'Toy Story 3' Wins Top Award at Rotten Tomatoes

By Zach Dionne Posted Jan 11th 2011 12:45PM

'Toy Story 3' snagged the top prize from film criticism hub RottenTomatoes.com, winning the Wide Release Golden Tomato Award and cementing its place as the best-reviewed movie of 2010. The Pixar three-quel notched a 99 percent "fresh" rating and has held strong since its release last June.

"Deftly blending comedy, adventure, and honest emotion, 'Toy Story 3' is a rare second sequel that really works," Rotten Tomatoes writes in a quick blurb of praise. The computer animated feature beat out films like 'The Social Network,' 'True Grit,' 'How to Train Your Dragon' and 'The King's Speech.'

As PopEater reported last summer, 'Toy Story' came thisclose to being the first film trilogy to receive perfect 100 percent ratings across the board on Rotten Tomatoes. To date, the Lee Unkrich-directed film boasts 245 positive reviews and just three "rotten" ones. Notoriously contrary New York Press film critic Armond White dissed the third installment, and two curmudgeonly bloggers tagged along to dent the trilogy's otherwise flawless web-legacy.

Ah, what could have been:

Pixar films continually score well at Rotten Tomatoes -- 'Up' won the Golden Tomato as the best-reviewed film of 2009, 'Ratatouille' in 2007, 'The Incredibles' in 2004 and 'Finding Nemo' in 2003, 'Monsters Inc.' in 2001, and ... you get the idea. According to a 2008 post at Rotten Tomatoes, 'Toy Story 2' had ridden nine years as the best-reviewed film on the site, with a 100 percent ranking from 121 reviews at the time.

Despite nearly spotless reviews year after year, Pixar's output has yet to soar beyond Best Animated Feature wins at the Academy Awards, notching its first Best Picture nomination for 'Up' in 2010 -- the same year the Academy Awards widened the top honor playing field to 10 films.

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Tuesday 11 January

By mw

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I love all 3 Toy Story movies.

By minutemaus

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All the Toy Story films are overrated, especially the third installment!

By JP

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I agree. Although I enjoyed the first two, yet haven't seen either one since they were in the theaters so don't know if my opinion has changed, I rented part 3 on demand and was not all that impressed. I wanted to see it anyway, but even more because of all the hype. It had it's moments, but wasn't as SPECTACULAR as it is made out to be. And yes, I do have a heart and cry at movies, but I don't see why Toy Story 3 is being hailed as the most incredible piece of cinematic history. OK, that may be dramatic, but I just don't get all the raves. It was cute, but that's about it. Don't worry Andy, stay in college. The Toys Are All Right.

By Heather

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I have to say the whole college bit got me. When the first movie came out my daughter was young. Now she is a freshman in college. She watched it with me and when Andy was getting his stuffed packed and his mom teared up got me and the end was a little sad too. We went through all her things before she left and there was a few stuffed animals that went in her "go to college box"

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