Lightyear is cute, sporadically, and if only because this paint by numbers spinoff tries so hard to reach for cloying sentimentality. A flicker of the space ranger diving into action will enchant the eye. The plain-spoken, now poetic phrase “to infinity and beyond” will lift the heart. But once these spikes of nostalgia fade, the viewer will sink back into the film’s malaise of stock characters and cringe one-liners. This movie needs to be funny, but it rarely is.
