the piano really sets the noir mood

The Aliens taking control of a giant Mechanical Claw, the manifestation of their own God, and deciding for themselves “who will go and who will stay,” may be the most profound existential statement in all of Pixar.

For me it was Andy’s dog, still trying to play but now clearly old and tired. We had just put down a family dog, so that was a nice unexpected gut punch.

I know a lot of the people are pointing to the incinerator scene as the big emotional one from this movie, but the first scene with the smash to black in the middle of the “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” is the first time I think I’ve gotten an “oh fuck this is gonna get HEAVY” feeling in a kids’ movie. Like, the opening…

Ah. To be a parent is to cry. Every. Damn. Time. Every movie. Every song. Everything. You look away for an instant, and they are grown. Best of luck on your journey.

The “cocaine” joke gets made a lot about 80s films, but in this case I think it could actually apply.

The Gipsy Kings’ version of You’ve Got a Friend in Me that closes the film is also pretty awesome.

It is now!!

“The orphans!”

Yes, but those are Nazis, it’s awesome to watch them die, and the hero is clearly being spared as all this goes on. The incinerator scene is about the fiery death of the heroes and, as other have said, the resignation and acceptance of this. (And it’s filmed in a different manner than the more cartoonish destruction…

Definitely the funniest of the three. Michael Keaton’s Ken doll being more superficial than even Barbie was comedy gold.

I saw the first Toy Story the year I started college, and one of my huge, “Holy crap I’m old” moments in life was watching Toy Story 3 and realizing that, yeah, Andy would totally be ready for college if he aged in real-time.

To feel even older, consider that he’s graduated by now and probably even has kids of his own.…

I’m really looking forward to this feature reaching Inside Out. It was one of the last movies my wife and I saw in the theater before our son was born, and it was one of the first movie our son wanted to watch over and over and over again.

The fact that this entry in the Pixar Moment series is about ANYTHING but Spanish Buzz is a mistake and a lie.

OMG between Mr. Tortilla Head and Spanish Buzz, I think I pissed off at least five people sitting around me for laughing so damn loud. I nearly had to leave the theater for a few minutes to get myself to stop. I’m looking at pictures of him right now on Google Images and laughing.

Because it doesn't matter if we believe they're about to die, it matters that they believe it. Still an affecting scene after watching it a half dozen times.

I am generally skeptical of how worked-out Pixar’s stories can be, but having the characters rescued by a deus ex machina, manned by the deus-ex-machina-worshipping characters from the first movie? That’s pretty damn good.

That last paragraph really put it in focus. Toy Story 3 is an instructional film for adult Star Wars fans. 

Toy Story 3 is 10-years old.  Jesus.