Toy Story 3

It had been eleven years since the second movie, meaning the target audience of the first Toy Story, that being kids born in the early 1990s, were now ready to start college, just like Andy in this movie. Although Toy Story 3 still carries the same old issues of having no logical sense from the past two movies, there are still plenty of wonderful merits at play. For starters, the technology finally passed the point of creating realistic human characters that didn’t appear uncanny, with more controls in each character model than ever before. Yet even with this freedom of giving an impressive range of facial expressions, all the characters, particularly Spanish Buzz and Lotso the teddy bear, still presented their own unique animation challenges.

​Better still, Pixar revolutionized a new system for creating the fabric for clothes, which was important because this movie had three times as many toys as the very first movie. Even the use of lights, camera, and audio was quite ambitious for an animated film, seeing how they all stylistically harkened back to other more mature Hollywood genres, such as prison movies or film noir, while still keeping the playful, adventurous, at times dangerous tone that a Toy Story movie should have. The finished product ended up making multiple generations of people cry, because, in a way, the series had truly grown up with its original audience, and it was time to say goodbye.

G
Comedy/Fantasy
1 hr. 40 min.

Watch it for FUN.
Watch it to THINK.
Watch it to feel HAPPY, SAD, and AFRAID.