Toy story 3 opinions

[mentalguru]

I don't have much time, but I saw this on the 19th with two other volunteers, so I'll give a quick opinion on it, in a few weeks time I may give a longer review. This contains SPOILERS so watch out.

Overall, the opening was indeed weak at first (it had all the explosions etc. etc.) but it of course panned out to be a younger Andy's imagination. The spanish buzz was short lived, though I didn't find it all that funny.Overall however this movie was strong and a marked improvement on Up in my opinion.

Now for something which might interest some of you guys specifically: the antagonist.

The antagonist was great. Having both a sense of both sympathy and yet also disapproval of course over his less than stellar actions. This movie actually genuinely scared me for the characters I care about.

It was a movie I genuinely got lost in, and introduced amusing minor characters to boot.

(You'll hopefully love the hedgehog toy. )


Unlike Up which basically didn't grab me as much (or to be more truthful, it did grab me but then lost me later on), although I did not care for the first few minutes, after that most of it was enjoyable. While I wish there was more woody/buzz friendship, one of my favourite platonic pixar relationships. Overall I liked what I saw- more disagreements etc and trouble. The ending was sweet and touching too.

Also (MAJOR SPOILER ALERT) although the antagonist was not redeemed unfortunatly, I have to say it's the CLOSEST Pixar has ever gotten to do so, because I honestly thought they were going to do so. And his awkwardness when woody saved him was pretty funny too. I was rather disappointed that they didn't redeemand did the tired route of him getting the short end of the stick. But it was REALLY close.

This antagonist genuinely WAS rather like Waternoose in some ways (pretending to be the nice guy), except he did also have his own personal sense of rejection to boot. A much better antagonist than stinky pete though also very similar to him too in some ways I suppose after all.

In a way, I think he was how Pixar wanted SYNDROME to be for me. But wasn't.

Overall, this movie was good and better than Up, I genuinely got lost in it as m entioned, rather like in How to Train your Dragon. Good work.

Another sequel which DIDN'T ruin the previous established canon.

Let's see if they keep to that.

(Random note; we got stuck next to a brat though, thankfully he stopped being mean to his baby sitter and threatening to taddle to his parents after a while.)

[Veg]

I thought Toy Story 3 was great.

Although the antagonist didn't redeem his ways, his minions did and stood up to him. Although it's not what we are looking for, it's pretty close.
Who knows? Today minions, tomorrow the antagonists.

I really liked how they did a backstory to the antagonist which they haven't done with the others except for Up. It made him more sympathetic and the audience somewhat understand why he's doing this. It's wrong, but they understand.

Also I liked how the protagonists weren't involved in the punishment of the antagonist.
They just said, "Leave him, he's not worth our time."
A big step from what Mike and Sulley did in Monsters Inc.

As one who grew up with Pixar since the first Toy Story, the ending really touched me but I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it.

In short, very good.

[mistica0christina]

That is a little more extensive then when I do my reviews but yeah, I also enjoyed the film myself....although I can't say that I like Lotso too much...kind of hard to like a teddy bear who's also a backstabber but I did understand why he was so cruel to began with. Although if it were me, I would have chosen something better than being strapped to a eighteen wheeler but that's just me. One of the few things I didn't like was that Bo wasn't in the film which kind of sucked but at least the new guy for Slinky did a rather good job! Overall, I liked it. ;D

[V]

I thought it was a beautifully made film. I cried at the end, partly because of Randy Newman's score, "So Long", and the last time Andy played with his toys... right after seeing it, I said hi to my bears. XD

[mentalguru]

I think the best scene might have been when they thought they were going to be incinerated, honestly its been since Dreamworks HTTYDragon that I got 'lost' in an animated film or any film really and got afraid for the characters and their safety. (Up had me for a while but then utterly lost me when the dogs started doing aerial attacks, there were other things but that's the straw which broke the camels back and brought me back to reality for good).

There were certainly things I didn't like or care for in the movie, but overall, compared to Up in any case it was a vast improvement.

[RandallBoggs]

Ok, finally went to go see Toy Story 3 and....
....it was pretty good. Great even.

Animation-wise, similiar to the second Toy Story with added touches, but the sheer number of additional object work and variety of locations (as well as how big they are) seemed to be some of Pixar's best.
Story-wise...also very strong. You can read and sense the conflicting emotions of being thrown away and being cherished swing to and fro at every turning point in the story.

I'd have to say the best parts to me...
Were the incinerator part. The fact that all of them saw that it was a hopeless situation, they all held on to each other and faced the oncoming doom together. It was a truely moving bit. It was enhanced, I think, by the fact that these guys were the "mainstays" of the Toy Story trilogy and that they were essentially "the only ones left" as we see in the beginning (which was also clever, using a teenager's cellphone to grab their attention.
And I also liked the ending, where Andy and the girl play together with them all, Andy for the last time. He could have simply dropped the box off and left. But no, he stuck around. And I liked how he "introduced" each toy seperately, showing them each to be important, not just Woody.

As for Lotso....while his story is sad, he definetly was taking his resentment too far. As Giggles noted "something snapped". While this happened with Randall...Lotso took a more devious intentment by not just affecting his adversaries, but everyone else as well, with no morals other than his own twisted ones.

[ivyandbro]

I haven't watched the movie yet, I blame school on this one. [and yet I have time for this site.]
Ah, I just watched The Incredibles, for like the 8th time and yes Syndrome seems a tad.. wrong. He was a good kid and then suddenly he becomes the complete opposite. Obnoxious too.