Toy Story 3

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⭐ 10/10

I had not seen this one since it came out while I was in high school, and I remember liking it then. The only scene I really remembered was the ending, with the incinerator and the toy handoff, and something about the peril of those moments stuck with me. But there is so much here, perfect ending of a perfect trilogy.

A big portion of this movie is a heist movie! I forgot that Buzz speaks in a romantic Spanish for a good chunk of this! So many funny and memorable things I simply had forgotten about, making this more than just a sad farewell. But boy oh boy, is it sad. Early on, seeing Andy's mom look at an empty room before her son leave for college, it nearly broke me, and my son is like 16 years away from leaving home. So much of this movie is applicable for the general heartbreak of saying goodbye. Andy letting go of his toys mirrors his saying goodbye to him. The toys at one point accept death! In the beginning many of them accept going to the attic, which is essentially just toy death. There is so much here around death and existentialism - like I said about Toy Story 2, it takes the themes of the prior movie and ratchets it up. Genius!

This movie is actually scary at times, and I won't be showing it to my boy for a while sadly. The young kids at daycare torturing toys in their rough play is very funny, but pretty dire to watch! I cringed as Buzz got used like a hammer, and Jessie like a paint brush, because I love these toys! The movie itself is threatening to yank them away from me and showing me the worst case, making the farewell that much more painful.

I haven't seen 4 since its release either, and sadly I think its going to let me down. I don't remember it having anything new to say, the complete story being told in the first 3. This also worries be about 5, which has a great premise but I fear for an empty story. We will see I guess, but I was in awe yesterday of how masterfully these three movies piece together, with many years between them. I have seen some recent Pixar sequels and they are all retreads. I pray Toy Story 5 is not the same.

I'll leave you with this timely video I saw that made me weep, and the beginning of the movie is basically this, a home movie of the innocent times of a boy with his toys.


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