The Fretless Bass reviews: Toy Story 3

I'm going to be honest, when I first heard of Toy Story 3, I thought that it would be a tack-on plot with no expansion, just a screen feeding you the exact same movie again. However, when I did see it, I found that it was actually quite good.

The plot starts with the toys desperate attempt to get Andy to play with them again, and it fails. The Toys are dismayed because Andy is going off to college, and they will be thrown out, donated, or stuck in the attic. Andy decides to take Woody to college and leave the rest of his toys in the attic. But, in a move of brilliant stupidity, Andy puts the attic-bound toys IN A GARBAGE BAG and LEAVES THEM AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. The toys almost get put into a garbage truck, but escape, and hide in the donation box because they don't believe Woody when he tells them that Andy wanted them to go to the attic. So the toys all end up in a day care, where the movie quickly becomes a dystopian film.

I did like the film, and I have liked all the Toy Story films, and this movie did much better than I expected, and wraps up the plot of all three movies nicely. One thing I liked a lot is how they had Buzz reset to his original factory settings. This problem has come up now in all three movies. (If you don't remember, Buzz was first introduced like that in the first movie, and in the second movie, another Buzz Lightyear toy replaced Buzz and thought he was on a mission and all the other toys that were completely unarmed and frozen with smiles of their faces were somehow out to get him). But this movie did it well, I would have expected them to just have him fall over and hit his head, but they integrated the event into the plot very smoothly.

I have a few bad things to say about it, too. First, You could replace the character of Woody with MacGyver, and no one would stop drooling on their official fan t-shirt to notice. Also, about fifteen percent of the movie was Woody climbing, but seriously, that toy could out climb Ryan Seacrest if there was a photo shoot at the top of the cliff. My final grievance is with the plot, in every single Toy Story movie, the toys somehow get lost and need to find their way back to Andy. If not for the Andy-going-to-college part, You could have swapped Toy Story 3 with Toy Story 2 and no one would notice except stuck up reviewers like yours truly.

All in all, Toy Story 3 is a very good movie and I would recommend it. I give it an 8/10.