Toy Story 3 is an excellent end to the iconic Disney/Pixar series

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2010)

Well, after the anticipation caused by the re-release of the first two Toy Story films last October in 3-D, Toy Story 3, in both 2-D and the other aforementioned format finally arrived last Friday. I just couldn't wait so today, my first day off since the weekend, I watched with my movie theatre-working friend who had previously seen it when it arrived and didn't mind rewatching it with me. Anyway, with Andy now grown up and on his way to college, it seemed he didn't need Woody, Buzz, or the others anymore but while he was going to take the cowboy with him, the others were going to the attic but there was a mix-up and somehow they all end up in a daycare center. I'll just stop there and just say I was laughing, crying, and a little scared all at the same time. It's that enjoyable especially with the way Buzz changes in many sequences. Of course, there has to be a villain and he comes in a teddy bear named Lotso, voiced by Ned Beatty. There's a few more surprises but I don't want to spoil them here (though I'm putting a spoiler warning anyway in case you didn't want to know what I just revealed in previous sentences). One more thing, it was nice to hear the return of the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, and John Ratzenberger and that Blake Clark did a nice job of replacing the late Jim Varney as the Slinky Dog. Oh, and finding out the director, Teddy Newton, of the preceding short-Day & Night-is the voice of the talking Fisher-Price toy telephone is one of the nice things about reading the IMDb board. So on that note, Toy Story 3 is highly recommended. Oh, and I enjoyed seeing both this and Day & Night in 3-D.