First things first Toy Story 3 is amazing and I'm pretty sure there should be separate screens for children and adults. Children don't understand Toy Story, they were not there in the beginning and need to keep their hysterical views about Woody or some other character bumping their heads to themselves.
Enough talk of children anyway I was genuinely shocked by some scenes in Toy Story 3 but I think you have to have a decent enough knowledge of other films or studied what happened in nazi Germany to really spot them. The film itself is basically the original cast being sacked off by Andy who has discovered more rad things than toys like women and trying to grow a mustache. The toys get donated to a childrens day care centre which at first glance seems amazing because all the toys are dying for a good 'play' which freaked me out a bit. The way the toys talked about being played with is either a reference to sexual frustration or drug abuse, both of which made me feel uneasy, but still, it was pretty funny.
Now I mentioned prison brutality in the title because the toys are thrown into the pre school part of the centre where toys are treated like trash and generally have a pretty shit time. Now the 'new' toys who everyone meets upon arrival first seem really sweet and pretty cool but it soon turns out there's a system in place where all new comers have to 'do the rounds' in the hellish pre school torture room whilst the older toys are living the good life with the older kids.
All this is fine until Buzz and co are locked up in prison sells and guarded round the clock, abused and treated like filth. What's worse is outside looks like an actual prison, in a warm and fuzzy disney-like way of course. Toys occupy prison towers while others patrol the perimeter night and day. There's even a place for unwilling toys to be put in solitary confinement, which I wont ruin for you because it is worth a chuckle.
Now, I mentioned the holocaust because there is one line in the film that shocked me beyond belief. I wont quote the actual line but to sum it up, death is the only escape from the day care centre. Broken toys are thrown away to be collected by the dumpster truck but the most shocking thing of all is the door way to the rubbish chute looks suspiciously like the ovens the nazis used to incinerate millions of innocent people.
This was almost too much for me and I actually glanced around the cinema to see if anyone had the same reaction as I did, they didn't, which leads me to believe I am seriously over sensitive and probably need to get a life. CURSE YOU A LEVEL HISTORY!!!
Anyway putting bleakness and Disney Nazism aside the film is actually terrific its beautifully paced and there wasn't a single dull moment throughout. The jokes are just as rad as the first two and there's even a cheeky Star Wars reference chucked in which pleased me to the max. Also you anime geeks keep an eye out for a cameo appearence from a character from My Neighbor Totoro, but yea, GO AND SEE IT!!
P.S. The film also has like 8 new dinosaurs in it, which of course is amazing, so there's another reason to see it.
