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Dec 30, 2015Nursebob rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This third (and most successful) instalment of the hugely popular series about the misadventures of a group of toys who come to life when no one’s looking not only won an Oscar for best animated feature, it was also the first such film to break the one billion dollar revenue mark. Of course the usual sight gags and Hollywood in-jokes abound (the Potato Heads can’t keep their limbs in order, a psychotic Care Bear reinvents a scene from "Cool Hand Luke", and a metrosexual Ken sports more sequins than Barbie herself) but this time around the writers explore much darker territory, touching on issues of abandonment, grief, and even a little existential despair—oh yes, a nightmarish stint at a garbage dump could have been co-written by Nietzsche and Lars von Trier. Sufficiently colourful and frantic for tiny attention spans yet packing enough weight for adults including a sweetly sentimental ending, it lends credence to the old adage, “Third time’s the charm”.