Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Toy Story 3: The Claaaaw

Official Site:disney.go.com/toystory
Director(s):Lee Unkrich
Writer(s): Michael Arndt, John Lasseter
Producer(s): Darla K. Anderson

Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, Wallace Shawn,
Estelle Harris, John Morris, Jodi Benson,(IMDb). G, 103 min.

Andy is all grown and he is on his way to college, so The Cowboy and the rest of the gang are worried about what will happen to them once Andy leaves. Already feeling lonely and abandoned because they rarely get played with, the toys are afraid Andy's departure to college means they will be thrown away. However, Andy decided to store them in the attic, but the toys never reached that destination due to a slight confusion on the part of Andy's mom. The Cowboy and the gang end up at a day care, seemingly perfect at first, until they learned more about Lotso.

Toy Story 3 was not one of the films on my to see list this summer, but Pixar's reputation for great stories motivated me to see this film. Again Pixar created another beautiful animation picture, that had a plot within a plot, which was exciting, suspenseful, and funny.

The most interesting character in the film was Lotso. There was a Machiavellian element to Lotso's mode of operation that seemed to have developed on account of his unfortunate past experience. Lotso understood resource management in how he related to his minions. He was a well crafted antagonist who was equably duplicitous. According to metacritic.com the film received universal aclaim, and rottentomatoes granted the film 182 fresh tomatoes to 3 rotten ones thus far. Awesome. It earns a 95. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.


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