1. Toy Story
Woah, what's this ginormous franchise about, then?Toy Story tells the tale of a group of toys - lead by a cowboy doll named Woody and a space ranger called Buzz Lightyear - who live in a kid named Andy's room, and the problems that they must continually triumph over in order to stay together, including not getting blown up by the child with mental problems who lives next door, not being sold to Japanese toy collectors, and not getting melted in a giant furnace.
Toy Story was the first fully computer-generated movie in motion picture history, of course, and two amazingly awesome and successful sequels followed. It's also a surprisingly emotional series - one capable of making grown men cry. Apparently.
And it should quit? Why? The
Toy Story series is unofficially the most accomplished movie franchise of all-time, given that it holds the incredibly rare honour of consisting of three separate movies that - judged on their own merits, even - might each be considered "perfect." Given how amazing that feat is, then, I can't help but feel as though it would be incredibly ill-judged for Pixar to try and revisit this world, and there are rumours that they are going to try.
Toy Story 3 proved itself to be an actually perfect bookend to the original movies that so many of us grew up with, and to risk blowing it after such an appropriate and emotional finale... well, I think Pixar would be crazy to attempt it. Fans of
Toy Story should be counting their blessings that the series was allowed to be tied up in such a remarkable fashion as it is - we couldn't have asked for a better end! The bar has been set too high. Move on, everyone. Quick: someone give Tim Allen some work before he convinces Pixar to start on
Toy Story 4!
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