Part 1: "Circle 7" or "Sleepover at Granny's"
I think you should know what Back to the Drawing Board is about by now. If not, just read my previous posts in this series.
So, let's travel back in time to 2004. Animation-wise, 2004 wasn't a great year for Disney. The theatrical animated films that they released that year, Home on the Range and Teacher's Pet, both flopped. They were still pumping out crappy direct-to-video sequels. And they were having a bit of a falling-out with PIXAR, mainly due to Michael Eisner being... well, Michael Eisner. PIXAR was planning to go solo for their future releases, and Eisner was just fine with that. But wait - wouldn't Disney still own the rights to PIXAR's films that they HAD distributed? Ee-yup. Surely there was a way they could use that to their advantage. And as I just said, this was during the time period where Disney was obsessed with making direct-to-video sequels to their animated movies. So then somebody came up with the idea of making direct-to-video sequels to PIXAR's films.
Thus was founded a new animation studio called Circle 7, which would create sequels to Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Monsters Inc. and allow them to profit off of PIXAR's work even if they didn't have PIXAR to create movies for them that were actually, y'know, good, and as such would still make money for them.
At least two scripts for a third Toy Story movie (boy, remember when there were only two Toy Story movies and we were all wondering when they were gonna make a third one?) were whipped up by the studio. One script was written by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, another submitted by Jim Herzfeld. The latter was the one they wound up going with. By the way, apparently both Tom Hanks and John Ratzenberger refused to reprise their roles for this planned third film.
Then came 2006. Once Eisner left and Bob Iger became CEO of Disney, he decided to buy PIXAR for 7.4 billion dollars and close down Circle 7. Thus, Toy Story 3 was cancelled, along with sequels to Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo. Of course, later PIXAR would try their hand at making a Toy Story 3, a Finding Nemo sequel, and a prequel to Monsters Inc. - so whenever you complain about PIXAR making too many sequels since 2009, just remember that it could've been much worse.
Now, both of those aforementioned scripts written for Circle 7's Toy Story 3 have wound up online. This allows us to read them for ourselves and discover just how big of a bullet we dodged. And that's exactly what we're going to do today!
First up, Bill and Cheri's script:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yWmNVZJRXlf-0RYvHpIYCtvnzSD5OJ9g/view
NOTE: No concept art for this version of the script exists online, so I'm just going to pepper the post with Toy Story related memes, Photoshopped images, and the occasional somewhat relevant screencap from one of the actual Toy Story movies. Since, you know, just having text would make for a very visually boring post.
The script begins with Hamm being murdered. Wow, this version of Toy Story 3 is even darker than PIXAR's, and that had the toys almost fall into an incinerator!
The toys are all on a train, and everyone is wondering who could've been the one to, for lack of a more clever euphuism, fry Hamm's bacon. Woody deduces that whoever it was that did it didn't want Hamm to squeal (pig jokes) on whoever stole the Hope Marble. And that "whoever it was"? Bo Peep! But then Woody yanks off her mask a la Scooby-Doo to reveal that she's actually Mrs. Potato Head! How Mrs. Potato Head could possibly fit in a Bo Peep costume, I don't know. And then Woody yanks off Mrs. Potato Head's mask to reveal that she's actually Rex!
Woody is all "You're under arrest, Rex!" and then Rex is all "You'll never take me alive!" and takes out a suction-cup dart pistol. But then Buzz shows up and tackles Rex. Then Rex reveals that he's tied Jessie to the cow-catcher - which, for those unaware, is that bumper-like thing at the front of a train. And yes, I did have to look that up. Rex escapes. Woody tells Buzz to save Jessie while he takes care of Rex. But just when it seems like Woody has Rex cornered, Rex reveals that A) the train is heading for an unfinished bridge and B) Rex has a parachute that he can use to escape. Okay, seriously, what villain is THIS prepared?
Blah-blah-blah, Buzz saves Jessie and then... oh, it was all just Andy playing with his toys. We were seeing how it went down in his head. Y'know, just like the opening of the Toy Story 3 that we got, train and all (only not as cool). One might think that isn't just a coincidence. But I highly doubt that anyone at PIXAR actually read this script, and even if they did I doubt they would want to steal ideas from it. So I think it's probably indeed just a coincidence.
