Toy Story 3-D Double Feature

I get the picture in my head of a bunch of Disney Executives, Dick Cook, Steve Jobs, and a bunch of other folks, sitting around a table asking two questions: “How can we earn some money?” and “How can we promote *INSERT FILM NAME HERE*”

In order to drum up some publicity for the upcoming June 18th release of Toy Story 3, the Walt Disney Company re-released their smash hit blockbuster films, Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in a 3-D Double Feature!

The event saw limited release, a surprising decision coming from the behemoth, and sported the tagline “One ticket, two movies, three dimensions!”

I was quite excited to catch the event, and when I got to the theatre, I purchase my ticket, head into the theatre and sit through previews, the film rolls and I see… Space? Everyone knows Toy Story 2 starts in space, and I immediately realized the timing was messed up and would have to watch the movies out of order! (Oh the horror! I know, I’m a nerd)

I don’t want to go much into the films themselves, but focus more on the event. While the films were being remastered to 3-D, I noticed they had also received a phenomenal re-mastering, bringing them both to an extremely wonderful view of very very VERY high definition.

The restoration team also gave the soundtrack a quality upgrade, which was another plus. It looked and sounded amazing. So, with Randy Newman coming at me at me from all sides, and opening credits flipping through space into the theatre, I began my viewing pleasure.

In case you haven’t gotten the hint, I really liked the restoration. The 3-D effects were provided by Real-D, and really got me excited for the upcoming releases of Disney’s A Christmas Carol.

Speaking of upcoming Disney releases, I saw new trailers for Toy Story 3 and The Princess and The Frog!!

Toy Story 3 comes back, and from what I’ve seen in the trailer, it has an AMAZING score! Randy Newman returns to tie off the trilogy, and for future examination, refer to this video. Randy Newman’s new song with vocals is going to kick the butt of You’ve Got A Friend in Me. We can also see that the film is going to be visually stimulating. All of the lighting in the trailer is beautiful, and the human models look a lot less creepy then the first two films. Then, when the trailer brings us to the nursery, we are given a wonderful contemporary song that I am sure will be amazing.

I see that I think the story will be a lot thicker and more complex, which is going to be great, that is Pixar can handle it. Let’s face it, a lot of their features is very simple in structure, story and adventure. There’s nothing wrong with that, but now we’ll see how they fare in deeper water.

Another thing that really caught me: this film is going to be EXPENSIVE! Toy Story had a budget of $30 million, Toy Story 2 $90 million, and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts this one will be over the 200 million dollar mark. Let’s look at statistics here folks: Pixar’s most recent film, Up, was brought down with $175 Million. Now because this film is part of a series inhabited by very loved characters, it is a guaranteed success, therefore, it would be logical to spend a lot of money on the production.

The new Princess and The Frog trailer can be viewed here and it revealed a lot more about the story, and we are guaranteed our already made assumption that the animation would be fabulous.

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