Toy + Bomb = LFG!!

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Toy Story 3 (2010)

To close out our Barbenheimer spectacular let’s combine the two movies.

We’re talking about our favorite toy movie explosion. Is that a sweaty enough concept for you freaks?

Today we’ll be discussing Toy Story 3, a film that just so thoroughly wrecks everybody who watches it and has stayed in the culture as a perfect ending people almost rioted when they heard there’d be another.

It actually turned out to not be an issue because Toy Story 4 rules. Tony Hale is my absolute guy!

Anyways, enough with the preamble. Let's jump into it!

The Perfect Send off?

So, Toy Story 3 fully marks the end of an era for Pixar. It was their final film in this stretch where it felt like they were hitting nothing but doubles, triples, and home runs.

Two masterpieces by Brad Bird, a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and a list of greats that continues… for a long while. But like all great things, it must come to an end.

The next year they released Cars 2, their first down and out stinker! Then they would follow that up with Brave, a film that made essentially no cultural impact and was plagued with stories of misogyny within Pixar (much of which would turn out to be true).

They wouldn’t have another great film for a few years when current CEO Pete Doctor made Inside Out. The thing that is so odd about this whole thing is that Toy Story 3 doesn’t just feel like a send off for Woody, Buzz, and the crew, but also a swan song for Pixar as a whole.

Sure they’re still around, but they’re getting trounced by SONY ANIMATION! That’s just a tough look. Their work feels contrived and much more “structured like a Pixar film”, and while Toy Story 3 certainly falls prey to this issue, it in many ways feels like the last one we let them get away with.

Opening with a Bang!

Today's clip is the opening of the film, a fabulous sequence that re-enacts classic train robberies we’ve seen on film 1 million times and pumps it out through the eyes and mind of a 12-year-old boy's imagination.

The gag of going from “you’ll never catch us” to “ we have a dog with a force field” to “we have a dinosaur that eats force fields" is exactly the kind of light goofy sense of humor you want out of one of these movies.

And it perfectly combines Barbie and Oppenheimer. For Barbie: the white color palette, goofy sensibilities, and the toy manufacturing of it all. Meanwhile, Oppenheimer… Well, there’s an explosion. What more could you ask for?

And with that we’ve reached the end of our week. But not without a scene to carry you home.

Hope you enjoy!

Today’s Scene