Even Better Than Toy Story

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2003)

How is it that a computer generated animated movie can have more believable characters (yes, I know they're toys), better dialogue, a more involving plot, and more "humanity" (for want of a better word) than any live action film I have seen in the past five years?
This film is simply brilliant - tightly plotted and fast-moving, funny, exciting, and yet with a warmth at the heart of it that is lacking in most of Hollywood's output.
This film should have beaten American Beauty to the "Best Picture" Oscar, yet it wasn't even nominated.
After Toy Story, I had high expectations of this film and feared a major let-down. I needn't have worried.