Toy Story 3 (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #54 extract: Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 is not a bad movie, not at all. However, once I saw it for the first time, I would have been fine never seeing it again. Much of this has to do with the fact that, unlike 1 and 2, Toy Story 3 cannot stand alone as a movie and story unto itself. Toy Story 2, whilst it brings about the same characters and references the first film, can certainly be seen without the first and function so well because of the new characters presented and the thematic expansion upon the first film. Toy Story 3 brings about new characters - none of which are very memorable - and it is thematically weak. 

For a film that is about nostalgia itself, about a past childhood, Toy Story 3 has an awful lot of action and spectacle and little drama. What sells the action on the first watch is memories of the first two films. With re-watches, the action and comedy become monotonous and rather meaningless I find. In the end, not a bad movie, but also not a movie that really needs to be seen more than once.