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Wolf Daddy (2005)
If you are reading this, you've already seen it.
Either that or, years from the publication of this review, Hyeong-yoon Jang will have finally succeeded in his quest to out-Japan Japan.
Yes. This animated short is weird. Very weird. It could be the pilot episode of the most trippy slice of life anime ever created.
Seriously, check it out. It's only nine minutes long and on Youtube (at least as of my publishing this).
Rat (2000)
Surprisingly boring, but worth it for the ending.
Never forget that surreal is anchored in the real.
This movie's biggest strength is that it. . . Sort of understands this. The vast majority of the humor is derived from the sense of normalcy -- how it's treated as a barely newsworthy matter of fact that Hubert suddenly turned into a rat.
Unfortunately, this also ends up being the movie's biggest problem. It actually succeeds in normalizing the concept for the audience. And when it does that, it has a tendency to drag.
A plot twist does inject life back into the film, but only briefly, and to ground itself even further into boredom.
Fortunately, all of this builds up to a truly fantastic ending, with its only fault being that an otherwise uplifting and heartwarming message appears to fall on deaf ears for the character that, up until that point, had been yearning for precisely that.
It may feel like a grind watching this movie, but the grind is worth it to reach the end.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
A massive diarrhea dump all over the original
Vanellope goes Turbo. And the movie expects you to be cool with that.
You are indeed reading that correctly. After spending an entire movie discussing the evils of game hopping, and detailing the crimes of Turbo, whose game-hopping caused two games to be unplugged, resulted in Vanellope being mistaken for a glitch, and almost caused the death and destruction of everyone and everything she knew and loved, Ralph Breaks the Internet has Vanellope proceed to do precisely that.
And no, Vanellope is not the surprise villain. Actually, just the opposite: They treat Ralph as the villain for trying to stop her.
All this after a boring, uninspired and completely disjointed slog of a movie to sit through. The plot is bipolar, the characters come in two varieties -- cardboard, and despicable -- and the "jokes" felt old and dated even on this movie's theatrical release.
What we have here is an exercise in Disney magic: An experiment to see if a movie with no redeemable qualities whatsoever can still rake in big bucks, big acclaim and big rewards just because it has a shot of the Disney castle in the opening sequence.
We used to hold Disney to a higher standard. Now we let them get away with having no standards whatsoever.
Stop rewarding this behavior. There are better movies out there.
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Go Go Knockoff Power Rangers!
Seriously? Nobody else can see it? It's a lousy Power Rangers knockoff straight down to the rainbow-colored armor with the two ladies wearing pink and yellow. It does not get more obvious than that.
And a cheap knockoff product deserves a cheap knockoff story. Everything, from the setup to the plot narrative and even the "surprise" villain, is predictable to the point of being painful.
The only thing the movie has going for it is its visuals. And you can tell the developers knew this, as they devote ample time to a San Fransokyo flyover in the beginning. But much like The Good Dinosaur, this only extends to the setting; the humans and BAYMAX look like they are made out of the exact same material.
Screw Disney for putting this thing out, and screw the Academy for letting them blatantly purchase an Oscar just in time for their home theater release.
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Accomplishes some incredibly rare feats (though none of them good)
I don't need to post any spoilers for this movie for one simple reason: It is predictable to the 11th power.
Which says a lot, because a good chunk of the movie's plot is pushed forward with deus ex machina and characters just popping up right the frig out of nowhere to join our hero. But you will know what the "big reveal" about every single one of these characters (which are all stock, BTW -- only the monkey ever proved even MILDLY amusing) the very second they are introduced.
This movie, therefore, accomplishes the incredibly rare feat of relying on stupid random crap while still managing to be boring and predictable.
So if not for this movie's "plot", the love for it must be due to its breathtaking stop motion animation, right? Well. . . Sure, I could believe that. Because the people at Laika have succeeded at pushing the limits of stop motion so far that it can easily be mistaken for CG.
Really bad, really cheap, Norm of the North-like CG.
Bottom line: Unless you're an art snob or keen on pretending to be one, this movie is not for you. It is stupid, dull and ugly to view, and ultimately will only suffice to make you angry at all the people who swore you needed to watch it.
Trolls (2016)
Don't get excited Pixar fanboys, this isn't the epic stinker you were praying for.
Yeah, we all expected this movie to be terrible. In fact, the only people who seemed excited for this movie were the annoying Pixar fanboys cheering for this movie to deliver a nail into the coffin of DreamWorks.
