History YMMV / ToyStory3

* FranchiseOriginalSin: The film's emotional ending relies heavily on the audience's nostalgia for the ''Toy Story'' franchise. [=NitPix=] [[https://youtu.be/KAIz7k5If24?t=453 argues]] that this encouraged Pixar to generate "member movies", sequels which rely on nostalgia rather than developing new character arcs and are usually released decades after the original. He says that while ''Toy Story 3'' was justified in doing this since the audience has grown up with Andy, it inspired Pixar to produce a slew of disappointing sequels such as ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.

** The jacket that finally breaks Ken in the closet torture scene--a green Nehru jacket from 1967--is an actual exclusive collector's item, and is highly valued in the Barbie collector community

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: Pixar could have had any actor play the now-grown Andy. Instead, they tracked down the '''''original actor''''', who had basically retired from acting at that point, to reprise the role. In fact, there's nary an [[TheOtherDarrin other Darrin]] in sight in the third film - ''every returning character'' is voiced by the actors who voiced them in the first two, except for Slinky, and even then it was only because Creator/JimVarney died.

* CompleteMonster: [[Characters/ToyStoryLotso Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear]] is the ruler of [[Characters/ToyStorySunnysideDaycareToys Sunnyside Daycare]], and oppresses the other toys through brute force and violence. Originally the favorite toy of a young girl named Daisy, Lotso was [[VengefulAbandonedToy mistakenly lost and replaced, leading him to believe that all toys were worthless and unloved]]. Taking over Sunnyside, Lotso subjects the toys in the Caterpillar Room to horrid mistreatment from the younger children. When Andy's toys request that they be relocated to the Butterfly Room, Lotso [[BrainwashedAndCrazy resets Buzz Lightyear]] and has him beat down his friends, showing a cold satisfaction while doing so. When Woody frees the toys and they attempt to escape, Lotso has [[ColdBloodedTorture Chatter Telephone beaten]] in order to get him to explain Woody's escape plan before ordering the toys disposed of in the dumpster. When his minions turn on him and he is taken to the dump, along with Andy's toys, he abandons them to burn to death in the incinerator, [[UngratefulBastard ignoring that they had previously saved his life]]. While he has a {{tragic|villain}} backstory, Woody himself [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse calls him out on how weak it is]], stating that Lotso had abandoned her; not the other way around. Sociopathic and misanthropic, Lotso may have [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon appeared]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil acted]] innocent, but was in fact depraved to his core.

* TheWoobie: Big Baby. Like Lotso and Chuckles, he was accidentally left behind by their original owner, Daisy. Lotso didn't let Big Baby see Daisy for the last time and lied, saying they were all replaced instead of just Lotso. They wound up in Sunnyside where Lotso manipulated and abused the toddler minded toy into doing his dirty work. Near the end when Woody tells the truth that Lotso had lied all the time and he (Woody) gives Big Baby's [[TragicKeepsake old locket with Daisy's name on it]], Lotso grabs the locket from the tearful Baby, smashes it and starts beating Big Baby. Lotso's treatment of Big Baby was, all in all, child abuse. Poor kid.

** Thought the scene of Andy sacrificing Woody to Bonnie after giving away all his other toys was enough? Come ''Toy Story 4'' and Bonnie has been outright neglecting Woody in favor of the other toys. Not only that, but at the end, Woody leaves Bonnie to be with Bo Peep.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: For all the praise ''Toy Story 3'' has gotten, some argue that the film [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks retreads on themes from previous installments]]. [=NitPix=] [[https://youtu.be/KAIz7k5If24?t=453 argues]] that this encouraged Pixar to generate "member movies", sequels which are released decades after the original mostly for nostalgia. He says ''Toy Story 3'' was justified in doing this since the audience has grown up with Andy, but it inspired Pixar to produce a slew of disappointing films such as ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.

* DesignatedVillain: The toddlers in the Caterpillar Room are meant to be seen as monsters for throwing the toys around, putting paint on them, salivating on them, etc. However, they fell into the same trap as Sid from the first movie in that they had no clue the toys were alive. Additionally, they were very young (they all seemed to be between the ages of one and two years), and that is how most children play with toys when they are that age.

