I can honestly say that this is easily one of the best films of the year, easily surpassing the second film in the series, and possibly topping the first. This is a fantastic film and it even made me cry! This was not a movie that I thought would make me cry, but it did, and I am proud to say it. Such a great film with an great story, and amazing cast, and such lovable characters. This film must at least be nominated for best picture. I have nothing bad to say about this film at all. It is a must see. I did not see it in 3D though. UP in 3D did not impress me too much, as it was dimmer and not as sharp, and this is a film that benefits from that sharpness because the 3D looks absolutely amazing! Pixar is the best! I would so love to work there, it sounds like the best company in the world to work for.

Woody (Tom Hanks) and Jessie (Joan Cusack) are in a western scene going after One Eyed Bart and Betty [Mr and Mrs Potato Head (Don rickles and Estelle Harris)] and trying to save a train filled with kids, which is saved by Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen). Then the Evil Dr. Pork Chop [Hamm (Cliff Claven himself, John Ratzenberger)] shows up in a space ship and drops a monkey bomb on them! We find out that this was an imagined adventure that the toys kid Andy (John Morris) had as a kid, but he is now 17 and getting ready to leave for college. Andy plans on taking Woody, and putting the rest of the toys into the attic, but their is a mix up and the rest of the toys end up being put out as trash by his mother. The toys get away from the garbage truck, but they don’t believe Woody, and decide to get into the donation box for Sunnyside daycare, Woody goes along to try to get them to go home. They arrive and meet a big pink bear with a limp, Lotso (Ned Beatty) who along with Ken (Michael Keaton) and a baby doll named Big Baby great them warmly, with Barbie (Jodi Benson) quickly falling for Ken, but things are not as they seem. Woody leaves alone, but is found by a little girl named Bonnie (Emily Hahn) and taken home with her toys. Buzz and the others are all happy until they see they are left in the Caterpillar Room, which turns out to be the toddlers room, where the toys are beaten and almost destroyed, and they realize they have been imprisoned, and must get home to Andy!

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Woody learns from Chuckles the Clown (Bud Luckey) that Lotso was lost and replaced, and now he hates children, and runs the daycare like a prison. Losing his child made him evil and cruel.

The toys at the daycare realize that Andy is missing them through Mrs Potato Heads missing eye that sees Andy visibly upset that his toys got thrown out, and they realize they must get home.

Buzz gets out of the Caterpillar room, but is captured by Ken and Lotso has him reset to Factory mode, so he is back to being a space ranger, and takes the other toys prisoner!

Woody hides in Bonnie’s bag and gets in to try and save his friends. Woody meets Chatter Telephone (Teddy Newton) an old toy who ells woody about the security Monkey that watches the cameras and the trucks that patrol outside, all at Lotso’s beck and call.

They toys start an elaborate escape plan, where Barbie helps by getting Buzz’s instructions (which sets him into Spanish mode where he starts to romance Jessie. They manage to get to the Dumpster, but Lotso surprises them.

Ken ends up saving them, because he loves Barbie. Lotso is thrown in the dumpster by Big Baby, but one of the green Aliens gets it’s foot trapped, and Woody tries to help them, but is grabbed by Lotso, and the other toys try to help and they all end up in the dumpster.

They are taken to the dump, though Buzz finally gets his memory back, but they are on a conveyor belt. They manage to get past a shredder, but Lotso betrays them and they are about to die in an incinerator. They finally give up and all hold hands, but the Aliens who are obsessed with claws save them with a crane. The toys want revenger, but Woody stops them, and Lotso gets grabbed by a garbage truck drive and attached to the front, getting hit by bugs.

The toys ride back to Andy’s house and go into the attic box, with Woody going into the college box. Andy writes a not and puts it on the attic box to Andy, suggesting he give the toys to Bonnie.

Andy takes the toys to Bonnie and gives them to her, even Woody who was in there, and who he did not want to give up, but he sees the joy in the child’s eyes, and plays one more time with the toys, which is what they wanted anyway, and they get a new home.

We see the toys at the Daycare in better care with Jen and Barbie running the show.

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Such a lovely film, and so much feeling. It is really sad, and really moving. Really the best of the best!!