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Toy Story 3
File:Toy Story 3 poster2010.jpg
Official theatrical poster
Directed byLee Unkrich
Written byScreenplay:
Michael Arndt
Story:
John Lasseter
Andrew Stanton
Lee Unkrich
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 dates
  • June 12, 2010 (2010-06-12) (Taormina)
  • June 18, 2010 (2010-06-18)
Running time
103 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$200 million[2]
Box office$826,161,491 [2]

Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated film, and the third installment in the Toy Story series.[3] The film was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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 voice-over roles from the previous films. Jim Varney, who played Slinky Dog in the first two films, and Joe Ranft, who portrayed Wheezy and Lenny, died before production began on the third film. The role of Slinky was taken over by Blake Clark, while Ranft's characters and various others were written out of the story (Wheezy was mentioned in the beginning). New characters include voice-overs by Ned Beatty, Timothy Dalton, Bonnie Hunt, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Keaton.

Toy Story 3 was released worldwide in June, July and August. The feature broke the record of Shrek the Third as the biggest single day North American (aka 'domestic') gross for an animated film unadjusted for inflation, and the second-highest grossing opening weekend of animated film behind only Shrek the Third, with an unadjusted gross of $110,307,189.[4][5] It is also the highest grossing opening weekend for a Pixar film, as well as the highest grossing opening weekend for a film to have opened in the month of June. Toy Story 3 is currently the highest-grossing film of 2010 in the United States and Canada, and the second-highest grossing film of 2010 worldwide. Toy Story 3 overtook The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to record biggest opening weekend in the UK in 2010. With a £21 million opening it became the second biggest opening weekend ever in UK, behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban's £23.9 million showing in 2004.[6] Toy Story 3 is currently the second-highest grossing animated film in the United States and Canada behind Shrek 2, and it is also the fourth-highest grossing animated film internationally, behind Shrek 2, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Finding Nemo.

Plot

In the beginning shows a montage of Andy's childhood. In August 2010, Andy, now 17 years old, 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 his mother mistakenly puts the bag out on the curb as garbage. Believing that Andy no longer wants them, the toys sneak into a box to be donated to Sunnyside Daycare. Woody, who saw what really happened, tries to clear up the misunderstanding, but the others refuse to listen. They are driven to Sunnyside where they receive a warm welcome from the daycare toys, led by Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear (a.k.a. Lotso). Woody tries to convince the others to return to Andy, but they feel that they would be happier at Sunnyside, so he leaves without them. The others soon discover the children Lotso assigned them to are too young, and they are innocently abused and tortured. Buzz goes to ask Lotso to transfer them to the older children, but is instead caught by some of the Sunnyside toys and reset to his original, deluded space ranger self now under the command of Lotso.

During his escape from Sunnyside, Woody is found and taken in by a girl from the daycare named Bonnie. Bonnie's toys reveal to Woody that Lotso once had an owner who lost and replaced him, causing him to snap and take over Sunnyside, turning it into a toy prison, in which the new toys are forced to endure rough play from the youngest children until they eventually break and are thrown away. At the daycare, the others discover that Andy did not intend to throw them away when Mrs. Potato Head sees him looking for them 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 his friends to help them break out of Sunnyside. They accidentally reset Buzz to his Spanish language mode during the escape, after which he joins their side (believing they know where his spaceship is). The toys use a garbage chute to reach a dumpster outside the daycare, but Lotso and his henchmen catch them. Woody points out Lotso's treachery to his henchmen, and Lotso is thrown in the dumpster. However, Lotso pulls Woody into the dumpster just before a garbage truck arrives, forcing the others to rescue him. In the chaos of falling garbage, a broken television set falls on Buzz which resets him to his normal self.

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 then rescued by a giant claw crane operated by the squeeze toy aliens. Later, Lotso is found by a garbage truck driver and tied to the front of a truck, to his dismay. The toys return to Andy's house on a garbage truck and prepare to be stored in the attic. Woody, however, decides that his friends deserve better, so he leaves a note to Andy suggesting he donate them to Bonnie. Andy plays with his toys one more time together with Bonnie before he leaves for college. Woody silently says his last goodbye as Andy drives away, and the toys of both owners start to get acquainted to start off their new beginning.

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.[7]

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.[7]

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.[7] The following month, Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed that Disney was in the process of transferring the production to Pixar.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10] The release date was moved to 2010.[11]

When the people behind the film sat down to look at their work from the original Toy Story during the early development stages, they found they could open the old files, but they could not edit the 3D models and had to recreate everything from scratch.[12]

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.[13]

Dolby Laboratories announced that Toy Story 3 would be the first film that will feature theatrical 7.1 surround audio.[14]

Voice cast

Main article: List of Toy Story characters

Several other characters were written out of the story by being either sold or thrown away after Toy Story 2 (they returned in this film only via archive footage as background characters).

