If you know me in real life, you know I love Pixar movies. I've been able to keep up a 14 year streak of seeing every Pixar film in theaters (though I did miss seeing Tokyo Mater before Bolt, too bad...). That said, for some reason in recent years, I've always seemed to slight the Toy Story movies. Don't get me wrong, they are both fantastic films. But I guess Pixar has taken themselves to new heights since 1995, the more recent films have been much more satisfying.
With Toy Story 3 coming out this June, Disney has decided to re-release both films in 3D. Originally supposed to come out in October and February as two separate releases, they were more recently merged into a double feature so a re-release of Beauty and the Beast could take Toy Story 2's release slot (only to be delayed to December 2011). It ended up being a pretty exciting experience.
Seeing these movies up on the big screen was quite amazing to see again. I won't talk too much about the movies themselves because everyone has seen them and there's not too much to talk about that hasn't already been said. But those three hours went by incredibly fast. I should also note that, well actually my friend noticed it first, how the majority of the theater was not filled with parents with pre-schoolers but rather middle and high school aged kids and younger adults. That's not to say they weren't any younger kids in the audience. I was particularly moved by a girl in the theater who couldn't have been older than 6 or 7 who clearly had never seen Toy Story before that night and she responded to it so well. She didn't make it through Toy Story 2 (it was pretty late after all), but I'm sure she'll have seen it soon enough.
I highly recommend seeing this double feature on the big screen before it closes on the 15th. You won't regret it, even you're paying $15 for two movies you've seen before.
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