Toy Story 3 premiered at the Taormina Film Fest in Italy on June 12, 2010, and was released in the United States on June 18. With a budget of $200 million, Toy Story 3 is one of the most expensive films of all time. Randy Newman returned to compose the film's musical score. The production was then transferred to Pixar, where a new script was developed. The script was developed in multiple versions however, after Disney bought Pixar in early 2006, the Circle 7 version of the film was cancelled as the result of Circle 7's closure. In 2004, following disagreements between Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, Disney planned to make Toy Story 3 at the new studio Circle 7 Animation unit, with the tentative theatrical release date in early 2008. Woody (Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Allen), and the other toys are accidentally donated to Sunnyside Daycare, a daycare center, by Andy's mother (Metcalf), and the toys must decide where their loyalties lie. In Toy Story 3, Andy Davis (Morris), now 17 years old, is going to college. The returning cast is joined by Ned Beatty, Michael Keaton, Whoopi Goldberg, Timothy Dalton, Kristen Schaal, Bonnie Hunt, and Jeff Garlin, who voice the new characters introduced in this film.
Jim Varney, who voiced Slinky Dog in the first two films, died on February 10, 2000, 10 years before the release of the third film, so the role of Slinky was passed down to Blake Clark. Lee Ermey (in his final voice role as Sarge before his death in 2018), reprising their roles from previous films. The film's ensemble voice cast includes Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, Jeff Pidgeon, Jodi Benson, John Morris, Laurie Metcalf and R. Anderson, and written by Michael Arndt, while Unkrich wrote the story along with John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, respectively, director and co-writer of the first two films. It was directed by Lee Unkrich, the editor of the first two films and the co-director of Toy Story 2, produced by Darla K. It is the third installment in the Toy Story series and the sequel to Toy Story 2 (1999). Just don't get me started about the 3-D.Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. But hey, what can you expect from a movie named "Toy Story 3," especially with the humans mostly offstage? I expect its target audience will love it, and at the box office, it may take right up where " How to Train Your Dragon" left off. This is a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier “Toy Story” sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions. There is a happy ending, of course, but I suspect these toys may be traumatized for eternity. You have no idea what garbage has to go through before becoming landfill, and even an Indiana Jones toy would have trouble surviving the rotating blades.
Man, the toys have a dangerous time of it after they eventually find themselves at a garbage collection center. Potato Head must be old hands at such situations, because children spend most of their time attaching his body parts in the wrong way, like malpracticing little Dr. Potato Head lost an ear, would it continue to hear, or if he lost a mouth, would it continue to eat without a body? These are not academic questions at one point, Mister becomes an uncooked taco shell. This raises intriguing physiological questions, such as, if Mr. Potato Head ( Estelle Harris), whose missing eye continues to see independently of her head. If you ask me, Barbie ( Jodi Benson) is anorexic, and Ken ( Michael Keaton) is gay, but nobody in the movie knows this, so I'm just sayin'.īuzz Lightyear ( Tim Allen) is back, still in hapless hero mode, but after a reboot, he starts speaking Spanish and that leads to some funny stuff. They pick up, however, some additions to their little band, including a Ken doll with an extensive wardrobe. There seems to be relatively little grieving about the loss of Andy's affections he did, after all, sentence them to a toy box for years, and toys by nature are self-centered and want to be played with.ĭay care seems like a happy choice, until a dark underside of its toy society emerges in the person of an ominously hug-prone bear named Lotso ( Ned Beatty).
What with one thing and another, the other toys find themselves at the day-care center, which they think they'll like, because there will be plenty of kids to play with them all day long.