Toy Story 2 is a 1999 Academy-Award-nominated CGI film, the sequel to Toy Story; the third Disney / Pixar feature film, which featured the adventures of a group of toys that come to life when humans are not around to see them. Like the first film, Toy Story 2 was produced by Pixar Animation Studios, directed by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon, and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 19, 1999, in some parts of Australia on December 2, 1999 and the United Kingdom on 11 February 2000. The film is set for re-release in stereoscopic 3D on February 10, 2010, leading up to the highly-anticipated release of Toy Story 3 on June 18, 2010.

The movie keeps most of the original characters and voices from the first movie, including Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, Annie Potts, and John Ratzenberger. They are joined by new characters voiced by Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Wayne Knight, and Estelle Harris.

Toy Story: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the original soundtrack album of the 1999 Academy Award-nominated animated feature Toy Story 2, composed by Randy Newman. One song on the album, "When She Loved Me", performed by Sarah McLachlan, was nominated for Best Original Song at the 1999 Academy Awards.

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