Veteran critic Todd McCarthy of film site indieWIRE writes that “the third installment is most often where filmmakers trip up.Does ‘Toy Story 3’ break the jinx? Pretty much so, yes. The movie scores a 100 percent positive rating on website. So far that combination - along with the good storytelling that has become Pixar’s hallmark - has won over critics. They also added 3D at a time when 3D is all the rage among fans and theater owners who charge higher ticket prices for 3D films. To update the characters, “Toy Story 3,” animators rebuilt Woody, Buzz and the gang from scratch using new software. “We knew that there was a curse on having the number ‘3’ after the title of your movie,” said Unkrich, who co-directed “Toy Story 2.” “I think the bar was very high on the first ‘Toy Story.’ We tempted fate by even making a second one.” He understands that with each successive movie in a franchise, audiences often find themselves fatigued looking at the same characters. “It’s honestly like we’ve never left the place,” said Hanks, the voice of the gangly Woody ever since Pixar began.īut scoring a box office smash is easier said than done, and “Toy Story 3” director Lee Unkrich knows it. Still, when Hanks and Allen sat down with Reuters to talk about the movie at Pixar’s studios in Emeryville, Calif., east of San Francisco, they said it felt like home. debut on Friday, it is easy to see that Tinseltown and animation have changed a lot since “Toy Story 2” hit screens in 1999 and, certainly, since 1995’s original “Toy Story” started a revolution in animated movies.Ĭomputer animation became an industry norm, media giant Walt Disney Co bought the films’ maker, Pixar Animation Studios, for more than $7 billion, and the hottest thing going in Hollywood is 3D, of which “Toy Story 3” takes advantage. The same voices are back from the original two Toy Story. While some of the toys are genuinely nice, others as well see, have an ulterior motive that doesnt benefit Andys toys. REUTERS/Danny Moloshokīut ahead of the movie’s U.S. The new Toy Story 3 characters are the welcoming committee of the Sunnyside Daycare Center - the place where Andys mom accidentally sends them after they get tossed out by mistake and crawl into a donation box. Actor Tim Allen (L), who plays the voice of the character Buzz Lightyear (2nd L), and Tom Hanks (R), who plays the voice of character Woody, pose together at the world premiere of Disney Pixar's "Toy Story 3" at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California June 13, 2010.
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