Toy Story 3: The really great thing about a Pixar movie is that they continue to improve on so many different levels, you never have to worry about quality. You know you’re always getting a great picture, which is as close to a sure thing that you can get at the theater. The third “Toy Story” film follows the inexorable aging of Andy and his impending departure for college. Not wanting to be relegated to the garbage dump, the toys connive their way into being donated to a children’s daycare center. But life at the daycare center is not all it’s cracked up to be, as a clique of older toys prevents any toys from leaving, led by the strawberry-scented Lotso Hugs Bear (think Care Bear here). The animation here is just fantastic, leaps and bounds ahead of the previous two installments, with an absurd level of detail (for example, Buzz‘ Spanish dance is, simply, just great). Some great new voice talents this time around, including Kristen Schaal, Ned Beatty, Jeff Garlin, and Timothy Dalton (!). But the real standout is Michael Keaton as Ken of “Barbie &“ fame who is a hoot (between this and “The Good Guys“, Keaton is on a roll). And while the first two films dealt with “growing up”, this is the first film to deal with leaving childhood behind in a definitive way (such as Andy going off to college). This is a very, very entertaining film, can find no fault here. Woodchuck sez, “Absolutely check this out.”
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