It gives the moments of imagination we felt with our favorite toys growing up a legacy. Toy Story 4 comes out in Choices make endings, but they also make beginnings.
Toy Story 3 was poetic and sad for us because it felt like the end of something. Your browser does not support HTML5 audio. Large toggle button. Previous track button Next track button. Small toggle button. But the real happy accident of the long production process is that in those ten years, Toy Story 's audience aged in lock step with the franchise. Kids who fell in love with Woody and Buzz as small children were roughly at the same stage of life as Andy when Toy Story 3 premiered; they were entering adulthood.
Parents who had taken their kids to see the movies when they were small were about to be empty nesters. Toy Story 3 's central message -- about life moving on and letting go -- resonated on an extremely personal level with both demographics, which explains the theaters full of grown ups struggling to muffle their sobs and sniffles. That the casts of the Toy Story films are made up of old toys like Etch-A-Sketches and Green Army Men automatically make them an exercise in nostalgia.
But, to some extent, they've always been pretty existential, too. It might sound overly lofty to suggest so, but the first and second films explore mature themes like finding purpose in life when things don't go as planned, recovering from grief and the fact that we tend to see ourselves as the protagonists in our life stories, even when we're wrong. Toy Story 3 ups the ante, becoming a film that's explicitly about finding meaning in life in the face of death.
At the start of the movie, after a great imaginative play sequence, we learn that Andy has graduated high school and is cleaning his room before moving to college. We can feel his ennui as he considers his toy box full of "junk. It's unwise to think too specifically about the rules that govern the world of Toy Story , but we can safely assume these options are stand-ins for a second act in life, retirement or the grave.
From there, Toy Story 3 becomes a surprisingly terrifying prison-break film that, were its characters flesh and blood, would involve a significant amount of body horror. I have no desire to spoil your pleasure. The thing about the end of Toy Story 3 is that it works on so many layers. On the simplest level, of course, the ending is a homecoming, with Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the gang finally finding a place for themselves — finding, that is, a child, a little girl named Bonnie voiced by Emily Hahn , to be their newly devoted owner and playmaster and friend.
He has to abandon the owner whose favorite toy he was to be the true toy he is. The universe of this kind of toy really came into being in the early s which is when I got my first Mr.
Some Twitter users took the opportunity to denounce the fourth Toy Story film. Based on the messages, they seem to wish the franchise had stopped at Toy Story 3 :.
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