Well, sorry Pixar fanboys, this is not the nail in the coffin you were praying for. Actually, much like the Angry Birds movie, it's surprisingly good.
No, the story and characters are nothing to write home about. But the key is that the movie is fully aware of such. Unlike the average Pixar film, which seems to think it is being highly original as it plows through the exact same crap as all of its predecessors over and over again (which they only get away with because of the aforementioned psychotic fanboys), Trolls knows you have heard this story before and spends only a minimal amount of time boring you with the retelling of it.
So while it's easy to recognize that this is definitely not a good movie, it is, much like Angry Birds, still an enjoyable movie.
Sorry Pixar fanboys. You'll have to wait another year to dance on the DreamWorks grave.
Storks (2016)
Delightfully stupid
Very clearly, this movie did not aspire to the same level as of animated storytelling as Disney, half of Dreamworks, and what used to be Pixar. If you watched the trailer and thought this might be a serious contender for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, you're probably also too dumb to be reading this.
Instead, Storks aspires to be just a goofy animated romp. And at that, it pretty well succeeds.
A lot of the humor feels forced, that is true, but the movie is by no means predictable (at least not until the very end). We have no trouble identifying the villain and the conflict, but it does a good job keeping the audience guessing as to just where the frig the writers intended to go with this. So if nothing else, the kids won't be bored.
It only falls short for me at the very end, and only because they picked a resolution that felt safe and generic as opposed to one with a lot of heart. The short version is that, after the characters really grow to trust and care for each other, they just splinter apart and go their separate ways at the very end.
I would be willing to bet that the original script had a lot more heart, but that somebody somewhere felt it was too risqué having humans and birds call each other family and made a last-minute switch. This leaves us with a few characters that feel like fillers, eating time away from the ones we actually do like, and leaves viewers with a very unsatisfying resolution.
So. . . I guess my advice would be to get the movie on home media and quit right after the epic climax, because, unsatisfying ending aside, it is a cute little story appropriate for all ages. If nothing else, this is worth watching if only to encourage a sequel.
Sausage Party (2016)
Oh no, it's much, much worse than you thought.
The primary villain is a douche. . . Like, a literal, anthropomorphic vaginal irrigation tool.
Do you seriously need to know more?! Okay, here goes:
The movie's "plot" (and I am using that term very loosely) is supposed to be a parody of religion. Unfortunately, that religion angle is hammered down as hard as Norm of the North's environmental message. Translation: You're going to be yelling at the screen to STFU five minutes in.
The "climax" of this plot is when the grocery items fight back and KILL the human customers using darts laced with bath salts. . . So now our movie that thinks it is being so deep and clever about the dangers of religion is pro-chemical warfare. Bravo, movie! Bravo!
Think it can't get any worse? Wrong. After celebrating their victory with an orgy (yes, really), they are informed that they are merely cartoon characters being manipulated by animators and voiced by celebrities.
Attention movie: Unless you're the Looney Tunes or Deadpool, breaking the fourth wall never leads anywhere good.
So the plot is an utter embarrassment, but this is clearly a check-your-brain-at-the-door comedy, I hear you saying. Well, this movie's "humor" comes in three varieties:
#1: Stupid ham-fisted pokes at religion.
#2: Things that have no purpose except to be vulgar and disgusting (because they think "vulgar" and "disgusting" are synonyms for "funny", not things that often go hand in hand with comedy).
#3: Food torture porn.
The first two, you can easily make yourself, by yourself. And the third can be found by watching The Annoying Orange on Youtube.
This is not a movie. This is Rogan, Goldberg, and their many a-hole friends thumbing their noses at everyone else out there who has ever had an idea for a movie. This is the Movie 43 of animation. IT IS THAT BAD.
Do not let them get away with this. Do not watch this movie. Animation deserves to be recognized as a medium instead of a genre, but movies like this do not do the medium any favors. Do not give these bastards your money -- give them the finger right back at them.
Zootopia (2016)
If nothing else, there is nothing "Meh" about it.
Best since the Lion King? Well, I don't know, I'd need to do a side-by-side comparison once it comes out on home media, but it certainly has the potential to be so.
See, the problem is that, while this film is indeed good, the few times at which it blunders, it doesn't just blunder a little. It blunders big time.
Think of it as being- 95% OMG THIS IS AWESOME, and 5% Oh sweet cheese and crackers, why did they do that?!!
