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Toy Story 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toy Story 3 is an American computer-animated 3D film and IMAX 3D film, produced by Pixar Animation
Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the third installment
in the Toy Story series and is
scheduled for release in theaters on June 18, 2010 in the United States,
June 24, 2010 in Australia and July 23, 2010 in the United Kingdom and
Ireland.[3][4]
Lee
Unkrich, who edited the previous films, and co-directed the second,
takes over as director. Ken Schretzmann is the editor.
Tom
Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don
Rickles, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Wallace
Shawn, Jeff Pidgeon, Jodi
Benson, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf all reprise their roles from the previous
films. Jim Varney, who played Slinky Dog in the first two movies,
and Joe
Ranft, who played Lenny and Wheezy, have both died since the second
film was released. Andy Davis, age 17, is a mere three days away from heading off to
college. His remaining personal toys, including Woody and Buzz
Lightyear, are worried about their uncertain future, since several of
Davis' toys, including Bo Peep and Wheezy, have departed in yard sales
for quite some time.
At first, Andy intends to take only Woody with him. The others will
go into trash bags, bound for the Davis’ attic. Andy’s mom takes his
trash bag out to the curb, however, not realizing its contents, much to
Andy’s dismay later on. Woody sets out to save his friends, but they’ve
already escaped, and are hiding in the back of the Davis' car, thinking
Andy has deliberately thrown them away. Jessie asserts that the toys
should take charge of their own destiny, convincing them to stow away
with a box of other family toys, headed for donation to Sunnyside
Daycare, as Woody vainly attempts to explain Andy’s true intentions. But
it’s too late: Andy's mom closes the rear hatch of the car, headed for
Sunnyside to donate the boxed toys.
The gang arrives at Sunnyside just as the children leave for recess.
Andy's toys are welcomed by Sunnyside’s plethora of toys with open arms,
including their leader, Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear (A.K.A. "Lotso"); a
smooth-talking Ken doll, who immediately falls in love with Molly's
Barbie; and a classic doll covered in crayon tattoos named Big Baby. The
new arrivals are keen on starting their new lives at the daycare,
except for Woody, who has suspicions about the daycare after an
encounter with Chatter Telephone. He also thinks that the toys shouldn't
turn their back on Andy quite so quickly.
The toys think Woody should stay with them at Sunnyside, but Woody
reluctantly leaves to find Andy. Soon Woody escapes from Sunnyside using
a kite as a hang glider, but ends up losing his hat and getting stuck
on the branch of a tree. Woody is soon taken home by a sweet little girl
from Sunnyside named Bonnie, who takes him to meet her own toys,
Chuckles the Clown, Mr. Pricklepants, Trixie, Buttercup, Dolly, the
Peas-in-a-Pod and Totoro. As Woody tries to recuperate himself and
continue his search for Andy, Chuckles explains to Woody the dangers of
Sunnyside.
Chuckles tells Woody that he, Lotso and Big Baby were once owned by a
loving girl named Daisy. However, one day, she accidentally left them
in the countryside. They returned to Daisy's house to find that Daisy's
parents bought a new Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear for her, leaving Lotso feeling
betrayed and hostile towards all toy owners. The toys went to Sunnyside
where Lotso and Big Baby quickly rose to power and transformed the
daycare into a toy prison for those left there, while Chuckles was taken
home by Bonnie. Woody quickly realizes that he must save his friends
from the daycare and its head occupants and get back to Andy before he
leaves.
Meanwhile, at the daycare, Buzz and the gang have been relegated to
the "caterpillar room" by Lotso, where they are played with by
hyperactive toddlers, which is especially hazardous for the piecemeal
Potato Heads. At the end of the day, Buzz and the gang decide they’ll
return to the "butterfly room", where they’re age appropriate; but this
is a daycare—the doors are all locked. Buzz manages to jump through the
transom, and discovers Ken and other toys heading to the teacher’s
lounge snack machine. He quietly follows them in. Buzz watches the
veteran toys playing some kind of roulette, until he is ratted out by
Big Baby. Buzz is tied to a chair and is about to be tortured, until
Lotso arrives and orders the other toys to release him. Buzz asks Lotso,
if he and his friends can relocate to the "butterfly room", but Lotso
agrees to only allow Buzz to transfer. Buzz insists that he must stay
together with his friends. An indifferent Lotso orders him tied up
again. Buzz knows too much, but this is not a fatal mistake: the toys
have access to the manual that accompanies every new Buzz Lightyear toy.
