Special Features – In the past decade, special features have become a standard in home releases. Audiophiles will no doubt enjoy listening to Toy Story 3 on Blu-ray. I personally do not have a 7.1 set-up at home so I was unable to test the limits of the audio, although what I did hear was pristine audio. On the Blu-ray, the visuals receive an enhancement that causes you to marvel at the wizards at Pixar, who really are second-to-none.Īdditionally, Pixar and Dolby worked together to bring us a Dolby Surround 7.1 option, ensuring that no sound effect would be clouded by a weak audio transfer. Could you imagine thinking, “Wow, Andy looks pretty funny there” in the final scene? That would have had the potential of ruining the intense moment and the film as a whole. In Toy Story 3, where the toys and humans inject a great emotional quality to the story, crude-looking humans could have proven disastrous. Humans have been especially difficult for animation studios to nail down. When the story takes a dark turn in the second half, the shadows enhance the dire situation the toys have been thrown into. The bright atmospheres on the Blu-ray transfer show the serious attention to detail given to the characters in the forefront and the side-characters in the background who are only seen for a brief moment.
Video and Audio – In a film where the colors are so important to the mood of the film, the images are vibrant and jump off the screen.
Director Lee Unkrich and the many people at Pixar who worked on the film have not only given us a spectacular ending to a trilogy, but they have proven that with a great story and incredible talent, anything is possible. The films need to stand on their own, and at the same time continue and bring to an end the overall storyline. The story comes first, and you need to give the audience a satisfying conclusion to make them feel that the second and third films were worth making. The reason why it was so successful is because those who worked on the film realized that you don’t always have to go bigger to be better. The Lord of the Rings comes to mind when discussing trilogies that worked. Somewhere in the span of three films, studios are actually expected to falter. Overall, the film gave us the perfect ending to an amazing trilogy, which is incredibly uncommon today. Story – I previously spoke about Toy Story 3 in-depth in my review of the film.
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