Toy Story 3 anticipation thread

no sid, who mentioned him?

this was excellent, also, btw. I don't know if I like it more than 1 or 2 yet (I have seen them way too many times) but it was a good ending to the series. the bobbie kid is adorable.

Big Baby was creepy – it reminded me of Booji Boy.

Sid was the garbageman who was always rocking out to music. He was wearing his skull shirt, that was the only clue it was him.

awesome

also got a trailer for voyage of the dawn treader before this and it looked good? I didn't bother with Caspian because the first film was so cheesy and annoying.

not really related to toy story 3 but just wanted to remark that it's super weird to be exactly smack in the narrow demographic zone where you totally miss pixar -- i.e. i was born in 71, so was already out of college when the first one came out, so never saw any of these -- but my kid is only 4 so is not yet clamoring to see these as I expect he will in a few years. And so this gigantic cultural barge has sailed past and I missed it!

Toy Story 3 Easter Egg guide:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67118

Just got back from my second showing (first time of seeing the short in 3d - brilliant) and it's just as good second time round :D
Tortilla head got big lols, as did the scene where Mr Chuckles starts his story, for some reason - obv I loved it but didn't think it would be bringing the lols quite so much! Had a group of late-teenage boys next to me, was nice to hear them laughing at the more geeky stuff.

eephus, you should enjoy catching up and watching the movies with your kids.

eephus, I was born two years before you and I've seen them all, in theaters no less. I'm just a big fan of the art of animation and good storytelling, and I don't think you have to either be a kid or have kids to enjoy them.

<3'd the return of the jedi homage in dis

Eephus, I'm one year younger than you. I didn't see Toy Story 1 until after it was on VHS, but I think I've managed to see all the others in the theater (except for Ratatouille and Wall-E because they came out around the time we'd just had a baby and never went out), though I think some people thought that was 'odd' at first. But these films are a step beyond Disney or anything else; they're almost always among the very best movies of the year. This summer's movies have been 100% uncompelling to m and I don't see much on the horizon that looks good either, which is why I'm sure I'm going to see this movie two more times in the theater. Pixar films can't come fast enough.

Just got back from this, thought it was really good. Not quite as fantastic as some of the more hyperbolic reviews may lead you to believe, but quite probably my favorite of the series. I do have to admit that its a good thing I'm not a writer or consultant on the series, because what I thought was the worst gag in the whole movie (VERY MINOR SPOILER: the extended Spanish setting gag) got the hugest laughs out of the audience in my screening. The new characters were all pretty good. Loved Kristen Schall's brief appearance and the even more brief appearance of that old owl speak'n'spell like things (don't know what they are called).

Also, LOVED the new short.

Thanks a lot, Armond White! (White and somebody that nobody's ever heard of ruin 100% rating for the entire trilogy on Rotten Tomatoes.)

White's review here. Warning: It starts with the following sentence, then actually gets dumber. "Pixar has now made three movies explicitly about toys, yet the best movie depiction of how toys express human experience remains Whit Stillman’s 1990 Metropolitan."

"Lotsa Hugs"
Hamm the Piggy Bank Pig as a daycare center cast-off new character

hmm

"Pixar has now made three movies explicitly about toys, yet the best movie depiction of how toys express human experience remains Whit Stillman’s 1990 Metropolitan."

i take back everything negative i've ever said about armond white. the man is the michaelangelo of knee-jerk contrarian trolling.

michaelangelo as in the ninja turtle, obv.

this movie was dope. have to watch 2 again but i don't think it's on the first's level.

probably the funniest of the three, though

Saw it this afternoon. No fronting, I teared up at the end. Up to that point it was quite funny, and there were no lulls in the flow of the movie at all that I noticed. I was engaged the whole time. I'd rank it even with the first film quality-wise, just below #2 (which is perhaps my favorite Pixar film on days that honor doesn't belong to Wall-E or Up).

oh yeah the part with the little girl killed me too, reminded me of kids from summer camp i worked at

Just saw this last night. If I ever teach high school English, I'll have to use the climax when explaining deus ex machina: As the protagonists, discarded and betrayed, struggle through filth against the inevitable, they abandon their hope, seek some solace in personal relationships, and wince in anticipation of the fiery abyss when Lo! From the Heavens, a literal machine descends from above backed by sweet, blinding light and saves our heroes. Fucking perfect.

er, spoiler warning?

not out for another three weeks in the UK, although hoping to get to a preview to narrow that gap.

