Here we are at my last review of the first three Toy Story
films. I don’t think that I will review any of the specials that aired on TV. I’m
writing this before I’ve seen the fourth Toy Story so I won’t know yet if the
ending to this movie is completely undone or not. But it wouldn’t be the first
time that it happened. I do think that the ending of this movie was partly to
undo the ending of the second one. But let’s not do too much more of this
introduction. Let’s get to this review.
We begin with a train being bombed and Mr. Potato Head
getting money. Woody comes to fight him, but Mrs. Potato Head comes out and
takes him off the track. Thankfully, he falls on his horse Bulls-eye and Jane
is there with him. This leads to Mr. Potato Head blowing up the tracks in front
of him which leads Woody to worry about the orphans on the train. Mr. Potato
Head and his wife then escape in a car full of alien bandit helpers while Woody
tries to stop the train.
At first, it seems like the train has gone off the tracks
and everyone except Jane and Bulls-eye went off the tracks to their deaths. But
Buzz Lightyear is able to use his anti-gravity device to save the day. The
group of heroes continue their pursuit and Mr. Potato Head uses his dog with a
built in force field. But Woody has a dinosaur that eats force field dogs.
All
seems well for the heroes until the evil Dr. Pork Chop comes out and captures
them all with monkeys while taking the rest to safety in a plane from up above.
Is all hope lost for the heroes? This is revealed to be a game that Andy was playing with his
toys when he was young. His mother then records the conclusion where a laser
beam that Buzz deflects off of Woody’s badge is able to attack and destroy the
villains. But a 50 foot baby winds up attacking next. More footage of Andy
playing with his toys as a kid is shown until the friendly music suddenly
stops.
Flashforward to later, Andy is now 17 and his toys still
want to be played with and do a phone call that is able to get Andy to look
through the toys, but he doesn’t play with any of them. The toys realize that
he is probably never playing with them again. There are so few of them left
still and some such as Bo Peep has been given away already.
Andy’s mother wants him prepared for college and decides
that anything that is not put in the attic or packed for college will be thrown
out. That’s very mean. She can’t just leave his room alone? My mother hasn’t
messed much with the rooms of my brother or sister once they moved out. Molly
seems to have outgrown her toys too early and wants to give some of them like
her Barbie doll away.
Andy gets all of his remaining toys outside of Woody in a
trash bag in order to put it in the attic. But he is distracted by something
Molly wants and leaves the bag alone. This confuses his mother who then takes
it to the curb on trash day. Woody notices that they were not originally meant
for the trash. While they are at the curb, Rex’s tail is used to escape from
the trash bag somehow. Woody notices that they are not in the trash and escaped
to the car of Andy’s mom. (Does she have a name?)
While Woody tries to tell them that Andy wasn’t trying to
throw them out when he catches up with them, they all decide to go to Sunnyside
daycare. While they are nervous about being a new group of arrivals there, they
appear to be welcome there by Lottso. He shows them around and introduces them
to other toys such as Big Baby and Ken, whom Barbie gets immediately infatuated
with. She goes off to his dream house to live. A toy phone tries to get Woody’s attention when the tour is
being done and they are taken from the butterfly room to the caterpillar room.
Woody wants to leave the rest of the group and head back to where Andy is as
the rest of them all want to stay here. Only Bulls-eye wanted to travel with
Woody, but Woody doesn’t allow it.
He hitches a ride underneath a janitor’s supply of cleaning
material and climbs out an open window. He gets to the roof of the building and
takes a kite to the roof where he uses it to fly somewhere else. Due to a
sudden wind change, he winds up in a tree and is taken by a girl named Bonnie
when she notices him there in it. He does lose his hat sometime during this.
Back in the caterpillar room, there is a rough play that
goes on with all of the toys there. Buzz then does briefly see toys being
treated better in the butterfly room. Meanwhile, back in Bonnie’s room, Woody
meets her other toys and has fun with them while still wanting to get out of
there.
When we return to Sunnyside, Buzz is able to find toys
hiding in a vending machine. They are playing a gambling game of sorts and talk
to each other while Buzz eavesdrops on them. He is then caught by them and
taken somewhere else.
Late at night, Woody wants to find a map to get back to
Andy’s house and the rest of the toys want to help him with it. Meanwhile, Buzz
talks to Lottso about his group being taken to the butterfly room. But his
offer is refused and a bookworm gives Lottso the manual on Buzz. They reset
Buzz to demo mode. While the rest of Andy’s old toys try to reunite with Buzz,
Mrs. Potato Head notices from her other eye that is still back in Andy’s room
that he is looking for them and they are missing.
The toys are then put into containers and they notice that
something weird is going on with Buzz, who is helping Lottso. He shows them the
hat that Woody has that was left behind. Mr. Potato Head is put in the sandbox
for the night. Barbie sees what’s going on and decides to abandon Ken and stay
where the rest of her toy friends.
