#Toy story 3 in real life movie#

The reveal and subsequent dealing of the film’s villain felt very rushed and forced and is nothing compared to what the toys have to deal with in the official Pixar version.

Jack and Gladiola are major but the gnome is relatively minor and there’s nothing like the universe of new toys introduced in the actual film. It also, besides the three “toys” above, features a startling lack of any new characters. It’s mostly like CLUE but with the toys and no murders. It’s not an entirely terrible story (you’ll notice some similar things in the actual film including the toys almost getting destroyed with a bunch of trash) but it lacks any real heart. The project has all the feelings of a direct-to-DVD sequel. There’s a cat with a taste for toys, a temperamental garden gnome and something like a murder mystery (though no one is murdered but the toys are in a panic as only two toys are going back to Andy’s room). They meet a pair of sock monkeys in Jack Challenger and Gladiola: the former is an Indiana Jones style adventurer while the latter is slightly lumpy and out of shape. As they toys arrive, it’s an old, spooky house that the toys are almost immediately uncomfortable in. Unlike the version you saw this past weekend, Woody and Buzz and the gang aren’t sent to a daycare but instead to grandma’s attic. This is where things start getting radically different. And just like the version in theaters now, after we’re warped back to Andy’s house, we learn that Andy’s mom is redecorating (Andy’s older but not quite in college yet) and getting rid of some of the toys. There are some minor differences (in this story Rex, not the Potato Heads, are the villains) but the beats are eventually the same. Woody, Jessie, Buzz and the gang are in a western-style adventure far from the world of Andy’s room. The story actually starts out quite similar to the TOY STORY 3 in theaters. This was not the “Buzz gets recalled to Taiwan” plot that has been floating around the web for years (that was a later draft by Jim Herzfeld). The first draft of the screenplay was turned into Disney in early 2005 and written by husband-and-wife team Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, who had just written Disney’s animated film TEACHER’S PET (the duo also served as writer/producers on NBC’s “Cheers”). Set to direct the film was Bradley Raymond, no stranger to Disney’s cheap home video sequels, having directed THE LION KING 1 1/2. Eager to pressure the Pixar creative braintrust into returning to Disney, Eisner ordered Circle 7, or Pixaren’t as it came to be known, to begin development on a number of “unauthorized” Pixar sequels. and at the time, Pixar was reluctant to proceed on sequels to any of those films. Disney held the sequel rights to early Pixar films like TOY STORY, A BUG’S LIFE and MONSTERS, INC. The creation of Circle 7 was a direct response to contract negotiations between Disney and Pixar in 2004 that ultimately led then Pixar CEO Steve Jobs to publicly declare they were actively seeking a new distribution partner.

The main focus of Circle 7 was to develop direct-to-DVD sequels of popular Pixar films. In 2005, then Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner quietly set up an in-house animation studio called Circle 7 (so named because their offices were on Circle Seven Drive in Glendale, CA). But it might not have always been this way…

#Toy story 3 in real life movie#

It’s a movie that has charmed audiences young and old and proved to be another critical and commercial success for Pixar.

I’m guessing, by looking at the box office receipts, that quite a few of you saw TOY STORY 3 this weekend.