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I’m sure he and his story crew quickly found that threequels are notoriously hard things to pull off.

Original series creator and director John Lasseter envisioned a third chapter would end with the characters cared for and being played with by children – after all, that’s what toys are for – and as soon as the ink had dried on the Disney/Pixar contract, that third film was put in the capable hands of part one’s editor and part two’s co-director Lee Unkrich. The thought of the Toy Story characters being involved in nothing more than money-making movies (a plot that had defective Buzz Lightyears being recalled to Japan, only for Woody and the team to head out on a rescue mission) must have played no small part in Pixar’s returning to the negotiating table, after which Circle 7 was shuttered, and that version of Toy Story 3 scrapped. Part of the bargaining tactics that Disney had put in play was the setting up of the Circle 7 Animation facility, at one time destined to produce sequels to Pixar’s pictures. Rumors of a third film almost immediately surfaced, but the problem was that Disney wouldn’t accept a sequel project (and one that had started as a direct-to-video quickie) in the terms of their five original picture deal with Pixar, leading to almost ten years of wrangling before an agreement was made for Disney to buy the CG company out. Naturally a sequel was ordered, and managing to overcome a particularly troublesome production, emerged as a genuinely superlative successor, with comparisons made to those other rare sequels that managed to eclipse their precursors, The Godfather Part II and The Empire Strikes Back. Within months, rival studios were in on the game, with the ripple effect still being felt today, some fifteen years after its debut.

Not only that, but the movie itself lived up to the hype, changing the face of animation from hand-drawn musicals to computer-generated comedies practically overnight. The first Toy Story, coming in 1995 on the wave of Tom Hanks’ rise to the A-list via double Oscar wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump as well as the thick end of Disney’s own animation renaissance, proved to be a winning combination of star vocals and precision marketing.

Now, having waited to see it again on home video, free of the 3D distractions that I have to say didn’t add anything to my original viewing, I urge you, dear reader, to continue on with this review, discover why I still feel the same way and, just maybe, offer an opinion that backs up that reasoning. And despite the fact that it is hugely entertaining and, at times, emotionally compelling, it’s a film that I just wasn’t sure needed to be made. I’ve been pretty quiet about my thoughts on Toy Story 3 since its theatrical release earlier this year, because I genuinely wasn’t sure about how I felt about it. The toys are back in town (again) after leaping out of the toybox and finding themselves at a curiously perfect day-care center, where not everything, or all the welcoming toys, are what or who they seem… Warning: as usual, we’ve tried to avoid spoilers, but some plot points are discussed openly.

Disney/Pixar (June 18 2010), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (November 2 2010), 2 Blu-ray Discs plus single DVD and Digital Copy, 103 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS 7.1 and 5.1 Master Audio and Dolby Digital EX, Rated G, Retail: $45.99

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