Once Andy leaves the room, the toys discuss what the heck just went down. Jessie complains about having to be the damsel in distress, and then we get an awkward joke about Buzz having the hots for Jessie... and then trying to change the subject by going over to a chair and saying, "Hey, look at that! Great chair! That's real wood!" Okay, I'll say this, that was actually kind of funny. And no, I'm not going to make a joke about his "That's real wood" line. I'm not THAT immature. Rex says that he doesn't like playing the bad guy, then everybody starts accusing each other of actually stealing the "Hope Marble".
Say, how come marbles in the Toy Story world aren't sentient too? They're toys, aren't they?
Anyhow, Woody gets them to all stop fighting, saying, "You're letting your imaginations run away with you. We're all friends here. And friends trust each other." I sense that's going to be the moral of this script. Woody goes all Sherlock Holmes and deduces that Andy took the marble with him when he left the room. Except that no he didn't. The marble is in Rex's butt. Eugh.
Okay, so let's get the plot moving. Woody and Buzz tell the other toys that Andy is having his room redecorated. It's only gonna take one day, so Andy and some of his toys will be sleeping over at his grandmother's house. The toys are all "Oh, heck no!" because Andy's grandma is a crazy old lady who lives in a creepy old house on top of a hill (like all creepy old houses).
We cut to Andy, Woody, Buzz, Hamm, Rex, Jessie, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, and Bullseye arriving at the grandma's house. Andy's grandma establishes herself as being a few sea turtles short of an East Australian Current. She tells Andy and the toys a terrifying bedtime story, and the toys of course begin theorizing that the house is haunted. Woody is all "Come on, guys, that's ridiculous!" and then they all hear a weird noise. And then we get Mystery Movie Cliché Number Seventy-Five: a character claims that the weird noise is "just the wind". Oh, and did I mention that there's a thunder and lightning storm going on outside? That would be Mystery Movie Cliché Number Seventy-Four. And then Mystery Movie Cliché Number Seventy-Six - the power going out - shows up. "You've gotta be kidding me," Woody mutters, doing my job for me.
Andy and the toys get in bed. Mr. Potato Head says that he, uh, left one of his parts downstairs. Well, not HIS parts per say... actually, it's Mrs. Potato Head's lips. Make up your own joke here. Buzz offers to go downstairs with Woody and get them, but Rex brings up Mystery Movie Cliché Number Seventy-Seven: if the characters split up, it backfires on them spectacularly. So the toys all go downstairs together. Mr. Potato Head finds his wife's lips and starts making out with them (again, make up your own joke here). But, oh no! There's something scurrying in the shadows! And then there's a rumbling noise, and a stack of firewood comes tumbling down on Woody! Buzz knocks him out of the way and is promptly sent flying into the lit fireplace. Woody tries to save Buzz, but winds up lassoing a flaming stick.
But then a British-accented sock monkey shows up and saves Buzz. He introduces himself as Jack Challenger, but the script calls him Hee-Hee, and all the toys think he's the best thing since sliced bread. When Woody sees Hee-Hee, he thinks he looks familiar. I'm guessing that this is foreshadowing.
Then another sock monkey shows up. She's lumpier, wears glasses, and sounds like her sinuses are clogged. Her name is Gladiola (isn't that a musical instrument?), and she and Hee-Hee belong to Andy's grandma. We get some more exposition about Hee-Hee - Andy's grandma bought him at a place called Sotheby's, he's been all around the world, and he even encountered Nazis. Yes, Nazis. I did not make that up.
The toys go gaga over Hee-Hee... except for Woody, who's jealous. Hmmm... Woody is jealous of a newcomer who everyone else treats like a god? Where have I seen that before? Oh, yeah, in the FIRST Toy Story. Buzz gets the idea to arrange it so that Andy finds Hee-Hee and Gladiola when he wakes up and takes them home with his toys. Everyone except Woody loves that idea.
As they all head back up to the bedroom, Woody tells Buzz that he's got a bad feeling about Hee-Hee. Buzz, predictably, is all "Oh, you're just jealous" and even brings up how jealous Woody was when HE came along. Ah, so they point out that they're repeating a plotline from the first movie, so that automatically makes it okay.
