![]() The rest of the plot is a series of mostly antic, sometimes anxious episodes, as the toys break them out of their prison. When Buzz complains that the room “is not age-appropriate for me and my friends,” Lotso puts the new toys on nighttime lockdown, with Ken their keeper. During playtime, they tear into their toys with an unnerving ferocity, pounding, biting, licking, and slamming them into walls, when they’re not using them as paintbrushes or dunking them in paste. And in this room, you see (though Woody doesn’t), the children are monsters. ![]() In this room, the children are younger than in the Butterfly Room. While Woody is wondering how to get away and get back to Andy before he leaves for school, he learns another tidbit of story, namely, that Sunnyside is not what it looks like, and that his friends, being the newbies, are assigned to the Caterpillar Room. One of these detours involves Woody being picked up by a daycare kid, Bonnie (Emily Hahn), who loves her own collection and treats them to tea parties when they’re not being descended upon by witches (as one of Bonnie’s toys explains to Woody, “We do a lot of improv here”). He lights out for home, determined to “always be there for Andy,” no matter how full of detours the journey. But even as they sigh and smile, and Barbie moves in with Ken, Woody remains skeptical, as well as abjectly loyal to his original kid. “No owners means no heartbreak.” As Andy’s toys have so recently undergone quite a bit of heartbreak - being stuffed in a black plastic bag, deposited on the curb, and nearly scooped up by the garbage collectors - they’re inclined to accept this new story, to embrace their new location and feel lucky. “You’ll never be outgrown and neglected,” Lotso rhapsodizes. The camera pans up to show photo after photo of classes of kids. When daycare kids grow up, he points out, others replace them. These include Lotso (Ned Beatty), a plush pink teddy bear who promises the newcomers that here at the daycare center they will be played with - forever. Instructed by his mom (Laurie Metcalf) to relegate his collection to the attic, daycare center or trash, he puts off the decision, a delay that leads (inevitably) to confusion and mistakes and so the toys make their own, not so well informed, choice, joining Barbie in the Sunnyside box and so deposited before Ken and his buddies. As the third installment begins, Molly’s big brother (John Morris) is 17 and headed to college. These would be Andy’s toys, moral center Woody (Tom Hanks) and self-loving Buzz (Tim Allen), as well as shrewd Jessie (Joan Cusack), ever panicky Rex (Wally Shawn), and all the other toys you’ve come to know and love in the first two Toy Stories. It’s surprising that Sunnyside has security, at least to the new toys. He keeps track of new toys’ assignments at Sunnyside, and he runs the nightly card game. ![]() ![]() In this cleverly entertaining movie, Ken’s story is even more complicated. They tend to roll their eyes when he poses, and observe that he is, after all, “a girl’s toy.” You sort of know he is, after all, much like his fellow toys. And… even as you begin your own guessing at what his shiny chest and colorful swim trunks really mean, you see that Ken’s secret life is more complicated than whether he’s gay or not. Best of all, he exults, he’s got a whole “room to change clothes in.” Eeeeh!īarbie can’t guess, being plastic, but Ken’s beguiling surface is actually deceptive. He does have a nice ascot, as well as the Dream House, which features a pool and a disco room. And Ken, well, it’s not so clear how he came to Sunnyside or what he’s been up to since he arrived. She’s arriving at a daycare center, the Sunnyside, following a bit of trauma: her girl Molly (Beatrice Miller) has decided, in a seeming split second, to toss her once-favorite doll, leg warmers and all. For when they meet in Toy Story 3, Ken and Barbie are coming from very different places. That doesn’t mean, however, that they’re ready for each other. Joe,” says Ken (voiced by Michael Keaton), “But come live in my Dream House.” Barbie (Jodi Benson) beams, the camera closes on their facing profiles, and then they gush simultaneously, “It’s almost as if we’re made for each other.”
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