Initially the idea of all-day play seems too good to be true, but Sunnyside has a dark side: it's "a place of ruin and despair", a pre-kindie pastel-colored gulag presided over by Lotso (Ned Beatty), an avuncular pink teddy bear who smells of strawberries (so we're told, the movie is discreetly 3D but not in smell-o-vision). His mom wants his room cleared, and a misunderstanding consigns the toys to Sunnyside Daycare. In "Toy Story 3", Woody and Buzz (voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, as always) remain unchanged, as good as new in fact, but their owner, Andy, is 17 now and moving on to college. Maybe more so, now that a generation of kids have grown up with these characters, and, in some cases, probably have grown out of them. It was "Toy Story" that started Pixar's remarkable run 15 years ago, but the angsty devotion of Andy's cowboy doll and his friends (a slinky dog, a cowardly T Rex and a piggy bank named Hamm among them) as they await their inevitable retirement remains as poignant today as it did then. (Not to say there aren't exceptions.)īut in any case, conventional wisdom never seems to apply to Pixar, the digital animation giant that only ever seems to produce winners: "WALL-E," "Cars," "Up" and "Monsters, Inc." to name just a few. Nifty moves are one thing, but everybody knows that by the second sequel - or "threequel" if you prefer - even the strongest film franchise is venturing onto shaky ground. Not only does he switch to fluent Spanish, he accompanies his newly ardent protestations of love to cowgirl Jessie with flamboyant flamenco finger clicks and swiveling hips. In another inspired touch, space ranger toy Buzz Lightyear is inadvertently rebooted for the Hispanic market. Nobody speaks body language more eloquently than Pixar. Potato Head (the potato being indisposed at the time). Unsteadily, at first, in a floppy, folding, undulating furl, on detachable legs accustomed to the rotund corporeal bulk of Mr. (CNN) - How should a tortilla move? Trust Pixar to ask the important questions and to come up with the most inspired answers, too.
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