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Was the best thing ever. It finished the series very well.
But that incinerator... All my dreams will be filled with fire tonight. They all were holding hands and the closed their eyes and accepted their fate... Brr!
And the ending with Andy giving everyone away to Bonnie, describing everyone and playing with her... I... I just have something in my eye...
In short: THIS MOVIE BROKE MY HEART.
Oh no...
OH NO!
I just gave all my childhood toys away to Goodwill...
I'm going to see it eventually, but I wasn't quite as gung-ho about it until I saw that it has a freaking 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. Out of 150 reviews, only 2 are negative (and one of those bad reviews was done solely for hits anyway) so I'm really looking forward to it.
I'm going to see it eventually, but I wasn't quite as gung-ho about it until I saw that it has a freaking 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. Out of 150 reviews, only 2 are negative (and one of those bad reviews was done solely for hits anyway) so I'm really looking forward to it.
Lotso is abusive. Poor Big Baby! I thought he reformed in the dumpster, but of course it rarely works like that in real life. Stupid stupid big pink bear that smells like strawberries.
Buzz and Jessie OTP :D "Besides, I know about Buzz's Spanish mode." Those two bring literal meaning to Toy Ships.
Oh my god I JUST got back from this and I COULDN'T STOP CRYING
I didn't stop crying after the whole incinerator thing until several minutes into the credits. ;___; The Buzz and Jessie and Barbie and Ken stuff was adorable though. It helped polish my heart after the ending glued back together all the little broken pieces.
This was like... the most emotional movie ever.
It was definitely the best one of the three, and they picked a great time to roll it out too. If I were just only a year older then I would be going off to college just like Andy right now... It still hit me right here though, because it's coming. It's... buwaah! ;_;
Maybe it has something to do with not having seen either of the first two until the other day, but I was only mildly entertained. Wall-E blows it right out of the water.
I haven't seen it, but really want to. I loved the first two, the first one especially; I remember being so excited about seeing something all CGI'd and I still think the dialogue is amazing (I only learned recently that it was co-written by Joss Whedon) and I generally see the Toy Story films as part of my childhood. The Pixar guys seem to really care about the quality of their work, too, and made this film because they had a story to tell, rather than to make more money off the franchise.
I remember when the first one came out I swear I was like five. it was a really cute movie. It was expensive cause it was in 3D though. I don't really think it needed to be in 3D though.
Man, I love the green little martians. They are so adorable. I couldn't stop laughing during the credits when one of them was like "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" and they're cute obsession with The Claw. C:
But I was happy with Buzz and Jessie pairing, but I felt bad because Woody didn't have Little Bo Peep. D:
Also, Mr. Tortilla Man... I laughed. :x
I didn't cry, but I thought the ending was sad. Then again, I think they ended it quite well.
The only thing I really disliked about the movie is that it can't make up its mind on whether or not Lotso is supposed to be a nice guy with a Freudian excuse or a Complete Monster; he really lacks the punch that Syndrome or Muntz had. THE CLAAAW was also a bit of a detraction from me, even though it wasn't all that bad.
By the way, did anyone else notice the Totoro doll in Bonnie's room?
It was really, really funny, and I enjoyed it immensely. But I cried whenever Lotso was mean to Big Baby. He yelled at the baby and told him that Daisy "didn't love him no more" and the baby started crying and he smashed the locket and I'm tearing up just writing this. And when they all joined hands in the incinerator (and Lotso freaking abandoned them!) I teared up. And it made me sad when Bonnie picked Woody out of the box and Andy kind of held him away like he didn't want to give him up. =(
Most things don't make me cry, but when the get me, they get me good. ='(
On the other hand,
Buzz's Spanish mode and Mr. Floppy Tortilla Head made me laugh so hard. xD
I had a quote from Jessie regarding Buzz's Spanish mode as my AIM status nd my friend was like "omg please tell me that's Jessie saying that" and got really happy when it was.
"OH NO! The Evil Doctor Porkchop is attacking the haunted bakery!" "THE GHOSTS ARE GETTING AWAY!" made my so happy XD
Not my favorite Pixar movie storywise, but it did have the advantage of hitting one of my greatest weak spots: I have always been, and am still, ridiculously fond of my toys and can't bear the thought of throwing them away or of them being destroyed. As soon as I heard it was about Andy growing up and going to college and inadvertently leaving them behind to be donated to a day-care, I knew I was going to cry. Which still didn't mean I was prepared when
that last scene came along and he started explaining to Bonnie how awesome all his toys were and that she would have to take really good care of them and actually played with them one last time and he was having so much fun
. (And there I just spent about five minutes trying to uncry on the bus after just typing it out. Damn you, Pixar.)
The actual story, though, was a lot more typical-kids'-movie than Pixar's movies usually are nowadays - perfectly in line with the originals (or the little I remember of them, anyway; I only saw them once each and that was when they originally came out), and it had some very emotionally powerful scenes especially in the latter half, but on the whole it was still noticeably more action-and-humour-and-casual-amusement-oriented than something like Up or Wall-E, and that was slightly disappointing to me.
I think a large part of it is the characters; they're almost all of the generic-heroic-with-optional-quirk variety, and though they're entertaining to watch, they don't really manage to be interesting in themselves and there wasn't a lot of development for them. Buzz, in particular, was mostly just there, when he wasn't being hilariously mindwiped (or Spanish); at least Woody had a bit of a learn-to-stop-clinging-to-Andy-quite-so-much thing going on, but Buzz really felt kind of extraneous as a a character thanks to his lack of meaningful development. (That's one of those problems that so often come up with sequels: the characters' arcs are over and they don't have much to do in the next film, but they can't just be cut out because fans of the character from the original would riot. I have a serious feeling Pixar knew they didn't have too much to do with him and that's why they had him spend 70% of the movie being forcibly out of character.) The one character who really did have something interesting going on was
Lotso, and his arc was never properly resolved; they got rid of him as the villain and he got tied onto the grill of a garbage truck never to be played with again, yes, but when they brought up the "My Heart Belongs to Daisy" tag, I was sure they were going to end up finding adult Daisy (in fact, I was sure she was that woman working at the day-care), she would recognize the tag and something would happen from that, but as it turned out they did nothing with it and Lotso's backstory really was just a Freudian excuse instead of a relevant point
.
That said, it was still hilarious and heartwarming, and I really liked the incinerator scene.
After all they'd been through together throughout the movie, when faced with the most horrifying and inescapable fate so far, they actually just give up and resign themselves to an inevitable painful death - it was extremely intense and powerful.
Also, I love that it actually points out that kids have no business owning proper toys until they're old enough to handle them with appropriate care and play with them properly instead of throwing them around/biting them/drooling on them/bashing them together. I think that's my favorite message in any movie, ever.
I just saw it last night and I thought it was amazing. I still like WALL-E and Up better, but Toy Story has been one of my favorite things since I was really little so I was happy to see the plot resolved like that.
For one thing, the incinerator scene brought me really close to crying. I don't really cry at movies anymore, but that scene, it was just so sad! The way it was resolved, though, was absolutely amazing. The little green aliens using "The Claaaw" to save the group made me laugh, mainly because they spent the whole movie being useless and then they saved everyone from death.
Ken and Barbie made me laugh so much. Especially the scene when she starts ripping up his clothing to get information.
And Lotso's little backstory was sad, sad, sad.
The ending was soooo corny but I liked it anyways.
Overall I think this is one of my favorite Disney/Pixar movies, but not my absolute favorite. I appreciated WALL-E much more, and I think that will constantly be my favorite. It was great at resolving the plot.
