Sunday, June 13, 2010

Toy Story 3


Watching Toy Story 3 was one of the first times I went to watch a movie that was premiering on that same day. It all started when me and my friend were sitting on the LRT train that was plastered with Toy Story posters and we decided to go to 1 Utama to watch it since we had nothing much to do and much time to waste. We lined up at TGV trying to get the best tickets 'cause we couldn't find GSC anywhere, and due to our male ego that restricted us from asking directions. By the time we found GSC (which was an hour later), it was too late and I missed a chance to watch Toy Story 3 in 3D! Dang! No worries, it was too late to regret, we had to eat lunch by that time. We then wasted another 30 minutes looking for McDonald's (which we LATER found out was in the old wing next to KFC) and had to settle for the first fast food place we saw, which was A&W's. Not to say A&W's suck, but they kinda suck, with a pedobear-like mascot (Burger King was like 20 steps away from there). To be honest, I didn't think much about Toy Story and I didn't watch Toy Story 2 (I think I chose computer games over it). Toy Story didn't really excite me when I was younger watching it on DVD. Sure, it was fun watching stupid toys coming to life after their owner gets out of the room and running around in fast food containers in a pizza themed playland meeting green three-eyed aliens with no brains and a morbid fascination with claws, then Woody the Cowboy with Buzz Lightyear would get toy-napped by vicious Sid and have to escape from his insane toy tortures (somewhat worse than human tortures), which includes tying them up with firecrackers and blowing them up just to be fixed back again by other disfigured toys. They then miraculously escape from Sid's grip and fly back into their owner's lap. The End.
"****, to think I just wasted 1 hour and 21 minutes for that?"
"Toys have more fun in their adventures than humans?"
"WTF?"

Ok, back to serious stuff, in Toy Story 3, Andy (the toys' owner) finally grows up, he is going to college and what happens to the toys? Either get sent to the attic or the day-care center. But the toys want to be played with, so guess where do they go? The Sunshine Day Care Center. There they meet hilariously vain Ken, Lotso the fat hugging bear, super-creepy fake Baby and some other toys that were also donated or thrown out by their owners. Woody, being Woody, decides that he wants to be with Andy and leaves the day care center only to find out his friends need him even more than his owner in the sinister day care center (imagine that? crazy kids rushing in to play with you?). Buzz Lightyear gets in touch with his Spanish side and professes his love for Jessie the cowgirl (which is really funny), Mr. Potato Head gets a new fragile body and his wife Mrs. Potato Head misses an eye (downright weird) and Totoro getting his first Hollywood cameo (I guess). All in all, it was entertaining, fun, awesome (probably even awesome-r than just awesome) and pretty touching at the end.

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