Everything GREAT About Toy Story 3!

Toy Story the Third! The one with the scary strawberry Lotso bear. Is it the most traumatizing of all the Toy Stories? Yes. Here's everything right with Toy Story 3!

CinemaWins Socials:

[averymerrick]

At the beginning of the film, Woody tells Slinky to gather everyone for a staff meeting. Slinky's response? *Everyone is already gathered.* For anyone who grew up with the first two films and remembered all the toys that attended Woody's staff meeting, seeing such a large population reduced to just under a dozen (combined with Slinky's response) gave the film *an eerily post-apocalyptic feel.*

[creativeplanetentertainmen]

Subtle foreshadowing on Lotso's entrance. It's literally a dumptruck dropping off the trash

[trinaq]

This was the perfect send off for the series. While the fourth movie was decent enough, the scene where Andy gives his toys to Bonnie, and parts with Woody, always bring a tear to my eye.

[kirkhilljr.]

Needs an additional win for "So long, partner." My dad and I saw this in theaters and we both were surprised by how moved we were by the end of the movie. Toy Story 3 is just beautiful.

[maland]

The fact that the Incinerator scene, one of the darkest and most emotional moments from Pixar’s entire catalogue, is the emotional buildup to quite possibly the greatest Brick Joke in animation history. A 15 year buildup, and a scene that originally had comedic intent and was just a device to get Buzz and Woody taken by Sid turns out to be the very thing that saves the entire gang.

The aliens running off to it even gives the audience the signal that it’ll happen, because you _know_ what’s coming with that thing. You don’t know when it’ll happen, and it makes the payoff all the more cathartic when the aliens save them.

Finally, it’s the hilarity that the aliens worship the Claw as a god, and for a few short moments they controlled its hand. For a brief moment, _the aliens ascended godhood!_ Good for them.

[rayn]

What makes Lotso’s backstory really sad is that Daisy was probably so distraught when she woke up and realized Lotso was gone that her parents bought a replacement and told her they’d found him.

[averymerrick]

Throw It In: Ken's line, *”Take him to the library (pronounced as 'lie-berry'), "* after capturing Buzz, was an intentional mispronunciation as an improvisation by Michael Keaton. Lee Unkrich liked it so much, that he kept it in the film.

[mr._.mav]

Fun fact: When I saw this movie as a kid, the monkey _absolutely traumatized me and I STILL feel a little pang of fear when I re-watch this movie_

[lukasgiese]

When the smelter scene happened in cinema you could hear the brains of the parents there with their kids working as hard as they possibly could to come up with a good response, if PIXAR actually did it. And I must say: In a cinema of almost 2000 seats, mostly filled with families, you could hear on giant collective gasp as they held hands and after that just pure tension and quiet in all of the audience. An absolute masterpiece scene by PIXAR, earned by years of character development.

[samschellhase]

I love how CinemaWins having a child has only made his commentary better and more connected.
“My kids will never grow up, and that is a perfectly healthy way to think about it” 3:20 ish

[Depth]

During the incinerator scene, my fully packed theater at the midnight premiere of this movie was as silent as they later would be when the credits rolled for Infinity War.

And you could hear a lot of quiet sobbing during the ending, and a big, hushed “aww” when Andy pulled Woody away instinctively. Man.

[grvu]

The Sunnyside scene hit me a special kind of hard when I saw the movie for the first time. See, my mum is an elementary teacher. When I was a teenager, I made the terrible mistake of giving her my old Toy Story toys for her class and they. All. Got. TRASHED. My Woody got his cord torn off and his hat came THIS close to being thrown in the trash, and Buzz lost his dome and one of his retractable wings, and the both of them had paint in various places. They were the lucky ones.

Moral of the story: DON'T. GIVE. YOUR. TOYS. TO. AN. ELEMENTARY. CLASS.

[averymerrick]

The final shot of the film: *A shot of the sky that resembles the wallpaper of Andy's room.* It provides a moving *bookend* for the film and the series as a whole: Evoking Woody and the gang's time as Andy's toys and that *those times are now over.*

[SwaySilva]

I aged with Andy. I was his age in 1, 2 & 3. This movie made me weep, and still does. The validation that Woody gets by never giving up on Andy always gets me

[bittrippn]

So, just to put the stereotype Buzz thing into maybe more context.. the animator that worked on those shots, Carlos Baena, is from Spain and actively worked with the production to get those scenes put in. I'm a student animator and I've watched him give talks about it and he's very proud of the fact that he could put a slice of his culture in the movie, Spanish Buzz is mostly influenced by Flemenco dancers, so let's try to not get offended on others' behalf.

[SinBlade]

"So long, partner."

I can't tell you how hard it was to not cry at that scene. At the time it was hard. Even now it's heartbreaking.

[theyrecomingforyoubarbara]

This movie came out the same year I graduated high school and I went to see it with my little brother and sister. They did NOT understand why I was silent crying at the end. We literally grew up with the Toy Story movies. it was the end of my “childhood” and I considered this one the perfect ending of the franchise.

[jakeharmon]

14:18. For some reason, his lines "I'm sorry, cowboy. They broke me" always gives me goosebumps

[isaiahvoss]

In Toy Story 3, Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro makes an appearance when the other toys greet Woody. It's a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki when he did Spirited Away and added the lamp to represent Pixar with him and John Lasseter's friendship.

[BonaparteBardithion]

9:27
Mr. Potato talks through his detached mouth in the first film, so she could have very much still talked through it if she wanted. Though the invasion of personal boundries may have momentarily stunned her to silence.