* CompleteMonster: [[Characters/ToyStoryLotso Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear]] is the ruler of [[Characters/ToyStorySunnysideDaycareToys Sunnyside Daycare]], and oppresses the other toys through brute force and violence. Originally the favorite toy of a young girl named Daisy, Lotso was [[VengefulAbandonedToy mistakenly lost and replaced, leading him to believe that all toys were worthless and unloved]]. Taking over Sunnyside, Lotso subjects the toys in the Caterpillar Room to horrid mistreatment from the younger children. When Andy's toys request that they be relocated to the Butterfly Room, Lotso [[BrainwashedAndCrazy resets Buzz Lightyear]] and has him beat down his friends, showing a cold satisfaction while doing so. When Woody frees the toys and they attempt to escape, Lotso has [[ColdBloodedTorture Chatter Telephone beaten]] in order to get him to explain Woody's escape plan before ordering the toys disposed of in the dumpster. When his minions turn on him and he is taken to the dump, along with Andy's toys, he abandons them to burn to death in the incinerator, [[UngratefulBastard ignoring that they had previously saved his life]]. While he has a {{tragic|villain}} backstory, Woody himself [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse calls him out on how weak it is]], stating that Lotso had abandoned her, not the other way around. Sociopathic and misanthropic, Lotso may have [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon appeared]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil acted]] innocent, but was in fact depraved to his core.

* EightPointEight:
** The only reason this movie didn't duplicate the 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes that its predecessors got? Two bad reviews. If that hadn't happened, then the first three ''Toy Story'' movies would have made history as the first film trilogy to achieve this. The worst part of it? One of the reviews wasn’t even legitimately criticizing the film; it was done by a troll seeking to prevent this exact achievement. Creator/TimAllen even called them out on this.
-->'''Tim:''' ''You are both sad, strange little men, and you have my pity.''
** Creator/RogerEbert gave a notably lukewarm review of the film, calling it “a jolly, slapstick sequel focused on action and jokes more than character and emotion”. He received quite a bit of backlash considering how universally praised the film was otherwise, as he noted in his year-end ranking of animated films. When a fan wrote an extensive rebuke of his review, Ebert blamed the film’s use of 3-D.

* SacredCow: It's the final installment ([[WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 or rather,]] [[SeriesFauxnale it used to be the final installment]]) of an extremely beloved childhood franchise that many internet users have been fans of as long as they've been alive. Naturally, many of them don't take people not liking the movie well.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Despite the writer's efforts on making Lotso as horrible and unsympathetic as possible, there are some people who feel sympathy for Lotso because of his backstory. Ironically, the script was re-written to make him crueler so that his eventual fate would feel more justified.

* DesginatedVillain: The toddlers in the Caterpillar Room are meant to be seen as monsters for throwing the toys around, putting paint on them, salivating on them, etc. However, they fell into the same trap as Sid from the first movie in that they had no clue the toys were alive. Additionally, they were very young (they all seemed to be between the ages of one and two years), and that is how most children play with toys when they are that age.

* AngstAversion: This movie is notorious for being ''very'' depressing to watch. It has everything from a brutal dictatorship to child abuse, to the inevitable prospect of a slow and sad death. The list goes on. As mentioned below, it gets so dark and grim at times that a number of fans were genuinely afraid Pixar ''wouldn't'' save their iconic toys from a violent demise by incineration. It's not for nothing that this movie is often called (even by ''professional film critics) one of the top ten "movies where [[ManlyTears grown men cry.]]"

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: After playing mostly harmless characters who are {{Nice Guy}}s, {{Butt Monkey}}s, {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s or an AffablyEvil IneffectualSympatheticVillain like Otis from ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/SupermanII'', Creator/NedBeatty proves he can play a completely monstrous villain like Lotso, who happens to be more monstrous than his past villain character and second acting role in his career Sheriff J.C. Conners from ''White Lightning'' and that's saying something. Following Beatty’s passing in 2021, the film ended up trending on Twitter most of the day he passed, proving just how iconic his performance as the character had been among his prolific, decades-long career.

** [[spoiler:During the confrontation between Lotso and Andy's toys at the dumpster, Ken shows up in his underwear and tries to convince Lotso's goons that Sunnyside isn't meant to be a hellhole, and it only is because Lotso's turned it into a dictatorship (along with rebuffing Lotso's assertion that he shouldn't care about Barbie because there's a million like her, to which Ken says, "Not to ''me,'' there's not.") It sounds and even looks a little silly, but the emotion and sincerity that Ken puts into this scene makes it both awesome and heartwarming. In fact, everyone's performance in this scene is top-notch.]]

