toy story 3

just saw it. I loved it, loved toy story when it first came out and I saw it on tv way back in the good ol days when tv didn't suck ass. so seeing it now at 24 on the big screen, my first toy story was a cool experience, and fitting that it be the final chapter in the series. I can see they really worked hard on it, figuring out just where to end these character's stories. times when i thought the movie was going to faulter, it bounces right back with some interesting drama, well played. people are calling it a masterpiece now, definitely up there and puts shame to a lot of other movies out right now. just the effortless passion for the story on display is worthy of the price of admition but on its own its a great film even if you've never seen the first or second, the first actually BEING a masterpiece.

one flaw it has though is that it came out NOW. wtf took them so long? it needed to come out ages ago. it almost feels like toy story 2 never happened because very little of the movie actually referrences that film. dare i say you could drop 2 all together if they didn't bring some of its characters back in this one. but that's the name of the game with sequels. some things work and others don't.

really miss bo peep too. the movie tells us she was just donated to someone else or whatever... how come woody doesn't find her, he's in love with her! this really kind of made me confused, the entire second film is about the toys finding a lost woody and bringing him back to andy, then this one dropps a major main character and shrugs it off. Yeah i know its a bitch to find these toys but come on. they even know how to use phones and computers and they can't keep in touch... would have been interesting if after lamenting bo peep's loss, she's found struggling to survive at sunny side and woody tries to save her and stuff.

oh well, fantastic film regardless. it's about as good a 3rd movie as you could hope for really. the first toy story is about fear of being replaced as a toy. the second about the fear of being outgrown as a toy. the third examines exactly what happens when a toy reaches that point when he's been outgrown and become useless to its owner and ironically the toy has to accept replacing its own owner, so things really come full circle.

A+