Toy Story 2 hit theaters November 24, 1999. I had just turned 11. I celebrated by going to the movie theater to see Toy Story 2 with friends.
Toy Story 3 hit theaters on June 18, 2010. I am currently 21 years old.
Many other bloggers have beat me to the punch and said it best, so I'm going to take a direct quote from them. "Toy Story is a staple of our generation, and despite Toy Story 3 closing up an amazing trilogy of movies, it's never going away".
Toy Story has been around for approximately 50% of my entire life. If we are comparing me to Andy, I am about two years older than he is.
Everyone knows that I love a good movie. People know that I REALLY love a good Disney movie. But Pixar...they usually take the cake. Until this point, WALL-E was my favorite Pixar film, with Toy Story 1 and 2 being close 2nds. Now, I can say, without any hesitation, that Toy Story 3 is my all time favorite Pixar movie. I can also say it's easily one of my favorite movies ever.
The 'magic' that Pixar was able to capture in this film is simply breathtaking. It's incredible, awesome, and inspiring all at the same time. I was rendered speechless more times than I could count. For two hours, I traveled out of the real world.
They say that a good movie should make you laugh, cry, or sit on the edge of your seat. If you get one of these three elements, it's a good movie. Two makes it even better, and three makes it golden. Very few movies are able to move an audience in the way Toy Story 3 did. I laughed...HARD! I sat on the edge of my seat...ALOT! And I cried...SO MUCH! Veryyyyyyy few movies make me cry. If they do, it's usually a small tear and that's it. In the movie theater last night, it was clear that this movie made hundreds of college aged guys (myself included) hold back an incredible waterfall of tears.
As far as I'm concerned, Pixar will never top this. I said that about WALL-E, and I was proven wrong...but this time I think I might be right. I grew up with Andy...I grew up with all his toys. He moved on to (pardon the Disney pun) a whole new world, and so did I.
We grew up.
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