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Toy Story 3
File:Toy Story 3 poster2010.jpg
Official movie poster
Directed byLee Unkrich
Written byMichael Arndt
Produced byDarla K. Anderson
John Lasseter (Executive)
Nicole Paradis Grindl (Associate)
Starring
Edited byKen Schretzmann
Music byRandy Newman
Production
company
Distributed byWalt Disney Pictures
Release date
June 18, 2010 (2010-06-18)
Running time
103 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish
Budget$190 million[2]
Box office$155,107,189[3]

Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated film. It is the third installment in the Toy Story series. The film was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Lee Unkrich, who edited the previous films, and co-directed the second, takes over as director. Ken Schretzmann is the editor.

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jeff Pidgeon, Jodi Benson, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf all reprised their roles from the previous films. Jim Varney, who played Slinky Dog in the first two movies, and Joe Ranft, who played Lenny and Wheezy, have both died since the second film was released. The role of Slinky was taken over by Blake Clark, while Ranft's characters and various others were written out of the story.

Toy Story 3 was released in theaters on June 17, 2010 in Singapore and June 18, 2010 in the United States and Canada. It will be released June 24, 2010 in Australia and July 19, 2010 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Originally the UK release was set as July 23 but has since been pushed forward due to its anticipated high demand in the country.[4][5] Toy Story 3 broke the record of Shrek the Third as the biggest single day gross for an animated film, but it was unable to top Shrek the Third's opening weekend and, with a $110,307,189 gross, received the second highest opening weekend for an animated movie.[6][7] It is also the highest grossing opening weekend for a Pixar film.

Plot

Now seventeen years old, Andy has outgrown his old toys and is preparing to move to college. He decides to take Woody with him and packs the other toys in a garbage bag, intending to store them in the attic, but Andy's mom mistakenly puts the bag on the curb. Believing that Andy no longer wants them, the toys sneak into a box to be donated to Sunnyside Daycare. As the only toy who saw what happened, Woody tries to explain the mistake, but they are all driven to Sunnyside before he can. The toys receive a warm welcome from the toys at Sunnyside, led by Lotso the "Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear." Woody tries to convince the others to return to Andy, but they decide they are happier at Sunnyside, so he leaves without them. The others soon discover the children Lotso assigned them with are too young, and they are innocently abused and tortured. Buzz goes to ask Lotso to transfer them to the older children, but he is instead reset to his original, deluded space ranger self.

As he escapes Sunnyside, Woody is found and taken in by Bonnie, a girl from the daycare. Woody learns from Bonnie's toys that Sunnyside is a toy prison run with an iron fist by Lotso, who snapped after his owner lost and replaced him, running away from home and taking over Sunnyside. At the daycare, the others discover that Andy is looking for them when Mrs. Potato Head sees him through her missing eye, which was lost in Andy's room. The toys try to leave but are imprisoned by Lotso and his henchmen, including the reset Buzz. Woody returns to Sunnyside to help his friends break out. They accidentally reset Buzz to his Spanish mode during the escape, though he returns to their side. The toys use a garbage chute to reach a dumpster outside the daycare, but Lotso and his henchmen catch them. Woody and his friends convince the henchmen of Lotso's treachery, so they throw Lotso in the dumpster. However, Lotso pulls Woody into the dumpster just before a garbage truck arrives, forcing the others to rescue him, with Buzz returning to normal in the process.

The truck takes the toys to a dump where they are forced onto a conveyor belt for disposal. Woody helps Lotso and the others escape a shredder, but Lotso leaves them to fall into an incinerator. The toys are rescued by a giant claw crane operated by the squeeze toy aliens, while Lotso is found by a garbage man and tied to the front of a truck, to his dismay. The toys return to Andy's house and prepare to be stored in the attic, but Woody decides he and his friends deserve better, so he leaves a note to Andy suggesting he donate his toys to Bonnie. Andy plays with his toys one last time together with Bonnie before leaving for college. Woody and his friends begin their lives anew with Bonnie's toys while the Sunnyside toys begin turning the daycare into a true toy paradise.

Voice cast

Main article: List of Toy Story characters

Non-speaking characters include Bullseye, Totoro, and the Monkey. Several other of Andy's other toys, most notably Bo Peep, RC, Lenny, and Wheezy, were written out of the story by being either sold, put in the attic, or given away in years after Toy Story 2 (they only appear in this film via archive footage).