Some of the dialogue gets very painfully ham-fisted with the discrimination message, and the characters subsequently come across as tragically unaware because of it.
A few of the characters, chief among them (pun not intended) being Chief Bogo, fell into this category so often that I actually thought they were being built up to be the villains (spoiler alert: they're not).
Equally frustrating about the discrimination angle is that, when you step back and think about it, there actually is a lot of potential rationale behind a lot of the dialogue getting thrown around, but the movie never really explores that and instead tries to use it as a metaphor for our own prejudices (which, again, when you really think about it, they very clearly are not).
The sloths at the DMV? That gets old in about five seconds, but the producers clearly thought it was comedic gold and drove it into the ground, turning what could have been an otherwise cute but forgettable gag into an absolute teeth-pulling aggravation.
But that's about it for the bad stuff. These bits are liable to irk you, not because they are so bad, but because the rest of the film is excellent by comparison. Judy Hopps is an excellent protagonist, easily the best female lead character Disney has ever produced and in my top five overall. Nick Wilde also excels as a supporting character, even coming across as amusing and likable early when the movie clearly does not want us to feel that way about him yet.
The best part about these two characters, and the way they interact with each other, is that, despite being depicted as total contrasts, they are both smart, constantly one-upping and shooting one-liners at each other, so much so that you are guaranteed not to pick up all of them in your first viewing.
One scene, for example, has Judy quip after tallying up a figure that "we (rabbits) are good at multiplying." I didn't realize that this was a double-meaning until much later, not because I didn't get it (there's another joke about rabbits and the way they breed that is much more ham-fisted in its delivery), but because I was too busy laughing at everything else going on during this scene to even notice it.
Some of the absolute best scenes (and thank Jaguar Jesus, there are many of them) are when Nick and Judy are alone and just talking. They have some of the best dialogue -- the best character interaction -- in any animated film that I can remember, so much so that I would honestly be interested in a spin off TV series or set of animated shorts that was just the two of them sharing an apartment or chatting while on patrol. They are that good together.
The plot, though a clear and obvious (and often clumsy) metaphor for discrimination, is by no means predictable, and while you will likely figure right from the start that the character being set up as the villain is not the villain, it will make you wonder if there even IS a villain.
Spoiler alert: There is a villain. And the big reveal of who it is isn't that surprising since some of the earlier-revealed accomplices are the same species. But while it is obvious who is going to be revealed as the main villain at the climax, it did still surprise me (albeit not in hindsight) to know in advance that was who it was going to be.
And frankly, the big tragedy of them not getting more into the dynamics behind their stereotypes is that it would have been an opportunity to better explore the setting. Zootopia is the most compelling setting -- the greatest foundation for an entire franchise -- that Disney has ever produced.
A sequel? Pfft. Zootopia warrants sequels, prequels, spin off movies, spin off TV series, an entire theme park of its own and a multi-server MMORPG. It is THAT GOOD.
This movie's faults are glaring, absolutely, and it's a tragedy that they were not addressed, because everything else is pure epic awesomeness. Just go into it knowing what its drawbacks are and you will leave being ticked off at me for not giving this a 10/10.
Inside Out (2015)
If you think this is original, I pity you
No. This is not an original idea. It is a done-to-death movie idea. It was done by Herman's Head, by Osmosis Jones, and by almost every "Fantastic Voyage" episode of God only knows how many Saturday morning cartoons.
And all of them, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, did it better than Inside Out.
First of all, the characters. They are QUITE LITERALLY ONE-DIMENSIONAL. Instead of opting for personifications of complex concepts like the id and the ego or conflicting mindsets idealist, the pragmatist and the narcissist, Pixar chooses to dumb the concept down as much as possible and gives us personified emotions.
The setting? Yes, it's beautifully animated, but again: It's nothing we haven't seen done before and done better, both with a better interpretation AND with more humor.
The plot? What plot?
There is literally not a single original idea in this entire movie. Even the imaginary friend, which should have been where Pixar flexed their creative muscles the most, looks like something they stole out of the Jim Henson Wing of the Puppet Museum.
So what does that leave? The countless "Easter egg" references to other Pixar movies. Which, more and more, seem less like things they thought would be fun to throw in and more like an endless barrage of reminders that. . .
THIS IS PIXAR AND THAT MEANS YOU STUPID SHEEP ARE SUPPOSED TO LOVE THIS CRAP!!!!