* FranchiseOriginalSin: For all the praise ''Toy Story 3'' has gotten, some argue that the film retreads on the themes of previous installments. [=NitPix=] [[https://youtu.be/KAIz7k5If24?t=453 argues]] that this encouraged Pixar to generate "member movies", sequels which are released decades after the original mostly for nostalgia. He says ''Toy Story 3'' was justified in doing this since the audience has grown up with Andy, but it inspired Pixar to produce a slew of disappointing films (most of them sequels).

* EvenBetterSequel: This movie appealed to the few teenagers and adults that didn't like the first two movies; it took the ParentalBonus of the first two movies UpToEleven.

* AwardSnub: ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' winning Best Picture is contested in favor of this film instead.

** Creator/RogerEbert gave a notably lukewarm review of the film, calling it “a jolly, slapstick sequel focused on action and jokes more than character and emotion”. He received quite a bit of backlash considering how universally praised the film was otherwise, as he noted in his year-end ranking of animated films. When a fan wrote an extensive rebuke of his review, Ebert blamed the film’s used of 3-D.

* CompleteMonster: [[Characters/ToyStoryLotso Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear]] is the ruler of [[Characters/ToyStorySunnysideDaycareToys Sunnyside Daycare]], and oppresses the other toys through brute force and violence. Originally the favorite toy of a young girl named Daisy, Lotso was [[VengefulAbandonedToy mistakenly lost and replaced, leading him to believe that all toys were worthless and unloved]]. Taking over Sunnyside, Lotso subjects the toys in the Caterpillar Room to horrid mistreatment from the younger children. When Andy's toys request that they be relocated to the Butterfly Room, Lotso [[BrainwashedAndCrazy resets Buzz Lightyear]] and has him beat down his friends, showing a cold satisfaction while doing so. When Woody frees the toys and they attempt to escape, Lotso has [[ColdBloodedTorture Chatter Telephone beaten]] in order to get him to explain Woody's escape plan before ordering the toys disposed of in the dumpster. When his minions turn on him and he is taken to the dump, along with Andy's toys, he abandons them to burn to death in the incinerator, [[UngratefulBastard ignoring that they had previously saved his life]]. While he has a tragic backstory, Woody himself [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse calls him out on how weak it is]], stating that Lotso had abandoned her, not the other way around. Sociopathic and misanthropic, Lotso may have [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon appeared]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil acted]] innocent, but was in fact depraved to his core.

* MagnificentBastard: "[[InsistentTerminology Mister]]" [[BigBad Evil Dr. Porkchop]] is the most reoccurring threat Woody and the gang face during playtime. From launching an ambush on Woody while he's rescuing a train of orphans to teaming up with the Witch to hypnotize the world using cake, Dr. Porkchop has been Andy's go-to antagonist, combining his original toy's [[DeadpanSnarker sharp wit]] with a [[LargeHam bombastic personality]]. In his most brilliant scheme, he disguises himself as a benevolent mayor of a small town and convinces the sherif to make as much money as possible, so that he can swoop in on his ship and abduct it from the bank, making him rich.

** Chuckles is quite well-liked despite his limited screentime, thanks to his [[RecycledInSpace "Vietnam Vet clown doll"]] [[ShellShockedVeteran personality]] and excellent voice acting by the late, beloved Pixar veteran Bud Luckey.
** Chatter Telephone, for much the same reasons as Chuckles, his [[FilmNoir noirish]] "[[Film/AllThePresidentsMen Deep Throat]] [[RecycledInSpace as a children's toy]]" schtick is a big hit with the fans.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Many people bought the game specifically for the Toy Box mode, never even touching the main story. The game even seems aware of this, as you actually ''have'' to enter Toy Box mode before being allowed to start the story mode.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Type in "Lotso" on ''any'' fanfiction website, and you'll find lots-o'-fanfics that show him discovering true love and redeeming himself. Most of the time they involve Daisy.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Type in "Lotso" on ''any'' fanfiction website, and you'll find [[IncrediblyLamePun lots-o'-]]fanfics that show him discovering true love and redeeming himself. Most of the time they involve Daisy.