![]() ![]() The toys, led by Woody the sheriff (Hanks), come to terms with the fact that their owner, Andy (Morris), has grown up and, at 17, is about to head off to college. Toy Story 3 may be the most 'grown-up' film in the trilogy. Even when compared to the knowing satire and social commentary of The Simpsons, Toy Story surprises with its depth of feeling and its mature exploration of such themes as life and death, love and rejection, friendship and loneliness. The Toy Story films have always catered to adults in a way most animated features do not. I got the feeling, as the film played, that this was its intended audience: people who had grown up with the Toy Story franchise, and yet had never quite grown up. ![]() There was just one infant, who, asleep in her mum's arms, was unaware of the screen in front of her. When I went to see Toy Story 3 the audience consisted almost entirely of adults in their 20s and 30s. Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, John Morris, Jodi Benson, Timothy Dalton. © 2024 NYP Holdings, Inc.Toy Story 3 (G). “They’re given life by a child’s attention - even Sid’s dismembered toys were animate,” posited all creative and thoughtful answers, “Toy Story 3” director Unkrich thought it high time to dispel the myths surrounding toy mortality. If that’s the case then the toys can never die, but their consciousness degrades along with their bodies.” So either the toys have a core which contains their consciousness, or it’s distributed throughout their bodies,” figured the user added, “Given the diversity among the toys and the fact that they don’t appear to have been built in any special way, I lean toward the latter. “Sid’s experiments clearly establish that toys can survive dismemberment and take control of newly attached parts. “My girlfriend and i are having a big fight bc i think the toys from “Toy Story” are immortal and she thinks they can die,” wrote Twitter user burning debate, which has garnered nearly 60,000 likes on Twitter since Saturday, saw more than 350 responses ranging from the philosophical to the scientific. A scene from “Toy Story 3.” Buena Vista PicturesĪ pair of fans took to Twitter to clear up a hypothetical debate that has raged between them for 10 years: If animated toys aren’t alive in the first place, are they immortal? Rather than melt into oblivion, the alien toys from Pizza Planet came to their rescue in the clutch, if you will, with “ the claw” - a reference to the first “Toy Story” installment. Mercifully, viewers were spared a tragic culmination to the beloved franchise and saw a full-circle ending instead. ![]() With seemingly no way out, the toy family reconcile their sad fate, make amends and join hands before death - a heavy notion for the PG-rated age group, which surely prompted thousands of conversations between parents and their kids about what happens to our loved ones after finding themselves in a furnace. The toys of “Toy Story,” including Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and a rotating cast of dilapidated dolls, had managed to survive being lost inside a Pizza Planet restaurant (“Toy Story”), and getting pilfered by a maniacal, mouth-breathing toy collector who brought them to Japan (“Toy Story 2”).īut “Toy Story 3” presented the most traumatic circumstances of all: being sent to a daycare center where a malevolent purple bear would shove them into a dump truck that drops them off in an incinerator. One decade after the dramatic climax of “Toy Story 3” - wherein the gang find themselves trapped in a garbage incinerator and facing certain annihilation - the film’s director Lee Unkrich has come to confirm just how dark that scene really was. It’s one of the realest moments in animated movie history. ‘Toy Story’ director spoils debate over whether toys can die Tim Allen gives honest take about possible retirement plans Iconic San Francisco toy store that inspired ‘Toy Story’ films closing after 86 years over ‘perils and violence’ in city’s downtown ![]()
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