Buzz Lightyear and Woody will go three-dimensional at MoMA
TOY STORY 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010): PRESENTED IN 3-D
MoMA Film
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Tuesday, December 28, 1:00
Series continues through January 22
Tickets: $10, in person only, may be applied to museum admission within thirty days, same-day screenings free with museum admission, available at Film and Media Desk
212-708-9400
www.moma.org
www.disney.go.com/toystory
In 1995, Disney/Pixar released its first movie, John Lasseter’s CGI-animated TOY STORY, about a boy (voiced by John Morris) and his toys, expanded from the short film TIN TOY. Four years later, Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, and Ash Brannon teamed up for TOY STORY 2, continuing the tale of Andy, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Woody (Tom Hanks), and friends. Now comes TOY STORY 3, directed by Unkrich, the most emotional of the three pictures. Preparing to leave for college, Andy decides to bring Woody with him and packs up everyone else to be stored in the attic. But his mother mistakes the bag for garbage and throws out Hamm (John Ratzenberger), Rex (Wallace Shawn), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head (Don Rickles & Estelle Harris), and the rest of the gang. The toys avoid the garbage heap but, feeling unloved and abandoned by Andy, opt to take their chances at Sunnyside Daycare, where, it turns out, unwanted toys are ruled by the iron fist of the evil Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear (Ned Beatty) — and where Barbie (Jodi Benson) finds out that Ken (Michael Keaton) is not necessarily all he’s cracked up to be. Meanwhile, Woody, knowing that the toys are still important to Andy, ends up in the hands of Bonnie (Emily Hahn), a young girl with a fertile imagination who restores Woody’s faith and increases his determination to reunite Andy and the gang, which is finding itself in more and more trouble at Sunnyside. Michael Arndt’s smart screenplay is about trust, friendship, miscommunication, and growing old, with Buzz, Woody, and the rest of the toys dealing with loss and facing death time and time again. The film, which also features the voices of Kristen Schaal, Bonnie Hunt, Whoopi Goldberg, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Kind, Laurie Metcalf, Jeff Garlin, and Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants, runs the gamut from exciting chase scenes to tender moments, once again capturing the spirit of childhood better than most live-action movies. TOY STORY 3 is being screened at the Museum of Modern Art on December 28 as part of the series “The Contenders 2010,” a collection of influential and innovative international movies the institution believes will stand the test of time. MoMA has already shown such works as Luca Guadagnino’s I AM LOVE, Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION, Roman Polanski’s THE GHOST WRITER, and David Fincher’s THE SOCIAL NETWORK, and upcoming films include Debra Granik’s WINTER’S BONE, Lixin Fan’s LAST TRAIN HOME, and Banksy’s EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP.