2. They're Only Ever Going to Cause You Woe
Toys and anthropomorphic buddies have a bad track record in film. Save yourself the trouble and get a bike! Think of Edward Scissorhands as an early example. Despite the fact that he was pretty adept with hedge-cutting and ice-sculptures, he comes to a lovelorn end leaving nothing behind him but a bad reputation and an aging Penelope without hope of seeing him again. Not exactly something that makes a regular occurrence on toys warning labels. A truism of all stories involving toys is that a happy ending for toy or owner is certainly no guarantee! Take the 2001 film A.I. Not only does the toy suffer a miserable existence (something well come back to later) after hes cast aside for the real boy in the film, he embarks on the same futile quest Pinocchio did; only this time with inimitably depressing consequences. After an ice-age, human extinction and a quick re-booting, David is told the truth about the impossibility of him becoming real and given just one day with a clone of his former mother. The film ends with him lying down peacefully with his soon-to-cease-being parent; god help the world in the motherless days to come!