And it's that last point that ultimately pisses me off the most, because the sad fact is that they probably don't even need to badger their audiences into thinking this crap is not crap.
If any animation company other than Pixar had come out with this crap, it would have tanked at the box office hard enough to close the studio. But because it's Pixar, it's cleaning up at the box office, being lauded over by critic after critic for the "originality" of ideas that were shamelessly stolen, and will very likely walk away with yet another undeserved Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
No, this is not a great movie. This is freaking crap. And if we don't call this movie out for the freaking crap that it is and stop giving Pixar money, praise and accolades no matter what kind of crap they give us, we can forget about ever seeing movies anywhere near the same quality as Up, The Incredibles or WALl-E ever again.
Saving Christmas (2014)
Should have been called "Murdering Christmas"
Forget the laughably shoddy production value, the overt preaching, and Kirk Cameron's epic social media temper tantrum when the film was critically panned. All you need to know is that Cameron's message about Christmas is the opposite of what one would expect from a movie called "Saving Christmas."
See, that whole "saving Christmas" storyline has been played out in kids' movies and Hallmark specials over and over again, and it's always about stripping away the commercialism and materialism and getting back into friends and family.
Kirk does the exact opposite in this film: He CELEBRATES and ENCOURAGES rabid commercialism. And worst of all, he even attempts to justify his materialism -- his greed and narcissism -- by claiming that's the good proper Christian thing to do.
So if not from rabid consumerism, what is Kirk Cameron trying to save Christmas from? From people celebrating, or even acknowledging the existence of, other holidays besides Christmas, from non-Christians celebrating Christmas, and from Christians celebrating Christmas any other way than the way Kirk Cameron believes you should.
In short, this is eighty minutes of Kirk Cameron trying to cram one hundred pounds of his self-absorbed discount-salvation bull**** into a one-pound bag, slap "Christmas Spirit" on it with a label maker, and hopelessly attempt to cram it down your throat.
Unless you are a raving fascist fundamentalist who only hasn't watched this movie because you are afraid of what will happen if you turn your 24/7 Fox News feed off, this movie is guaranteed to make you very angry. It does to Christmas the exact opposite of what the title promises: It delivers unto Christ this biggest black eye in our lifetime.
Hating Breitbart (2012)
Just the Tea Party sucking itself off again
It hardly needs to be said that this "documentary" is just the right-wing infotainment industry giving itself another propaganda hand job.
It does its best to ignore the fact that Breitbart was guilty of the very thing he claimed to be trying to root out: extreme media bias; says nothing about his penchant for ridiculous conspiracy theories or the many times he and his stooge James O'Keefe were caught lying or falsifying evidence against the left, much less how the very last moments of his life were were spent trying to fabricate evidence that the Occupy Wall Street protesters were all rapists.
Instead, the thesis is all about how Andrew Breitbart did not deserve to be hated. Which is about as accurate as their decision to call the Sarah Palin documentary "Undefeated." Don't indulge your curiosity by watching this movie. Look at what he actually said, did, and stood for on Wikipedia instead, and you'll be incredibly glad Andrew Breitbart is dead too.
The Boxtrolls (2014)
Dull as dirt and as subtle as a train wreck
One must understand the difference between film made with an artistic vision and films made by uninspired dullards who like to think they have artistic vision.
The Boxtrolls is one of the latter. It paints the portrait of a production team far too enamored by their "artistic" vision (which, by the way, is butt-freakin-ugly by design) to be troubled with telling an actual story. The end result is something that feels like it was slapped together at the eleventh hour, as it somehow manages to simultaneously be a boring chore of a story to sit through AND 100% anvilicious with its Holocaust references (not quite as bad as Foodfight! in that regard, but the fact that a comparison even came to mind should be cause for alarm enough).
In a nutshell, Laika Studios is going the way of M. Night Shyamalan, with Coraline being their Sixth Sense and The Boxtrolls being their Lady In The Water; a movie with all of the hallmarks of their work, but little to none of its appeal (anyone with high hopes for the Wildwood movie should give them up right now).
Movie 43 (2013)
A great big middle finger at everyone that's ever written something
The title is this review says it all. This movie isn't just bad. It is INTENTIONALLY bad. Not just in the sense that it goes out of its way over and over again to be offensive, but in that it goes well out of its way to avoid ever being funny.
