Toy Story 3 - As I See It

Directed by Lee Unkrich
Studio Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures

Remember the first of Toy Story movies ? Which made us take notice of the world we never thought of existed (!!??) - The world of toys ! How eagerly they were waiting to be played by kids. Their anxiousness when a new toy comes to house. Fearing whether it will replace their place in Andy’s favorite list… Be happy when the new one makes friends with the existing ones, and Andy adds the new one to his play rather than replacing it for the old ones.

The third season starts with the playtime. Little Andy’s ‘adventures’. By the time the credit ends, it takes Woody and gang to a totally different situation. Andy is going to college. He has grown up. Grown too much to play with them anymore. He needs to move on. Trash, donate to a day-care center or move to attic. Andy has to decide what the future of his playmates is.

That was the moment. We have seen / heard parents find it hard to accept the kids growing up. The way their priorities change. They no more need parents in every step. They are growing up, growing out of parents lap. They are no more vulnerable or total helpless without parents. When they need to move out of home for studies / job... for parents it’s a world that been separated front hem. Something they were so adorned and cherished all the way…

Have you imagined ever the way the toys feels... They were not played with for years. They were abandoned, no more adorned. They were world to the kid earlier, now space eating rubbish. Man, that’s not fair! But that’s the way life is. Heard about the options for their future, one toy even wonders they will be kept safe so that they can play with Andy’s kids! They are doing their best to show their presence to Andy. But he is too big to even notice them. Though his mom suggests him to trash the toys, he wanted to keep them in attic. But life got some other plans and the toys ends up in daycare. ( for how watch the movie ;) )

The toys which were all excited to go to daycare to play with, finds the life is not easy there. The senior toys put them in little kid’s room, where they are ill treated. Woody, like always, wants and tries to help the lot and rescue them. But nobody believes him. Even Buzz. By the time they find out the truth, it was late.

Well, that’s more like a real life story than the toy story. At least once, we were so preoccupied by our assumption that we didn’t believe a friend, or prefer to believe what we think easy than the reality which though true, but unreal! And with some dirty soul who wants to use us or the circumstances manipulate us to his favour… May be we not are lucky to have a friend like Woody, who will never give up on friends, or not just plain lucky to realize we are being used… We need to better take a minute before the tough decision to etch in our mind. Anyway in the movie, Woody manages to rescue them and they were all back to Andy. The thing that makes Woody special is that he will never give up on you, ever.

Before leaving college, Andy finds a kid who is good with toys, Bony. Not sure whether the toys or Andy or us were more relieved to see the toys in safe hands.

 

Like any other Pixar movie, this also has an imaginative story line. Which is appealing not only for kids, but for the kids in adults too. It reminds me of my younger days. When I used to play with my toys and all the story lines I made then. The little cars made of cardboard. The water guns. And the good and bad toys. Toys are definitely the best gift a kid can get, which a video game can never give. This movie simply reinforces it.

So the toys are safe and together for infinity and beyond J Lets wait what is next in the adventure book in Woody and friends…