I still can’t say “No” to Woody, Buzz, or Jessie.

“Toy Story 5” now focuses on how kids are more into texting and gaming than playing with toys. Funny, I think “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” had a similar set-up where Wallace invents some robot garden gnomes to do the gardening and to pet Gromit. And he makes so many contraptions that he forgets how to make himself tea. Being a critic born in the early 90s, I have a saying: “If we had cellphones back then, we probably wouldn’t have hilarious “Seinfeld” episodes. Think of “The Parking Garage” or “The Movie.”” This is to the parents reading this article.

It’s understandable why Quentin Tarantino stopped at “Toy Story 3,” because that should have been the franchise conclusion. I sympathize with that, and it deserved to be at Number 10 of my Best of 2010s list. But I still praised “Toy Story 4” for the way it gave Bo Peep (voiced by Annie Potts) a new attitude and for how it made Forky (voiced by Tony Hale) a goofy and lovable character with the same honest appeal as Olaf in “Frozen.” And even though the story isn’t as fresh as the previous films, I still have some affections for “Toy Story 5.” Am I soft or do I see the good in these sequels?

Things have changed ever since Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) left to help Bo Peep and her new posse find missing toys. Forky is now married to his knife spouse Karen Beverly (voiced by Melissa Villasenor), Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) wants to propose to Jessie (voiced by Joan Cusack), and Dolly (voiced by Bonnie Hunt) gets a new pair of glasses drawn on her eyes. But they’re all faced with a new crisis. Their young owner Bonnie is given a frog tablet known as Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee) as a way to help her socialize with the other kids who have given up on toys and are more into texting and gaming. At this very moment, during Jessie’s rivalry with Lilypad, “If the boot fits” is a compliment compared to what the device calls her.

While that “Wallace & Gromit” sequel served as a throwback to “The Wrong Trousers” with the thieving penguin Feathers McGraw, “Toy Story 5” serves as a throwback to the second film, when she ends up in her original owner Emily’s new home. She doesn’t live there anymore, but a young horse toy collector named Blaze (voiced by Mykal-Michelle Harris) does, and she also has a real horse and a pig. And Jessie does learn to connect with Blaze’s earlier tech toys like the potty training device Smarty Pants (Conan O’Brien), the GPS hippo Atlas (voiced by Craig Robinson), and the camera Snappy (voiced by Shelby Rabara).

And there are more Buzz Lightyears, who have all ended up on a deserted island thanks to lost cargo container, which reminds me of how another cargo ship lost over 28,000 rubber ducks and have been washing on the shores since 1992. But they’re all able to make a raft a lot better than Dylan O’Brien tried to make in “Send Help,” and make it to mainland in hopes or reaching Star Command. And they can sure do a Hell of a lot more than shoot their lasers that are lightbulbs.

Now directed by Pixar vets Andrew Stanton and McKenna Harris, this fifth entry deserves the PG rating, because I like the way Smarty Pants acts like a drunk when his batteries are dead and how Atlas is censored when he says: “He’ll wipe your a…” Other than that, it’s not too intense for younger kids and respects the adults in attendance. Even though I would rank this fifth of the series, this latest entry is often very funny with its new characters and very sweet regarding Jessie’s roots and Bonnie’s social status. I think to answer my own question about me praising the franchise, I’m not made of stone, or plastic or batteries.