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There are a lot of good things to say about Pixar. Generally speaking they make amazing animated movies and lately their films have been able to push emotional buttons quite successfully.
While other animated kid movies choose to go down the pop-culture-slapstick-celebrity-voices road, generally the Pixar name (although guilty of abusing celebrity voices) has become a label attached to products of quality and emotion.
Which is something to say when you're talking here about a movie featuring a bunch of kids toys that have adventures while no one is looking.
Yes Woody, Buzz and the gang are back but their boy Andy is getting older and the toys have three possible destinations: the attic, the trash, or college with the boy. They eventually find themselves in a fourth option: a daycare run by an evil cuddly teddy bear that smells like strawberries.
Standout performances are easily Ken and Barbie with a nice guest appearance from Totoro.
There are some darker moments, as is now a Pixar trademark, but the entire film is quick paced and quite entertaining.
Perhaps the greatest things about Pixar movies are the shorts. It used to be commonplace for a short film to run before the main feature but for whatever reason then have become rare except for in these films.
Although, in a bright note I do hear industry scuttlebutt that short films are going to make a comeback - let's hope so.
The short for Toy Story 3 is called Day and Night and it's absolutely delightful.