If you have ever written a script, poem or short story, it is guaranteed to be better than Movie 43. And Movie 43 in turn is a collective effort by some of Hollywood's greatest underachievers to rub it in your face that you will never get to work in Hollywood -- that they can crank out the greatest travesty in the English language and, not only will they get it on the big screen, but all of the biggest names in Hollywood will be forced to degrade themselves in the process, while your life's work will continue to collect dust while you continue to live in a perpetual state of wage slavery.
Foodfight! (2012)
A museum piece
This isn't just a really bad movie. This is a movie that, ten to twenty years from now, people will be debating whether or not it even existed. Like the animated Titanic movie, it isn't just bad, it is bad in such a way that it will be considered inconceivable that such a movie could have even been green lit; a movie where people will see brief snippets and wonder if it was a real movie or just somebody's entry-level CG demo-reel.
For this reason, this is not a movie that should be watched. This is a movie that should be thrown into the basement under lock and key for twenty years until it becomes obscure and collectible just like Nintendo's Virtual Boy.
I'm not kidding. I have a Dex Dogtective doll, and when I tell people what it is and where it's from, the reaction is always the same: "Holy ****! That thing is real?!" The C.G. is terrible, the characters are one-dimensional, the writing is asinine, the jokes make BioDome look like Waking Ned Devine, and the talent of the voice cast is squandered across the board.
The only thing that makes this movie even worthy of note is the overabundance of marketing icons. But this isn't a precursor to "Wreck-It Ralph" -- won't offer any insights as to what the life of a marketing icon might truly be like (Charlie Tuna makes an appearance, but nobody comments on the fact that he exists to sell the shredded corpses of other tunas). Instead, all we get is a hollow narrative about how buying generic brands is evil. SO BUY OUR CRAP!!! Yes, it's that bad. Right up there with Manos: The Hands of Fate, Tentacolino, Birdemic and The Room: A movie so bad that some people just absolutely have to have it.
The Prodigy (2009)
The worst. The absolute worst.
Anybody that gave this movie more than two stars is trolling. I have seen many films derided as the worst in existence, and let me tell you: This is the absolute worst. There are literally no redeeming qualities in this movie whatsoever.
Animation: Looks like it was done in Poser. The cut scenes in Final Fantasy VII had better graphics.
Plot: Dumb, predictable and boring.
Voice acting: Stiff and lifeless.
Characters: Differing between bland and annoying as f***. Jar-Jar Binks cannot hold a candle to the panda master.
The ONLY possible redemption this movie might offer is some of the set pieces, but that will be squandered completely when you see the complete void of inspiration that are the jade, silver and gold rooms, one of which, I kid you not, is decorated with a giant down-to-the-details ripoff of the Mortal Kombat logo.
The ONLY reason anyone should watch this is to increase your tolerance for pain. All of my friends question how I can sit through Battlefield Earth, The Last Airbender, Movie 43 and 2016: Obama's America without ever once wanting to gnaw my own leg off, and the truth is that those movies are all masterpieces compared to The Prodigy.
IT IS THAT BAD.
Theodore Rex (1995)
Were you expecting anything less?
Like the Nostalgia Critic said (let's face it, 9/10 of you reading about this heard about it from him first), the movie falls apart right at the premises. So if you read the back cover and still decided to check it out of the video store anyway, you'd better not be surprised when it turns out to be anything worse than a colossal waste of time.
It's my theory, honestly, that this movie was intended to ruin careers; that the studio had a bunch of contracts, some of which it wanted to renew for less than they were worth, and others it just wanted to be done with, and this movie was their way of making it happen.
And, well, when you look at it through that kind of perspective, there is something oddly compelling about it. And that's why it only gets a 2/10 from me. Sure, it's an absolute disaster of a film, but I was never angered by its existence the same way I was Garbage Pail Kids or Movie 43. Just bewildered by it.
2016: Obama's America (2012)
If you thought this movie was going to be unbiased and objective, I pity you.
This is just the typical Republican crap rhetoric with a fancy label on it, brought to you by someone who has either sold his soul to party-over-country partisanship, or who saw the ratings for Sarah Palin's Alaska and realized the Tea Party were as gullible as they come.
They even threw in the "United States of Islam." That should tell you all you need to know.
All of these people giving it ten stars are lying Tea Party soul-sellers that are all too eager to believe anything about Obama as long as it's negative. Do not be fooled.