Development

According to the terms of Pixar's revised deal with Disney, all characters created by Pixar for their films were owned by Disney. Furthermore, Disney retains the rights to make sequels to any Pixar film, though Pixar retained the right of first refusal to work on these sequels. But in 2004, when the contentious negotiations between the two companies made a split appear likely, Disney Chairman at the time Michael Eisner put in motion plans to produce Toy Story 3 at a new Disney studio, Circle 7 Animation. Tim Allen, the voice of Buzz Lightyear, indicated a willingness to return even if Pixar was not on board.[10]

Promotional art for Circle 7's Toy Story 3, displaying the storyline of the Buzz Lightyears being recalled; this story was later shelved.

Jim Herzfeld wrote a script for Circle 7's version of the film. It focused on the other toys shipping a malfunctioning Buzz to Taiwan, where he was built, believing that he will be fixed there. While searching on the Internet, they find out that many more Buzz Lightyear toys are malfunctioning around the world and the company has issued a massive recall. Fearing Buzz's destruction, a group of Andy's toys (Woody, Rex, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm, Jessie, and Bullseye) venture to rescue Buzz. At the same time Buzz meets other toys from around the world that were once loved but have now been recalled.[10]

In January 2006, Disney bought Pixar in a deal that put Pixar chiefs Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter in charge of all Disney Animation. Shortly thereafter, Circle 7 Animation was shut down and its version of Toy Story 3 was shelved.[10] The following month, Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed that Disney was in the process of transferring the production to Pixar.[11] John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Lee Unkrich visited the house where they first pitched Toy Story and came up with the story for the film over a weekend. Stanton then wrote a treatment.[12] On February 8, 2007, Catmull announced Toy Story 2's co-director, Lee Unkrich, as the sole director of the film instead of John Lasseter, and Michael Arndt as Screenwriter.[13] The release date was moved to 2010.[14]

When the people behind the movie sat down to look at their work from the original Toy Story during the early development stages, they found they could not open the original computer files, and had to recreate everything from scratch.[15]

Instead of sending Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and John Ratzenberger scripts for their consideration in reprising their roles, a complete story reel of the film was shown to the actors in a theater. The reel was made up of moving storyboards with pre-recorded voices, sound effects, and music. At the conclusion of the preview, the actors signed on to the film.[16]

Dolby Laboratories announced that Toy Story 3 will be the first movie that will feature the Dolby Surround 7.1 audio format.[17]

Marketing

File:Toy-story-3-poster.jpg
The teaser poster for the film.

The film's first teaser trailer was released with the Disney Digital 3-D version of the film Up on May 29, 2009.[18] On October 2, 2009 Toy Story and Toy Story 2 were re-released as a double feature in Disney Digital 3-D.[5] The first full-length trailer was attached as an exclusive sneak peek and a first footage to the Toy Story double feature, on October 12, 2009. A second teaser was released on February 10, 2010, followed by a second full-length trailer on February 11 and appeared in 3D showings of Alice in Wonderland. On March 23, 2010, Toy Story was released on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack which included a small feature of "The Story of Toy Story 3". Also, Toy Story 2 was released on that day in the same format which had a small feature on the "Characters of Toy Story 3". On May 11, 2010, both films had a DVD-only re-release which contained the features.

Mattel Thinkway Toys and Lego are among those who will make toys to promote the film.[19][20] Disney Interactive Studios has also produced a video game based on the film which was released on June 15, 2010.[21]

Toy Story 3 was featured in Apple's iPhone OS 4 Event on April 8, 2010, with Steve Jobs demonstrating a Toy Story 3 themed iAd written in HTML5.[22]

Pixar designed a commercial for a toy, Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, and formatted it to look like it came from an old VCR recording. The recording was altered with distorted sound, noise along the bottom of the screen, and flickering video, all designed to make it look like a converted recording from the 1980s.[23] A Japanese version of the commercial was also released online.[24]

On Dancing with the Stars' May 11, 2010 episode, the Gipsy Kings performed a Spanish-language version of the song "You've Got a Friend in Me". It also featured a paso doble dance which was choreographed by Cheryl Burke and Tony Dovolani.[25][26] Both the song and dance are featured in the film.

Sneak peeks of the film are shown on Disney Channel. One sneak peek was shown on Cartoon Network in the United States on June 10, 2010.

