Toy Story 3 (2010)

 TOY STORY 3 (2010).
Directed by Lee Unkrich. Written by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich and Michael Arndt. Voiced by Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Michael Keaton, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, John Ratzengerger, Laurie Metcalf, Timothy Dalton, Bonnie Hunt, Whoopi Goldberg, R. Lee Ermey and Jeff Garlin.

Plot: Most of Andy's toys are back as Andy himself, now 17, prepares to leave for college, while they are mistakenly taken to a day-care center rather than his attic.

What do you call the sequel of a sequel, an animated feature for kids that doesn't pander to parents with double-entendre jokes or easy toilet humour, voiced by actors who haven't been given a challenging role in over a decade, that inspired a whole slew of theme park rides and is 11 years removed from the last installment of its series? Easy: one of the year's five best - and most touching - films, and the best Toy Story yet.

The animation itself is top-notch again, the characters are given so much life and are voiced so superbly that you get more attached to them than you would your standard live-action Hollywood underplayed and under-developped character. New characters are also introduced, and each of them is singular, has a personality of its own and is different from any character in the film series so far.

I don't want to give away too much of the storyline, but seriously, I didn't believe they would be able to come close to the other movies, let alone top them - and they did so by a clear margin. And it's not like the first two movies weren't stellar in their own way, either. This one is just far deeper and more captivating emotionally.

Perhaps the best Disney-related film of all time? Could very well be...

4.5/5