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I never really got the love for Toy Story 3, especially from parents. The first time we saw it, we thought it was unnecessarily dark and also designed to cause

I never really got the love for Toy Story 3, especially from parents. The first time we saw it, we thought it was unnecessarily dark and also designed to cause children to have separation anxiety from disposing of old toys.

pram 3y ago
Don’t watch the Brave Little Toaster then!
bemusedthrow75 3y ago
It is surely not a lightweight film with the same kind of peril as the first movie -- it's perhaps like a later book a series might be aimed at a slightly older reader. Not sure I'd show it to the youngest kids. But it could be scarier. It could be Coraline.
UncleMeat 3y ago
IMO, Toy Story 3 was a perfect movie for the people who saw Toy Story 1 as a child and were now young adults, having recently left home and moved away. The heart of that movie is in the parents having to let Andy go. They tell the story through the Toys, but flip it over to the parents in a few small scenes. I've never been so compelled to call my parents than after watching Toy Story 3.
- epiccoleman 3y ago
  I saw Toy Story 3 with a group of longtime friends when it came out in the summer between high school and college. Definitely some wet eyes in the group during those final scenes. I don't think I could have chosen a more appropriate time for that movie if I tried.
- goda90 3y ago
  I went to see it with my mom. I had just recently returned from living out of the country for a couple years and I was only home for a month before leaving again to school in another state. Definitely an emotional ending for us both.
- waffletower 3y ago
  Indeed, my children love Toy Story 3.
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lo_zamoyski 3y ago
Dark? Separation anxiety? What age are we talking here? "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Look at all the "adult" men today, especially in America for some reason, whose desks are littered with action figures and whose offices contain a shrine to comic book superheros and Star Wars/Trek that would put the Sistine Chapel to shame. (Or women who seem to live in some alternate universe about their biological clocks, indulging infantile behaviors and attitudes, perhaps only to realize sometime in middle age the consequences, if not the cause, of their predicament.) These are people who do not take their lives seriously. Someone clearly never told them that they're not 10 years old anymore. One of the most valuable lessons you can teach a child is the ability to suffer. All who live suffer, and developing the correct attitude and orientation toward suffering is important lest you become soft and weak. Those who don't learn, those who flee from the suffering that the pursuit of the good often entails, suffer all the more and become depressed, miserable, and mediocre. A story in which the main character loses his toys can be a very mild, age-appropriate, narrative way of presenting the subject matter of sacrifice or loss. Growing up means parting ways with childish ways for the sake of something greater: adulthood. We do the same thing with pets. The death of a pet fish is a way of introducing a child to the reality of death in a way that's appropriate for the child's level of maturity. Maturation can be unpleasant, even painful, as the childhood attitudes and attachments and their familiarity are loosened. Film can also be cathartic in this respect. (This is not an endorsement of Pixar or Toy Story, btw, only a general response to an apparent presupposition. Call it a rant, if you want. I vaguely remember watching the first Toy Story on TV, but I do not recall the ending and have only a vague recollection of the plot. For all I know, Toy Story may enable unhealthy dispositions.)
- piva00 3y ago
  You know what's so great about adulthood? You can live it as you wish if you are not harming others, you might not have unlimited freedom due to all responsibilities you are now under but for the most part, it's your choice, it's your path. If one wants to have action figures, or read comics, or whatever their heart's desire: you may, it's your life, it's your adulthood. Trying to paint adulthood as some kind of suffering we have to endure, we have to be serious, we have to be whatever you think one needs to be as an adult is... Just sad. Life is best lived when you can have fun, love, and a sense of accomplishment, some people have that by doing research and pursuing great new discoveries, some by starting businesses and products they envision, and some others find other ways to fulfill the yearning for living. Don't be a sad, serious adult, trying to tell other adults how to live their lives. It's a waste of your life, go be fulfilled without having to project your insecurities unto others. Disclaimer: I own no action figures and have no interest in comics, so no direct offense taken, just feel that this seriousness is exactly the pressure that harms so many people who don't feel they fit the mold you are trying to put everyone in.
joker_minmax 3y ago
In my interpretation they cure the separation anxiety by making sure the toys go to a good home at the end. It's a lot easier to get rid of something when you directly know and can see someone enjoying it. It means a lot to me when I see my friend wearing my old clothes for example.

pram 3y ago

Don’t watch the Brave Little Toaster then!

bemusedthrow75 3y ago

It is surely not a lightweight film with the same kind of peril as the first movie -- it's perhaps like a later book a series might be aimed at a slightly older reader. Not sure I'd show it to the youngest kids. But it could be scarier. It could be Coraline.