The character of Slinky Dog appeared to be in limbo after the death of his voice actor Jim Varney in 2000, shortly after Toy Story 2 came out. Veteran actor Blake Clark was chosen for the part. After Clark was cast to play Slinky Dog, the producers later discovered that Clark and Varney had coincidentally been close friends, making the transition a lot easier.[15]

Marketing

The film's first teaser trailer was released with the Disney Digital 3-D version of the film Up on May 29, 2009.[16] On October 2, 2009 Toy Story and Toy Story 2 were re-released as a double feature in Disney Digital 3-D.[17] 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. Fisher Price, a Mattel Company has released Toy Story 3 with 21 3D images for viewing with the View-Master viewer.[18][19] Disney Interactive Studios has also produced a video game based on the film which was released on June 15, 2010.[20]

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.[21]

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 around 1983.[22] A Japanese version of the commercial was also released online.[23]

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.[24][25] 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

Similar to its previous installments, Toy Story 3 has been critically praised. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 99% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 235 reviews, with an average score of 8.8/10.[26] The critical consensus is: Deftly blending comedy, adventure, and honest emotion, Toy Story 3 is a rare second sequel that really works.[26] Among Rotten Tomatoes' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs,[27] the film holds an overall approval rating of 100% based on 37 reviews.[28] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 92 based on 39 reviews.[29]

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."[30] 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." [31] Gleiberman also wrote in the next issue that he, along with many other grown men, cried at the end of the film. 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."[32] Mark Kermode of the BBC gave the film, and the series, a glowing review, stating that Toy Story is now "the best movie trilogy of all time".[33] 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".[34] 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." [35] Lou Lumenick, film critic of The New York Post, 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." [36] 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." [37] 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." [38]

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 weekend for a Pixar film, surpassing The Incredibles's $70,467,623.[2] In addition, Toy Story 3 had the single-highest opening day gross for an animated film on record, beating Shrek the Third's $38 million.[2] During its opening weekend, the film grossed $110,307,189, ranking it #1 for the weekend. The film had the second-highest opening for an animated film behind Shrek the Third's $121,629,270 and also had the third best opening for a film in 2010 behind Iron Man 2 and Alice in Wonderland, which grossed $128,122,480 and $116,101,023 respectively.[39] With this, Toy Story 3 also became the highest opening weekend film in June at the box office, beating Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.[40] 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.[41][42][43] On its second weekend, Toy Story 3 lost 46.2% grossing $59,337,669, and remaining the #1 spot for two weeks defeating the new releases Grown Ups and Knight and Day.[44] As of August 1, 2010,Toy Story 3 has grossed $389,761,491 in the United States and Canada and $436,400,000 in other countries which totals up to $826,161,491 worldwide,[2] more revenue than the previous films in the series. Toy Story 3 is the twenty-third highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, and the eleventh highest grossing film of all time in the U.S. and Canada.[45]

It has already eclipsed the previous two Toy Story films as the highest grossing in the series. On the weekend lasting from July 9–11, 2010 Toy Story 3 surpassed Alice in Wonderland to become the highest-grossing film of 2010 in the United States and Canada, and then out-grossed Finding Nemo on July 12, 2010 to become Pixar's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada.[46][47] Toy Story 3 also had a very impressive opening weekend in the UK, smashed away the box office with a £21 million opening, and became the second biggest opening weekend ever in the UK, behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004 with £23.9 million. It has also broke the record of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse for becoming the biggest opening weekend in 2010 in the UK.[48]

Awards and nominations

Award Category/Recipient(s) Result Reference
2010 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Animated Film Pending [49]

Soundtrack

Untitled

All tracks are written by Randy Newman

No.TitleLength
1."We Belong Together"4:03
2."You've Got a Friend in Me (para Buzz Español)" (featuring The Gipsy Kings)2:15
3."Cowboy!"4:11
4."Garbage?"2:41
5."Sunnyside"2:20
6."Woody Bails"4:40
7."Come to Papa"2:06
8."Go See Lotso"3:37
9."Bad Buzz"2:22
10."You Got Lucky"5:59
11."Spanish Buzz"3:31
12."What About Daisy?"2:07
13."To The Dump"3:51
14."The Claw"3:57
15."Going Home"3:22
16."So Long"4:55
17."Zu-Zu (Ken's Theme)"0:35

In addition to the tracks included in the soundtrack album, the film also uses "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright, "Le Freak" by Chic, and Randy Newman's original version of "You've Got A Friend In Me".

Also, tracks "Cowboy!" and "Come to Papa" included material from Newman's rejected score to Air Force One[citation needed].

The Judas Priest song "Electric Eye" was used in the temp score for the opening scene of Toy Story 3[50]. The aliens are cranking the tune in their sports car. But the song was always ultimately replaced by another piece of music.

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.[51][52]

References to other Pixar films

Main article: List of Pixar film references

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