Toy Story 3 (2010)


Let's complete the trilogy with Toy Story 3.

The Movie:

 Toy Story 3 is the 11th movie from Pixar and their first part 3.  Like it's two predecessors, it was very highly received, even garnering an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and winning Best Animated Feature.

In Toy Story 3, Andy is grown up and heading off to college.  He places his toys in a bag to take them to the attic, but they are accidentally taken to the curb instead.  Thinking they are no long wanted, the toys, with the exception of Woody, allow themselves to be donated to a daycare, where they hope to be played with again.  Woody, though learns that all is not as it seems at the daycare, and sets out to rescue his friends.

Once again, a Toy Story movie hits all the right notes, telling a great heartfelt story.  It is also amazing to see just how far Pixar has taken the technology of computer animation between the first movie and this one.  Storywise, the climax starts to get a bit contrived, but the final scene brings the movie, and the entire franchise, back together in a nice closing.  After such a great ending, it will be interesting to see where Pixar goes with next year's Toy Story 4.

For the first time in a Toy Story movie, a couple of pre-existing songs make it into the movie.  However, most of the heavy lifting is still done by Randy Newman, who once again does the score.  He also once again brings back "You've Got a Friend in Me" and provides a new song for the ending, "We Belong Together," which won him another Oscar.

Presence in the Parks:

 Although there will undoubtedly be small references to characters first found in this movie in Toy Story Land, as far as I know, nothing in this movie is a direct influence on a major park attraction.

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