Toy Story 3 Reviews
Top CriticIt's still more inventive, clever and laugh-out-loud funny than any other movie out there now.
'Toy Story 3': Alternately affecting, hilarious and heartbreaking and the most original prison-escape movie ever made
The 'Toy Story' films are deservedly seen as the gold standard for computer-generated animation...
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| Original Score: 4/5
It's sadder and scarier than its predecessors, but it also may be the most important chapter in the tale.
The gags are all of a piece, right up to the forlorn yet enchanting finale.
At its best, most moving moments, Toy Story 3 is a story about the pang of a young adult moving away from home and leaving child-like things behind.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It hits every button from laughter to tears and lifts you up on waves of visual dazzlement. And you don't need to take a kid along to appreciate it... Tag it as one of the year's best.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Toy Story 3 succeeds not because of its glossy and gleaming high-tech pixels, but rather because it is so well-written that you could tell it with low-tech hand puppets and still thrill and reach an audience of children and adults both.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Consider the oft-amusing, terribly clever G-rated sequel Toy Story 3 as the brightest student in the class delivering a very fine B paper.
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| Original Score: 3/4
As Lotso, Ned Beatty offers the most compelling portrait of avuncular villainy since, well, Ned Beatty in Network, and Michael Keaton's Ken is the quintessence of himbo-ism.
Toy Story 3 may not be a masterpiece, but it still had me in tears at the end.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
A bona fide summer delight loaded with action, humor, nostalgia, a veritable blizzard of pop-culture references and general good vibes.
It's a sequel. It's in 3-D. It has no kiddie-flick competition. Really, how good does it have to be? Apparently, as good as Pixar can make it.
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| Original Score: 4/4
The story mixes comedy, drama and action with impressive skill, except this is beyond skill -- this is inspired.
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| Original Score: 4/4
I won't tell you what that ending is, but it took my breath away, and I'll bet it takes yours. Do see this lovely film sooner than later.
Toy Story 3 pays attention to the reasons we return again and again to the motion picture experience.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Some toys -- and Toy Storys -- are to be treasured forever.
I'd like to thank the folks at Pixar for ending Toy Story 3 with a nice long gag reel alongside the final credits. It gave me time to blot away my tears before entering the lobby.
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| Original Score: 4/4
In a summer that will be littered with bad sequels, bad 3-D and bad storytelling, it is a movie to be heartily embraced.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The technical wizardry only enhances Toy Story 3's emotional resonance.
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| Original Score: 5/5
It's an emotional dissonance Pixar has always been supremely comfortable with, as Toy Story 3 once again proves with knowing humor, wildly imaginative visual virtuosity and bittersweet rue.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Toy Story 3 is a near-perfect piece of popular entertainment.
Toy Story 3 rouses itself, rung by rung of visual and conceptual invention, until it can stand close to the level of Pixar's best. More than that: The heart still beats in this franchise's digital chest.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Toy Story 3 is solid, smile-inducing stuff. But by the inherent nature of a sequel, and our familiarity with the main characters, the glow of originality has dissipated.
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| Original Score: 3/4
How the animation wizards at Pixar keep coming up with innovative and rapturous stories is one of the miracles in modern film.
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| Original Score: 4/4
This film -- this whole three-part, 15-year epic -- about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
More than with any other Pixar film, there's an edge and sadness that clings to Toy Story 3, even as it's bouncing from one zany situation to the next or trotting out some impossibly cute toy character.
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| Original Score: A
That even grown-up viewers feel invested in the toys' ultimate destination is indicative of the affection held for this franchise; that a third movie in a sequence can still offer charm and delight is the cherry on the sundae.
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| Original Score: 3/4
By the time its poetic ending arrives, encapsulating the transformative, continuing power of play, we recognize that none of us move from one stage of life, or beyond, without help from our friends.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Toy Story 3 is every bit as amusing and delightful as its predecessor, but there are darker elements to the saga.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Though uneven and less witty than the first two, Toy Story 3 delivers quite enough in two dimensions.
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| Original Score: 3/4
I expect its target audience will love it, and at the box office, it may take right up where How to Train Your Dragon left off. Just don't get me started about the 3-D.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Toy Story 3 is a worthy and delirious final chapter to this hallowed animation franchise.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Pixar has done it again, extending an amazing streak of successes that stretches all the way back to the original Toy Story.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Even with the bar raised high, Toy Story 3 enchanted and moved me so deeply I was flabbergasted that a digitally animated comedy about plastic playthings could have this effect.
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| Original Score: A
Dazzling, scary and sentimental, Toy Story 3 is a daringly dark and emotional conclusion to the film series that made Pixar famous.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Toy Story 3 is very much a worthy entry in the series, a movie well worth making (and seeing). It continues the legacy. It just doesn't expand upon it.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Clearly, Pixar's genius for adventurous storytelling continues unabated; a prison film would seem to be the furthest idea from safe, but the tale poses a serious challenge to the old saw of terrible second sequels.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Adults in the audience will undoubtedly shed a tear or two. But that's how good the folks at Pixar are: They make you feel genuine emotions for hunks of plastic.
Once it kicks in to unexpectedly become a prison-break thriller, it fires on all cylinders all the way to the finish line.
This tertiary adventure delivers welcome yet nonessential fun, landing well after its creators have grown up and succeeded toying with more sophisticated stories.
Woody, Buzz and playmates make a thoroughly engaging, emotionally satisfying return.