I know how this is gonna go down: Woody will continue to be suspicious of Hee-Hee. The other toys will brush him off as being jealous. But then it'll turn out that Hee-Hee is evil and Woody will have to defeat him. I've seen episodes of cartoons with this exact plotline. But, for now, we have Bullseye lagging behind the rest of the group, getting distracted by a leaking faucet, and suddenly being snatched up by a shadow that totally belongs to Hee-Hee. The toys look around for Bullseye, and then Andy's grandma's cat shows up and starts chasing them around. Eventually, they all wind up in a room where Andy's grandma keeps... porcelain eggs. The cat knocks the eggs off the shelf and the toys have to save them. Mr. Potato Head starts singing "Memory" from Cats (remember when that was just a Broadway musical and not a creepy movie starring James Corden and Rebel Wilson?)… a joke that honestly feels more like something out of a DreamWorks movie than something that was pretending to be a PIXAR movie. Buzz and Hee-Hee trap the cat under the glass lid of a cake platter, but now Slinky's missing too.
Rex slips on some Scrabble letters on the floor. Hee-Hee suggests that the letters are some sort of clue, but they're hopelessly jumbled now, so Hamm has to rearrange them. He deduces that the kidnapper is somebody named "PINK EYE MEL" because he's apparently now a massive idiot.
"There's only one place in this house we're safe, and that's back with Andy," Woody proclaims. So the toys all head upstairs. We get more of Buzz ignoring Woody in favor of the sock monkey who's TOTALLY not the film's main villain. Woody still doesn't trust Hee-Hee, so he refuses to let Hee-Hee come with them into the bedroom. But then he winds up accidentally closing the door while arguing with Buzz. And it's locked. So now everyone's mad at Woody.
The toys go into Andy's grandma's music room, where Gladiola mentions that she heard Andy's grandma talking to his mother on the phone - saying that there's not going to be space for all of his toys in his new room, so he's only keeping two. That doesn't do anything to calm the toys down. Hamm suggests that the whole thing was Andy's idea - since he's getting older he might not want a room full of toys.
Suddenly, they hear the creak of a door opening in the hallway. The shuffling of footsteps. A dark shadow. The toys all hide behind the curtains, but there's no room for Rex, so he tries to camouflaged himself in front of a painting of a jungle landscape. A flash of lightning reveals that the shadow belongs to Andy's grandma, carrying a bundle wrapped in a checkered handkerchief. After the grandma leaves, the toys deduce that she's picking them off one by one so she can get rid of them and that she's carrying Slinky and Bullseye in that handkerchief. Mr. Potato Head then says, "On the bright side, there's less competition for those two slots." Wow, way to be a jerk, Potato Head. Though I suppose that's not really out-of-character...
Woody, Buzz, and Hee-Hee head off to save Slinky and Bullseye. We get some more foreshadowing with Hee-Hee telling Woody to be careful, since "Accidents happen when you least expect them. But then again, you already know that. Don't you?" Hmmm, I wonder what he means by that...
The three follow the grandmother out of the house and through her garden. Buzz continues ignoring Woody and being all chummy with Hee-Hee. Y'know, Buzz, if you really don't want Woody to be jealous of Hee-Hee, I'd recommend telling him that Hee-Hee isn't going to replace him as your best friend. Then again, you probably already consider Hee-Hee your new best friend by now. Anyhow, Woody winds up lagging behind, and when Buzz realizes this he heads off to find him. Woody is all terrified and sees something move in the darkness that looks suspiciously like the tail of a sock monkey. Way to give away who the twist villain is, script. Then he walks right into a spider web and winds up with a spider on his back. Meanwhile, Buzz explores a tool shed and falls down some stairs, resulting in his head falling off. Okay, I know it's an obvious joke, but... I've heard of losing your head, but this is ridiculous.
Buzz gets into some WACKY SHENANIGANS before finally getting his head back on, then finally finds Woody. Hee-Hee shows up and attacks Woody, claiming that it's so he can defend Buzz, but I think it's pretty safe to say by now that Hee-Hee's up to no good. After that, the three sneak over to the greenhouse and peek in, seeing Andy's grandma getting it on with her gardener. Before we can make heads or tails of THAT, who should show up but a garden gnome. His name is Angus, and he thinks that Woody and Buzz are peepers who get a kick out of watching old people do the nasty. And we get another clue that Hee-Hee is totally the twist villain - Angus recognizes him and says that he saw when the grandmother was making him, contradicting Hee-Hee's earlier claim that he was purchased at Sotheby's.
At that moment, Gladiola shows up and tells them that Jessie's in trouble. Once they're back inside the house, Mr. Potato Head and Hamm explain that they heard a noise coming from the pantry and Jessie went in to see what it was, but she hasn't come back out. When they peek inside the pantry, Jessie's not in there. Then it's revealed that Andy's grandma's house has a dumbwaiter hidden in the walls, which the toys use to get to the attic.
