Snoop Dogg says he got caught off guard when he took his grandson to see Disney Pixar’s Lightyear.
Appearing on the It’s Giving podcast, the rapper explained that the movie’s inclusion of a same-sex relationship led to questions he wasn’t prepared to answer.
What did Snoop Dog say about Disney’s Lightyear?
“I took my grandson to see, uh, what was the movie with Buzz Lightyear,” Snoop said. “Kiki Palmer is in that movie. She plays, like, the Daughter.” He then pointed out that Palmer’s character had two mothers in the film.
That was when his grandson turned to him in confusion.
“Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,’” Snoop recalled.
Caught off guard, the rapper admitted he didn’t have an easy explanation.
“Oh sh-t. I didn’t come in for this sh-t, I just came to watch the goddd-mn movie. Hey man, watch the movie,” he said, laughing as he described trying to redirect his grandson.
Snoop added that the moment left him uneasy.
“It f-cked me up,” Snoop said. “I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh-t that I don’t have an answer for… It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?’ These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
🔥🚨BREAKING: The LGBTQ community is furious with Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg after he said he’s “scared to go to the movies” after watching Disney’s ‘Lightyear’ film with his grandson and seeing an LGBTQ+ couple:
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) August 25, 2025
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Lightyear’s Box Office Failure
The 2022 release of Lightyear didn’t just raise eyebrows with its content—it also disappointed at the box office.
The Chris Evans–voiced spinoff opened with just $51 million domestically, far below early estimates of $85 million. Globally, it finished its box office run with only $226.4 million, significantly less than the billion-dollar Toy Story movies.
For a Pixar film coming off the Toy Story brand, those numbers were considered a major flop.
Disney Shifts Back to Tim Allen for Toy Story 5
After the backlash, Disney is returning to a more traditional approach with the next entry in the franchise.
Disney Pixar has confirmed that Toy Story 5 will bring back Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear alongside Tom Hanks as Woody and Joan Cusack as Jessie.
The new film centers on Bonnie, now eight years old, who gets a toy tablet that disrupts the playroom. Pixar teased the plot as a “Toys Meet Tech” story, where the classic characters face off against a smart device.
A two-minute clip screened at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, showing Buzz Lightyear toys crash-landing on a deserted island and working together to return to Star Command.
Pixar also celebrated Toy Story’s 30th anniversary at the event, highlighting how the original 1995 movie helped launch the studio and change animation forever.
Toy Story 5 hits theaters on June 19, 2026.
