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Toy story 3 logo1/2/2024 ![]() “We don’t want to do anything with them unless it lives up to or surpasses what’s gone before.” “We love these characters so much, they are like family to us,” he said in a statement. They’ll be guided by three Pixar vets: Finding Nemo’s Andrew Stanton, Up’s Pete Docter and Toy Story 3′s Lee Unkrich.Īnd, perhaps most reassuring of all, John Lasseter-the man who originally came up with the Toy Story concept and helmed the first two films-is returning to direct the fourth, and I doubt he’d do that if the plot weren’t terrific. Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, who wrote Celeste and Jesse Forever together, will pen the script, and they’re both very funny people. Each Toy Story sequel has been better than the last (a seemingly impossible feat after the second movie). There are a lot of reasons to believe that Toy Story 4 will actually turn out to be a great movie. Many of the animators at Pixar, too, thought the movie was unsurpassable, which is why the idea of yet another sequel was shunned for so many years. It turns out, I’m not the only person to think Toy Story 3 was a perfect film-infused with hilarious new characters like Barbie and Ken, but nurturing our sentimental attachment to Woody and Buzz. ![]() ![]() And I’m apprehensive because Toy Story 3 completed my childhood, and I’m not ready to go back to being a kid again. Disney CEO Robert Iger announced Tuesday that Toy Story 4 is set to hit theaters in June of 2017. And after Andy let go, we were ready to let go too.īut catharsis be damned because Toy Story is back…again. In the same way that many Millenials feel they grew up with Harry Potter-”He was my exact age! I thought I was going to get to go to Hogwarts too!”-we also grew up with Andy. As he was forced to leave his childhood behind, it dawned on me for the first time that I would never live at home again, that all my toys would be moved to storage and that my bedroom-eventually stripped of its posters-would be made into a guest room. And now, a year after I had moved away to college, Andy was doing the same. I had been a child when Andy was a child, a petulant tween when Andy was a tween. It’s a neat trick: convincing jaded college students that beloved characters will perish in a roaring fire, even though said students know that this is a kids’ movie and that couldn’t possibly happen, right?īut the movie’s real ending, when Andy gives away his favorite toys to a little girl named Bonnie, passing them on to the next generation, is so much better. As Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang reached out and held each other’s hands, ready to accept their inevitable demise, I looked to my left and saw the three boys I had brought with me to the movie. I was convinced that Disney was going to do a very un-Disney thing and kill off my favorite characters from childhood. I dragged three friends to the theater with me-all male and all 19 or 20 years old-and warned them that I’d probably cry.Īs the movie drew to a close, I wasn’t just crying. Porkchop from the first scene in the movie became Dr. ![]() It took me a full week to find the only theater in Rome playing Toy Story 3 in English (though it did have Italian subtitles, which meant that Dr. Still, I had brought two of my favorite stuffed animals with me on the trip and hid them in my suitcase every morning when I left for class. Nonetheless, I imagined the toys trapped in a dark closet, lonely, and went into hysterics.īy the time Toy Story 3 came out, I was 19, studying abroad in Italy and by most measures an adult. I didn’t use them anymore, eschewing playing pretend for computer games and slowly typing out my first novel (a 23-page epic about a fairy kingdom). It was around the time Toy Story 2 premiered in 1999 that I returned from camp one day to find that my parents had put a small fraction of my toys into storage.
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