Toy Movies

I know everybody just loves Toy Story. I don't have a clue why. It scared me to death when I watched it the first time, now it just makes me uncomfortable. My parents thought it would be awesome of them to bring home the newly released on VHS Toy Story, but sadly no. This girl, when she was 3, already had a deeply rooted fear that her toys were going to come alive when she was sleeping. This movie confirmed my worst fears that this could indeed happen. For the next week, before I went to bed, I would turn around all my stuffed animals so that they couldn't see me asleep. I thought I was a genius too, because not once did I get murdered by one of my stuffed animals. Not only did the toys come alive when no one was watching (What did they have to hide?), but they also ate people and stole their voices. How else could Buzz Lightyear sound like Tim "the Toolman" Taylor? though like any other Disney-lover I did watch all of the Toy Story movies, and other the years have still been creeped out that toys have their own secret agendas. I have to say though that the story for Toy Story 3 was very good, if not a little too personal to be comfortable with.

Even with my deep rooted fears which soon became a loathing for Toy Story,I always loved Winnie the Pooh. I never thought it was weird that they were talking toys, but of course they actually talked to Christopher Robbin. In the movie it also showed that they were in a book as well. The toys came alive in Christopher Robbin's imagination and his dad brought them to life in the book to show his son that is toys wondered where he was when he wasn't playing with them. I love the old movie. I love the look of it, scratchy, like an ink drawing out of a book. I appreciated what they tried to do in the remake of Winnie the Pooh this year, it just wasn't enough. It was too neat and tidy, and emphasized too much that they were in a book. So I think it just pushed viewers farther away, even though yes Pooh and Piglet are cute, we all still feel sorry for Eeyore even though he brings it on himself, but Rabbit needs to sound a little less like Spongebob Squarepants.