Meanwhile, in the "butterfly room", the gang makes a discovery through
the eye that Mrs. Potato Head left in Andy's room, that he indeed was
looking for them and intended to put them in the attic, but they are
captured by the reset Buzz who believes the gang are helping Emperor
Zurg and that Lotso is his commander.
Woody returns to Sunnyside in order to help his friends just the day
before Andy leaves for college, Woody asks Chatter Telephone for help
and informs Woody that he must get rid of a monkey toy that controls the
AV room and watches everything that happens in the daycare through
cameras. When the night falls, Woody and Slinky fight the monkey and
gets the keys to all the rooms. Barbie blackmails Ken into telling her
what Lotso did to Buzz and heads to get the instruction manual. Hamm and
Rex manage to trap Buzz and with Woody's help and the instruction
manual try to change Buzz from demo mode to play mode, so they ask Rex
to press the reset button, but by mistake they press it, for more than 5
seconds configuring Buzz in Spanish mode.
Voice cast
Non-speaking characters include Bullseye, Big Baby, Totoro, and the Monkey.
Several of Andy's other toys (such as Bo Peep, RC, and Wheezy) are revealed to have been sold, given
away or put in the attic years after Toy
Story 2.
Development
According to the terms of Pixar's revised deal with Disney, all characters created by Pixar for
their films were owned by Disney. Furthermore, Disney retains the rights
to make sequels to any Pixar film, though Pixar retained the right of first refusal to work on these sequels.
But in 2004, when the contentious negotiations between the two companies
made a split appear likely, Disney Chairman at the time Michael Eisner put in motion plans to produce Toy Story 3
at a new Disney studio, Circle 7 Animation. Tim
Allen, the voice of Buzz Lightyear, indicated a willingness to return even if
Pixar was not on board.[7]
Jim Herzfeld wrote a script for Circle 7's version of the film. It
focused on the other toys shipping a malfunctioning Buzz to Taiwan,
where he was built, believing that he will be fixed there. While
searching on the Internet, they find out that many more Buzz Lightyear
toys are malfunctioning around the world and the company has issued a
massive recall. Fearing Buzz's destruction, a group
of Andy's toys (Woody, Rex, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm, Jessie, and
Bullseye) venture to rescue Buzz. At the same time Buzz meets other toys
from around the world that were once loved but have now been recalled.[7]
In January 2006, Disney bought Pixar in a deal that put Pixar chiefs Edwin
Catmull and John Lasseter in charge of all Disney
Animation. Shortly thereafter, Circle 7 Animation was shut down and its
version of Toy Story 3 was shelved.[7]
The following month, Disney CEO Robert
Iger confirmed that Disney was in the process of transferring the
production to Pixar.[8]
John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete
Docter, and Lee Unkrich visited the house where they first
pitched Toy Story and came up with the story for the film over a
weekend. Stanton then wrote a treatment.[9]
On February 8, 2007, Catmull announced Toy Story 2's
co-director, Lee Unkrich, as the sole director of the film
instead of John Lasseter, and Michael
Arndt as Screenwriter.[10]
The release date was moved to 2010.[11]
When the people behind the movie sat down to look at their work from
the original Toy Story during the early development stages, they
found they "literally couldn’t open the files".[12]
Instead of sending Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and John Ratzenberger
scripts for their consideration in reprising their roles, a complete
story reel of the film was shown to the actors in a theater. The reel
was made up of moving storyboards with pre-recorded voices, sound
effects, and music. At the conclusion of the preview, the actors signed
on to the film.[13]
Dolby Laboratories announced that Toy
Story 3 will be the first movie that will feature the Dolby Surround
7.1 audio format.[14]
Marketing
The film's first teaser trailer was released with the Disney Digital
3-D version of the film Up on May 29, 2009.[15]
On October 2, 2009 Toy Story and Toy
Story 2 were re-released as a double feature in Disney Digital 3-D.[4]
The first full-length trailer was attached as an exclusive sneak peek
and a first footage to the Toy Story double feature, on October
12, 2009. A second teaser was released on February 10, 2010, followed by
a second full-length trailer on February 11 and appeared in 3D showings
of Alice in Wonderland. On
March 23, 2010, Toy Story was released on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack
which included a small feature of "The Story of Toy Story 3".
