Once again Pixar hits a grand slam in the latest of the TOY STORY franchise ; one of the year's best films!

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2010)

TOY STORY 3 (2010) **** (Voices of : Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, John Morris, Jodi Benson, Emily Hahn, Laurie Metcalf, Blake Clark, Teddy Newton, Bud Luckey, Beatrice Miller, Timothy Dalton, Kristen Schaal, Jeff Garlin, Bonnie Hunt, Jeff Pidgeon, Whoopi Goldberg, R.Lee Ermey, Richard Kind) Once again Pixar hits a grand slam in the latest of the TOY STORY franchise in which our beloved toys are facing the possibility of no longer being played with now that Andy has reached college age and find themselves delivered to a day care center which has its ups (toddlers very animated to get their hands on them) and downs (the center's ring-leader, Lotso the bear (voiced nicely by Beatty) who runs with an iron fist-in-a-velvet-glove approach). It's up to Woody & Buzz (the always reliably amiable Hanks & Allen reprising their iconic animated characters) to save the day (and themselves). Warmly and touchingly animated (in wondrous 3-D too boot too!) by the studio artistic geniuses and expert direction by Lee Unkrich with a very shrewd (and decidedly darker) screenplay by Michael Arndt collaborating with John Lassetter, & Andrew Stanto and Unkrich. Among the new standouts is Keaton as the 'metorsexual' Ken doll (acerbically full of himself). One of the year's best.