Can it be? A third movie that happens to be the trilogy's best?

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2016)

That's right: I personally find Toy Story 3 to be my favorite movie in the Toy Story trilogy. The animation, as expected in 2010 compared to the 1990s, is better (though should that matter?), the characters are either already classic or feel classic upon being introduced to make them both seem recognizable and just met. The story isn't terribly original, as I noticed some elements recycled from Toy Story 2, but since this movie went in a different direction, the execution of it went differently and better in plenty of ways; there were less tedious moments and more emotion being doled out by the plot, including one of the best endings I have seen in an animated movie (up there with The Fox and The Hound). And yet, somehow, it's the one Toy Story film so far to not get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (99%, thanks to Armond White and 3 other critics). After watching the original film as toddlers, plenty of more adult people in the audience will think back to that time and relate to it. While I have yet to do that, the emotional impact of it all is so strong that it was one of the movies that I cried while watching. You just might as well, especially if you are at a pivotal point in your life. But the real tearjerker is that this would be Pixar's final film before they fell into a Dark Age of their own (as Disney parasitized off them and made themselves a Second Renaissance).