Toy Story 3 anticipation thread

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.

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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.

yeah also this ^^ although I was more weepy at Andy's mum being all 'my son is gone' and the BIT WHERE ANDY AND BONNIE PLAY WITH THEIR TOYS LIKE OMG ACTUAL CRYING YOU GUYS

hearts of steel

I watched Tokyo Story yesterday and that absolutely pwned Toy Story 3 in the emotional outpour stakes.

I was absolutely sullen for like half an hour. You would like it LJ, I think.

did anyone spy any toy story characters in the wall-e junkyards?

I bet it didn't have a moment like 1/4 as funny as Tortilla Potato Head xp but yeah I might watch it

Yes it is sombre as fuck. I give, lots of belly laughs like that Shakespearian hedgehog and SPANISH BUZZ.

spanish buzz was next-level for about 20 seconds, which is enough

That hedgehog killed me! Especially since it was wearing little lederhosen.

bonnie's toys were about as charming a bunch of toys as Pixar could have engineered, I was all 'squee'

"we do a lot of improv here."

I'm not one for stuffed toys. But the peas-in-a-pod are the CUTESTTTTT!
ahem.

what a totally wasted opportunity not to get Tom Waits to be the voice of Chuckles The Clowm

also that short at the beginning was probably the most spectacular piece of animation I've seen since Ren & Stimpy

For the all the makes-grown-men-weep hype I didn't find the sad parts particularly sad - I think partly cos grown-up Andy is kind of a tool. Up was far more heartwrenching. Still a really really good film though.

This is why I'm a valuable poster. I find this sort of depraved silliness just before everyone else.

http://i30.tinypic.com/9s4inl.jpg

Trying to work out whether Spanish Buzz or Metrosexual Ken was the best thing about this.

http://i31.tinypic.com/2l95zlj.jpg

Serious Actor Doll was the best imo

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O-_F30rZ2lA/TFBVXvNFLGI/AAAAAAAACHg/F6QT_7cK97U/s320/Mr+P2.jpg