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Wick's Review
Summary - Perfect 5.0 click to collapse contents
Flawless. Silly, deep, wonderful and wise, TS3 pegs the perfection meter. Boing!! Purple, purple, purple. Every toy gets its due, every heart string gets plucked, every joke works. Wow, how does Pixar keep doing this? They’re the Jacksons – the Phil Jacksons – of movie making.
TS3 gives sequels a good name by reconnecting with a treasured past, naturally deepening it for the present, and then providing closure for the characters and for us. In its wake, blockbusters from Hollywood to Beverly Hills are saying to their offspring: “Why can’t you be a sequel like TS3 over there?” Indeed.
Movies get no better than Toy Story 3.
Describing this as a comedy for “Kids of all ages” undersells it, not that it’s not deeply appealing to children as much as to the child inside every adult. Its core genius – as is the Pixar Way – is to not condescend to kids, and therefore not to adults either. TS3 shows that into every life comes belly laughs, friends and family gained and lost, good and evil, free choice, responsibility and consequences. Taught by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen’s redoubtable Woody and Buzz, these are lessons kids of all ages can absorb.
Pixar should have earned a Best Picture Oscar by now, making TS3 all the more deserving to win this year. Could there be a more worthy candidate?
Random notes:
- I saw it in IMAX 3D, from the center of Row 1 no less. (Love the cinematic intensity.) Anyway, the IMAX effect didn’t seem worth paying more for or going out of the way to find. OTOH, the 3D was worth it, though not de rigueur for this movie.
- Day & Night, the short Pixar gave us this time, is another brilliant delight, contrastingly ironically with Cruise and Diaz’s Knight and Day, also now in theaters.