But hey, what can you expect from a movie named "Toy Story 3," especially with the humans mostly offstage? 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. Check out more Disney and Pixar video in exclusive 4K resolution at. This is a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier “Toy Story” sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions. There is a happy ending, of course, but I suspect these toys may be traumatized for eternity. 'Sunnyside is a place of ruin and despair, ruled by an evil bear who smells of strawberries' Mr. You have no idea what garbage has to go through before becoming landfill, and even an Indiana Jones toy would have trouble surviving the rotating blades. 'Welcome to Sunnyside, folks' Lotso greets Andys toys Sunnyside Daycare is a preschool/child care facility where Andys toys get accidentally donated in Toy Story 3. Man, the toys have a dangerous time of it after they eventually find themselves at a garbage collection center.
Potato Head must be old hands at such situations, because children spend most of their time attaching his body parts in the wrong way, like malpracticing little Dr. Potato Head lost an ear, would it continue to hear, or if he lost a mouth, would it continue to eat without a body? These are not academic questions at one point, Mister becomes an uncooked taco shell.
This raises intriguing physiological questions, such as, if Mr. Potato Head ( Estelle Harris), whose missing eye continues to see independently of her head. In fact, I recall them mentioning that they didnt consider the incinerator scene in the original development of the film. If you ask me, Barbie ( Jodi Benson) is anorexic, and Ken ( Michael Keaton) is gay, but nobody in the movie knows this, so I'm just sayin'.īuzz Lightyear ( Tim Allen) is back, still in hapless hero mode, but after a reboot, he starts speaking Spanish and that leads to some funny stuff. Ive listened to the audio commentary and read the Art of Toy Story 3 book, and to my knowledge they never mention anything relating to Bo Peep being excluded because of the incinerator scene. They pick up, however, some additions to their little band, including a Ken doll with an extensive wardrobe. There seems to be relatively little grieving about the loss of Andy's affections he did, after all, sentence them to a toy box for years, and toys by nature are self-centered and want to be played with.ĭay care seems like a happy choice, until a dark underside of its toy society emerges in the person of an ominously hug-prone bear named Lotso ( Ned Beatty). TOY STORY 3 MOVIE REACTION Today Ill be watching a film I have never seen before Toy Story 3 released in 2010 for the first time. The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and its up to Woody to convince the other toys that they werent abandoned and to return home. When it came time to fine-tune the simulation, Houdini provided Pixar’s artists with the ability to achieve rapid iterations thanks to a heavily trimmed simulation cache and procedural placement.What with one thing and another, the other toys find themselves at the day-care center, which they think they'll like, because there will be plenty of kids to play with them all day long. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty. This approach also gave them the opportunity to cull out a large percentage of unnecessary rigid bodies freeing up valuable resources. Applying a special geometry solver to the volume representation made it easy to determine which rigid body objects remained on the bottom layer of the pouring trash throughout the entire simulation. Using the volume representation, they could procedurally scatter plastic bags on top of the surface. With a simple network of geometry nodes, they turned it into an approximate volume representation. With Houdini, they could simulate the floating plastic bags without having to modify the already approved look of the shot by importing a cache of rigid bodies from the simulation using propriety tools. This sequence was simulated using Pixar’s proprietary tools and the bags needed to be easily integrated into the shot without re-running the simulation from scratch, which would have been too costly in terms of time and resources. This additional detail was being added to an already approved sequence of shots where a dump truck empties its haul of trash. In another scene, Pixar’s artists were assigned the task of animating plastic shopping bags that flutter through a wasteland of discarded trash.