Honorable Mentions
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The Lion King
Aladdin
Happy Feet
Wall-E
Ah! An animation movie! You didn't expect this one to make the list did you? Frankly, I didn't expect it to either! This definitely my inner kid coming out right now. I grew up on Toy Story. I even owned my own Buzz Lightyear action figure equipped with jet wings and all. A time, when we didn't have a worry in the world. Those were the days weren't they? But enough my nostalgic reminisces. Last summer when this movie came out, my friends wanted to watch it and I was like "Are you serious?" I decided to go and you know those people in the movie theatre that start balling at the end of a sad movie, well I became one of them. It's funny actually. I was so busy trying to "grow up" in my later stages of high school that I took my youth for granted. I admit, I weeped at the end when Andy had to go to college and leave his toys behind. I had no trouble at all relating to that since I was on the leave to college too. This movie touched me in so many different ways and came at the right time. This movie symbolized a farewell to my childhood and closed one of the greatest animated sagas ever.
I felt the same way about this movie! It just hit all the write notes. Rather than ending the story, in a way they evolved into and gave a future to all the toys and a purpose we can be content with. What I really enjoyed about this movie was a true villain, a villain that made the ones in the other movie look like nothing. Lots-O was powerful, manipulative, and down right evil! I love it! It gave the toys a more practical enemy and someone they all had a connection to in different ways. This was a great movie and the ten years we had to wait to see it, was well worth it.
ReplyDeleteI agree. This was a terrific movie all round. I must confess that I too wept at the end, but my girlfriend, whose idea it was, laughed! I never let her forget that.
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