It’s actually tempting to open this review by berating modern Hollywood for their lack of creative nous. While other studios turn out teeth-grindingly inept explosofests like Transformers, Pixar quietly carry out superlative work on films like Toy Story 3, probably the most effective and genuinely touching meditation on the nature of relationships and yep -even that old chestnut mortality – than we’ve seen in many a year, throwing a pretty harsh light on any number of ‘grown-up’ movies out there for their continued lack in both the emotional heft and storytelling departments.
Well, the STS office was inundated as literally some of you wrote in, shouting about Potatoes, all of you desperate to coagulate in London’s super-swanky Leicester Square this Sunday morning to catch the continuing adventures of Andy’s toybox a month early -and who can blame you?
We (well…me..it’s not like I have anything better to do…) rummaged through the pile of potato-based commentary and based on a strict selection criteria involving closing my eyes and pointing, a winner emerged – congratulations Katie Richards!
Katie’s weird Kelis/Spud mashup caught our eye (like a potato has eyes- do you see? IT’S A JOKE!) :
MY POTATO BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD AND THEY’RE LIKE … ‘MY PARTS ARE KILLING ME!’
Katie and a friend/partner/pet/kidnapped farm animal get to head down to Leicester Square for a free matinee performance this very Sunday! Congrats and enjoy.
Christ we’re generous around here aren’t we? Although not quite as generous as the lovely dudes and dudettes at Disney who made this possible -give them a big up and join the Toy Story 3 facebook page! and don’t panic, I’m sure we’ll have some other free crap to hurl at you soon -cheers to everyone who entered!
As you know, STS has been getting far too excited by the prospect of a 12 inch plastic woody returning to our screens lately, and as we’re top-notch media moguls, resplendant in our gold lame suits and real velour underwear, we’ll obviously be going to see it before the rest of you unwashed scumbags. Unless of course..we were to be GIVING AWAY TICKETS! Yep, it’s Toy Story 3 competition time!
We’ve got a pair of shiny tickets to the Leicester Square press preview of Disney’s latest visit to Andy’s toy box, taking place in swinging London’s shiny Leicester Square on Sunday, 20th June -an ENTIRE MONTH before the rest of your plebby mates get to see it! Let’s face it, you’ll be the coolest kid in school with this kind of super-advance viewing opportunity.
Now, unlike other, better written and more popular blogs, we here at STS know that our readers are busy people – you’ve got toast to eat and areas to scratch -you certainly haven’t got time to answer complicated questions about plastic bloody dolls.
So, instead of a question, we’ll make it easy on you – just leave a comment below that contains the word ‘Potato’! We’ll pick the most idiotic and announce the winners on Thursday the 17th of June -get your potato-based thinking caps on and get commenting!
Rapidly becoming our favourite movie of the year starring a talking potato (After Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2 obviously), Toy Story 3 is shaping up to be even more fun than it’s predecessors, with plenty of laughs for kids, and plenty of chances for accompanying parents to side with the toys as they try desperatly to escape the clutches of their tiny tot jailers – will Woody be reunited with a college-bound Andy? Will Potato Head get his ‘tache back? Will Buzz learn to fly? Well…yes actually, at least according to this new video that snuck out from Disney’s vaults earlier today:
Here at your reliably immature STS it’s wednesday, which can only mean one thing (well, two things if you count Steak Night at Wetherspoons…) It’s Toy Story 3 day!
Luckily this time round our rummaging through the toy box turned up these new AV bits fresh from Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen nazi mouth, god bless ‘im. Check ‘em out!
