There are about a dozen different toys in the series now, most of which only functions as comic relief characters that stick around in the background. Rather than having them develop beyond the minimal standard required for the plot, the directors focused more on having them do stupid things and end up in stupid situations. But the worst thing is that this movie isn’t treating the characters with respect. Overall, the plot just feels like one big excuse to move the characters from the backdrop of Andy’s room to the daycare center where the story is being transformed into a prison break parody, filled with plot-twists, slapstick humor and gay-jokes, directly aimed at the adults in the audience. Firstly, the same story formula is being recycled for the third time! Just like in the other two movies, the toys are separated from Andy. Personally, I found Toy Story 3 of being a surprisingly formulaic and unappealing movie of the following reasons. Critics are calling it “heartbreaking” and “inspiring”, and a movie critic from NYT even went as far as calling it “a deep, complex take on mortality”. I can’t escape the feeling that Toy Story 3 is being terribly overrated by critics and moviegoers alike. Just don't get me started about the 3-D.(I should probably start off by saying that the post didn’t only get too long but also a bit too “ranty” (even by personal standards) so if the moderators should find it necessary, I could edit it down a bit.) But hey, what can you expect from a movie named "Toy Story 3," especially with the humans mostly offstage? I expect its target audience will love it, and at the box office, it may take right up where " How to Train Your Dragon" left off. This is a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier “Toy Story” sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions. There is a happy ending, of course, but I suspect these toys may be traumatized for eternity. You have no idea what garbage has to go through before becoming landfill, and even an Indiana Jones toy would have trouble surviving the rotating blades. Man, the toys have a dangerous time of it after they eventually find themselves at a garbage collection center. Potato Head must be old hands at such situations, because children spend most of their time attaching his body parts in the wrong way, like malpracticing little Dr. Potato Head lost an ear, would it continue to hear, or if he lost a mouth, would it continue to eat without a body? These are not academic questions at one point, Mister becomes an uncooked taco shell. This raises intriguing physiological questions, such as, if Mr. Potato Head ( Estelle Harris), whose missing eye continues to see independently of her head. If you ask me, Barbie ( Jodi Benson) is anorexic, and Ken ( Michael Keaton) is gay, but nobody in the movie knows this, so I'm just sayin'.īuzz Lightyear ( Tim Allen) is back, still in hapless hero mode, but after a reboot, he starts speaking Spanish and that leads to some funny stuff. They pick up, however, some additions to their little band, including a Ken doll with an extensive wardrobe. There seems to be relatively little grieving about the loss of Andy's affections he did, after all, sentence them to a toy box for years, and toys by nature are self-centered and want to be played with.ĭay care seems like a happy choice, until a dark underside of its toy society emerges in the person of an ominously hug-prone bear named Lotso ( Ned Beatty). What with one thing and another, the other toys find themselves at the day-care center, which they think they'll like, because there will be plenty of kids to play with them all day long.
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