Video: Toy Story 3: 'Gently prepares its audience for a school of hard knocks'

Xan Brooks and Henry Barnes

Friday, 16 Jul 2010

# Animation in film

Andy's leaving for college. Woody, Buzz and the gang have been retired to the big, bad world of the day-care centre, where playtime isn't so playful anymore. Xan Brooks watches the Toy Story franchise grow up

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Xan Brooks is a freelance writer and broadcaster specialising in cinema

Henry Barnes

Henry Barnes is a former Guardian film journalist

Xan Brooks and Henry Barnes

Friday, 16 Jul 2010

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