Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)

[ayaa1977]

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/08/27/toy-story-3-1-billion/

“These box office triumphs prove that creative storytelling brought to life by imaginative, inspired, and talented professionals is something audiences respond to the world over,”

someone shoot me,please.the best reviewed biggest hit of the year is a TV movie of the week.so he left college and he is not sure if he should take his toys with him or not and i'm supposed to be moved by that? i'm sick and tired of Pixar emotionally manipulative recent crap..

i did the same routine i do for years of going around al seef mall and DVD shops then go to the cinema except this time al seef mall is a ghost house and stores are closing down...DVDs are not cool anymore and i'm stuck watching Toy fucking Story 3 with blurry sunglasses. 

then it hit me...if they ever make Toy Story 11,i'll take my kids to it.

You have only yourself to blame. I do understand that you dislike these films, I really do. There is no right or wrong when it comes to taste "mostly!". But if Pixar films upset you this much, and they obviously do, then you should avoid them all together from the get go. Don't follow them, then read about them, and above all don't go all the way to Bahrain and spend good money on watching them so you can come back an bitch about them every time.

You know that they are not going to be something else. Pixar films are Pixar films, and their sensibility appeals to everyone in the world par few, and obviously you are one of this teeny tiny minority group, which is fine, it will be a boring world if we didn't have the naysayers. But as I said, if it is so painful for you to watch that you feel like hitting your head against the wall, then do yourself a favor and rewatch Coraline or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball instead of a Pixar film.

[fizz]

Animated...this is for you:

A few weeks after breaking the record for the highest-grossing animated flick of all time, Pixar's "Toy Story 3" has just become only the seventh movie ever to rake in $1 billion in worldwide box office receipts. The Wrap reports that Disney announced the movie crossed the ten-digit threshold on Friday, making the studio the first to have two billion-dollar earners in one year ("Alice in Wonderland" being the other 2010 release).

The third, and reportedly final, installment in the ground-breaking trilogy drew near universal critical praise and earned $404 million since it opened in June, making it the highest grossing flick of the year.

[shariqq]

Pixar is going for the top prize this year. They aren't going to be content with just "Best Animated Film", they want the "Best Picture" prize, aiming to be the first animated movie to win the title.

For the campaign, they've picked on the other odd choices to have won the award. Brilliant.








Apparently, future campaign posters will refer to The Godfather Part II, West Side Story, On The Waterfront, The Silence Of The Lambs, Titanic and Forrest Gump

[shariqq]

I watched it, and enjoyed it. As usual, Woody and Buzz provide for an excellent buddy-team that should be counted among the best. In fact, their individual personalities, their camaraderie and affection for each other towers over any screen friendships that I remember (I haven't watched butch Cassidy...). Daresay, down the years, Toy Story, Woody & Buzz will be to Pixar what Steamboat Willie and Mickey Mouse are to Disney.

Toy Story 3 is another excellent movie from Pixar, something of a Universal Fact for all Pixar movies now. The humor is again spot on. Some moments had me ROTFL (almost), especially Buzz's Spanish turn.

The movie does have sappy emotional parts and deliberate twists that seem to be a little too obvious, which make it my least favorite Toy Story, but that is only because Toy Story 2 was perfect, and the original Toy Story established the routine. It is still, among all the good Pixar's, one of their better ones.

[madali]

Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)

Pixar has many great films, but "Toy Story" has always been one of the most identifiable. Not because it’s the best (it's not), but because it's been there from the beginning. It’s like what Mario is to Nintendo. "Toy Story" has been released every 4-5 years, and I think it is a franchise that can continue being released, without people so readily being tired of it. Like the human character of Andy, we are also growing up as the years go by, but in our hearts, we still like the characters from the movie, and Woody and Buzz do have place in our lives.

The gushing praise of the first paragraph aside, the third installments does not have some of the excitement of the first two, and I think, it's because it is a bit familiar now and some of the themes feel like it has already been handled in the first two movies (such as loyalty, friendship, and the feeling of abandonment).

Although, the greatest thing about the third one is that it has a brilliant villain. The old teddy bear that is first introduced as the kindly gentleman leader of a group of toys is soon shown to be an evil, cruel tyrant, that brings a memorable bad guy to a franchise that had everything except a great villain, something Disney had always excelled in, but Pixar fell behind. And of course, the relationship between Barbie and Ken is the highlight of the film.

Should there be a 4th installment? I think, there should be, if the same care is to be taken. But the filmmakers should really shake things around in the fourth one and if they do, they could continue with their winning streak.

3/5

[ayaa1977]

You know Toy Story is not my favorite Pixar films, and Toy Story 3 is not even my favorite animated film of 2010, How to Train Your Dragon is, but I gotta say that I enjoyed this one more than Toy Story and Toy Story 2, may be because I saw it in cinema, but mainly because it has some emotional heft to it. I mean that incinerator scene was genuinely scary, and the goodbye scene was so emotional and teary. I loved the film wall to wall, but I am not dying for any other films, mainly because I don't want Pixar to fall in the trap of repeating itself. as you mentioned many of the themes of this one were explored in Toy Story and Toy Story 2.