![]() Woody jumps out the window and slides down a pipe to the front lawn.only to see the trash bags thrown into the garbage truck and crushed! Shortly thereafter, Woody notices a recycling bin walking towards the garage. Woody looks down the street in horror as the garbage truck slowly makes its way to the curb. Thinking Andy left trash lying around, she takes it with another bag to the curb. The lapse causes the attic door to close, and Andy's Mom soon after finds the trash bag with the toys. However, before Andy can go up, he helps Molly move the donations box downstairs. His panic turns to relief as he sees Andy open the attic door. Inside, the toys think they are going to be thrown away, and Woody watches as Andy leaves the room. When he gets to Woody and Buzz, he hesitates before putting Woody in a box marked 'College' and tossing Buzz in the black trash bag. ![]() Andy finally takes out a black trash bag and begins to put his old toys into it. From Andy's room, the toys watch as Molly throws her Barbie doll (voice: Jodi Benson) in the donations box, along with some other toys. Andy's mom is having Andy's sister Molly (voice: Bea Miller) clean her room as well, and tells the two to throw out what they don't want, store extra items in the attic, or donate items to Sunnyside Daycare. With only a few days left until he leaves, Andy has not cleaned up his room. The toys' "staff meeting" is cut short when Andy returns to his room with his mom (voice: Laurie Metcalf) in tow. He figures Andy will store them in the attic.maybe one day to be played with again when Andy has kids of his own. Several are of the persuasion that Sarge is right, and they'll be tossed out soon, but Woody believes that Andy wouldn't do that. Potato Head (voice: Estelle Harris), three alien squeak toys from Pizza Planet, Slinky Dog (voice: Blake Clark), Rex (voice: Wallace Shawn), and Hamm the Piggy Bank (voice: John Ratzenberger). This idea soon fills the heads of the remaining toys: Woody (voice: Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voice: Tim Allen), Jessie (voice: Joan Cusack), Bullseye (voice: Frank Welker), Mr. Fearful of being thrown away, they leap out the window into the world beyond, their parachutes taking them who knows where. ![]() As the toys take stock of how many are left, and those that they have lost over the years, their attention is drawn to the last of the little green Army Men: Sarge (voice: R. Several of them hold out hope that Andy will play with them at least once before he leaves, but those hopes are soon dashed. The fact that Andy has grown from a young boy to a teenager about to leave home has not been lost on his toys. Instead, they are brought by a garbage truck to a landfill, where they are dragged towards an incinerator.Andy Davis (voice: John Morris) is 17 years old, and is heading off to college in a few days. And the endless rotation of children ensures the toys will never become obsolete.īut Sunnyside is not the resort the toys first imagine rather, it's a prison, where the toys are bullies presided over by the despotic Lotso, and the children are rapacious, slobbering, unfeeling monsters.Īn escape sequence follows, in which Woody and the toys give Steve McQueen a run for his money The Toy Story films are deeply nostalgic about the history of American cinema, with old westerns and science-fiction embodied by Woody and Buzz Lightyear (Allen) respectively.īut while the toys manage to leave Sunnyside, they are not free of trouble. Here there are new toys, led by a seemingly loveable bear named Lots-o-Love (Beatty). Will they end up above, in the attic, or below, in the garbage?īy happy accident, all of the toys, including Woody, end up in the purgatory of a children's day care centre, called Sunnyside. But that leaves the other toys in a predicament. ![]() Woody is lucky Andy is still sentimental about his favourite toy and wants to take him along. The toys, led by Woody the sheriff (Hanks), come to terms with the fact that their owner, Andy (Morris), has grown up and, at 17, is about to head off to college. ![]() Toy Story 3 may be the most 'grown-up' film in the trilogy. Even when compared to the knowing satire and social commentary of The Simpsons, Toy Story surprises with its depth of feeling and its mature exploration of such themes as life and death, love and rejection, friendship and loneliness. The Toy Story films have always catered to adults in a way most animated features do not. I got the feeling, as the film played, that this was its intended audience: people who had grown up with the Toy Story franchise, and yet had never quite grown up. There was just one infant, who, asleep in her mum's arms, was unaware of the screen in front of her. When I went to see Toy Story 3 the audience consisted almost entirely of adults in their 20s and 30s. Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, John Morris, Jodi Benson, Timothy Dalton. ![]()
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