Toy Story 3 (now includes spoilers!)- Page 5

[Q]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 2:02pm

"had me blubbing like a little girl"

See - it DOES lead to careless sexism!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 4:37pm

Hey I believe Big Baby was female so was the purple octopus!

[Q]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 4:43pm

"octopus"

AGAIN with the careless sexism!

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 4:46pm

Great, great film. Well written and well executed. I couldn't have asked for more.

It's up there with the more "modern" animated greats- Finding Nemo, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Up.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 4:53pm

I just loved it. I knew it was going to gut me because I cried every time I saw the trailer. (The child dearest to me on the planet went away to college last September and died in October 1st. "Going away to college" as a storyline is my undoing.) I cried and laughed out loud. Very very well done. That little girl was precious!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 7:21pm

I just saw it. I cried my face off at the end. So well done, but I was upset when...

SPOILER




.... he didn't keep Woody. I have a doll that's like Woody to me, and I could never fathom giving him away. Then again if I were Andy I probably would have kept them all, but I digress, heh.

Seriously, great film. I think my favorite part was Spanish Buzz.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 11:24pm

I doubt anything will ever be funnier than Mr. Tortilla Head. Or sadder than when he gave Woody away. Since I'm going to college in about two months, I think it made me sadder than almost anyone else in the audience...

Also, I was way too happy about the fact that Andy was voiced by the same actor who played him in the first two. Awww...

[eponine88]

Posted: 7/1/10 at 11:16pm

Saw the movie this afternoon (finally) and can't really sum it up better than everyone else already has. I bawled from the point where they held hands to the hands until the end.

Interestingly, although I saw a mid-afternoon showing in Disney World itself, the youngest person in the theater was my 17 year old sister. It was ALL adults. Even a couple of 20-something year old guys in suits. And everyone cried (my mother included) I love how this movie reaches as many people as it does. On another note, I just graduated from college and my favorite childhood toy (a stuffed Winnie the Pooh) has come with me every year and will be moving into my new apartment with me. My mom jokes that he'll be coming on my honeymoon with me...lol

[Aswatrowinkenbo]

Posted: 7/2/10 at 4:35am

The first movie came out when I was in kindergarten, so I too feel like Andy grew up with me. I saw it with a couple "macho" guy friends and all of us were fighting back tears by the end. We felt that we needed to go home and play with all of our old toys.

I nearly lost it during the incinerator scene as they all grabbed hands. Their "This is it" look, my goodness! I just kept telling myself "There's no way Pixar would let them end like this!"

The end was so touching as Andy tells Bonnie how special each toy is. I have toys from my childhood that mean the world to me, and I can't imagine giving them up. I lost it when he gave Woody to Bonnie. No idea what I would do if a little child seemed to be in love with my favorite toy.

It's bittersweet that Andy let them go. I'd always hoped that they'd go to his kids some day. At least this way they didn't have to wait to be played with. It was also wonderful how Andy played with them one last time before he left them with Bonnie.

And he will never know of all the crazy adventures his toys had just to get back home to him.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 11:04am

I'm really shocked by this. The film bombed in Russia. It only made $5 million in ten days while "Shrek Forever After" made $37.7 million in ten days i Russia.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-toystory-20100702,0,2592644.story
Updated On: 7/3/10 at 11:04 AM

[Taryn]

Posted: 7/4/10 at 3:12pm

Saw it. Loved it. Cried like a baby during the last twenty minutes. A woman my age (early twenties) two seats down was also crying pretty audibly, and I handed a tissue down to her. A funny little moment of connection for a generation that has grown up with these films and these characters.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 7/5/10 at 1:38pm

I saw it yesterday evening and it was good, sweet, and sad. I saw it in 3-D too. In fact, it was my first 3-D film.

I never cry at movies, and I almost cried at this one, especially at the end.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 11:52am

Finally saw this yesterday with my partner and we really enjoyed it. Now, I have to say I've never really been a huge fan of the Toy Story franchise. I like them, but I was never as crazy about them as everyone else seems to be and I sort of rated them around the lower-middle of the Pixar spectrum. Great writing, but I never had that emotional connection to these films or their characters as I did with Ratatouille, Up or Finding Nemo. My partner cries like a baby during films and neither one of us were really affected by this. When it came to the gut-wrenching hand-holding scene, it was just a little too predictable for me, I guess, because I sort of guessed everything that was going to happen along the way. The only thing I knew about the film going in was that everyone mentioned what a tear-jerker it was and therefore I expected it to be so much more dramatic than it was.

The writing was excellent, especially considering it was another variation on Pixar's "find your way home" plot. I do think there were several ingenious touches:

The Monkey - whether or not this was inspired by the Stephen King short story, it was brilliant

The tortilla - The set up was genius and the result was one of the best sight gags Pixar has created

Totoro - Loved the subtle tribute to Miyazaki's films with the inclusion of a Totoro stuffed doll. I never paid attention before, but was he in either of the first two films?

[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 1:19pm

"Totoro - Loved the subtle tribute to Miyazaki's films with the inclusion of a Totoro stuffed doll. I never paid attention before, but was he in either of the first two films?"

No. It's my understanding that he was included in that cameo as an inside favor to John Lasseter, who is apparently a big fan of "My Neighbor Totoro."

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:31pm

It's worldwide total is going to surpass the $1 billion mark this weekend and it will be the first animated film in history to accomplish this milestone. The film will also most likely surpass "Alice in Wonderland" to become the highest-grossing international movie of the year. It definetley deserves this because it's the best film of the year.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023445.html?categoryid=4076&cs=1
Updated On: 8/28/10 at 12:31 PM