Look how far you’ve come.” Pixar didn’t market the movie to children, but to young adults who had effectively grown up with Andy. It flipped through flashes of old footage filmed by Andy’s mom of the boy playing with his toys as if to say “look how far we’ve come. He was going to college along with several million other seniors around the U.S. It took place eleven years after the second: the same amount of time that had passed for the unit between films. It wasn’t going to be set the same year the first movie took place or a year after the second. What made this film so special was the setting. That year, my older friends would be graduating from high school. What made the film even more poignant was the year it was to be released. When talking to each other about it, we spoke about the upcoming film with excitement, reverence, and sadness. There would be no more Toy Story films after this one. When the movie was announced, the word on the street was that this was the last film. As the toys came together in their calming circle and stared down the fiery pits of hell, their lives flashed before my eyes and so did mine.Įight years ago, back before another sequel loomed on the horizon, to speak of Toy Story 3 was to speak of finality. Woody and Buzz are as much a part of my family as other Disney characters like Aladdin, Pinnochio, Cinderella, and many others. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched it. My mom took me to the first Toy Story film when I was two. I had been with these toys since the beginning. When I saw the scene in the movie theater, I cried my eyes out. The cowboy and the spaceman had once hated each other and now the best of friends, fighting through their challenges together. And the last two to join hands are Woody and Buzz. Slowly, they join together their hands, paws, and hooves as a final act of banding together for one last hurdle. Seeing as there is no way out the toys resign themselves to their fate. Now the toys are on the track to their inevitable doom. But instead, he chose to run off in a cruel act of revenge. Lotso Huggin’ Bear – the world’s biggest asshole despite being only a teddy bear – could have saved them by hitting the emergency stop button that he was just feet away from only a moment before. Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and what remains of their friends from the previous movies are on a one-way trip down a conveyor belt to the fiery pits of the incinerator. The first was the climactic scene where the toys end up in the dump after a narrow escape from Sunnyside Daycare where they were being mistreated. When I think of Toy Story 3, two scenes usually jump into my mind. Yet we all still keep one thing as a token of our youth, something that reminds us of all the good times of our childhood and never the bad: our favorite toy. We grow up and trade the fancies, imaginings and challenges of being a kid in favor of the privileges and trials of adulthood. Childhood is there and gone in the blink of an eye.
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