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I'm a hugger.' Now I know what you're thinking: that line has nothing to do with anything in the real world. One of the very first lines out of Lotso's mouth is, 'First thing you gotta know about me.

As we learn more about Lotso through his backstory - where he's shown being abandoned by his owner - it becomes clear that he is a compelling, psychologically rich adversary who acts as a necessary foil to Andy's favorite toy, the beloved Woody.

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In his cute girth and down-home huggin' hate, Lotso represents a more powerful, fascistic upgrade on the evil-toy model of Stinky Pete in Toy Story 2 (a movie I don't even think I had bothered to watch until the conversionary experience of Toy Story 3 sent me back in search of other missed Pixar gems). Witness how the once-lively pet, Buster, has aged visibly, becoming a fat old dog who can barely drag himself across the floor. Not trusting their fate to the attic, the dutiful Green Army Men parachute out the windowsill, going AWOL to escape the trash-bag fate of toys whose owners have grown up. The landscape of Andy's house, we observe, isn't what it used to be. Led by Sheriff Woody, who calls an emergency staff meeting in Andy's room, the few remaining toys that Andy has kept prepare to go into 'attic mode,' since he's no longer playing with them and is getting ready to go off to college. Maybe that's why I could immediately relate to the film: because I was no longer interested in all this childhood Disney nonsense.

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It seems the boy has grown up and is no longer interested in his old treasure chest full of playthings. Cut to the present, where we see these same sentient toys stage a fake phone call as a ruse to lure Andy's attention. Toward the beginning of Toy Story 3, we see home movies of a boy named Andy playing with his toys.

This is a movie that, first and foremost, allowed us to feel the weight of time. That's what made Toy Story 3 such a breath of fresh air. As I perceived it, you never had to worry about what was going to happened in them next because you knew that the characters were going to overcome obstacles, learn life lessons, and live happily ever after. For a teenager who rebelled against his Disney upbringing, the shift away from musicals was superficially a good thing but when you strip away the big Billboard hits, maybe it also changed the rhythms of the movies and robbed them of some of their magic.Īll I can say is, for me as a teen and twentysomething with unforgiving tastes (spirit animal: dark dramas), an overall sense of suspense-free boredom seemed to permeate Pixar's films. Despite the inclusion of memorable tunes such as 'You've Got a Friend in Me,' you weren't as likely to see characters breaking out in song. Pixar didn't depart from Disney formula entirely, but its films were less song-driven. Toy Story 3 was the first film to break the notion I had as a young adult that these kinds of movies were safe and uninteresting fodder for theme park families. The original Toy Story came out in 1995 but it wasn't until a decade and a half later that its second sequel would finally help me surmount my disinterest in all things Pixar-related. While film scholars and Disney historians may mark the end of the Renaissance as 1999 - the last year of the millennium, when Tarzan hit theaters - I think it peaked with The Lion King and was already on the creative and cultural downswing, becoming less inspired and more self-repeating, by the time Pixar came along and disrupted the animation model as we knew it. A year later, a massive sea-change would occur in the world of animation. The Lion King hit theaters twenty-five years ago this week.

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