Potato Head, Blake Clark as Slinky Dog, Ned Beatty as Lotso, Jodi Benson (the voice of Ariel) as Barbie, Michael Keaton as Ken, John Morris as Andy (it’s cool that he reprised the role), and Emily Hahn as Bonnie, fucking hell that’s a lot of main characters and I probably forgot some of them. Potato Head, Wallace Shawn as Rex, John Ratzenberger as Hamm, Estelle Harris as Mrs. Toy Story 3 stars the usually Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim ‘Hates Kids’ Allen, Joan Cusack as Jessie, the late Don Rickles as Mr. Lee Unkrich is great, he made this and Coco but has apparently left Pixar and the film industry as a whole so he can spend more time with his family, I’m happy for him, he was the only person who made a truly amazing Pixar film in the last ten years with Coco but life’s short and the film industry is a difficult, time-consuming field to be in so it makes sense that he wanted to leave it, I wish him the best. Toy Story 3 was written and directed by Lee Unkrich, written by John Lasseter (yuck), Andrew Stanton, and Michael Arndt. Woody is the only one who really still believes in him. I was having a blast the whole time and it perfectly concludes the Toy Story saga… oh yeah Toy Story 4 came along and gave us a pretty good epilogue but failed to reach the heights of the three movies that came before it, I’ll talk about that when I get to it.Īfter Andy has grown up, Woody and friends have to decide whether to stay by him even though it will at best end with them in the attic. Whilst Toy Story 2 is also amazing I think the Buzz parts aren’t as good as the Woody parts, in Toy Story 3 there is no part lesser than other parts, everything just fits together so well. It’s exciting, it’s emotional, it’s endearing, it’s perfectly paced, all the main characters are given something to do. Toy Story 3 has everything I could want from a movie. Ok, I’m just going to have to look at the positives, I get to talk about Toy Story 3 which on rewatch might be my favourite Toy Story movie. What do we have to look forward too after this? Cars 2, Brave, The Good Dinosaur. We’ve made it guys, the end of an era, the end of the era where Pixar was consistently good. Instead, they are brought by a garbage truck to a landfill, where they are dragged towards an incinerator.As per usual, I’ll start with a tiny spoiler-free review which will just essentially be a yay or nay and a history of the film’s development, and then I’ll go into full spoilers. And the endless rotation of children ensures the toys will never become obsolete.īut Sunnyside is not the resort the toys first imagine rather, it's a prison, where the toys are bullies presided over by the despotic Lotso, and the children are rapacious, slobbering, unfeeling monsters.Īn escape sequence follows, in which Woody and the toys give Steve McQueen a run for his money The Toy Story films are deeply nostalgic about the history of American cinema, with old westerns and science-fiction embodied by Woody and Buzz Lightyear (Allen) respectively.īut while the toys manage to leave Sunnyside, they are not free of trouble.
Here there are new toys, led by a seemingly loveable bear named Lots-o-Love (Beatty). Will they end up above, in the attic, or below, in the garbage?īy happy accident, all of the toys, including Woody, end up in the purgatory of a children's day care centre, called Sunnyside. But that leaves the other toys in a predicament. Woody is lucky Andy is still sentimental about his favourite toy and wants to take him along. The toys, led by Woody the sheriff (Hanks), come to terms with the fact that their owner, Andy (Morris), has grown up and, at 17, is about to head off to college. Toy Story 3 may be the most 'grown-up' film in the trilogy. Even when compared to the knowing satire and social commentary of The Simpsons, Toy Story surprises with its depth of feeling and its mature exploration of such themes as life and death, love and rejection, friendship and loneliness. The Toy Story films have always catered to adults in a way most animated features do not. I got the feeling, as the film played, that this was its intended audience: people who had grown up with the Toy Story franchise, and yet had never quite grown up. There was just one infant, who, asleep in her mum's arms, was unaware of the screen in front of her.
When I went to see Toy Story 3 the audience consisted almost entirely of adults in their 20s and 30s.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, John Morris, Jodi Benson, Timothy Dalton.