Toy Story 3 opened to big numbers at the box office this weekend to almost unilateral praise for the closing chapter in the Toy Story saga. But today, we are learning that the Story story is not yet completely over. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich tells MSN that Toy Story 3.5 (an animated short, [...]
Toy Story 3 opened to big numbers at the box office this weekend to almost unilateral praise for the closing chapter in the Toy Story saga. But today, we are learning that the Story story is not yet completely over. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich tells MSN that Toy Story 3.5 (an animated short, NOT a feature length film) will be released in front of Pixar‘s next film Cars 2 next year. It turns out that we have not yet seen the last of our beloved Toy Story characters:
Finally, I have to ask Unkrich: “Toy Story 3″ does a great job of bringing the series back home and closing the tale of Woody and Buzz off, but, at the same time, as long as money is still green and can be used to buy things, there’s the possibility that “Toy Story 4″ might be seen as a good idea someday. Did Unkrich, I ask, deliberately want to close things off with “Toy Story 3,” to put the toys away for good? “Well, I really tried my best to end the story of Andy and his toys and bring that story to a close in a really nice way at the end of this film. That being said, we know that people love the characters, love Woody and Buzz, and would hate to say good-bye to them completely. I don’t know that there would ever be a ‘[Toy Story] 4.’ We don’t have any plans for one — but we are trying to find ways to keep the characters alive. We have announced we’re going to do a short film in front of ‘Cars 2′ that uses the ‘Toy Story’ characters. We’re going to keep them alive; they’re not going away forever.”
You know, to be honest … not only am I looking forward to Toy Story 3.5 (even if I have to endure Cars 2 to see it) but I hope somewhere down they line (in maybe 10 years) they do decide to make a Toy Story 4, 5 & 6. There is something about these toys that seem like classic Disney characters to me. Like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, they should live on forever in the imaginations of children — and adults alike. Pixar has done such an incredible job of making these characters so lovable that it’s not hard to feel genuine emotion for them. Yes, that emotion very likely comes from ones own love and attachment to the toys they love (or loved) as children but therein lies the genius. I absolutely feel that Toy Story 3 is a great ending to an amazing trilogy … but I’m so down with one more mini-tale involving these beloved characters. What do y’all think … are you looking forward to seeing a Toy Story 3.5 or do you think it’s just overkill at this point?
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