The attic is full of mousetraps, all of which promptly go off and attack Woody. They don't find Jessie, but they do find her hat, plus some more Scrabble tiles that spell out the words "NO ONE WILL TAKE MY PLACE". Everyone leaves the attic and gathers together in another room, because it's time for Woody to go all Sherlock Holmes again, and he deduces that there's foul play at work in the house. The only ones there besides them are Andy and his grandma, and since Andy's asleep and the grandma's busy getting her freak on with the gardener, Buzz and Hamm deduce that one of them is the culprit. Uh oh, now it's time for the "everybody starts believing that anyone aside from them is the one kidnapping everyone" cliché. Mr. Potato Head thinks that Hamm is the culprit because he said that he heard Andy and his mom talking about his room being redecorated the other day back at the beginning of the script. Hamm thinks it's Rex, because when they arrived at the grandma's house, Andy's mom told Andy that when he gets back he'll have a brand new room... to which Rex said, "If we make it through the night." "And why would you say that unless you KNEW some of us weren't coming home?!" Hamm demands. Then Rex comes to the conclusion that Mr. Potato Head is the culprit, and he left his wife's lips downstairs on purpose so he could lure them down here. And from there he also claims that Potato Head also used remote controlled logs to try and get rid of Buzz. Upon hearing this, Potato Head says that Rex couldn't be the culprit because he's too stupid.
Woody says that it couldn't have been one of Andy's toys. "We're friends. We trust each other," he says. Hamm concurs, then guesses that Gladiola did it... just before we see that Gladiola somehow got her head caught between the slats of an end table. So that crosses her off the list. Woody then says what I'm thinking and suggest that Hee-Hee's the culprit, what with him seemingly being absent whenever somebody vanishes. Hee-Hee then claims that Woody's the culprit because he, too, is seemingly absent whenever somebody vanishes. "Accidents seem to happen around you a lot, Woody," he says. Look, would you just come out and reveal that you're the bad guy already?
Buzz tells everyone to stop bickering, that whoever's doing this isn't going to try anything so long as they're all together, and that they'll all just stay in that room until morning. Later that night, Mr. Potato Head decides to leave the room and get something to read, telling the others that if he leaves and the rest of them stay in the room, they can't do anything to him and he can't do anything to them. He heads down to the library, then finds a book and opens it. He says, "That's weird." But we don't get any more detail than that. Suddenly, footsteps. He hides behind a reading chair, but whoever it is that's been kidnapping the others nabs him, too.
Meanwhile, in the room where the other toys are, the lights just so happen to go out again (did they ever come back on after the first time?) at the very same time that Mr. Potato Head is out, and everyone goes crazy. When the lights go back on, Hee-Hee's missing and they hear him calling for Buzz from out in the hallway. Woody heads off to find Potato Head and Buzz heads off to find Hee-Hee. And then Hamm gets yanked off as soon as Rex's back is turned, prompting Rex and Gladiola to run out of the room and into the hallway... where Rex is promptly snatched up.
In the library, Woody and Buzz don't find Mr. Potato Head, but they DO find those Scrabble tiles spelling out that same message... and dust, in which Mr. Potato Head has written "I KNOW WHO DID IT! IT WAS" accompanied by a smudge in the dust. Buzz points out that Potato Head should've just written the name instead of a big, long message. Then Hee-Hee and Gladiola show up. Hee-Hee has an alibi, but just as he's going into another one of his spiels about how awesome he is, Woody finds the book that Mr. Potato Head was reading before he got nabbed and discovers that the words in the book are the exact same words that Hee-Hee is saying. And the book is called "SAFARI OF FEAR: A JACK CHALLENGER STORY". And also on the shelf are more books starring the actual Jack Challenger, each one of them about an adventure just like the "adventures" that Hee-Hee told them about. "He stole the stories from the books!" Woody snaps. "He's not an adventurer. He's a liar! And not a very original one, either."
