TOY STORY 3
RYAN: I knew you weren’t about to see an animated movie and I love them so let me clue you in on Toy Story 3.
CAROLINE: Thank you. I’ve been hearing great things about it but it’s true, I’m simply not in the mood for another kids’ movie right now.
RYAN: Well I chose to see the 3D variation and it was a whopping $17.50! Granted we do not regularly pay for movies as film critics, but since I was unable to catch the critics’ screening, I had to see it like a regular American.
CAROLINE: Which you are…
RYAN: And I had to wait in line and everything. It wasn’t a bad crowd though. No major cell phones going off or people kicking the back of my seat or anything.
CAROLINE: Thank goodness for that. So how was the movie?
RYAN: Terrific. Really. It was about as good as any animated movie these days, you know, since the animation is brill. The 3D was fine but the kind that I really should have saved the extra bucks and just seen the 2D version, because I didn’t notice it as in Avatar.
CAROLINE: How was the story?
RYAN: It was great; but, all three of the Toy Story movies have the exact same plot – the toys try to get back to their owner Andy. And how many times can you retell the same story? Apparently three times since it got me again.
CAROLINE: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack all back…
RYAN: Yeah and some new voices, most notably Jodi Benson as the voice of Barbie.
CAROLINE: Why do I know that name?
RYAN: She’s the voice of The Little Mermaid!
CAROLINE: That’s right! Look at Disney… keeping it in the family.
RYAN: I would have thought Mattel might have put a bid in to cast the voice of the Barbie from all the Barbie DVD movies out there.
CAROLINE: You love those. But Jodi is Disney royalty.
RYAN: And she was brill, LBH, let’s be honest.
CAROLINE: Well I’m glad you enjoyed it.
RYAN: Darling, I have a confession to make.
CAROLINE: Honey, tell me.
RYAN: I cried during it.
CAROLINE: What!?!? Why? Was there an Up moment in it?
RYAN: Worse, I think. Seriously. I’m not talkin’ misty here… full on tears down m’cheeks.
CAROLINE: I’m glad you let it all out.
RYAN: This one part about three-quarters of the way through just slayed me.
CAROLINE: Now that I would have paid to have seen.
— BOTTOM LINE —
RYAN: After a decade’s wait, the third Toy Story was worth the wait. I really loved it and think kids, families and anyone who likes animation or just a great story will dig this film. It’s so well written and performed that you actually begin to care about the toys as if they’re real people. I full on bought into it and loved it.
— RATING —
