Toy Story 3 - Grading, Reviews, Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Dream]

The movie came out on dvd last week. Rewatched it and it's still as great as the first time I saw it.

The story was great. It was definately the darkest of the trilogy. I still don't believe how much the CGI has improved. The movie is leaps ahead of the first movie, which is still pretty good looking.

I never really thought that the toys would get destoryed at the end, it is a kids movie! But it was still pretty intense. Ken was probably the standout new toy character. Bonnie is just so cute! This movie was a great last adventure for the characters. Great ending too.

I wished that they had held off on using You've Got a Friend in Me song (English Version) until the end credits though.

 

[Australis]

Seriously the best movie of the year. If you didn't cry at the end, you don't have a soul.

Well, I must have LOTS of soul then.

It was pretty intense, pretty funny, surprisingly dark (the furnace scene is complete edge-of-seat stuff), and towards the end, for me, deeply sweetly sad. As a former child and a parent who's kids have passed Andy's age, I wept for all the lost toys, the end of those childhood years (theirs and mine), and, I suppose, the nature of change.

Just one thing concerned me: what would little kids think of the furnace scene, then the final Andy scene? Those scenes were very much for the older audience. I thought those bits were great, but not really for 4-10 year olds.

And Mr Tortilla Head was gut bustingly funny.

I'm glad I watched it.

 

[RoJoHen]

Just one thing concerned me: what would little kids think of the furnace scene, then the final Andy scene? Those scenes were very much for the older audience. I thought those bits were great, but not really for 4-10 year olds.

In my opinion, kids were not the target audience of this movie. It was meant for the 20-somethings who were kids when the first movie came out. Sure, it's a Toy Story movie, so kids are going to go see it, but I saw it twice in the theater, and both times the place was filled with adults 20-30 years old. Today's kids weren't even born yet when the first movie came out!

 

[LitmusDragon]

Just got around to watching this on Blu-ray. Awesome movie. It's not my absolute favorite Pixar movie, in fact it probably wouldn't even crack the top 3, but it's a very good film.