![]() ![]() Again, instead of reviewing the film itself, which requires the acknowledged repetition of sentiments expressed endlessly over the last few days, we will focus on a single sequence - call it the “incinerator stand-off”– and use it as a means of explaining Pixar’s enduring power within the art form. Thus, we come to our major SPOILER warning. Before long, they find themselves in the very same dangerous dilemma they were hoping to avoid in the first place. Desperate to break out, our familiar friends escape through the only available way out: the garbage chute. If you survive, and aren’t eventually thrown out, you might get to live out your days in the serene fun of the older kids’ Butterfly area. Leader toy Lotso Hugs the Bear (Ned Beatty) runs the place like a prison, putting the new “recruits” in the Caterpillar Room along with the rambunctious, destructive toddlers. ![]() ![]() There, they discover a surreal situational pecking order. His bag is mistaken for trash, but our plastic heroes avoid the landfill by hiding out in another box intended for a local daycare. Pushed to do something with the trinkets remaining, Andy decides to put them in the attic. Andy is now a 17-year-old colleg- bound teen, and his collection of playthings are feeling the sting of neglect and possible disposal. Toy Story 3 begins several years after the first sequel. We are talking, of course, about the incinerator showdown, a moment which finds Buzz, Woody, and the gang relying on the wrong plaything to aid in their escape, a massive machine hurtling them ever closer to their doom, and a single moment of resolve that stands as one of the most emotional and heartfelt finales ever in the history of film - live action or animated.įirst, a little plot perspective. Instead of offering an in-depth review of Toy Story 3 let’s instead focus on a seminal sequence in the stellar Pixar trequel, a moment that will have many in tears and have more than a few covering their faces in fear. It certainly comes from one of the year’s best films (though at least three Rotten Tomatoes registered critics disagree with that assessment) and while it may seem too soon to suggest, there’s no doub few will match it come July and/or August. Just don't get me started about the 3-D.Though it’s barely two months old, it is time to declare a best scene of Summer 2010. But hey, what can you expect from a movie named "Toy Story 3," especially with the humans mostly offstage? I expect its target audience will love it, and at the box office, it may take right up where " How to Train Your Dragon" left off. This is a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier “Toy Story” sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions. There is a happy ending, of course, but I suspect these toys may be traumatized for eternity. You have no idea what garbage has to go through before becoming landfill, and even an Indiana Jones toy would have trouble surviving the rotating blades. Man, the toys have a dangerous time of it after they eventually find themselves at a garbage collection center. Potato Head must be old hands at such situations, because children spend most of their time attaching his body parts in the wrong way, like malpracticing little Dr. Potato Head lost an ear, would it continue to hear, or if he lost a mouth, would it continue to eat without a body? These are not academic questions at one point, Mister becomes an uncooked taco shell. This raises intriguing physiological questions, such as, if Mr. Potato Head ( Estelle Harris), whose missing eye continues to see independently of her head. If you ask me, Barbie ( Jodi Benson) is anorexic, and Ken ( Michael Keaton) is gay, but nobody in the movie knows this, so I'm just sayin'.īuzz Lightyear ( Tim Allen) is back, still in hapless hero mode, but after a reboot, he starts speaking Spanish and that leads to some funny stuff. They pick up, however, some additions to their little band, including a Ken doll with an extensive wardrobe. There seems to be relatively little grieving about the loss of Andy's affections he did, after all, sentence them to a toy box for years, and toys by nature are self-centered and want to be played with.ĭay care seems like a happy choice, until a dark underside of its toy society emerges in the person of an ominously hug-prone bear named Lotso ( Ned Beatty). What with one thing and another, the other toys find themselves at the day-care center, which they think they'll like, because there will be plenty of kids to play with them all day long.
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