UncleMeat 3y ago

IMO, Toy Story 3 was a perfect movie for the people who saw Toy Story 1 as a child and were now young adults, having recently left home and moved away. The heart of that movie is in the parents having to let Andy go. They tell the story through the Toys, but flip it over to the parents in a few small scenes. I've never been so compelled to call my parents than after watching Toy Story 3.

epiccoleman 3y ago
I saw Toy Story 3 with a group of longtime friends when it came out in the summer between high school and college. Definitely some wet eyes in the group during those final scenes. I don't think I could have chosen a more appropriate time for that movie if I tried.
goda90 3y ago
I went to see it with my mom. I had just recently returned from living out of the country for a couple years and I was only home for a month before leaving again to school in another state. Definitely an emotional ending for us both.
waffletower 3y ago
Indeed, my children love Toy Story 3.
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lo_zamoyski 3y ago

Dark? Separation anxiety? What age are we talking here? "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Look at all the "adult" men today, especially in America for some reason, whose desks are littered with action figures and whose offices contain a shrine to comic book superheros and Star Wars/Trek that would put the Sistine Chapel to shame. (Or women who seem to live in some alternate universe about their biological clocks, indulging infantile behaviors and attitudes, perhaps only to realize sometime in middle age the consequences, if not the cause, of their predicament.) These are people who do not take their lives seriously. Someone clearly never told them that they're not 10 years old anymore. One of the most valuable lessons you can teach a child is the ability to suffer. All who live suffer, and developing the correct attitude and orientation toward suffering is important lest you become soft and weak. Those who don't learn, those who flee from the suffering that the pursuit of the good often entails, suffer all the more and become depressed, miserable, and mediocre. A story in which the main character loses his toys can be a very mild, age-appropriate, narrative way of presenting the subject matter of sacrifice or loss. Growing up means parting ways with childish ways for the sake of something greater: adulthood. We do the same thing with pets. The death of a pet fish is a way of introducing a child to the reality of death in a way that's appropriate for the child's level of maturity. Maturation can be unpleasant, even painful, as the childhood attitudes and attachments and their familiarity are loosened. Film can also be cathartic in this respect. (This is not an endorsement of Pixar or Toy Story, btw, only a general response to an apparent presupposition. Call it a rant, if you want. I vaguely remember watching the first Toy Story on TV, but I do not recall the ending and have only a vague recollection of the plot. For all I know, Toy Story may enable unhealthy dispositions.)

piva00 3y ago
You know what's so great about adulthood? You can live it as you wish if you are not harming others, you might not have unlimited freedom due to all responsibilities you are now under but for the most part, it's your choice, it's your path. If one wants to have action figures, or read comics, or whatever their heart's desire: you may, it's your life, it's your adulthood. Trying to paint adulthood as some kind of suffering we have to endure, we have to be serious, we have to be whatever you think one needs to be as an adult is... Just sad. Life is best lived when you can have fun, love, and a sense of accomplishment, some people have that by doing research and pursuing great new discoveries, some by starting businesses and products they envision, and some others find other ways to fulfill the yearning for living. Don't be a sad, serious adult, trying to tell other adults how to live their lives. It's a waste of your life, go be fulfilled without having to project your insecurities unto others. Disclaimer: I own no action figures and have no interest in comics, so no direct offense taken, just feel that this seriousness is exactly the pressure that harms so many people who don't feel they fit the mold you are trying to put everyone in.

joker_minmax 3y ago

In my interpretation they cure the separation anxiety by making sure the toys go to a good home at the end. It's a lot easier to get rid of something when you directly know and can see someone enjoying it. It means a lot to me when I see my friend wearing my old clothes for example.