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Toy Story 3- the best out of the 3?

posted 14 years ago by efranklin4871
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Hey guys,
I just wanted to see if everyone unanimously thought TS3 was the best.

To me it was very close between TS3 and TS1. Don't get me wrong. All 3 were amazing cinematic achievements that will be treasured by kids for years on end.

Toy Story 2 was probably the weakest out of the 3 for me, but in no shape or form bad. It had the peril(to a lesser extent than 3), the adventure, the thoughts and contemplation of the future( A toy's fate), and of course the characters. The only thing it seemed to lack was the emotion like the first and the third one had. Probably the most touching scene was the flashback with Emily and Jessie. Overall, the characters still grew and developed as well as the story.

To me, the essence of Toy Story was always TS 1. The bond between Woody and Buzz is hands down explored the most in this one as well as the thought of being replaced. Great story, introduced all of the great characters with thier own personalities, amazing music, and adventure(peril). I think this one had the most chracter developement out of the 3; particularly with Buzz and Woody towards the end. It was ground breaking for its time, not only for the technical acheivements, but for such a unique concept that was so unique that would have been awesome even if done by traditional Disney animation (non-cg).

Toy Story 3- I don't think I have to go into much detail on this board of why this one so great becasue everyone on here has done that already. The most heartfelt and emotional of the 3, the most clever and complex story of the 3, characters are put into struggle (most perilous of the 3) and you actually feel and care what happens to each of them. 1. Incinerator scene- enough said and 2. the end was probably one of the best conclusions in the history of trilogies.

Its still hard for me to say which one is the best, but when I think toy story, I always think TS 1. TS 3 is definitely up there, but I guess we will see how it fares the test of time because TS 1 passes it with flying colors.

Just interested to see how people feel on this...

[–] flobadoba-699-689864 10 years ago

They're all great films but I would say TS3 is probably the weakest imo. It's probably just my personal taste but I thought the humour was weak compared to the first two.

[–] therhodeislandguy285 10 years ago

My personal ranking

1. Toy Story
2. Toy Story 3
3. Toy Story 2

[–] buddyboy28 9 years ago

I like 1 and 3 about equal. But I've seen the first a good few times and three only the once so maybe my opinion will change on a second viewing.

For some reason I've just never cared for the second. I wouldn't say I hated it but I find it a bit boring overall. Maybe because Woody spends so much time away from the others.

Yeah well, history is gonna change

[–] skeetchtvs 9 years ago

I just watched all 3 this weekend for the first time in a while. They were all so good it's difficult to rank because I feel like if I rank one of last it's saying it's not good but they are all so good!!

Anyway I like 1 the best still, at 26 now I still find myself laughing the whole way through this movie. That doesn't happen with these kind of movies a lot, where you watched as kids and still have the same appreciation as an adult, especially an animated movie.

The third one definitely had the best ending of the three movies, but overall the order goes 1, 2 then 3 for me.

[–] tomholland2016 8 years ago

I found the first one to be the best. The third one to be the second best and the second one is the worst but still good.

From all of the three Toy Story, the one that I have probably watched the most will be the second one but it's because the tv channel was always screening it when I was a child. I hate that Woody and Jessie telling their stories, I thought it was very tedious to watch.

The third one was great but it felt different and the concept was overused, as if I'm not in the Toy Story universe anymore but it made me almost cried watching it.

The first one was original and it got made on 1995 which was excellent at that time with the graphics and storytelling.