Even if you weren't crazy about the writing, the amazing animation alone should knock off that "cheap and lazy" shit
I'm afraid that the animation is as expected from Pixar, and unless it was appalling, I never give the animation any extra to the rating, because whilst it's nice to look at, and Day & Night was the perfect microcosm of this, if there's no real engaging story, or the characters are too bland, or it doesn't know exactly what tone it's aiming for, well, it doesn't amount to anything but a nice looking film.
What I felt it was lacking? A good story.
The plot is so painfully generic you could switch setting, characters and keep the dialogue and it'd feel fine in a sci fi film, or a war movie, it just didn't have the Toy Story feeling. The opening gave the closest to the sense of feeling like part of the toy world, the sensational perspective and sizes that are so normal to humans in the toys' eyes.
Never did I feel like it was a Toy Story film, hell, the characters just felt like they were there to say lines, walk over to the next scene in the generically dull premise and say more lines, never in their character, just fitting into the plot with ease.
And the chemistry between Woody and Buzz, which was so wonderful and felt REAL, well, it was as real as unobtanium (The Cameron kind, not the Scientist comical naming kind)
But I sat in the cinema wanting to like it, I tried, I tried harder than I have for any other film, then when it was over I was working out what they failed to do in 11 years that they succeeded in 2 with TS2.