Hee-Hee confesses everything... his name is actually Hee-Hee, he's not from Sotheby's, and his British accent is fake. Why did he do it? Well, according to Hee-Hee, it was Christmas eve, exactly one year after Gladiola was made. Andy's grandma decided to try and make another sock monkey. After Hee-Hee was finished, the grandma placed him next to Woody. They were both supposed to be Christmas presents for Andy, but Woody moved his arm and knocked over a tube of glue, which promptly spilled all over Hee-Hee's head. It's never specified if Woody did it on purpose or if it was an accident, but Hee-Hee clearly thinks it's the former. Andy's grandma washed him in the sink, then hung him from a clothesline to dry... in the middle of December, resulting in Hee-Hee being frozen solid. So Hee-Hee spent Christmas thawing out in a microwave while Woody wound up being given to Andy. After that, Andy's grandma kept him in the library, where he read all those Jack Challenger books. Then she moved him to the closet, where he met Gladiola and lied to her about his being Jack Challenger because he couldn't bear to tell her that he was "just another unwanted toy".
"He thinks I took his place with Andy! Now he wants to take my place!" Woody deduces. "Get rid of us, one by one, till there's no one left but you and Buzz. Then the two of you will go home with Andy!" Hee-Hee says that he's not a murderer, then runs out of the room, Gladiola running out after him. Buzz tells Woody that he should apologize, without asking Woody for his side of the story. I mean, call me crazy, but I highly doubt that Woody would intentionally douse Hee-Hee with glue and sabotage his chance to be one of Andy's toys. It was clearly just an accident, right? Are we going to get any detail as to what happened? Buzz is all "Hee-Hee rocks, you stink, Woody" to which Woody says, "Fine, Buzz. We're through. Go off with your new best friend."
Buzz sadly leaves, then Woody gets an idea to "give [Buzz] evidence" using the Scrabble tiles. Meanwhile, Gladiola searches the basement for Hee-Hee, finds the furnace, and stares at it as knitting needles loom up in front of her. When Woody hears her screaming, he rushes into the basement and finds, to his horror, two knitting needles, a pile of Gladiola-colored yarn, and Gladiola's glasses. Then Buzz appears at the top of the stairs and, of course, thinks that Woody murdered Gladiola. Then Hee-Hee shows up, and he, too, thinks Woody murdered Gladiola and tackles him.
Eventually, Woody and Hee-Hee start dueling like swordsmen with the knitting needles. At one point, Hee-Hee ducks just as Woody is swinging his needle at him, resulting in the needle thwacking Buzz in the head and sending him flying over the railing. The fight spills into the kitchen (this has been a very long night, I've noticed. Shouldn't the sun be rising by now?), where Hee-Hee manages to knock Woody's needle out of his hand, giving him the opportunity to lunge at Woody with a hand mixer. Methinks Hee-Hee is a bit bloodthirsty... though Woody's a toy, so he technically doesn't have blood, so I suppose that would make Hee-Hee... stuffing-thirsty?
Woody jumps, and lands on the stove, giving Hee-Hee the opportunity to mess with the burner knobs in an attempt to flambé Woody. Then once Woody swings over to the kitchen counter via some paper towels, Hee-Hee tips over a jar of Crisco. Blah-blah-blah, more fighting, blah-blah-blah, and eventually they both wind up in the library. Hee-Hee uses his yo-yo to wrap Woody up, but Woody grabs the string of the yo-yo and gives it a hard yank. Hee-Hee flies forward... and, to Woody's horror, tumbles into the heating duct.
And horrible timing does its thing as Buzz just so happens to be standing in the doorway. Woody insists that he didn't mean to kill Hee-Hee, but then the Scrabble tiles spill out of his pant leg. So now Buzz thinks Woody kidnapped all the other characters, too. Woody says he only had the letters because he was going to plant them on Hee-Hee, since he was so clearly the actual kidnapper. But Buzz doesn't believe any of that. He thinks that Woody got rid of everybody else so that he and Buzz would be the two toys that Andy would bring back with him. Buzz chases Woody around the house, and eventually they wind up on the roof.
Soon, Buzz has Woody cornered. He announces that he's going to wrap Woody in Scotch tape and put him in storage so he can never hurt another toy again. Then the weathervane sends Buzz flying down the sloping roof. He's clinging to the gutter, and Woody is all, "BUZZ! GIVE ME YOUR HAND!", but Buzz refuses because he still thinks Woody is a murderer. But Woody gives a big speech about how he's Buzz's best friend and how he'd never do anything to hurt him and blah-blah-blah. Buzz realizes that, hey, maybe he shouldn't have judged the situation strictly by how it looked as opposed to taking Woody's character (which he should know pretty well, seeing as they've been pals for at least a year) into account and grabs his hand. And then Woody's feet slip and they land in a tree. Buzz's head falls off again. By the way, why didn't Buzz acknowledge at all that Hee-Hee attacked Woody and that Woody might have just been acting out of self-defense? Then again, it's likely that he sided with Hee-Hee...