The only thing positive that can be said about this "documentary" is that the people behind it did a better job concealing their allegiances than FOX News (not that that's any accomplishment).
Do not give these people your money. Even if you don't like Obama, you owe it to yourself not to let them get away with this.
This is not a documentary. Do not let them get away with calling it one.
Tentacolino (2004)
What were you expecting?
Okay, look, we all know about the movie that came before this. So if you saw that and you're honestly interested in the sequel, there are only two possible explanations: A) You are trying to plunge yourself into the depths of hell by finding the worst movie ever, or B) you love to laugh at incredibly bad movies.
If it's the former, don't bother, this isn't it. But if it's the latter, you're in luck. This movie is so bad, it's hilarious.
The predecessor was most critically panned for relying on ridiculous leaps of logic to move its plot along, like magic moonbeams and a giant otter-faced octopus. "In Search of the Titanic" is NOTHING BUT that kind of craziness -- it begins only five minutes in, and it just gets crazier from there.
The first one was insulting. But this one is just too stupid and random to possibly be taken seriously. It's like the crew WANTED this movie to be as laughably crazy as possible.
And they succeeded. If you do watch this, watch it with a group of friends; you'll have a gay old time mocking it together.
Titanic - La leggenda continua (2000)
The NC was wrong.
Don't listen to the Nostalgia Critic. Of the three animated Titanic movies out of Italy, this is the worst.
Don't get me wrong, "The Legend of the Titanic" is an absolutely abysmal movie, one that tried to be a whimsical retelling of a historical event but instead wound up as an absolute mindscrew.
Still, emphasis on the word "TRY" in that sentence. It may have been an absolute abysmal failure of a movie, but there was actual effort put into it. Every idea that went into it may have been crap, but there was some actual thought to be had.
Not so with "Titanic: The Legend Goes On." From start to finish it is abundantly clear that the entire crew of this movie had no ambition whatsoever except to piggyback on James Cameron's success with as little effort -- as little thought -- on their part as possible.
The short version is that, if you play a drinking game where you drink every time you see something that is a direct ripoff of Titanic, and your friend drinks every time they reuse animation, both of you will succumb to alcohol poisoning before you get halfway through.
"The Legend of the Titanic" may have been an insult to the event, but "Titanic: The Legend Goes On" is an insult to the event, AND to animation. You can't even argue that this movie is so bad it's funny (which you could with TLotT and its sequel). Both movies were crap, but this is the one that never aspired to be anything more than that.
El delfín: La historia de un soñador (2009)
Somebody dropped the ball. . .
I won't lie: This movie is flawed. Big time. The characters are mostly personality-deprived, the writing is terrible, and the plot has a tendency to rush through things with deus ex machina then stretch things out with pointless dribble.
But for all of its faults, I can't hate this movie. . . Much.
The most maddening thing about it, in fact, is that it has its moments of brilliance. The animation is anything but lazy, especially during above-water sequences (the water movements is pretty convincing). The soundtrack (with exception of the "Fly Daniel Dolphin" song) is nicely assembled, and the villain is a thing of brilliance (up until the big reveal at the end, at least).
The impression I'm given is that this movie was a labor of love for some people -- that some people REALLY wanted this movie to be good, but that a couple of other people just got high and winged it at the last second. I'm left with the impression that it's more an example of wasted potential and less one of how low the entertainment industry can go.
Again, it's not a good movie, but for an animation buff, there is enough in here to make it worth a rental at least.
Toy Story 3 (2010)
The obvious conclusion.
Lets get one thing straight: Toy Story 3 is not a bad movie. It follows the exact same formula as the previous two installments, and does succeed in bringing the series to its logical conclusion. The writing, voice acting and animation are no different from their predecessors -- that does not warrant discussion.
The problem is that, as I said, it follows the logical conclusion. Chances are that, when you heard there was going to be a Toy Story 3, you or someone you know must have said "Well the only way they could conclude it in a good way would be (yadda yadda yadda)." And chances are that whatever was speculated is exactly what happens in the movie.
In other words, its way too predictable. Even little kids will continually find themselves thinking "Yup. Saw that one coming." This is a spoiler-free review because I don't need to write spoilers; you'll know exactly what's going to happen with which characters as soon as they are introduced.
This is ultimately what kills it. Five minutes in, you'll know how it's going to end. Save your money and just try to think for yourself how this movie must have gone; 99/100 of you will be spot on.