Poughkeepsie, NY — Fifteen years ago, “Toy Story” changed the way I played with toys. My yellow Lamborghini, plush chipmunk and Pikachu figurine weren’t just toys. They were alive. They had souls, personalities.
The family and I saw “”Toy Story 3″ tonight and I’ve spend more than an hour searching my room for that darn 
chipmunk. His name is Chippy and he doesn’t like the dark.
“Toy Story 3″ is a thing of beauty. The graphics are perfect and the writing is spotless. Even though some of my favorite characters are missing, Barbie and Ken really filled the void. The way they walk and how they interact is priceless. It reminded me of when my sister used to play with her Barbie mansion and Corvette. That was yesterday.
Here’s what Mr. A. O. Scott of TheNew York Times had to say about the film,
Perhaps no series of movies has so brilliantly grasped the emotional logic that binds the innate creativity of children at play to the machinery of mass entertainment. Each one feeds, and colonizes, the other. And perhaps only Pixar, a company Utopian in its faith in technological progress, artisanal in its devotion to quality and nearly unbeatable in its marketing savvy, could have engineered a sweeping capitalist narrative of such grandeur and charm as the “Toy Story” features. “Toy Story 3” is as sweet, as touching, as humane a movie as you are likely to see this summer, and yet it is all about doodads stamped and molded out of plastic and polyester.
Aside from the laughs and gaffs, “Toy Story 3″ has a deep story that is sure to touch anyone who has ever gone away to college (or grown up). Make sure you bring some tissues or wear a long sleeve shirt because you’re going to get teary eyed. I could have needed some.
- east coast paper boy
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The Toy Story 3 movie proves that quality writing and believable characters are a solid formula for a successful film. This film captured the imagination of many a child and grown up in a way that other films of this kind fail to do. It deserves an award for writing and innovation. Well done!! Pixar, and not even one foul word in the whole movie, what a concept!