When you don’t know how to make a sequel you can always load a truck of new characters onto the screen.
OPENING TO TOY STORY 2 MOVIE
The movie is filled with stuff like this, never in our faces, but visible enough so that we that this is a living breathing world, not a fake image created by a computer. He had a similar blue sailor-like tone on his walls and when he grew up he felt that this was so childish, so he pasted every poster he could find onto the walls so that there was as little blue as possible visible. The artists who crafted this movie know of these things and it’s the reason the scenes feel so much more alive than in your standard animation movie.įor example the walls of Andy’s room which features clouds on a bright blue sky have been covered over and over again with posters of any sort – something that reminded me of my cousin’s room. small unimportant details) that he remembers most. Last year’s Up even addressed this fact by letting the character of Russell state that it’s the boring parts (i.e. The reason Pixar movies connect with so many people often lies in the small things. Very soon the Sunnydale centre turns from a Garden Eden into a dark and scary prison – this might very well be one of the scariest (in children’s movie terms) things Pixar has put on screen and makes me wonder how a non-Disney Pixar horror movie would look like. Under the nice appearance of the leader “Lots-o’-Huggin” Bear or Lotso there seems to be a dark stride.
OPENING TO TOY STORY 2 SERIES
Through a series of coincidences (granted there is a lot of coincidence required to start this plot) the toys wind up as a donation to Sunnyside day-care centre where the story can finally progress naturally, freed from preparing the stage.Īs we all know appearances can be deceiving and even though the centre looks like a newfound paradise, there seems to be something else going on. It is a whole different pair of shoes to cope with rejection, to face the fact that one might never get played with again In part two the toy was faced with the fact that someday Andy might outgrow him, yet Woody still chose to be with Andy as long as possibleĪnd now we are here, it’s easy to say “well it will be fun while it lasts”. In part one Woody overcame his jealousy, reordered his priorities and was content with just being there for Andy While the second instalment never demanded a third part, storywise the story progresses organically: The familiar “You’ve got a friend in me” narrates the opening sequence as we see Andy growing up until he has finally reached the age when he’s ready to go to college. But what starts as a dramatic western about a train robbery that Woody and Jesse have to prevent soon turns into a bizarre sci-fi James Bond adventure when Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Jesse have to fight an army of monkeys that a flying vessel in the shape of a Pig unleashes, making us realize that this all is a child’s fantasy – and we are back at Andy’s room watching him play with his toys, just like it used to be. Right off the bat the Pixar team shows its expertise in storytelling with an intro in an over the top intro reminiscent of the Buzz Lightyear opening of Toy Story 2. Quite the contrary, the crew from Pixar uses our nostalgia for the story’s advantage by letting Andy outgrowing his toys.įor some reason the creative team of this studio always manages to pull me in, not because of a melodramatic story, but mostly because of the characters and their stories. For a sequel that appears on the screen over ten years after the second part it doesn’t seem like the idea has worn out over time. Toy Story 3 is the exception to the trilogy-curse, it is a heartfelt send-off to the characters I’ve known since I was eight years old. Or it can revolutionize the way we look at films, turn the genre upside down and make time stand still (Godzilla vs. It can go batfuck insane (Army of Darkness)
It can turn the franchise into an unintentional parody (Scream) It can be a disaster after the second one already blew it (Starship Troopers: Marauder) It can be a nice addition to a franchise that ties up the open plotlines but never reaches the heights of the original (Back to the Future III) It can either sink a story so great and perfectly established by its predecessors (Godfather Part III) It is a tough enough call to even make an adequate sequel, but when facing the task of making a third movie there are way too many ways this can turn out: One thing a movie fan knows: Trilogies are hard.
If Inception was the brain that got attacked, then today it’s the heart