Review: Toy Story 3

Them being owned by Disney wouldn't affect any of their stories. But I know what you mean. Incinerator bit was a horrible scene but ending it there would have been a horrendous, traumatising, narratively suicidal mistake.

Watched this last night after avoiding a near years worth of spoilers.
*They almost had me convinced that the incinerator scene would be the end, which is stupid because this is still a kids film and it was never going to happen, but the escape almost felt like selling out what I sense would have been a better ending. Instead of a beautiful ending about accepting your fate together, we get at best the idea of delaying the inevitable or the somewhat horrific idea of living forever.
I keep waiting for that final leap from Pixar into a truly grownup ending but seeing as they're now owned by Disney, I've come to terms with the fact that it will never happen*
Regardless of my complaint it's brilliance as normal from Pixar. Mr Tortilla-Head was my favourite part as well.
4/5

Saw it today,enjoyed it muchly. The Mr Potato-Head tortilla man was my favourite scene I think.
Not sure why people are crying? At what scene? The hand-holding accept-fate bit?
Finding Nemo is still my favourite Pixar, followed by the original Toy Story.
I hate Cars, but that's purely because I've watched it every single day for about 2 years. No exaggeration.

Awesome. Absolutely loved it. Saw it in 2D, in a tiny cinema (or Kinema, as it was called, apparently the UKs only rear-projection cinema..?). This and Inception prove that proper characterisation and story-telling will always be more effective than gimmicks like 3D

Well this was predictably brilliant. Touches on some pretty scary themes, which kids won't catch straight away.

Loved the escape and Buzz's new setting. And yeah, I cried. But I'm really not the best benchmark.

So true! My initial review was about 3 pages long trying to discuss all the different themes that were above and beyond a kid's movie. There's a real horror in living forever, and they kind of scrape the surface of that with the giant alcoholic baby.

I've seen it twice, 3 and regular d, and it was just marvellous both times.

I saw Despicable Me last week, and while I certainly enjoyed it, it doesn't hold a candle to this.

I utterly loved this film - really shocked me that Pixar can still produce kids' films that will make me bawl like a baby. The climactic scene *in the incinerator* was beautifully handled. The most sensitive, human moment in any animation.

This may be reading too deeply into this but I love how Pixar are making family films based around very epic, existential themes. The way I see it, Up was about coping with one's own mortality, while this film was almost like coping with immortality, ie what happens to toys when they live forever and will always outgrow their owners?

It just...it works on so many levels, man.