The action is taking place in Andy’s head as he plays with his toys. The resolution of the opening scene in the latest episode shows this to be a false choice. Can it be that “Toy Story,” built over 15 years and two previous movies out of the unlikely bonds that flourished among a band of beautifully animated inanimate characters (and Andy, the mostly unseen boy who collects them), has succumbed to flashy commercial blockbuster imperatives? Or would we be fooling ourselves to suppose that it has ever been anything else? There are force fields and laser beams and a big noisy surprise every time you blink.Īt first glance your heart may sink a little. A train is hurtling down the tracks a bridge explodes stuff is falling out of the sky. They’re in a western, albeit one made in the amped-up modern action style, rather than the more stately idiom of old-time oaters. The major toys Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), the Potato Heads (Don Rickles and Estelle Harris), Hamm (John Ratzenberger), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Rex (Wallace Shawn) and the others are in a setting at once wholly unfamiliar and instantly recognizable. “Toy Story 3” begins with a rattling, exuberant set piece that has nothing to do with the tale that follows but that nonetheless sums up the ingenuity, and some of the paradoxes, that have made this Pixar franchise so marvelous and so successful.
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