Toy Story 3 is an upcoming American computer-animated 3-D film and IMAX 3-D film, being produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the third installment in the Toy Story series and is scheduled for release on June 18, 2010, in the United States and July 21, 2010 in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Lee Unkrich, who edited the previous films and co-directed the second, takes over as director. Andy (John Morris), now 17 years old, is just days away from heading off to college, and his toys, including Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), are worried about their uncertain future.
Andy plans to keep Woody and put the others in the attic, but his mother accidentally throws them away. Opening the trash bag they're in, the toys think that Andy is throwing them away on purpose. Jessie (Joan Cusack) thinks the toys should take charge of their own destiny, and convinces them to stow away in a box of other toys headed for donation to Sunnyside Daycare. Woody, trying to save the toys from being thrown away, realizes they're in the donation box. He tries to rescue them, but before he can leave, Andy's mom puts him in the box and closes the back door.
When the toys arrive at Sunnyside they meet many new faces, such as Lotso (Ned Beatty), a pink strawberry-scented teddy bear who is the leader of the Sunnyside toys, and a smooth-talking Ken (Michael Keaton) doll, who falls head over heels for Molly's Barbie doll (Jodi Benson).
The toys are keen on starting a new life at the daycare, except for Woody, who unsuccessfully tries to convince them that Andy hasn't abandoned them. Woody tries to escape, but ends up being taken home by a little girl named Bonnie, who takes him to meet her own toys including Trixie the Triceratops (Kristen Schaal), the rag doll Dolly (Bonnie Hunt), a Totoro doll, and the thespian hedgehog Mr. Pricklepants (Timothy Dalton). Mr. Pricklepants tells Woody the horrors of Sunnyside Daycare.
Before long, the other toys discover through Mrs. Potato Head's (Estelle Harris) missing eye that Andy is actively searching for them after noticing they're missing, and realize how much he still cares for them. To make matters worse, they also learn that some of their new friends aren't as friendly as they thought. When Woody returns to the toys they then come up with a plan to return to Andy's family, but Buzz is damaged during an escape attempt. The toys try to reset Buzz, only to make him revert to a delusional Spanish version of his old self, much to the other toys' discomfort and Jessie's amazement.
The toys now must all work together to get Woody home before Andy leaves for college.
| Directed by | Lee Unkrich |
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| Produced by | Darla K. Anderson John Lasseter (Executive) |
| Written by | Michael Arndt |
| Starring | Tom Hanks Tim Allen Joan Cusack Wallace Shawn John Ratzenberger Blake Clark Jeff Pidgeon Don Rickles Estelle Harris |
| Music by | Randy Newman |
| Studio | Pixar Animation Studios |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 18, 2010 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Toy Story 2 |
