I love the movie a lot but man does that scene drag down the rest of the film for me. These toys have been through everything, so what did the incinerator scene add but a few tears in the audience? These are the toys that grabbed onto the wheel of a fucking plane to get home to their owner, but an incinerator is too much? Where's the struggle? Why the hell do they just give up? And what does it say that they get saved by the biggest cop-out, deus ex machina in recent film history.Īlso what did that moment do for the characters? Strengthen their bond? That was already strong when they escaped the daycare. In the end, love and friendship do still triumph in Toy Story 3, but it feels so much more earned because these toys have been on a journey to the incinerator hell and back. The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and its up to Woody to convince the other toys that they werent abandoned and to return home. Woody says its not daylight, but the light of an incinerator, which appears to show an enormous fire in the center. After escaping the shredders, Rex sees a light, thinking its daylight.
I guess what bothers me so much about it is that it completely goes against the spirit of the toys from the other two films. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty. The Incinerator is a location at the Tri-County Landfill and part of the climax of Toy Story 3. With everyone slowly holding hands and just accepting death, it's so painfully forced. It's a great scene but from an entirely different movie. I feel that the incinerator scene is insulating because it manipulates the audience into crying even though it makes no sense.