Totally did not catch the fact that toy torturer kid from the first movie was the garbage truck dude in this one.

finally saw this last night. I love how Mr. Potato Head's essence is not contained in his potato body, but in his body parts and accessories. The tortilla potato head was so ... weird. Big baby was pretty frightening too. Good movie, on par with the first two I'd say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc8C5sylXWs

Oh my gosh...Woody was Lotso!

http://newslite.tv/2010/07/21/toy-story-fan-changes-his-name.html

What is the story w/British people and Buzz Lightyear?

Wait, you mean this is a "thing"!?!?

I don't know, this is coming from my mom, who told me British people are crazy about Buzz Lightyear. She's also told me a bunch of wacky stuff that "black people secretly believe," so I don't know how trustworthy she is on other cultures.

Pretty sure there's no 'thing' with us Brits, although when the first Toy Story came out, the Buzz was THE toy to get for Christmas, and it sold out like everywhere. My mum happened to be going to Canada and managed to get one for my little brother. But I think it was nuts there too because she had to fight for it!

This was great, as expected, though if they had gotten the cameoing Totoro toy just to say "To-tooorr-ro" once it would have next levelled it imo.

http://twitchfilm.net/news/Totoro_ToyStory3.jpg

Big Baby was scary as fuck.

The Monkey Shines monkey was a bit freaky as well.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/monkey_shines.jpg/402px-Monkey_shines.jpg

Yes, such an awful, soul-rending noise it made.

God I loved this. Mr Veg & I held hands & bawled...so hard to say goodbye to childhood. Spent the whole ride home wondering if my childhood teddybear is still in my old bedroom closet at my parents' house.

Little Molly in her gumboots and tutu was the cutest. And Spanish Buzz was awesome. Slinky Dog sure is the workhorse of that toybox...

this was absolutely amazing you guys - scene at the end where Andy and Bonnie play with the toys was literal :''''''''''''''')

not gonna go into the good bits now (there were lots of them) but the way it kept bombarding us with believable emotional climaxes was astonishing

I liked this but it was a fraction of the film Up was. The opening ten minutes of that will forever be Pixar's 'Bambi's mum' moment.

SPOILERS
The bit in the dumpster was genuinely intense until those bloody aliens saved them in classic kid's movie style.

I thought that would be it - and that it would be the jawdropping mindmelting never-been-there-before antidote to every kid's film ever - but equally that movie NEEDED closure with Bonnie's toys and Andy's toys being brought together, which I realised pretty much as soon as they first came onscreen

'jawdropping mindmelting never-been-there-before antidote to every kid's film ever'

Now this is what I wanted, in a kind of perverse way. Pixar should have totally gone for a historic unhappy ending.

I really enjoy Pixar's films but this one also suffered with being somewhat overfamiliar with the characters...third installments are always so hard to pull off. Just didn't feel like this fresh, inventive adventure like their previous three or so.

They could have melted them down to metal ingots to be reincarnated as high-end die-cast toys for nostalgia-ridden adult Andy.

I went with my entire family actually...like the only film we could realistically enjoy all together, and they were totally charmed.

xpost yes hahaha!

I disagree - the opening twenty minutes (after the 'imagination' sequence) were a bit frantic and confused and 'been there before' but after that it went to some places that neither of the first two films went - the idea of toys DAMAGED by neglect being key - although in a perverse way, yeah, everyone frying and Woody somehow surviving to be just like Lotso would have filled me with immense catharsis.

But I still think that Bonnie and her toys did enough to justify the film's ending. The dread and despair of the dumpster scene was real - the happy ending doesn't remove that fact.

HAHAHAHA my brother made the same regenerative point!!!!!!!

except he said the new toys should be really faceless throwaway consumer-culture ones

I don't think I would have been able to handle myself if they had all burnt to death & that was The End. I would have needed to see a grief counselor.

I was crying hard enough even with the deus ex machina.