Joy Story

A great review of Toy Story 3 by Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph today. This trilogy, says Moore, has all the staying power of childhood classics like Winnie the Pooh, if not more:

'As the father of children who are members of the Toy Story generation, I am sure that the trilogy will stay in their heads and hearts just as vividly as the children's stories of the past. Despite its technical virtuosity, it is never captured by its own special effects. It tells, with comic brio and tragic pathos, the precarious tale of toy-life.

'And whereas A A Milne sometimes too archly intrudes upon his own creations, Toy Story removes human authorship from one's thoughts. This is how toys would see the world, if they could. Children attribute thoughts and feelings to their toys, thus making them live. These films do this on an epic scale.

Critics have rightly acclaimed Toy Story 3. It is as good as the first two, and one can scarcely say better than that. Is it sentimental? Perhaps all great children's stories have a touch of sentimentality because behind them lies the self-pity of the adult author regretting what he has lost.'

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