It also has the best Pixar villain in my opinion, with Lotso. Toy Story 3 was also hilarious, but heartbreaking at the same time. But I'm going to give the edge to Toy Story 3 because it ended out the Andy trilogy the best way possible in such an emotional way. For that, Toy Story wins.īoth of these are two of my top ten movies of all time. Now, rather than ramble further, I'll just conclude by saying this: Toy Story 3, like Toy Story 2, has the edge in humor but, unlike Toy Story 2, it doesn't have the edge in heart or quality over Toy Story. Ironic, isn't it, considering the fact that Toy Story 3's the first to be made with 3D in mind. Even after the second viewing, he doesn't seem nearly as three dimensional and human as in the first two, at least not for about the first half. And the first time I saw it, I felt as if it was almost like Woody had been replaced by Buzz Killington or something. The distance between Woody and the others at the beginning felt a little hollow. Similar roadblocks separated them in the first two, but they feel a little more, for lack of a better word, contrived in Toy Story 3. And there was a time or two when the new characters felt to me like little more than roadblocks placed between these characters we've come to know and love. When they all banded together at the end is when the movie hit its stride. Yet, at the same time, I feel Toy Story 3 could have benefited from focusing more on its core cast. He serves much the same function as Stinky Pete did in the second and we are told more of his character and back-story than Stinky Pete's, but he isn't allowed adequate room to breathe. Even Lotso, the new arrival given the most screen time, just doesn't ring as true as past characters. While I welcome the new additions, particularly standouts like Ken and all of Bonnie's toys, each of the characters is allowed only to play a bit-part and thus it's hard to latch onto any of them. This is both a blessing and a curse for it. In Toy Story 3, our main cast has been whittled down, and yet the cast has ballooned to Pixar's largest yet. Perhaps it's due partly to the smaller cast, but Toy Story feels more personal, more focused than Toy Story 3.
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