Also, Toy Story 2 was released on that day in the same format
which had a small feature on the "Characters of Toy Story 3". On
May 11, 2010, both films had a DVD-only re-release which
contained the features.
Mattel
Thinkway Toys and Lego are among those who will make toys to
promote the film.[16][17]
Disney Interactive Studios has
also produced a video game based on the film
which is to be released June 15 2010.[18]
Toy Story 3 was featured in Apple's iPhone OS 4 Event on 7
June 2010, with Steve Jobs demoing a Toy Story 3 themed iAd written in HTML5.[19]
Pixar designed a commercial for a toy, Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, and
formatted it to look like it came from an old VCR recording. The
recording was altered with distorted sound, noise along the bottom of
the screen, and flickering video, all designed to make it look like a
converted recording from the 1980s.[20]
A Japanese version of the commercial was also released online.[21]
On Dancing with the Stars'
May 11, 2010 episode, the Gipsy
Kings performed a Spanish language version of the song "You've Got a Friend in Me". It
also featured a paso doble dance which will be featured in the
film. It was choreographed by Cheryl
Burke and Tony Dovolani.[22][23]
Sneak peeks of the film are shown on Disney Channel. One sneak peek was shown on Cartoon Network in the
United States on June 10, 2010.
Reception
The film has received extremely positive reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of critics have given
the film a positive review based on 26 reviews, with an average score of
8.7/10[24]
Peter Debruge from Variety gave the film a positive review saying:
"This tertiary adventure delivers welcome yet nonessential fun, landing
well after its creators have grown up and succeeded toying with more
sophisticated stories."[25]
Michael Rechtshaffen from Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a
positive review, saying: "Woody, Buzz and playmates make a thoroughly
engaging, emotionally satisfying return."[26]
Soundtrack
| Artist |
| 1. |
"We Belong Together" |
Randy Newman |
4:03 |
| 2. |
"You've Got a Friend in Me (para
Buzz Español)" |
The Gipsy Kings |
2:15 |
| 3. |
"Cowboy!" |
Randy Newman |
4:11 |
| 4. |
"Garbage?" |
Randy Newman |
2:41 |
| 5. |
"Sunnyside" |
Randy Newman |
2:20 |
| 6. |
"Woody Bails" |
Randy Newman |
4:40 |
| 7. |
"Come to Papa" |
Randy Newman |
2:06 |
| 8. |
"Go See Lotso" |
Randy Newman |
3:37 |
| 9. |
"Bad Buzz" |
Randy Newman |
2:22 |
| 10. |
"You Got Lucky" |
Randy Newman |
5:59 |
| 11. |
"Spanish Buzz" |
Randy Newman |
3:31 |
| 12. |
"What About Daisy?" |
Randy Newman |
2:07 |
| 13. |
"To The Dump" |
Randy Newman |
3:51 |
| 14. |
"The Claw" |
Randy Newman |
3:57 |
| 15. |
"Going Home" |
Randy Newman |
3:22 |
| 16. |
"So Long" |
Randy Newman |
4:55 |
| 17. |
"Zu-Zu (Ken's Theme)"
|
Randy Newman |
0:35 |
In addition, the film also uses the song "Dream Weaver" by Gary
Wright and "Le Freak" by Chic.
Pixar themes
Attached short
film
The theatrical release of Toy Story 3 is scheduled to include
the short film Day & Night, which
focuses on what happens when an animated personification of daytime
(Day) meets his opposite, nighttime (Night) and the resulting growth for
both.[27][28]
References
to other Pixar films
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