Toy Story 3 anticipation thread

bugs life used to be one of my faves but I find it pretty dull these days. but it looks great.

Fun trivia: they made the ants pink & blue to avoid it being a racial allegory.

btw guys, I am way excited for Toy Story 3. I cried at the freaking trailer.

i was kind of shocked that andy would be pulling the same crap that jessie's owner did but the longer trailer makes it clear this isn't the case

There's a schmaltzy bit in the US trailer (I think they didn't include it in the UK trailer) that made me doubt the kick-ass-ness of TS3, but I think that's the only openly emo bit so don't let that put anyone off.

I loved the first two films but the trailer for 3 didn't really sell it to me. Mr spacecadet claims not to like the first 2 films even though he hasn't seen them!"£! so if I do make him see this in the cinema and it's no good I'll never hear the end of it.

I wish they'd do the 3d-remastered double bill of the first two over here but I guess we're not going to get it. Then again, we got Up 6 months after the US, so maybe they'll do the same for TS3 and throw us the double bill to keep us sweet while reading Americans go nuts and then forget about TS3 on the internet.

I'd say for the last 10-15 films I've seen at the cinema, I noticed they picked the worst bits for the trailers - to the extent that I wouldn't have gone if not for ppl going as a group and persuading me to come. It's usually all the really obvious jokes or cliched dialogue, but when it's in the context of the movie it works. Is this just me and/or have they always done this?

Anyway, if you liked the first two films, I can't see how you couldn't like the 3rd. The new characters are great, although it's a shame that because there are so many a lot don't get much screen time (this is probably wise in terms of making a decent film, but I wanted to see more of some of them). It's in the UK only a week later, on the 23rd.

Btw I just realised this wasn't on the thread:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/27/and-now-the-vintage-japanese-commercial-for-pixars-lots-o-huggin-bear/

no one's seen it yet? reviews are pretty incredible, sf chronicle (mick lasalle, who I take with a grain of salt most of the time) ranking this with (and above) Wall-E and Up.

i just saw it. it was absolutely super awesome.

scary for a G film, though.

great ending to the series. very, very funny, and also quite sad in places.

Just got back from this, it was really good! My wife bawled like a baby. Makes a genuinely nice bookend to the series. I think this is one of those ultra-rare trilogies where each succeeding film is as good as, if not better than, the previous one.

fuck pixar and their fascist sentimentalist humanist agenda.

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Wall-E demonizes post-humans as fatties and equates plucky humanoid courage as what a robot should aspire to. What kind of message is this sending to the youth?

While we applaud Pixar's use of non-organic objects as protagonists in their films, we find it appalling their habit of making these objects human-like or "cute". Why not make a film about a truck being itself?

Like Milo and Otis, but 100% more entertaining.

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the big scary climactic moment of this was genuinely unsettling. i remember on the tim burton alice in wonderland thread, there was an argument about whether or not it was realistic to expect a disney movie to really make you fear the characters aren't going to make it out alive. this movie totally delivered on that front.

it was surprisingly intense in parts, reddening otm about the climax. raises the emotional stakes very effectively. tightly plotted. but to nitpick, humor was somewhat lacking, and what it had tended to rely on stereotypes, i.e. doesn't Ken act gay, isn't it hilarious to see Buzz as a Latin lover-type? kinda retrograde.

I like to credit the admirable parts of Pixar films to Pixar and the lesser parts to Disney.

xps, er yeah? I saw it several weeks ago which is how I was able to say how fantastic it was (and with genuinely scary bits). Seeing it again today, too!

AV Club review talks about that climactic moment, and this was definitely something that stood out to me.
"effeminate Ken" I thought was actually a cheesy joke handled with a decent amount of affection - it could have been horrible in the hands of other studios.

humor was somewhat lacking, and what it had tended to rely on stereotypes, i.e. doesn't Ken act gay, isn't it hilarious to see Buzz as a Latin lover-type? kinda retrograde.

wasn't how i read the film at all. and come on: mr. potato head as a tortilla was super funny.

OTM - Mr. Tortilla Head got HUGE laughs in our theater.

Also, is it wrong that I thought Jessie's slo-mo glamour shot when Buzz gets onto the conveyor and sees her was kinda hot?

well, yeah, Mr. Tortilla Head was funny. And the way they played with these stereotypes for comedic purposes was a lot less abrasive than most entertainment that trucks in this sort of humor. Funnier too. Still, to take a character like Ken, who's a known gay icon, then to make him straight then play the stereotypical gay-seeming parts of his personality for lolz is-- well, if not disappointing, then at least underwhelming.

I haven't seen you posting in a while. Am I reading the wrong threads?

nah, I gave it a break for a while, work picked up. but the urge to make nitpicky points about a movie I liked perfectly fine was overpowering.

The little short film at the start of this is an amazing bit of animation – the best Pixar short yet, IMO.

TS3 was as good as I expected it would be.

It was actually less sad than the trailer lead me to believe it would be. And more political!

The scenes of the little girl playing with her toys & Woody was so adorable, and it had a real kid feeling to it. There was this extra cute little girl in front of us at the theater who said some gasping gibberish every time the words in the green screen flew at yr face.

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This movie mad me kind of sad I ever grew up!

Wait, did I miss Sid in this movie? What scene was he in?

The "Big Baby" character was one of the creepiest things I've seen in a Pixar, even creepier than Sid's toys in the first movie. The chattering monkey was major LOLZ, though.

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

ok the unified theory of pixar thing was lol but this i TOTALLY buy - http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/25/toy_story_andy_s_mom_has_a_secret_identity_look_at_the_hats.html

ha, pretty good. very believable

just read that unified theory of pixar, hilarious!!