Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3 is an American 2010 computer-animated 3-D film, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the third and final installment in the Toy Story series and was released on June 18, 2010, in the United States. Lee Unkrich, who edited the previous films and co-directed the second, takes over as director.

Plot
The film opens with a Western style action sequence in which Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, (acting as One-Eyed Bart and One-Eyed Betty) are committing a train robbery until Woody appears to stop the crime. Woody is knocked off the train by One-Eyed Betty, only to be caught by Jessie, riding Bullseye. Then, Bart and Betty set off explosives that destroys a bridge and make their escape in their car driven by the Aliens. Woody tries to save the orphans (troll dolls), but the train keeps going and falls off the bridge. However the orphans and Woody are saved by Buzz Lightyear catching the whole train before disintergrating the One-Eyed's getaway car with his laser. This leads to a standoff between Woody, Buzz and Jessie against the One-Eyed's and the aliens, made more fierce when One-Eyed Bart releases Slinky (known as "The Attack Dog With A Built-In Force Field) and Woody responds by releasing Rex (known as "The Dinsosaur Who Eats Force Field Dogs"). Suddenly, Hamm (acting as Evil Dr. Porkchop), flies into view in his airship and he picks up the One-Eyed's and their associates and presses a button labelled "Death By Monkeys". A huge barrel of monkeys is released and they quickly swarn and bring down Rex before capturing Woody, Buzz and Jessie. Just as Bart is about to press the "Death" button, the sequence ends and goes into Andy's room, revealing to the viewer that was all just an imagination of a child. A series a home video clips of Andy is then screened.

The film then arrives in its present setting, roughly about 10 years since the events of the previous film. Andy is now a 17-year old teenager, having graduated from high school and is now just three days away from heading off to college, Several of his old toys (notably mentioned are Wheezy, Etch and Bo Peep) have been "yard saled" in that time and now just Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Bullseye, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, Rex, Hamm, Slinky, the Aliens and the Army men remain. The toys are reluctant but commit to Woody's idea of them being stored in the attic, though the Army men quickly abandon them, believing they will get thrown away into the trash instead. Andy however plans to take Woody to college and put the others in the attic, but after helping his sister Molly with a box of toys (which includes her Barbie doll) to be donated away, he leaves the bag containing his toys in the hallaway and his mother accidentally takes them to the curb. Believing that Andy no longer wants them, the toys sneak into a box to be donated to Sunnyside Daycare. As the only toy who saw what really happened, Woody tries to clear up the misunderstanding, but the others refuse to listen. The toys are driven to Sunnyside where they receive a warm welcome from the daycare toys, led by Lotso the "Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear." Woody tries to convince the others to return to Andy, but they feel like they would be happier at Sunnyside, so they let him leave without them. The others soon discover the children Lotso assigned them with are too young, and they are innocently abused and tortured. Buzz goes to ask Lotso to transfer them to the older children, but is instead caught by some of the Sunnyside toys and reset to his original, deluded space ranger self.

As he escapes Sunnyside, Woody is found and taken in by a girl from the daycare named Bonnie. Bonnie's toys reveal to Woody the truth about Lotso and Sunnyside: Lotso had once been owned by a child, but snapped after his owner lost and replaced him, so he took over Sunnyside and turned it into an Internment. At the daycare, the others discover that Andy is looking for them when Mrs. Potato Head sees him through her missing eye, which was lost in Andy's room. The toys try to leave but are imprisoned by Lotso and his henchmen, including Buzz in his demo mode. Woody returns to Sunnyside to help his friends break out. They accidentally reset Buzz to his Spanish mode during the escape, after which he joins their side (believing they know where his spaceship is) and begins openly flirting with Jessie. The toys use a garbage chute to reach a dumpster outside the daycare, but Lotso and his henchmen catch them. Woody and Ken convince Big Baby, Lotso's chief enforcer, of Lotso's treachery, so he throws Lotso in the dumpster. However, Lotso pulls Woody into the dumpster just before a garbage truck arrives, forcing the others to rescue him. In the chaos of falling rubbish, Buzz rescues Jessie from being crushed, which results in a broken TV falling on him, resetting him to normal, with no memory of his other modes.

The truck takes the toys to a dump where they are forced onto a conveyor belt for disposal. Woody helps Lotso and the others escape a shredder, but Lotso leaves them to die in an incinerator. As the toys accept their imminent demise and join hands, they are rescued by a giant claw crane operated by the squeeze toy aliens, while Lotso is found by a garbage man and tied to the front of a truck, to his dismay. The toys return to Andy's house on a garbage truck driven by their old nemesis Sid Philips and prepare to be stored in the attic, but Woody decides he and his friends would better serve their purpose elsewhere, he leaves a note to Andy suggesting he donate his toys to Bonnie. Together with Bonnie, Andy plays with his toys one more time before he leaves for college. Bonnie waves Woody's hand at Andy in farewell as Andy drives away. As Woody and Buzz and the rest of the toys begin their new life with Bonnie, the camera pans up to the final shot of the movie: A bright blue sky, the clouds forming a familiar pattern - the wallpaper seen in Andy's childhood bedroom in the first two movies.

