Very good ending to a very good trilogy

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2019)

For the children born in the late 90s and early 00s, Pixar was what Disney had been for many of the earlier generations. A milestone of their childhood, a teacher of morals, one of their best friends even. A constant companion.
I was personally born in the late 80s. As such, I can only imagine what thse children must have felt like watching this film and realizing that even an almost literal representation of their childhood had to grow up at some point. In Toy Story 3, Andy is heading to college. He has very little time for his toys anymore, most of them having gone years without being played with. So, what's a toy to do in such a situation?
What amazes me the most about these three movies is how eerily similar they are on the surface level, but how different they feel. Because once again the toys get separated and find themselves in a strange environment. Once again they meet new toys with very different ideas about belonging to a child or getting played with. You could summarize all these movie with the exact same words, if you wanted. But they still talk about different subjects and they feel unique.
Case in point, Toy Story 3 talks to a much more mature audience than its two predecessors. Sure, you can still watch it as a five-year-old, but its primary message is clearly aimed at those who were five years old when the original Toy Story came out. It wonders what it is like to grow up and look back at your childhood. It wonders what relevance or meaning your earliest memories have on you when you're an adult.
And while it's doing that, we get a very good overall adventure, with great locations, fantastic animation, imaginative characters both heroes and villains alike, and some real tearjerker scenes. The ending, for example, which I personally find quite corny and unreal, but then again I wasn't a child when these movies came out. The ending cannot have the same impact on me.
A very good movie and it would have been a fitting ending to this particular saga. It turns out it wasn't the ending we thought it was, but then that's show business for you.