Director:
Lee Unkrich
Starring:
Tom Hanks (Woody); Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear);
Joan Cusack (Jessie); Ned Beatty (Lots-O-Huggin' Bear)
Studio:
Pixar Animation Studios & Walt Disney Pictures
Released:
June 12th 2010
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The last in the trilogy of the largest grossing animated movies of all time, has got to be one of the best films of 2010. With everything a big scale action movie needs; the good guys, the evil guys, large scale escape plans, a little romance and a couple of tear jerking moments in there too, Toy Story 3 ends the animation epic in tremendous style.
As soon as the film starts you are thrust into a western style action sequence in which Sheriff Woody and Jessie with their trusted steed Bullseye are in pursuit of evil versions of Mr and Mrs Potato Head, Andy’s resident toy spuds. Soon we find out that this is just a flashback of when Andy – the film’s toy protagonist’s owner – was younger and used to play with them all, which builds up the gradual storyline of how in Andy now being 17 has to leave for college and will need to clear his room out – including his toys.
When things go awry thanks to Andy’s mum, the toys find themselves at a day care for little children, where 12 hours a day and 5 days a week, playtime is promised to them. At first, it seems a pleasant place, according to Rex because “there’s a rainbow painted on the door.” Then after meeting a strawberry smelling plush teddy bear who likes lots ‘a hugs, the toys discover that all is not actually as it seems.
When Woody finds himself saved from day care by a kind toddler named Bonnie, he resolves to try and save his friends and get them back to Andy’s attic where they were intended to be placed, he returns to day care finds that a new regime has been put into place by the ‘cuddly bear’ who turns out to be as evil as a toy could get. All Woody’s friends are now imprisoned, including Mr Potato Head who has been placed in ‘The Box’ as a punishment. All while being guarded by a different Buzz; an evil Buzz.
It’s at this point where things start to unfold. With a master escape plan concocted by Woody, the gang get moving. Without giving too much away, the plan involves a Spanish Buzz, an evil screeching monkey, a tortilla and a bust up between toy lovers Barbie and Ken.
After things take a turn for the worst and all the toys are taken to the rubbish dump along with the evil bear that has been thrown out by his reformed henchmen. Henchtoys. Things then start to heat up, literally as the gang make their way into the incinerator, all deciding that the end will come as they hold hands and close their eyes... *cue the tears*
Yet they are saved, by three mysterious figures controlling ‘The Claw.’ It is now, that Lotso, the villainous strawberry bear, gets his comeuppance, and the toys return to their owner. As Andy says farewell to his mum, he picks up his toy box and notices a post-it note, written by Woody moments before. As the film draws to a close, Andy stops by Bonnie’s house on the way to college, and gives his toys to her, one by one, finally letting go of his childhood and passing his brilliant toys onto someone else. Finally, as Andy hands over Woody, another tear jerking moment occurs, and as Bonnie goes for lunch, and Andy drives off into the distance while his toys look on, it really is a happy ending.
With a brilliant and clever storyline, adding humour and sadness, villainy and heroicness, Toy Story 3 is an animation epic. Whether or not Woody or Buzz or Jessie or even Rex ever return to our movie screens in the future, the trilogy was given a brilliant send off, with the people who have grown up alongside Andy saying farewell to his toys with him, the emotional, adventurous and sometimes dangerous journey is over for them all.
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My rating;
Acting/Animation: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Opening: 4/5
Ending: 5/5
TOTAL: 19/20 (95%)
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