Toy Story 3: Difference between revisions

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A plot summary, courtesy of [[Wikipedia]]:

* [[Actionized Sequel]]: With this being number 3 in a trilogy fifteen years in the making, character introductions are almost moot point, with even more dramatic escape sequences taking place in comparison to its predecessors.

* [[Advertised Extra]]: Stretch the octopus is displayed prominently on the DVD cover, despite having about ten minutes of screen time.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: The ultimate fate of Lotso. He's advised by his new pals to keep his mouth shut.

* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: When Andy leaves his toys in the care of their new kid Bonnie.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The opening scene. There's Woody and Jessie, the cowboy and cowgirl, chasing Potato Head on a 19th century style steam train. Then a pink sports car turns up, then spaceman Buzz Lightyear and later Slinky Dog is some sort of high tech forcefield dog contraption. Ham has a pig-shaped spaceship, with a cockpit filled with computers, lights and a teleporter and a [[Wave Motion Gun]] in the snout. Finally, there's Rex, the ''dinosaur''. Justified in that this is all a story made up by a six year old and the ludicrous nature of it is clearly powered by his sense of [[Rule of Cool]].

** This scene is a retelling of the first two movies' opening sequences blended together.

* [[Ass Shove]]: Done in the epilogue when Mr. Potato Head discovers the Peas-in-a-Pod popping out of his rear hatch.

{{quote|"I told you kids, stay out of my butt!"}}

'''Hamm:''' You ''said'' it. }}

* [[Bear Hug]]: From Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Lotso really should not have broken the name tag in front of Big Baby.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Lotso turns out to be the most vicious character in the film.

*** The looping orange racetrack Buzz used to "fall with style" in the original and Jessie used to help Buster in the sequel is mentioned to be stored in the attic.

*** Lotso's backstory. Him getting lost on a trip out and having to make his way back home to the owner he is intensely loyal to: That's the plot of the first movie right there. Him being replaced and his [[If I Can't Have You]]: Hey, Woody, remember when you pushed Buzz out the window? His philosophy that all toys are destined to be treated as garbage: Remember when Woody was more willing to go to a museum than to Andy because he was afraid he'd be thrown out eventually? Lotso is [[Future Me Scares Me|Woody from a bad future.]]

*** The quick series of shots over which Chatter Telephone narrates all the obstacles the toys will face in their escape from Sunnyside recalls a similar sequence detailing the plan to escape the fish tank in ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' (both are ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' parodies and visual shout-outs to the films of David Fincher).

*** Big Baby resembles the creepy baby who fell victim to the Uncanny Valley in the [[Pixar Shorts]] ''Tin Toy''. In that short, a number of toys hide from said child. The same toys are also shown hiding from the toddlers of the Caterpillar Room before the kids return from recess.

* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: And '''HOW'''!

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Sunnyside Daycare seems like a bright, colorful heaven where there are always children to lovingly play with the toys, but actually it's a brutal dictatorship ruled by Lotso the bear. Most of the daycare's toys get subjected to rough playtimes with the toddlers rather than the loving playtimes with the older children, and any defiant toys get imprisoned in cubbies, forced to stay the night in the sandbox, interrogated, brainwashed, or thrown into the daycare's dumpster to go to the landfill.

* [[Creepy Doll]]: Big Baby.

* [[Cute Giant]]: Lotso and Big Baby are each considerably larger than the protagonists.

* [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]]: When night falls on Sunnyside Daycare, he sits at the front desk, watching all the surveillance screens. If a toy tries to escape, he turns on the center's P.A. system and screeches into it while banging his cymbals. Lotso and crew are on top of the poor toy in moments.

** May be a [[Shout-Out]] to a [[Stephen King]]'s The Monkey, or [[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders]], the infamous film featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' partially based upon it (a 1984 horror film called ''The Devil's Gift'' blatantly plagiarized King's short story was edited into [[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders]]). The monkey looks ''just'' like the design from the cover of Skeleton Crew, the collection that contains it.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: Of 'You've Got a Friend In Me' at the beginning of the film. Just to clarify, the song ends at the line 'Our friendship will never die!' The background music stops, and we just hear 'never die' echo over and over.

* [[Dance Party Ending]]: Stay for the credits. Set to a Spanish version of "You Got A Friend In Me." The choreography was done by [[Dancing With the Stars]] contestants.

* [[Dance of Romance]]: When Buzz is in [[Latin Lover|Spanish mode]], he makes the move on Jessie with a dance. And they do it again in his normal form in the credits.

* [[The Dandy]]: Ken

* [[Den of Iniquity]]: A humorous example with the 'bad' toys hanging around in a vending machine, betting with Monopoly money and triple A batteries. They use a "Speak-And-Say" toy instead of a roulette table.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: THE CLAAAAAW! A literal example, as the DVD commentary points out.

* [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]: Lotso.

* [[Manly Tears]]: You must have a heart of steel NOT to cry leaving the movie theater.

* [[Melancholy Moon]]: Both Big Baby and Chuckles gaze sadly at the moon. Fitting considering they both lost the same owner.

* [[The Mentor]]: Dolly of Bonnie's toys.

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The dump, the conveyor belt and finally the incinerator.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: The last three Army Men (including Sarge) leave Andy's room in a hurry, knowing their fate will inevitably be the garbage.

* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: The Little Green Men being taken out (and apparently killed) early in the dump sequence. When they return, they [[Big Damn Heroes|save the day]] and things get much lighter and fluffier.

** Also done with Barbie, when Ken keeps her from joining the others on the garbage truck.

*** Big Baby might also be a shout out to the baby from "Tin Toy"... scary movements and all!

** Woody being dragged into the dumpster by Lotso is a shout-out to Hudson's death in ''[[Aliens]]''.

** Much of the film takes its inspiration from ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', which had many future Pixar employees working on it, including John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, and others. It even had the usual A113 moniker in it.

** '''Mr. Potato Head:''' [[Scooby Doo|"And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for]] [[You Meddling Kids|you meddling toys!"]]

* [[Smarter Than You Look]]: The Squeeze Toy Aliens. For all their times yelling "Ooohh!!!" and "The Claw" it turns out they are actually fairly intelligent. Not only can they learn how to operate heavy machinery within a matter of minutes, find and locate a small group of toys within an entire trash compound, but they actually do know that the "Claw" has to be manually controlled and is not self-choosing.

** Also Barbie -- political philosophy out of nowhere!

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: After the toys are locked in jail, the [[Captivity Harmonica|harmonica in the background]] turns out to be Hamm playing.

* [[Split Personality]]: Buzz's [[Latin Lover|"Spanish]] [[Badass Spaniard|Mode"]], activated by pressing a reset button hidden in his back [[Never Trust a Trailer|for more than five seconds]], could be an example of this.

{{quote|'''Mr. Potato Head:''' You would not believe what I've been through tonight!}}

 

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