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"Toy Story 3" is Disney/Pixar's latest foray into the summer blockbuster season. It takes place a number of years later than the last one and in fact Andy, the owner of the toys, is now going off to college and has decided that he needs to put away the toys. This leads to some fun times as the toys we have grown to love over the years as they are donated to a day care.
But before they get to the nitty-gritty of the movie there's about a five minute opening where there's a whole fantasy sequence about the toys and a train robbery. I would have loved for the whole movie to be like that opening sequence. That was fun to watch and must have been as fun to make.
After a montage of various times and ages where Andy is playing with his toys we get up to modern day where Andy is packing for college. His mom throws down the ultimatum of deciding what to do with the toys by Friday. He packs up the toys in a plastic bag and his mom takes them to the day care after nearly throwing them out. The toys are introduced to the toys in the day care and they are sent to the toddler room to be played with. There they find out that, like all adults who have a toddler, it is not all it is cracked up to be. They are beaten and abused and the potato heads have to go all over the room to get their parts. It is during this time that we learn what is really going on with the toys in the non-toddler room and that Lotso Huggin Bear is a jerk.
In the end, the toys make it through their adventures and make their way back to Andy's house. I'm not going to spoil the ending for you all, but it is a definite ending and does not leave you hanging like some of the new movies out there. (I'm looking at you "Inception".)
The toys are at various times throughout the movie, put into a lot of peril. I don't see how this
movie got a 'G' rating here in the states, but I'm not going to quibble with the motion picture
ratings board over their choice of ratings. It is light hearted fun that is good for adults that have
grown up with the franchise over the past fifteen years, but I would not take a child younger than about six to see this movie.
The great thing about most Pixar movies is how accessible they are to the general public. Pixar keeps up this tradition with Toy Story 3 and although it did not have as many laughs for me as UP, it was still a good five dollars spent.
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