The Sage family went to the cinema tonight because we all wanted to see this movie. The sagelings had free tickets yet it still cost us $45 at Garden City. It's a bit of a joke that admission is an extra $3 for a 3-D film and another $2 if you need to buy "glasses", [1] Thankfully we kept the 3-D glasses from a previous movie so we didn't have to pay for them, again.
The "Night And Day" feature before the movie was very clever. It shows how clever the Pixar team is at communicating without the use of words.
Pixar have done it again, The third installment of the Toy Story franchise is just as good as the first two. If you don't grok Toy Story then don't see this movie. If you haven't seen the first two movies, see them before seeing this one to enjoy the film even more. The lovable toys are back again. Andy is now seventeen and going to college. The toys end up in a day-care center which is not the paradise it first appears. It is up to Woody to rescue the toys.
There are number of funny scenes in the movie which had me laughing out loud in places. I think my favourite was Buzz Lightyear - the Spanish incarnation. There are some scenes which I though might be disturbing for younger children but didn't seem to phase the sagelings at all. As in the previous movies, there were some jokes that were for the adult audience. Many of these were to do with the interaction between Barbie and Ken.
We all had a great time watching this film. It is sure to be something we buy when it comes out on DVD. I have been known to be critical of a lot of what comes out of Hollywood (like Karate Kid IV, and do we really need another Tron movie?), but movies like this one, and companies like Pixar, give me hope for the future.
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[1] Why are the called glasses when they contain no glass?
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