Eleven Years Was Worth It

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2010)

First off, I still remember seeing Toy Story the first time when I was two or three years old. I remember how I loved Woody and my brother loved Buzz, and I had a talking Woody doll with a drawstring. I remember when Toy Story 2 came out, and me and my brother got the game for the Nintendo 64 and could never get past the third level. Oh, I remember Toy Story all right- the laughs, the friendship, the pure joy of a movie about something so childlike.
Now I'm 17, and I remember earlier this year walking into the theater to see Toy Story 3. I had pink eye, but it was Father's Day and my 47 year old father wanted to see Toy Story 3 for Father's Day. I remember the fact that there were bunches and bunches of little kids in the theater, who probably weren't anticipating the movie as much as me and my 16 year old brother. This was the moment we'd been waiting for- here was a movie made as a sequel to a movie we'd both loved as a child, one that we still argue over because of Woody and Buzz. And when the start of the movie showed, I was grinning.
Toy Story 3 has the same style as the first Toy Story movies. It has moments of comedy, and moments of happiness. It also has a very tension filled moment as the toys seem to face death. This movie had me in tears- every time I've seen it. I saw it twice in theaters.
I waited eleven years for a Toy Story 3, and although it's the only movie series Pixar has, Toy Story has managed to stay in most everyone's hearts. It's like how there's the Harry Potter generation of mostly teens now who've grown up reading the books and are waiting anxiously for the last movie. It's like how Star Wars had at least one movie spanning across three decades- A New Hope in '77, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in the 80s, Phantom Menace in '99, and the others in the 2000s. It's like Lord of the Rings, which my mom (who is 52) has told me were around when she was a kid, and recently they became movies. Every once in awhile, there is something that can capture the hearts of everyone, and it's worth the eleven years we all had to wait for the third Toy Story.
Now we just have to see how Pixar's next sequel movie does, considering Toy Story has been their only movie series so far...