Post 5 - Film Review

Toy Story 3

In 1995 one of the best movies of that year (if not ever) was released. Ok fair enough the likes of Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Braveheart and Apollo 13 were all released in this year. Yet none of these had a group of toys that included a cowboy, a spaceman, a T-Rex and a slinky. Yes it was as long as fifteen years ago that Toy Story hit our screens, and the sequel was released eleven years ago. This looked like the end of Woody and co, but that was until Toy Story 3 was released in 2010. The third and last movie of this franchise has been a massive success, just like the two before it, and is just as compelling, funny and entertaining as the two before it, if not more so. The movie brings back all the main characters from previous movies, Woody, Buzz, Rex, Ham, Jessie and Bullseye just to name a few. This movie also follows in the footsteps from Toy Story 2 with the introduction of new toys along with the ones we all grew up with. Looking back at Toy Story 1 and 2, that the main target audience was younger children, and you may say that this is the case for the third movie also. However, the people who watched both Toy Story 1 and 2 have grown up with Toy Story throughout their lives so therefore more of the older generation watched the third movie. The movie also has more of a grown-up feel about it compared to the first two, this may be due to the fact that the owner of the toys, Andy is about to leave for college, and has out grown the toys. Andy has a tough decision to make, either throw the toys away or put them in the attic. However, Woody believes they still have a place in Andy’s heart. Due to a mix up, Andy’s mum throws the toys out thinking there trash. The toys manage to escape and end up sneaking into the car to get donated to a playschool. After years of neglect the toys believe they are going to get played with again, and find love. However, Woody believes otherwise and thinks they still belong with Andy, whether he has grown out of them or not. So Woody leaves the rest of them to get back to Andy, and once he leaves the other toys realise they have been tricked by other toys already at the playschool. Buzz, Ham, Rex and co have been put in a room with children who are too young to play with the toys properly and the toys realise they have made a horrible mistake in leaving. During the time the toys get ripped apart, Woody finds the love and care he got when Andy was young in a little girl and realises the other toys deserve this and returns to the playschool. Woody’s return delights the toys and they hatch a plan to escape the playschool without the other toys knowing. The escape plan looked to be going well until the original playschool toys catch them, and throw them in the dumpster. They then proceed to be put into the dump and almost crushed and burnt until they are luckily saved by “the claw”. Returning to Andy’s house after their ordeal was a great relief for the toys yet there was still the dilemma of what Andy was to do with them. That is until Woody leaves Andy a note saying where to put the toys so they can get played with properly. The ending see’s the toys watching Andy leave and head off to college, with Andy struggling to say goodbye to the toys as well. Toy Story was the one of the first movies to show the power of animation that was being provided by Pixar. The success of the first two movies allowed Toy Story 3 to become a hit before anyone had watched the film. However, after people watched the film they realised it was just as good as the first two and it became a massive success and became a box office smash hit. It is not hard to see why; it is not hard to see why with such fun and loveable characters such as Woody and Buzz. The only disappointing part of this film knows that the franchise is over, but you never know with movies nowadays, so fingers crossed!