![]() Pixar’s team here – director Lee Unkrich and screenwriter Michael Arndt, with story credit to Unkrich, John Lasseter, and Andrew Stanton – embrace the eleven-year gap, not only to provide them with a plot, but to turn the very notion of growing up into its theme. It’s comfortable, it’s warm, it’s wonderful. But this is a film made by people so in tune with the characters and their world that it doesn’t skip a single beat it feels like it could just as well have been released just a few months after “Toy Story 2.” Walking into “Toy Story 3” feels like an overdue reunion with an old friend. Yes, this sequel is made with the wisdom and storytelling bravery that fueled “WALL-E” and “Up,” and yes, this sequel reveals a completely different and completely better Pixar than we saw in the late 1990s. ![]() There’s no awkward disconnect that comes with, say, seeing John McClane saddle up after a lengthy absence, no mismatched tone that leaves the newcomer as a franchise odd man out. It’s like watching the Beatles go from “Eight Days a Week” to “A Day in the Life.”Īnd yet “Toy Story 3” doesn’t come across as out of place with the previous adventures of Woody and Buzz. They started the decade with “Monsters, Inc.” and ended it with “Up.” Both are modern classics in every way, but the latter is far more rich in its artistic ambitions. The animation studio’s first three features were impressive indeed, yet their next seven showed the company maturing beyond even its most loyal fans’ expectations. The film arrives eleven years after “Toy Story 2,” and in that time, Pixar has, for lack of a better term, grown up. ![]() The most impressive thing about “Toy Story 3” – and this is a movie with many impressive things – is how familiar it feels. ![]()
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