Triple the fun. Triple the excitement. Triple the tears.

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2010)

A decade after the second film comes Toy Story 3 which I found exciting as well as heartbreaking.
Just by reading the plot, I know this movie will be too emotional since I'm going to college like Andy and like him I pretty much outgrown my toys and never played with them.
What if toys have feelings? We don't know, but TS3 creates this simple idea into a massive hit. First off, the characters, they are so well done, from animation to characterization. No one is missed out.
Now Andy is 17 and he's off to college, the toys are faced with a very hard situation, Andy is leaving, what will be left of them? Feeling they are being outgrown by Andy, the toys planned many things to get noticed i.e. they stole his phone, puts it into the toy box where they are then calls it but no avail. Mishaps ensues when they are all mistaken as a garbage headed into the dump, the toys realized that they are not significant for Andy except for Woody and decides to go into the SunnySide Daycare.
SunnySide is a perfect place, they will be never forgotten, there are nonstop supply of kids that will play with them. Lotso, a fluffy, cute, pink bear is the leader of the SunnySide, he's a wolf on a sheep's clothing.
The new characters are a great surprise, we got Lotso, Ken, Buttercup, Trixie and much much more. The appearances and disappearances of characters were quite good, this film tends to focus on the principal characters more thus removing Bo Peep, Wheezy and the other toys into the story, which I found amusing and heartbreaking since the toys on Andy's room decreased terribly.
As the characters realized Andy's searching for them they plan an escape after Lotso and his troop imprisons them. It's a series of mishaps, solidarity and nonstop emotion as we follow our characters back into their lovable owner.
Story is quite good, simple but priceless, this is just not a movie about toys, it's about the relationship with it's owners. I loved how the toys feels so nurtured by Andy that they will do anything to get back to him, even though it will take their life, especially on the incinerator scene which got me into tears, I felt a sudden wave of loneliness when the toys gave up and hold each hands where a large fire is in front of them and I will not gave away what happened after this but they got saved.
The last part of the movie is where it really got me, Andy's passing of torch to a little girl named Bonnie. Here, we see Andy flinch for giving Woody away, the line "He'll never give up on you" is so heartwarming, we can see in Woody face (even though he's in freeze) that he's choking into tears.
Andy driving away is the greatest shot of the movie, below we see his toys staring at him as he gets away, it's so bittersweet, it just doesn't tug a string in my heart but punched a big hole out of it. Woody and the gang is not maybe mine but Pixar made me feel they were, this movie is a big part of my childhood, as the credits roll you will realized this is the ending of your childhood and you have to move on... as what the toys and Andy did.
Toy Story 3 is breathtaking, guaranteed to make you cry or laugh from start to finish.