This movie has one of the best endings in animation history.

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In 2010, 15 years after they revolutionized animation with Woody and Buzz by creating the first full-length feature film produced exclusively in computer graphics, the artists at Pixar studios took their famous toys out of the trunk to offer them a completely new adventure. .

This third installment was eventually followed by Toy Story 4 (and a fifth film is currently in the works), but at the time many viewers saw it as an epilogue to the saga that rocked their childhoods.

Even if it’s true that the articulated cowboy and the super space ranger went on to have other adventures, we can definitely see Toy Story 3 as the end of their story with Andy, the little boy whose favorite toys they were.

And for good reason: the final sequence of the feature film, which deftly echoed the introduction of the first Toy Story, really sounded like a farewell to the franchise. Whether you discovered it in a movie at the time, or later on TV, you probably won’t forget it because it’s simply one of the most beautiful scenes ever produced at Pixar Studios.

On the other hand, if you’ve never seen Toy Story 3, I suggest you don’t continue reading this article and come back only after you’ve enjoyed Lee Unkrich’s excellent work.

In the final moments of the movie, after lotso the scary bear and escape from the scary garden, the toys are back with Andy, who is about to go to college, taking only Woody with him.

But after saying goodbye to his friends, who are preparing to go up to the attic, the cowboy suddenly has an idea: on the cardboard he writes the address of Bonnie, a cute little girl he met earlier in the feature film. Thus begins the final scene of the film and one of the most thrilling moments Pixar has ever given us.

On his way to university, Andy stops by Bonnie’s to bequeath her his toys and decides to leave Woody, his first roommate. In the little girl’s garden, he spends one last moment surrounded by his loved one. assistants and said goodbye to them, imagining for them the last adventure, such as he had invented for himself as a child.

The haunting scene, set to Randy Newman’s moving music, is heartbreaking yet beautiful, and sends all viewers who had the chance to grow up with Toy Story in their own lives, passing the years with Andy. .

In the apotheosis of this moving scene, the film’s final shot, a cloud-strewn blue sky, takes us directly to the opening shot of Woody and Buzz’s 1995 adventure. But the background of childhood has now been replaced by the real one. The horizon of adult life, the promise of a new future for young Andy.

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