Buzz admits that he should have trusted Woody instead of letting Hee-Hee "pull the wool over [his] eyes". Then Woody realizes something - earlier, Gladiola said she was one hundred percent wool, and that yarn that was Gladiola's supposed remains in the basement? It wasn't wool. It was acrylic. This is the cue for a net of yarn to fall over Woody and Buzz and yank them into the air. Gladiola shows up and explains why she did everything - she was in love with Hee-Hee, and she didn't want to share him. Then when Andy's toys showed up, at first she just tried to scare them away, but then realized that the only way to keep them away from Hee-Hee was to get rid of them one by one. She made up that story about Andy getting rid of them to make them suspect each other, thus getting them off her trail. To make extra-sure that nobody would suspect her, she faked her own dismemberment in the basement. And yes, she's really, really angry that Hee-Hee is gone and Woody and Buzz might be indirectly responsible.
Gladiola drags Woody and Buzz over to a trash can and throws them in, where they find their friends. And there's a garbage truck nearby. Uh-oh. "We're headed for the landfill!" Woody exclaims. So that's ANOTHER similarity to the Toy Story 3 that we got. Again, I'm guessing it's just a coincidence. Fortunately, Jessie manages to get free and untie the others, but the garbage man arrives and hurls the trash bag into the back of the truck. Fortunately, Rex manages to chew through the bag. The truck comes to a stop. They all get ready to jump...
And then the garbage man empties more trash on them. Wah wah wah wah wah...
As the toys are being taken to the dump, back at Grandma's house, it's revealed that Hee-Hee is alive. He's braced himself against the sides of the shaft, and manages to escape via his yo-yo. He reunites with Gladiola, who fills him in on what's been going on, and he rushes after the truck.
Meanwhile, the toys are stuck in the trash compactor. Fortunately, there's a small opening in the roof eight feet above them. But how will they get up that high? Easy - there's a can of Redi-Whip with "CAUTION: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE" nearby. Buzz tries to use it to get them to safety... but it doesn't work. Fortunately, Hee-Hee shows up and uses his yo-yo to get them all to safety. So now they're all on top of the truck. However, the truck is heading for the freeway and Mr. Potato Head winds up falling over the edge and landing on the compactor level at the back of the truck. The compressor creaks open, and trash flies out of it. So now the toys have to form a chain to save Mr. Potato Head. He winds up getting covered in sour cream (don't ask), and then a farm truck with a bunch of pigs loaded in the flatbed shows up.
Then the toys use a Pizza Planet box as a makeshift sled. Well, except Hee-Hee, who can't join them because a loose piece of his yarn is snagged on a rusty ironing board in the truck. So they all go back to save him by having the farm truck tow them along. Long story short, they manage to save Hee-Hee. They all go flying into a drainage ditch. The farmer driving the truck, by the way, is now a conspiracy theorist who thinks aliens shrunk one of his pigs. It makes sense in context.
Hee-Hee thanks Woody for saving his life, and they make it back to the grandmother's house using the old "stick a carrot in front of a horse" trick... or in this case, stick a Mr. Potato Head in front of a hungry pig. Gladiola apologizes for everything, and they of course forgive her. Hee-Hee tells her that she didn't need to go on a killing spree to show her feelings... he'd known that she loved him all along. In fact, he loves her, but he was too afraid to say so too. We still don't get any explanation as to why Woody doused Hee-Hee in glue, but I think by this point we're just supposed to assume that it was an accident.
Andy and the toys come home. We end with Buzz and Jessie making out. And I'm really glad that this isn't the Toy Story 3 we wound up with. The "sleepover at grandma's" plot seems a bit, for lack of a better word, small to base a third movie in a beloved cinema trilogy on. Also, it's needlessly dark. Not that the Toy Story 3 we got isn't dark, too (need I bring up the incinerator?), but here we've got characters turning on each other and fighting and trying to kill each other... jeez. Reading this actually made me feel uncomfortable. At least Hee-Hee turned out to be alive, though. And I'm glad he and Woody made up in the end. I kind of liked the climax, too. But I can safely say that I vastly prefer the Toy Story 3 that we got.
This is just part one of our look at Circle 7's proposed Toy Story 3. We still have Jim's script to look at. But, to keep this post from being unbelievably long, it's going to be a two-parter. So you guys have that to look forward to. Stay tuned...
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