From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!upstill
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: The Toy - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.155
Posted: Mon Nov 29 19:58:40 1982
Received: Wed Dec  1 01:13:11 1982

   Umm, not to be a scrooge or anything, I can't let anybody rush out
thinking that the The Toy is much of a movie, or anything more than a
vehicle for Richard Pryor.  I'd give it 2-1/2 stars, at least one of
which is due solely to Pryor.

    Specific complaints: the movie had almost zero emotional continuity
and very little in the way of motivation for almost anything that goes
on, and there's a lot going on.  Scenes had so little sense in relation
to the whole movie that I'd have sworn reels were switched.

   Don't get me wrong, it's a pleasant enough movie, one with its heart
in the right place, one I'll tell my mother to see.  But once again, that
is almost entirely due to Pryor, alas.

Steve