10 Movies That Relied On Deus Ex Machina

At the climax of the film, the toys have fallen into a garbage truck and dumped onto a conveyor belt at the landfill site. As they fall into the incinerator, they fight to scramble out, but gradually become resigned to their fate and hold hands, accepting that their death is inevitable.

Suddenly they are all grabbed perfectly in one fell swoop by a grabbing crane and brought up to see the aliens operating the abandoned control station, proclaiming ‘The Claw!’ before expertly guiding them all outside to the dump.

Although this is a lovely call back to the claw machine in the first film where the aliens originated from, it is deus ex machina. The aliens evidently escaped en route on the conveyor belt and waddled their way quite a distance considering they don’t have legs.

They somehow navigated the layout of the building and were lucky that there was no one currently manning the crane when they arrived. They managed to operate the crane to such a level of expertise that they were able to retrieve every single toy in one go, when there would not have been time for repeat attempts.

A happy ending, but one that feels a bit to coincidental and convenient when we have seen the toys come up with such ingenious plans in the past!