![]() The key creative team at Pixar gathered for a two-day retreat at the same cabin where they cooked up the original "Toy Story." They had been kicking around an idea for "Toy Story 3" for years, but they quickly realized it would not hold up as a feature film. But we didn't want to do it if we couldn't come up with something great." ![]() We don't think of them just as cartoon characters, and so we really wanted to visit that world again. "We don't make sequels just for the sake of making them, but in this case, we truly loved these characters and this world," Unkrich said. Pixar personnel knew as far back as 1999's "Toy Story 2" that they might want to return for another sequel. "Toy Story 3" is the 11th feature film from Disney-owned Pixar Animation, which recently won its latest Academy Award with last year's blockbuster "Up." Pixar films have won five of the nine Oscars for feature-length animation since the category was added (the other winners are "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles," "Ratatouille" and "WALL-E"). But there they find a rigid regime run by a cuddly but deceptive teddy bear who decrees what toys will end up with the gentler older children and what ones will be tormented as "toddler fodder." ![]() The toys' new adventures take them to a seeming paradise, a day-care center with a never-ending supply of kids. Their ranks thinned over the years as some of their friends were thrown away, donated or "yard-saled," Andy's toys face their own mortality – that moment when they ask themselves what reason they have to exist without a child to play with them. Among new voice co-stars are Whoopi Goldberg, Ned Beatty, Timothy Dalton and Michael Keaton. "Toy Story 3" also features returning voice cast members that include Joan Cusack, Don Rickles and Wallace Shawn. Our characters in their own way are dealing with similar transitions," Unkrich said in an interview after an advance screening.įor Andy's favorite playthings, Woody and Buzz (voiced again by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen), the transition threatens to end their long partnership as the toys argue over what steps would be best for their future. ![]() "For anyone who's had a transition in their life – heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. That's the position Andy's in, so it's very strange and nostalgic for people to see this character that is part of their childhood kind of growing up with them and facing the same life changes," said "Toy Story 3" director Lee Unkrich, who was a film editor on "Toy Story" and co-director on "Toy Story 2." "The youngest kids who saw 'Toy Story' and 'Toy Story 2' when they first came out are now kind of heading off to college. "Come on, let's see how much we're going for on eBay," laments John Ratzenberger's Hamm the Piggy Bank as he and the other toys ponder a lonely future, with their owner, Andy, heading to college and leaving them behind. "Toy Story 3," which opens on Friday, poses a new question for the gang from the 1995 hit that launched computer animation into the feature-film world: Is there life for a toy after your kid grows up? The film won two Academy Awards, for Animated Feature and for Song (“We Belong Together”).Playtime is over for Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and friends. grosses were over $400 million, making it Disney’s second highest grosser after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest). In August 2010 the film became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, passing $1 billion worldwide (U.S. Lee Ermey (Sarge), Jodi Benson (Barbie), Bonnie Hunt (Dolly), Jeff Garlin (Buttercup), Whoopi Goldberg (Stretch), Michael Keaton (Ken), Timothy Dalton (Mr. Potato Head), John Ratzenberger (Hamm), Ned Beatty (Lotso), John Morris (Andy), Laurie Metcalf (Andy’s Mom), R. Potato Head), Wallace Shawn (Rex), Estelle Harris (Mrs. Voices include Tom Hanks (Woody), Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear), Joan Cusack (Jessie), Don Rickles (Mr. Released on June 18, 2010, and in Disney 3D and Imax versions, after a June 16 release in China and Egypt. Unimagined terrors await the toys as they are mistakenly picked up by a trash truck and delivered to a landfill. Hindering their escape plans is a smooth-talking Ken doll, a Big Baby, and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear named Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear (called “Lotso”), who runs the center as a prison. It’s pandemonium as the toys try to stay together, endeavoring to return to Andy’s house. The toys land at the Sunnyside daycare center in a room full of untamed tots who cannot wait to get their sticky little fingers on these “new” toys. Andy packs Woody, his favorite toy, to take to college with him, but the rest are to be left behind. Toy Story 3 (film) As Andy prepares to depart for college, Buzz Lightyear, Woody, and the rest of his loyal toys are troubled about their uncertain future.
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