'Toy Story 5' Trailer Tackles This Major Cultural Problem

To anyone who grew up in the '90s or '00s, Toy Story and its sequels are classics. Now, more than 30 years after the original movie's release, Toy Story 5 is coming on June 19 to comfort the kids of the '20s. Or their parents. Let's be honest, it's probably more for their parents.

In the original Toy Story, Woody and Buzz Lightyear duked it out to become Andy's favorite toy. In Toy Story 5, the toys are battling a whole new beast: technology.

'Toy Story 5' Tackles Tech Addiction

In the trailer, released today, Jessie is Bonnie's favorite toy — until Bonnie receives a Lilypad, a frog-shaped, kid-friendly tablet. Like pretty much any kid — or adult, for that matter — who gets a shiny new screen, it quickly becomes her obsession.

When Bonnie and all the other kids her age begin isolating themselves with their tablets, Jessie, Woody, Buzz, and the whole gang team up to save them from their screens. "Toys are for play," Woody forlornly says in the trailer, "but tech is for everything."

The movie tackles a problem that's prescient for kids and adults alike. In the constantly-online world of 2026, it's virtually impossible to not spend too much time looking at your phone. You're even reading this on your phone right now. How many hours of screen time have you had today?

The problem is so pervasive there's now a whole market around curbing it. Apps like Opal and devices like Brick are specifically designed to help you use your phone less. Even Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted in an interview that he was alarmed when he viewed his weekly screen time report. But when you're the guy running one of the world's most valuable companies, you probably have to be picking up your phone way more than the average person.

With recent advances in AI, some people are even forming full-on romantic relationships with their phones like in the 2013 movie Her. An AI company recently opened a pop-up AI dating cafe in New York City for singles who have all but given up on dating humans. The company ultimately hopes to "make AI relationships a new normal," according to Wired.

Maybe Jessie, Woody, and the gang can save us from our screens, too.