#Incinerator in toy story 3 movie#

While he’s there, hiding, Andy’s mom comes into her son’s room for one last goodbye. He hops back into Andy’s college box, alone, and waits to go to school. For most of the toys, the decision in the incinerator is permanent and life-changing-they climb into the attic box right away-but for Woody, it doesn’t stick in the same way. Of course, The Claw comes to the rescue, and that means the truth of this decision will be tested upon reunion with Andy. They make a decision to accept their fate, side by side. Here-with hardly a single line of dialogue-we see the toys affirm their home is with each other, not a house or a boy. Toy Story 3 is about a lot of things, but in part it’s about how we define our belonging in relation to other people.

#Incinerator in toy story 3 movie#

The toys have spent the entire movie trying to make it back to Andy, to their home, to the attic, but at the critical hour they don’t turn to those things but instead to each other. It’s been called dark, but that label ignores the sharp profundity manifesting within the characters. Abandoned by Lots-O’-Huggin Bear amid a molten incinerator, Buzz, Woody, Jesse and the rest of the gang stop trying to escape and turn to face the fire. It’s one of the bleakest, most memorable scenes in the Pixar canon. The ending of Toy Story 3 begins not with Andy’s drive to Bonnie’s house, but the toys’ fiery and harrowing trip through the trash compactor. It makes you cry, yes, but it’s also marked by life-altering choices, and those choices hit home because, it turns out, they’re our choices, too. Toy Story 3 has one of the greatest endings in modern movies. Final choices mark transformation within a story’s characters and pave the way toward thematic resolution. Brad Pitt pulls the gun on Kevin Spacey in Seven.

Michael executes the hit in The Godfather. Harry Potter walks into the woods to face Lord Voldemort. Great endings are marked by permanent, irreversible choices. to Coco, these were our favorite movies growing up, and somehow, they still are. With the release of Incredibles 2 on Friday, RELEVANT is celebrating all things Pixar.