The end credits show Andy's toys getting used to life at Bonnie's, while Sunnyside is now a happy place for new arrivals as well as old toys, co-managed by Barbie and Ken. Emperor Zurg and the Army men are also seen donated to Sunnyside and the last scene is with Jessie and Buzz dancing to the Spanish version of You've Got a Friend in Me.

Voice cast

 * Tom Hanks as Woody Pride
 * Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear
 * Joan Cusack as Jessie
 * Wallace Shawn as Rex
 * John Ratzenberger as Hamm
 * Blake Clark as Slinky Dog
 * Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head
 * Estelle Harris as Mrs. Potato Head
 * Jeff Pidgeon as Squeeze Toy Aliens
 * R. Lee Ermey as Sarge
 * John Morris as Andy Davis
 * Laurie Metcalf as Mrs. Davis
 * Beatrice Miller as Molly Davis
 * Jodi Benson as Barbie
 * Michael Keaton as Ken
 * Ned Beatty as Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear
 * Whoopi Goldberg as Stretch
 * Jack Angel as Chunk
 * John Cygan as Twitch
 * Jan Rabson as Sparks
 * Teddy Newton as Chatter Telephone
 * Richard Kind as Bookworm
 * Kristen Schaal as Trixie
 * Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants
 * Bonnie Hunt as Dolly
 * Bud Luckey as Chuckles the Clown
 * Jeff Garlin as Buttercup
 * Lee Unkrich as Jack-in-the-Box
 * Javier Fernandez-Peña as Spanish Buzz
 * Emily Hahn as Bonnie Anderson
 * Lori Alan as Bonnie's Mom
 * Charlie Bright, Amber Kroner, and Brianna Maiwand as Peas-in-a-Pod
 * Charlie Bright as Young Andy
 * Woody Smith as Big Baby (uncredited)
 * Frank Welker as Bullseye / The Monkey / Buster (uncredited)
 * Erik von Detten as Sid
 * Additional voices: Hannah Unkrich, Carlos Alazraqui, Teresa Ganzel, Mickie McGowan, Laraine Newman, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Bob Peterson, Jerome Ranft, Jim Ward, and Colette Whitaker

Development
According to the terms of Pixar's revised deal with Disney, all characters created by Pixar for their films were owned by Disney. Furthermore, Disney retained the rights to make sequels to any Pixar film, though Pixar retained the right of first refusal to work on these sequels. But in 2004, when the contentious negotiations between the two companies made a split appear likely, Disney Chairman at the time Michael Eisner put in motion plans to produce Toy Story 3 at a new Disney studio, Circle 7 Animation. Tim Allen, the voice of Buzz Lightyear, indicated a willingness to return even if Pixar was not on board.

Jim Herzfeld wrote a script for Circle 7's version of the film. It focused on the other toys shipping a malfunctioning Buzz to Taiwan, believing that he will be fixed there. While searching on the Internet, however, they find out that the malfunctions are happening to many toys around the world and the company has issued a massive recall. Fearing Buzz's destruction, a group of Andy's toys (Woody, Rex, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm, Jessie, and Bullseye) venture to rescue Buzz. At the same time Buzz meets other toys from around the world that were once loved but have now been recalled.

In January 2006, Disney bought Pixar in a deal that put Pixar chiefs Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter in charge of all Disney Animation. Shortly thereafter, Circle 7 Animation was shut down and its version of Toy Story 3 was shelved. The following month, Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed that Disney was in the process of transferring the production to Pixar. John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Lee Unkrich visited the house where they first pitched Toy Story and came up with the story for the film over a weekend. Stanton then wrote a treatment. On February 8, 2007, Catmull announced Toy Story 2's co-director, Lee Unkrich, as the sole director of the film instead of John Lasseter, and Michael Arndt as screenwriter, and the release date was moved to 2010.

Instead of sending Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and John Ratzenberger scripts for their consideration in reprising their roles, a complete story reel of the film was shown to the actors in a theater. The reel was made up of moving storyboards with pre-recorded voices, sound effects, and music.

Marketing
The film's first teaser trailer was released with the Disney Digital 3-D version of the film Up on May 29, 2009. On October 2, 2009, Toy Story and Toy Story 2 were re-released as a double feature in Disney Digital 3-D. The first full-length trailer was attached as an exclusive sneak peek and a first footage to the Toy Story double feature, on October 12, 2009. A second teaser was released on February 10, 2010, followed by a second full-length trailer on February 11.

In addition, a YouTube account set up by Pixar under the name MrClassicCommercials was launched featuring real ads of some of the toys (and the meat product Sizzlean) that will be featured in the film - except for a fake ad for Lots O' Huggin' Bear, complete with distortion and flickering made as it was being transferred from VHS to digital.. A second fake ad, this one in Japanese, was released by Disney and Pixar uner the pseudonym GaikokujinJoe1.

Thinkway Toys, Mattel and Lego have made toys tied into the film, and Disney Interactive has made a video game based loosely on the movie. Disney On Ice debuted a live version of the characters in Lakeland, Florida on September 3, 2010.