Andy toy story 3 movie#

Because Pixar has let these characters age, and let their world age, it feels like we’re connected to them, like they’ve been an intimate part of our lives all along. What I’m getting at here is that the story of Andy’s toys is as heartfelt and wonderful as ever.

Andy toy story 3 movie#

That seems wholly appropriate, in a movie that feels as more like a loving goodbye to something special and magical, than just another new adventure. Potato Head better than you ever have before. Woody’s the movie’s star, but you’ll get to know characters like Hamm and Mrs. Now much depleted in numbers, Andy’s toys seem more developed than ever before. Toy Story 3 introduces something wholly new into the equation though and lets them wonder whether they should go back, when there’s no one to go back to. In the previous two movies we saw what happened when the toys were separated from Andy: ever loyal they fought to get back. Toy Story 3 takes it even further, it’s a movie in love with life, and the memories of life, and all the heartaches, and changes, and beautiful, wonderful, happy times that happen and the ways in which they’ll never be forgotten. And it’s imagination that Pixar loves, and imagination that we’ve fallen so desperately in love with over the course of these films. For a few beautiful moments, we see what Andy sees when he plays with Woody, the worlds his cowboy pal unlocks, and the places that takes him. There’s a train robbery, a desert cliff, and a race against time. Woody’s in a race to save the day, and it’s as if he’s been launched straight into the wild west. Toy Story 3 begins not in Andy’s room but inside Andy’s imagination. It matters because it isn’t really the toy we love, but what it represents. Does it really matter? It feels like it does. What do I call this lump in my throat? Can we really love an inanimate object as truly as Andy seems to love Woody? Can an inanimate object love us back? Toy Story 3 makes a rather convincing case for the affirmative. The Toy Story franchise ends in a few perfect moments, a final goodbye, a last expression of that new, heart-wrenching feeling.

In Toy Story 3, a story that’s been decades in the making finally comes to completion, and culminates not in a fight scene or a stirring speech, but in what feels like a new kind of love.