz Aldrin adventure now that I think of it

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He said the premise was the reason Lightyear flopped, and he's correct. Kids just aren't interested in Toy Story without the toys.

What else could he have said?

I don't think it was poorly received because it had a gay couple. Outside of some outspoken right wingers, no one cares much about that. The movie was poorly received because it was not entertaining.

How was this movie “ignoring conservatives”?

Because we wanted Tim Allen and not a serving of wokeism in a kids movie? Honestly, this movie is on Disney+ and I still haven’t bothered with it.

He fails to mention the pretty strong campaign against it because of LGBT themes and lack of Tim Allen playing Buzz (which the campaigners attributed to Tim being conservative.)

Now I havent seen the movie myself so I don't know if anything is true about it, but this was the only buzz I heard about buzz at the time, and I do think it influenced a fair number of people on wether to take their kids to see it.

'I think probably what we’ve ended on in terms of what went wrong is that we asked too much of the audience.' Gee thanks. No, you didn't ask too much of your audience, you made a movie so shit that your audience didn't like it. Your audience's sensibilities are not to blame for your inability to make a movie that satisfied what they were looking for in a Lightyear movie. A movie that you already had a perfect template for in the form of a previous television program.

I wanted to like the movie, but it was just ... boring.

Remember the opening of Toy Story 2? With Buzz fighting Zurg’s army? That’s the movie I wanted. Didn’t have to be Tim Allen - CE was fine. But give me that fun, little bit campy, kid-friendly sci-fi space flick.

It’s funny and a good sci-fi film. I get why Toy Story fans weren’t particularly thrilled by it though. ‘Film’ Buzz and ‘Toy’ Buzz are very different characters. I took my 4 year old to see it, she loves Toy Story, and she has a lot of questions, but still enjoyed it and has watched it at least 5 or 6 times on Disney+ as well. Sox is her fav.

Yeah, Lightyear had no reason to exist when Star Command (both movie and show) did a phenomenal job of giving us a Buzz standalone spinoff

He should try a coneheads reboot

Pixar Forehead more like

I didn't watch it because they tried to piggyback an IP with a premise and genre it had nothing to do with, rather than in invest in a new IP; they didn't have faith in the story standing on its own legs without brand recognition, so why should I.

Lightyear was essentially Interstellar for kids. Seeing how most adults still struggle to grasp interstellar to this day I can see how most kids would be confused too. I watched it on a plane though and thoroughly enjoyed the film. It featured good action, nice character development and simple fun too. I’d certainly watch it again but I’m a 32 year old and not a kid.

“We asked too much of our audience” is such pretentious thing to say…about a children’s movie.

It should have been a movie of how buzz got to Andy’s bedroom.

No, it’s the children who are wrong.

Tim Allen being confused isn't really indicative of the film's quality

It's a pretty solid Sci Fi movie. I'd give it a 7/10? However, I would've preferred another kind of story for Buzz instead of what we got.

There's no way that this "Lightyear" was a kids' movie from the 90s that the Buzz toys came from. Nothing about it fits that concept.

I liked it and my son watches it on repeat. I guess it depends , my son is a big buzz lightyear / Toy Story fan.

Conservative are more likely to have more kid's See this https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/republicans-more-kids-democrats-lot-183722934.html and it is not even accounting for socially conservative black and Latino . You can insult them as much you want but they are huge percentage of audience ignoring them increase chance of flop. Not even talking about conservative international market