![]() Toy Story will always be a classic because it was the first CGI feature film. Secondly, Toy Story as a series gets the recognition it deserves because, lets not forget, it’s so groundbreaking. Even characters like Mr Potato Head and Hamm, who don’t develop as significantly, express panic, fear and determination. Jessie has gone from a freaked out, angry little thing to a brave, sophisticated hero of sorts. For example, Woody has gone from an arrogant, ego-centric, slightly neurotic character to one who thinks before he acts, and, when push comes to shove, he’s there for those he cares about. Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the rest, have gone full circles. I respect your opinion, but sorry mate, I disagreeįirstly, the characters develop, but the development is over the course of the 15 years between the first film and the third. I’m not gonna pretend my opinion is the only valid opinion on this forum, but it just escapes what makes Toy Story 3 such a masterpiece in everyone’s mind. So what exactly is so good about TS3? I mean, if you know, I’d love for you to tell me. My personal favorite, Bolt, was very underrated, almost overlooked, when realized back in 2008. Okay, both of these movies have been met fairly well by critics, particularly Dragon, but none of them have received the attention Toy Story 3 received, despite being more deserving. From my point of view, It is terrible! And it becomes even more staggering when you think about how other animated movies, personal favorites that are by far more sophisticated and complex Like How to Train Your Dragon and Bolt, are being pushed in the background to make way for the unyielding glorification of Pixar. I just can’t figure out what, if anything, makes this movie so good. And really, oh so devoted Pixarfans, doesn’t the fact that the directors would take Buzz Lightyear and change him so carelessly in the film speak volumes of their indifference to their own characters’ personalities? And he spends the rest of the movie as a surprisingly distasteful and offensive Spanish stereotype. And it’s funny about the first time he does it and not quite as funny about the tenth time. He spends the majority of the movie in “demo-mode”, delivering catchphrases and references to his delusional space-persona. The only character development Buzz Lightyear demonstrates isn’t more complex than the switching on the button in his back. In Toy Story 3, the ugly doll is reduced to pure, stupid and brain-dead entertainment. It was the space ranger, Buzz, who stole the show back in 1995. ![]() But Woody was never the star of this series. He doesn’t change because the plot requires him to stay the same. Woody is the same few-worded, whiny character he was in the other two movies. The majority of these toys spend more times being chewed on by drooling babies than showing any character development, whatsoever.īuzz and Woody are really the only one’s worth mentioning, which is sad, because both Woody and Buzz are terribly simplistic in this third installment. 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. (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.)
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