![]() ![]() My own four-year-old son asked “What that big fire thing was in the end” and I explained it to him in terms of Dantean visions of Hellfire through the ages and the banality of existence when compared to the horrors that await us in the holocaust of endless entropy. The final scene is particularly scary and brings up a number of metaphysical questions about existence and death that parents may not be ready to explore. Nothing in this movie is quite as poignant as some of the scenes in Wall-E or Up, but all of this movie was better than any of the other yuck-fests out there, excepting, perhaps, the first Shrek and Kung-Fu Panda.Īs for age appropriateness, I’d say kids over four or so – or mature toddlers – can handle most of the themes and situations. These CG animated movies are, in a sense, a genre into themselves and should be compared to each other in this way. I can only imagine the render farms for this film. In this movie, they simulate the motion of millions of pieces of chopped garbage, no mean feat. It was, at times, glorious.Įach movie Pixar makes pushes the state of the art further. The 3D made the movie better and instead of cheap shots of stuff “coming ‘atcha,” you saw real toys in real situations. It’s a great way to watch a flick, to be sure, and the 3D was so unobtrusive as to be invisible. ![]() All of this is tinged with the sadness of growing up and leaving behind things you loved as well as hope for better things to come. The tale winds through a day care center overrun by misfit toys, the home of a little girl who owns a gruff toy unicorn and a sad clown, and then to the very maw of heck itself – the incinerator at the city dump. Only Woody is going with Andy to college, and when he sees his friends in danger he runs to save them. His toys, resigning themselves to a life in the attic, prep themselves for the coming change but, instead of the must and heat of the rafters, they end up in a garbage truck. The story is simple: Andy, the toys’ owner, is leaving for college. We don’t do many movie reviews here at CrunchGear, mostly because we’re into gadgets and movies are, in a way, the anti-thesis of the physical. ![]()
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