Anyway, this opening is amazing, it’s a great visualisation of what it’s like playing with toys, where you won’t have everything perfectly themed so whatever you have will be involved in some way. If you think about it, why would they enjoy just getting hit against one another by a kid, it makes sense that they search for this playtime high if to them they’ve been transported to a world of adventure. I like to imagine that the toys live out fantasies when they’re being played with. It’s not really clear if they’re actually seeing this or if they’re just so in the moment of getting played with that this is what they’re thinking, or even if this is just what Andy is thinking. Toy Story 3 opens with the toys point of view as they are getting played with. I don’t know why I even bother with these spoiler-free section of a ten-year-old Pixar movie, if you haven’t seen it already, go watch it, I’m gonna get into spoilers because that’s what I really want to talk about and it’s why most of you are here. The movie looks great, again by the time of Toy Story 3 Pixar movies no longer look disgusting by todays standards. Toy Story 3 is the third animated movie to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars after Beauty and the Beast and Up and to be honest I’m kind of surprised, this isn’t the usually type of movie the Oscars nominate, it’s normally just movies that appeal to really old men who hate fun and love revisiting World War II. Every toy in this has their own little subplot and somehow the movie doesn’t feel bloated, this feels like the definitive Toy Story because of it, if I had to only show one Toy Story film to communicate what the main cast were all about, I’d show this one. Toy Story 3 cuts down the number of main toys to just the most iconic ones (minus Bo Peep) so they all have something to do. The original Toy Story focussed on Woody and Buzz, Toy Story 2 has them in two teams which only contain a few toys in each, and Toy Story 4 doesn’t even try to give them all something to do, that’s just Woody essentially. The Toy Story series has always had a huge cast but this is the only one to have them all be together for the majority of the movie. Potato Head, Blake Clark as Slinky Dog, Ned Beatty as Lotso, Jodi Benson (the voice of Ariel) as Barbie, Michael Keaton as Ken, John Morris as Andy (it’s cool that he reprised the role), and Emily Hahn as Bonnie, fucking hell that’s a lot of main characters and I probably forgot some of them. Potato Head, Wallace Shawn as Rex, John Ratzenberger as Hamm, Estelle Harris as Mrs. Toy Story 3 stars the usually Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim ‘Hates Kids’ Allen, Joan Cusack as Jessie, the late Don Rickles as Mr. Lee Unkrich is great, he made this and Coco but has apparently left Pixar and the film industry as a whole so he can spend more time with his family, I’m happy for him, he was the only person who made a truly amazing Pixar film in the last ten years with Coco but life’s short and the film industry is a difficult, time-consuming field to be in so it makes sense that he wanted to leave it, I wish him the best. Toy Story 3 was written and directed by Lee Unkrich, written by John Lasseter (yuck), Andrew Stanton, and Michael Arndt. Woody is the only one who really still believes in him. I was having a blast the whole time and it perfectly concludes the Toy Story saga… oh yeah Toy Story 4 came along and gave us a pretty good epilogue but failed to reach the heights of the three movies that came before it, I’ll talk about that when I get to it.Īfter Andy has grown up, Woody and friends have to decide whether to stay by him even though it will at best end with them in the attic. Whilst Toy Story 2 is also amazing I think the Buzz parts aren’t as good as the Woody parts, in Toy Story 3 there is no part lesser than other parts, everything just fits together so well. It’s exciting, it’s emotional, it’s endearing, it’s perfectly paced, all the main characters are given something to do. Toy Story 3 has everything I could want from a movie. Ok, I’m just going to have to look at the positives, I get to talk about Toy Story 3 which on rewatch might be my favourite Toy Story movie. What do we have to look forward too after this? Cars 2, Brave, The Good Dinosaur. We’ve made it guys, the end of an era, the end of the era where Pixar was consistently good. As per usual, I’ll start with a tiny spoiler-free review which will just essentially be a yay or nay and a history of the film’s development, and then I’ll go into full spoilers.
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