While Woody notices that the way back to Andy is close to
where he is, he also learns that Sunnyside is a dangerous place from Chuckles,
a clown that talks about his past life with Lottso and Big Baby. They had the
same owner named Daisy. They were once accidently left behind on a trip and
once they returned to where she was, they found out that she had replaced
Lottso. He is outraged by this and they wind up going to where Sunnyside is
which he soon takes over. Chuckles was able to make it out with Bonnie. Woody
wonders what he should do in order to help his friends.
It is the next morning then at Sunnyside where the toys
await the next day. Mr. Potato Head is brought back into the room with the rest
of them. Bonnie returns and Woody snuck back into the place in her backpack. He
notices yet another rough play going on with his friends. The phone from
earlier shows up and gives Woody some advice on how to get out. He has to get
rid of the monkey that oversees the security system.
Woody reunites with the rest of his friends and gets his hat
back. He talks about a plan on how to escape from this place. Mr. Potato Head
is taken back to the box when people catch him trying to escape. It is during
this time that Barbie convinces Ken to take her back to his dream house. Woody
and Slinky Dog are then able to subdue the monkey in the meantime to take out
the head of security and then get the keys to all the locked rooms. Meanwhile,
Ken shows off his clothes for Barbie.
After taking control of some of the situation, a fake fight
between Ham and Rex is staged in order to get Buzz to be captured under a
container where he fruitlessly uses his “powers” to try to escape. The other
toys give a tortilla that the parts of Mr. Potato Head uses to get around until
a bird comes after him. We then see Barbie capture Ken and destroy come clothes
of his until he confesses to what happened to Buzz. But in their efforts to fix
him, they turn him into a Spanish version of himself somehow.
Mr. Potato Head uses a cucumber as his new body until he
reunites with his real one. Spanish Buzz is really into Jane when he notices
her. The rest of the toys get to where the drop off of toys is to where the
garbage is waiting. But Lottso is there waiting for him. The phone ratted them
out. Ken tries to stand up to Lottso and end his reign of terror. But after
some tense situations, Big Baby takes him out. But this gets the rest of the
toys taken into the trash.
After a bit of an injury, Buzz is somehow returned to his
normal state. This is when the toys are taken to the dump in question. The
alien toys get distracted by the claw and we lose touch with them for a while.
The rest of the toys are taken by a magnet up with where Slinky Dog was taken
to in order to avoid a fate of being crushed to death. Woody and Buzz even help
save Lottso when he asks for their help. He then goes after a button to avoid
them going to a fiery death. But he doesn’t push the button and leads them to
their fate of doom. It looks like the toys are all about to die and even join
hands together ready to accept their fate. But a claw comes out and saves them.
It is the aliens from earlier who were able to get them and save their lives,
returning the favor at last from the previous movie. The toys are all okay.
The fate of Lottso is revealed when a trucker takes him and
puts him on the front of the garbage truck. The rest of the toys want to find
where Andy is and they go back to his room. They clean themselves off and Mrs.
Potato Head gets reunited with her other eye. The toys want to spend time in the
attic from now on. Andy’s room is seen for the last time and in its near empty
state. Woody writes a note and gets Andy to take his toys to where Bonnie
lives. He gives his toys away to her and goes through them.
He goes through Jessie and Bulls-eye, giving them their back
stories. He also goes through all of the toys that he has as well. They all
mean a lot to Bonnie. It turns out that Woody is among these toys as well and
Andy is a bit reluctant to give him up. But Andy talks about his loyalty before
playing with his toys for one last time. He leaves them all behind in a very
sentimental moment.
Before the movie is over, there’s still more to it. More
toys are donated to Sunnyside. It seems like the toys there are now doing
better now that Lottso reign of terror has been brought to an end. They are all
now getting along together now. They exchange letters between themselves and
Bonnie’s house. All of Andy’s old toys are getting along with Bonnie’s current
toys. Buzz and Jane dance to a Spanish version of You Got a Friend in Me. Thus
the movie ends officially.
This is one of my favorite movies and ever since I saw it, I
realized that I had to give away my old toys to younger people who would still
enjoy them. I have done some of that thus far, but still have lingered with
more of the more precious toys of mine. We’ll see what all I can still get rid
of and I’m not sure what all I still have available to give away. I might have
to go into more of what I wasn’t wanting to get rid of in the future. We’ll see
what happens.
I don’t know what else there is to say for this post. I
think that this movie is the best of at least the first of the three Toy Story
movies so we’ll see if the fourth one can work well or not. I’m sorry if it
seems like these random posts came at strange times. But at least you have all
three reviews now that the fourth movie in this franchise is out as well. For
now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
