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Don't believe all the buzz. This movie is a big, fat downer.
Sad in the beginning, joyless in the middle and dark in the end. Toy Story 3 left me with a feeling of emptiness. I had such high hopes too. Like - how would Jessie and Bullseye work with their new friends? Would Zurg pick up where he left off as the all-american dad? How many have been laid-off from Pizza Planet?
I didn't expect all the funny toys from TS2 to make it into this film, but I thought at least the funny would. I was wrong. The only thing worse than watching Woody and the gang come to grips with their imminent death of being burned alive was watching my 4 year-old daughter come to grips with it. "Shutter Island" was more uplifting.
Adventure is fine, but for some reason Pixar believed adventure could not co-exist with humor. It's no surprise that there are no bloopers at the end of the movie either. What good are funny bloopers after a movie filled with sadness? 
Don't believe me? Look at Woody's face! Does he look like he's having a good time? And these are stills taken straight from the official website!
Also - the whole 3-D thing is, I'm convinced, a money-making gimmick only. It brought nothing original to the movie. By having their graphics team spend more front-end time they can charge an additional $3 for every ticket. Bravo. My daughter took them off half-way through the movie and never put them back on. I wish I did the same.
Are there laughs? Sure. By my count there were four. (Five if you count nervous laughter.) In the end I felt like I had opened up my favorite toy on Christmas morning only to discover it was socks and underwear.
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Remember 'Oven Mitt' from the Arby's commercials? Apparently he works for Steak 'n Shake now.
See the commercials here.
The origami overachievers at PostlerFerguson have expanded their paper arsenal. Looks like 'paper' beats everybody.
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Looks like Bing has defied the odds, breathing new life into the cocktail napkin sketch concept with its Destination Maps app. And while it pains us to give Microsoft some props for design, the proof is in the pictures. The rendering can take some time (knew there was something), so you can look here before you leap.
