This has to be one of the most depressing animations I’ve ever seen, the most depressing being Grave of the Fireflies, the first proper scene after the fantasy flashback intro, sees the toys conducting a similar ‘mission’ to that featured in the previous instalments, but you soon come to realise that the ’mission’ at hand is an effort to get Andy to play with the toys, who have long since been relegated to a chest in the corner, and a mission which ultimately fails. After this quite sad moment we’re treated to a role call of the toys that didn’t make it, and the jumping ship of the soldiers.
Saying that it also has some of the funniest moments of the trilogy, such as Mr. Potato head needing a body and using a tortilla wrap. As well as containing possibly the greatest prison escape ever seen on film, its like Papillon, Shawshank and the Great Escape rolled into one and injected with play-doh
I think the most beautiful moment, which genuinely brought a tear to my eye, is towards the end, after the escape from the day-care centre, and they’ve have ended up at the dump. The toys are heading into the incinerator with no foreseeable chance of escape, Buzz reaches out and grabs Jesse’s hand to comfort her, and with that the rest of the toys follow suite and link hands to face the impending death together.
So in summary this is one of the saddest, funniest, most beautiful, prison escape, coming of age films ever made… about toys.
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