Reception

The film has received near-universal acclaim. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 98% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 163 reviews, with an average score of 8.7/10.[27] The critical consensus is, "Deftly blending comedy, adventure, and honest emotion, Toy Story 3 is a rare second sequel that really works."[27] Among Rotten Tomatoes' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs,[28] the film holds an overall approval rating of 100% based on 33 reviews.[29] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 91 based on 37 reviews.[30] It also did well among audiences as it instantly debuted at #11 on imdb's top 250 movie list with a 9.4/10 rating from nearly 10,000 users.[31]

A. O. Scott from The New York Times states: "This film -- this whole three-part, 15-year epic -- about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love."[32] Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, saying: "Even with the bar raised high, Toy Story 3 enchanted and moved me so deeply I was flabbergasted that a digitally animated comedy about plastic playthings could have this effect." [33] Michael Rechtshaffen from The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review, saying: "Woody, Buzz and playmates make a thoroughly engaging, emotionally satisfying return."[34] Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, while praising the film with 3 out of 4 stars, wrote that it 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".[35] Writing her review for USA Today, Claudia Puig gave the film a complete 4 star rating writing "This installment, the best of the three, is everything a movie should be: hilarious, touching, exciting and clever." [36] Lou Lumenick, film critic of The New York Post, who wrote "Toy Story 3 (which is pointlessly being shown in 3-D at most locations) may not be a masterpiece, but it still had me in tears at the end." [37] Michael Phillips gave the film 3/4 stars writing that "Compared with the riches of all kinds in recent Pixar masterworks such as Ratatouille, WALL-E and Up, Toy Story 3 looks and plays like an exceptionally slick and confident product, as opposed to a magical blend of commerce and popular art." [38] Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Moore who gave the film 3 1/2 out of 4 stars wrote "Dazzling, scary and sentimental, Toy Story 3 is a dark and emotional conclusion to the film series that made Pixar famous."[39]

Armond White, however, panned the film in a New York Press review, stating "the Toy Story franchise isn't for children and adults, it's for non-thinking children and adults. When a movie is this formulaic, it's no longer a toy because it does all the work for you. It's a sap's story."[40] This review caused much controversy among fans of both Pixar and Toy Story, particularly for how White's critique broke the film's previously held 100% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and mistook Hamm the Piggy Bank as one of the main villains.[41]

Box office

Toy Story 3 made a strong debut, grossing $41,148,961 on its opening day at the box office from 4,028 theaters and was set to be the biggest opening for a Pixar film, surpassing The Incredibles's $70,467,623.[3] In addition, Toy Story 3 had the single-highest opening day gross for an animated film on record, besting Shrek the Third's $38 million.[3] During its opening weekend, the film have grossed $110,307,189, ranking it #1 for the weekend. The film had the second highest opening for an animated movie behind Shrek the Third's $121,629,270 and also had the third best opening for a movie in 2010 behind Iron Man 2 and Alice in Wonderland, which grossed $128,122,480 and $116,101,023 respectively.[42] With this, Toy Story 3 also became the highest opening weekend film in June at the box office.[43] Toy Story 3 also became the biggest opening G-rated film, the tenth biggest opening weekend of all-time, and the eighth top summer opening weekend of all-time.[44][45][46]

Soundtrack

Untitled
No.TitleArtistLength
1."We Belong Together"Randy Newman4:03
2."You've Got a Friend in Me (para Buzz Español)"The Gipsy Kings2:15
3."Cowboy!"Randy Newman4:11
4."Garbage?"Randy Newman2:41
5."Sunnyside"Randy Newman2:20
6."Woody Bails"Randy Newman4:40
7."Come to Papa"Randy Newman2:06
8."Go See Lotso"Randy Newman3:37
9."Bad Buzz"Randy Newman2:22
10."You Got Lucky"Randy Newman5:59
11."Spanish Buzz"Randy Newman3:31
12."What About Daisy?"Randy Newman2:07
13."To The Dump"Randy Newman3:51
14."The Claw"Randy Newman3:57
15."Going Home"Randy Newman3:22
16."So Long"Randy Newman4:55
17."Zu-Zu (Ken's Theme)"Randy Newman0:35

In addition, the film also uses the song "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright and "Le Freak" by Chic.

Pixar themes

Attached short film

Main article: Day & Night (2010 film)

The theatrical release of Toy Story 3 includes the short film Day & Night, which focuses on what happens when an animated personification of daytime (Day) meets his opposite, nighttime (Night) and the resulting growth for both.[47][48]

References to other Pixar films

Main article: List of Pixar film references

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