Toy Story 3 Review by The Loser

TOY STORY 3

Before I go into review, I just wanted to let out a quick comment.
You Will Enjoy This Movie Much More If You See The Prequels

Plot: The plot revolves around the toy's including Woody, Buzz, and the others. They desperatly try every day to get the attention of the kid who owns them, Andy. However, Andy does not play with them like he used to. He is 17 now and going off to college. Andy's mom walks into his room and tells him to sort out all his things. One group of things will go in the trash, the other group will go in the attic, and the other group will go with Andy to college. Andy gets put into the group that will go with Andy to college, and the other toys will go in the attic. However, Andy's mom thinks that Andy wants to throw away the other toy's so she puts the bag full of the toys at the curb for the garbage truck to pick up. Andy tries to get them out of the garbage bag, but the toys had already escaped and were in the trunk of the mom's car. Andy goes to the trunk and talks to them about how Andy didn't throw them away and the bags got mixed up, but the toys are still mad. Suddenly, the trunk closes and the mom takes all the toys to a daycare to donate them. The toys are the introduced to the other toys in the daycare, such as a giant bear who seems to be the leader and all his followers. At first the bear seems nice, but they later see his evil side. The rest of the movie revolves around the toys trying to get back home and escape from the daycare, where toddlers bite and chew on the toys.

PROS: Not one of those kid's movies full of burp jokes that cease to be funny once you grow a brain cell. Some of the humor in this movie is actually genuinely funny. Jokes never fall flat, (the theater I was in was full of laughing people, mostly adults) and the writing here is pretty good. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen deliver perfectly as their roles as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. One thing I have to say I really liked about this movie is that it is a good film for people of all ages. Parents going to see this with their children groaning because they think it will be another Shrek 3 will be proven wrong. For me, this movie had a great nostalgic factor (Toy Story and Toy Story 2  were among my favorite films when I was little). Scenes such as the one where Woody shows Andy's name on his shoe, just for some reason tapped my memory. Lots of little things like this just made the movie very enjoyable for me. Oh also I do not know how to stress this enough but I am so happy this movie has no burp/fart jokes.... those aren't funny in the least bit. Also, this movie seems to know how not to take jokes too far. For example, one of the jokes is that Buzz gets messed up and starts acting like an elegant Spanish speaking womanizer. The joke is done just enough that it is still funny, while not overdoing it. One last thing. This movie, actually can become pretty emotionally heavy, especially towards the end. If you cry during movies, you will during this one.

Cons: Hardly any cons. If I could nitpick one thing, it's that this movie just didn't seem to have that thing to it that the prequels did. That's probably only because I saw those when I was very little so they will always be special to me. Oh, and the scene at the landfill in this movie was a little, weird for a kids movie. ESPECIALLY when they are near the incinerator. I mean, it just seems silly quite frankly. I hated the scene with the incinerator. It was all dramatic and stuff and not just that but for little kids was probaly scary. I didn't like it at all. The movie took itself too seriously at this part.

BOTTOM LINE: A great film that will stay with you for a long time. People who have seen the first couple movies will enjoy this one a lot more. Watch it, definetly. It is proof that a movie does not need to have violence or blood or sex in it to be enjoyable.

Did it live up to the hype? Yes
Is it funny? Yes
OVERALL RATING: 10/10