Toy Story 3 goes to infinity- and beyond!

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2010)

If there's one movie I could watch forever and ever, it'd be the original Toy Story. The first ever animated film was released in 1995, and still has charm to this very day. The film had so much success in the box office, and with fans, that a sequel, Toy Story 2 was released in 1999. It's rare that a sequel is as good or better than it's follower, but that is exactly the case with Toy Story 2. Disney and Pixar proved that animation isn't a genre or a type of film, but rather a simple medium for creating movies with deep heart, and a deep story.
So the success of the first two films leads to this. Toy Story 3. The first ever 3D film in the franchise, released June 18th, has been building hype since the end of Toy Story 2, when viewer's thought, "What's next?". The day is finally here. Toy Story 3 is out. So does it live up to its hype? Yes. It does. It goes to infinity- and beyond.
Toy Story 3 starts with a nostalgic collection of video tapes that Andy's mom recorded in Andy's childhood. Exciting action and funny moments start the film before it really starts. The opening animated sequence indulges you so much into the story that you don't necessarily think that this is part of an old type of Andy playing with his toys. After that nice sequence, we learn that Andy is a grown 17 year old, ready to depart to college. He must find out what to do with his old toys. So he puts everyone in a trash bag intended to be later put and stored away in the attic, but Andy's mom finds the trash bag sitting on the ground (as the attic latter Andy opened accidentally closed), so she takes the bag out to the trash. A funny instance I enjoyed was when Andy called Buster to go save the toys. Buster was very slow and old, and the audience chuckled at seeing that. So after that, the toys end up in a box going to Sunnyside Daycare. They think life there will be awesome soon upon their arrival. They meet many new toys, and the 'leader' of the daycare. Lotso. The strawberry scented purple teddy bear looks so kind, the toys think living in this daycare and getting played with every day will be great. Lotso introduced the toys around, they meet more toys, and then they are put into where they will be 'staying'. This then brings up the best chaos scene in a film ever. Dozens of toddlers burst into the room, absolutely tormenting the toys. After getting thrown, bitten, and bounced around, Buzz goes to ask Lotso if they can be moved to the Butterfly room. This is one of my favorite scenes in the whole film. Buzz finds that Lotso's evil gang gamble up in the vending machine at night. Buzz is caught, and then tied up and reset. We now know Lotso is an evil villain, and we wonder what could be next.
So now we know that Lotso doesn't want anyone to escape. In the meantime, Woody is at a girl named Bonnie's house, after he tried escaping, but got caught in a tree and taken away by the cute little girl. Woody then says he has to get back home, but he wants to rescue the toys first. He tells the new toys he met he wants to go rescue his friends at Sunnyside, but that's when Chuckles The Clown tells him about Lotso and how he used to be with him. Lotso treats Sunnyside like a prison, so Woody needs to help get the toys out. So Woody talks to an old veteran of Sunnyside, Chatter Telephone. Chatter tells Woody all the secrets of the place. Doors locked, Monkey manning the security cameras, Lotso has guards set everywhere, etc. Woody then tells his friends a plan, and they make a run for it. They make it to where they are supposed to be, the dump, when Lotso finds them. They then turn against Lotso, and Big Baby chucks him in the trash. But as the toys escape, a green alien is stuck in the garbage bin, and Woody grabs him when Lotso jumps out. They then end in up in the trash and they will be killed if they don't grab onto something metal. Luckily they do, but Woody saves Lotso as well. Then Lotso tried to hit the emergency brake on the belt leading to the incinerator, but he turns his back and runs away, sending the toys into the burning pile of trash. The Aliens man the claw, luckily saving the toys as they knew they were about to die. They then make it home, and Andy donates the toys to Bonnie, a very emotional ending.
So does this movie hit a home run? No. It hits a grand slam. The story is the best yet, and with over 300 characters, good humor, and a lot of unique, dark scenes, some say this is the best Toy Story yet, and I couldn't disagree.