Total Film: The Modern Guide to The Movies

Projectionist · #1 14-07-2010, 01:55 PM

Amazing simple as that . I laughed I nearly cried but I managed to keep it together. Pixar you have yet to let me down. I hope they just end it here. it was the perfect ending of the perfect trilogy.

Here's a link to TF's 5 star cinema review of Toy Story 3. Added by Liz. Thanks.

morris · #2 14-07-2010, 02:35 PM

you didn't feel let down by Cars? I didn't like it.

Do want to see TS3 but I'm not sure if I want to enough to pay for it at the movies. If I could see it at night, without screaming kids, like you did, that'd be different.

Projectionist · #3 14-07-2010, 03:04 PM

Not seen cars. So pixar have yet to let me down

morris · #4 14-07-2010, 03:28 PM

I recommend you don't then. Most Pixar films are so good, that one isn't. It bored me and I didn't even finish it.

Back to Toy Story.. is it epic? As good as the first one only slicker? Is Ken a star?

Projectionist · #5 14-07-2010, 03:57 PM

Its epic. there is bit towards the end you'll know it when you see it. I moved to the edge of my seat and i sat there jaw open waiting to see what happens . Ken is a great character but every character is great . Watch out for chuckles

Zippykins1 · #6 15-07-2010, 01:22 PM

The real question is - is it worth ponying up the extra cash for the 3D or not?

Punchbowl · #7 18-07-2010, 06:29 PM

Cars is great. It's a real grower.

Grinch11 · #8 19-07-2010, 09:17 AM

PIXAR create movies, not kid’s movies, but movies, ones that transcend any age group or genre, and are permeated with more genuine emotions than there are pieces on Mr Potatoes head’s head. Rivals exist in their shadow, shoehorning in adult jokes and creating characters that lack the subtlety of a Wall-E or Sully, sure the visuals have plateaued to become a standard level of brilliance in this age of CGI fare, but only PIXAR has a big beating heart beneath the pixels. Toy Story 3 might just be there best film yet, let alone the film of 2010.

Fifteen (gulp!) years since the groundbreaking original film introduced us to Andy’s bedroom collective; Woody, Buzz, Slinky Dog, Mr Potato Head, Rex, the toy soldiers. Time and aging is an important theme in this threequel, so as Andy prepares to depart for college he must go through a ritual that faces each and every one of us, throwing away your toys. Some get to gather dust in the attic, some are donated, but the majority are sent to the black bin bag, never to be played with again.

TS3 doesn’t shirk the trauma involved with such selection dilemmas; we are sadly informed of Bo-Peeps departure, and there isn’t a Wheezy or Etch-a-sketch in sight, it’s clear that parting is going to be such sweet sorrow. Our favorite toys are shipped to the presumed comfort of a day-care centre, longing for the chance to be played with again. Welcomed into the fold by the Care Bear that’s not a Care Bear for legal reasons, Lotso (Ned Beatty), the toys are shocked to discover that pre-school toddlers won’t treat them with the love and care that Andy did. Cue the best breakout movie since Steve McQueen and that Triumph 650.

There are so many delights in this cinematic toy box, way too many to condense into a rather redundant review. The comedic moments are guaranteed with PIXAR; Buzz’s reset switch triggering some Latino laughs; Mr. Potato head becoming both Mr. Tortilla and Mr. Cucumber, and the superb relationship between a metro-sexual Ken Doll (wonderfully voiced by Michael Keaton) and the feisty Barbie. Its”Lightyears” ahead of the competition, and that’s before we’ve mentioned the method acting Mr. Pricklepants (Timothy Dalton) and the freakishly scary Big Baby, a creation that will have all ages in the audience watching from behind their fingers.

And it’s this skewered, brave approach that takes Toy Story 3 to Infinity and Beyond. There are scenes in here that no other mainstream franchise entry would be brave enough to attempt. Remember Jessie’s song from Toy Story 2? Well take whatever reaction you had to that tragic sequence and multiply it by about two more boxes of tissues, because there are a couple of key sequences towards the end of this movie of the year that have more depth and dimension than even the effective 3-D can manage. The big kid inside all of you will flash back to the time your Star Wars figures or My Little Pony’s were confined to memories, the time when you had to let go and grow up. Toy Story 3 is heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure.

If this is to be the finale to what’s arguably the most consistently brilliant trilogy in cinema, then it’ll be sad to say goodbye, but these toys will live on for generations, long after DVD is an antiquated format, Buzz and Woody will always have someone that wants to play with them. Genius!