Blu-Ray Review: Toy Story 3Blu-Ray Review: Toy Story 3

To most moviegoers, Pixar can do no wrong: They've been batting 1.000 since the release of the first Toy Story in 1995—or .909 if you count Cars as their lone failure (and if you do, beware: Cars 2 comes out next summer). Either way, an A average, to say the least. And last summer's release of Toy Story 3 didn't exactly fuck things up for them. It held the high standards of not only the Toy Story movies but Pixar's brand as a whole. Made with nearly seven times the budget of the first Toy Story, the third one brought back all the old characters and introduced some new ones. Whatever complaints you may have had about it—Randy Newman's treacly score, Tom Hanks' slightly annoying Woody, perhaps too many new characters to keep track of—they were lost in comparison to the movie's overall delight.

Three home editions of Toy Story 3 were released by Disney last week: a single-disc regular DVD edition, a two-disc Blu-Ray edition, and a bloated four-disc Blu-Ray/DVD combo edition. Which edition you buy will depends on what kind of player you have, obviously (and your budget—the four-disc version costs $5 more than the two-disc), and here's where I find room to grumble about one of the most delightful, family-friendly movies of the year. I'm of the opinion that these combo Blu-Ray/regular-DVD editions that Disney puts out are totally unnecessary. Unless you need a regular DVD version of the movie in addition to the Blu-Ray, PLUS another disc that contains a digital copy so you can watch the damn thing on your phone (and if so, who are you? Why are you watching this movie so many times?), you can happily stick with the two-disc Blu-Ray version.

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