Greta Lee voices Lilypad, the creepy tablet introduced in Toy Story 5. Scarlett Spears voices Bonnie, the child who receives Lilypad and is drawn into online bullying. says the film sets up an anti-tech conflict and then resolves it with a sentimental ending that blunts Lilypad’s menace.
Lilypad in Toy Story 5
Greta Lee’s casting as Lilypad anchors Toy Story 5’s central update: a digital device replacing the franchise’s usual physical threats. review describes Lilypad as initially seductive—connecting Bonnie with other girls—and then as the axis of cruelty that pulls the toys into a moral battle. That setup reframes the toys’ work as damage-control against addictive tech rather than rescue from a single tangible villain.
Joan Cusack and Jessie
Joan Cusack voices Jessie, who still belongs to Bonnie from the fourth movie and who becomes a frontline responder to Lilypad’s effects. Joan Cusack Returns anchors Jessie’s continued role: she encounters Blaze on a farm, with Blaze voiced by Mykal-Michelle Harris, while Smarty Pants—voiced by Conan O'Brien—functions as an ancillary comic-tech figure. Tom Hanks’s Woody lives apart in a feral outdoor existence and is paired with Bo Peep, voiced by Annie Potts; Tim Allen’s Buzz Lightyear remains inside Bonnie’s orbit, which forces the toys to respond across domestic and rural settings.
When She Loved Me Returns
review says Toy Story 5 revives When She Loved Me and invokes Randy Newman’s original as a measuring stick; Taylor Swift’s new song is noted for recalling that melodrama. The review argues the film neutralizes its anti-tech premise by converting Lilypad into a self-sacrificial figure, a narrative move that substitutes redemption for the franchise’s longstanding mortality theme. By definition, that mortality theme relied on finality and the risk of irretrievable loss; shifting to a redemption timeline replaces acceptance of loss with reform, which the review finds emotionally unsatisfying.
Greta Lee's Lilypad leaves one urgent question: how exactly does Lilypad’s self-sacrificial turn resolve the moral conflict between the toys and the online cruelty that lures Bonnie? frames the film as choosing sentimental reconciliation over the harder emotional currency of loss, and that choice—redemption in place of mortality—explains why the reviewer finds the ending spurious and the anti-tech critique softened.
