Toy Story 3
Short description
Toy Story 3 follows Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the other toys as their owner Andy prepares to leave for college. Uncertain about what will happen to them, the group ends up at a day care centre, where the resident toys initially seem welcoming. The newcomers soon find that the place is not the safe home it appears to be, and Woody and his friends set out to get away and make their way back to Andy.
The film is directed by Lee Unkrich, who wrote the screenplay with Michael Arndt; it is the first of his three directing credits, ahead of Coco and Coco 2. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return to voice Woody and Buzz, with Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn and John Ratzenberger among a credited cast of 60. Darla K. Anderson produced, with 227 credited crew members.
Released in June 2010, the film had a budget of 200 million US dollars and took 1.07 billion US dollars worldwide, a return that reflects its wide appeal. On IMDb it holds 8.3 out of 10 from around 964,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 7.8 out of 10 from roughly 16,000 votes. The film critics' rating stands at 9.1 out of 10 from 309 reviews, the highest of the three measures by a clear margin.
What's left behind the scenes
- In Spanish-speaking countries, the episodes where Buzz speaks Spanish were dubbed, but not into another language, but into Spanish again, but with a corresponding sound. For example, in the Latin American dub, Buzz speaks Spanish with a Latin American accent in a normal state, and in the aforementioned episodes switches to standard Spanish with a Castilian accent. Thus, even in the Spanish versions, the original joke of these episodes is preserved.
- The garbage man in headphones who appears in the scene when Woody thinks his friends are in a trash bag is Sid Phillips – the main antagonist of the first 'Toy Story'. He is wearing the same black skull t-shirt, and his mumbled singing to heavy metal is performed by the same Eric Lloyd who voiced him in the first film.
- Buzz's batteries are produced by the "BnL" corporation from the film "WALL-E" (2008).
- In the first cartoon, when Andy is playing with toys at the beginning, he says the phrases: “This is a dog with a force field, and this is a dinosaur, he eats dogs with force fields.” This scenario was used in the opening cartoon in the third part.
- During the early stages of development, the crew wanted to use the original 3D character models used in previous installments. However, the files with these models turned out to be incompatible with the new software, and the character models were ultimately recreated from scratch.
- Pixar's first animated film released in and for the IMAX format.
- When the clown in Bonnie's house tells Woody about Lotso, he said that "the box with Lotso was unpacked right in front of him," although it was visible that he was sitting with his back to it.
- The rounded, gray with a white belly, and strangely-eared toy in Bonnie's house is Totoro, a character from "My Neighbor Totoro" (1988). As in the original film, the toy does not speak but expresses emotions only through facial expressions, especially its 'signature' triangular smile.
- In the "Toy Story" trilogy, each previous film briefly features a character who will later become one of the key characters. This is the short advertisement for "Al’s Toys Barn" in the first film, where Al is a key character in the second film. It’s the appearance of Barbie dolls in the second part, and in the third part, Barbie is one of the key characters.
- In one episode, the Mega-Pupps character throws Lotso the bear into a trash can – this is a reference to the film "Star Wars: Episode 6 – Return of the Jedi" (1983), where Darth Vader similarly throws his master into a chasm.
- The guard monkey can be spotted in the scene where Andy's mother brings toys into "Sunnyside", in Bonnie’s hands.
- The cartoon features 302 characters.
- As a tradition, each Pixar film briefly features a character from the next film. Upon close inspection, a poster with Finn McMissile, who became a new character in "Cars 2" (2011), can be noticed on the wall in Andy's room.
- The number A113 appears in every Pixar film; it corresponds to the number of the classroom where John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, and Andrew Stanton studied at CalArts. Despite the many years that have passed, Andy's mother hasn't changed the license plate, which is still visible on the glass of her car in 'Toy Story 3' (2010).
- The bee on Bonnie's backpack is Welly from Pixar's first film.
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