The storytelling at display here is phenomenal. The dialogue is memorable (“I’m trying to stay in character!”) and the scenes move forward with purpose. The structure of this film is magnificent. In this case, the chosen one was Michael Arndt, who won an Academy Award for his first script, Little Miss Sunshine. Someone at Pixar read that script before the movie was even made and hired him immediately. Dozens of extremely talented filmmakers joined forces to create the best story possible and then one person was selected to write the screenplay. This being a Pixar animated movie, the writing process was different than it normally is in Hollywood. They can also make you wish you could eat food cooked by rats. They can make you care and cry about Carl and Ellie after only 7 minutes in Up. They know how to maintain your interest without a word of dialogue for half an hour in Wall-E. And Toy Story 3 is just a masterclass in everything. They know how to engage an audience and make them feel strongly for the characters. The people who work there are really good at storytelling. What I just talked about is ultimately the best thing about Pixar. I can’t even talk about that because writing and crying at the same time is a very difficult thing to do. And it will reduce you to a blabbering, crying mess with its ending. It will destroy your feelings with the incinerator scene. It will thrill you with the whole escape sequence. It will scare you with Big Baby and the creepy monkey. Someone who watches this film without having experienced the previous two won’t feel as strongly as those of us who grew up with the original, but they’ll still experience a complete roller coaster ride of emotions. It builds upon the foundation of the other two movies, but it stands alone too. It doesn’t use its predecessors as crutches, nor does it rely on nostalgia to engage people. The Toy Story series and the Pixar catalog are both so strong that it’s difficult to claim that this film is the best one of them all, but I think it’s the best movie Pixar has done. I don’t know anyone who didn’t leave the theater feeling that all their expectations were met and maybe even surpassed. The expectations for Toy Story 3were rocket high. The sequel to two of the most beloved animated movies of all time. It was released after Pixar’s string of Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Up.
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