This movie has slowly risen up my list over the last few years, but I find myself more and more appreciating exactly how complicated and heartfelt this film is, full of very adult issues and situations, but speaking to children. Recounting love lost, outgrowing someone/thing, heartbreak, nostalgia, and the need to find a home.
Toy Story 2 takes so many very difficult themes of so many love stories and handles them in such a direct manner that it acts as it's own disguise... you just don't appreciate how it pulls on the heart strings, and the more you watch it, the more you realize how deep the message is to so many elements.
Toy Story 2 may be one of the best SCRIPTS, forget animation, I mean SCRIPTS to read through of all time. As Jessie recounts her love lost with her owner, it becomes one of those moments that the first time I saw it, killed me. As I get older, it reminds me everytime of friends, things, and items that unfortunately I can't always see anymore. And I'm sorry, but has there ever been a better montage/song in a movie then "When She Loved Me"? ... if you don't feel it in your gut when you see that seen, we probably can't be friends ;)
[quote]
Through the summer and the fall, we had each other, that was all
Just she and I together, like it was meant to be
And when she was lonely, I was there to comfort her
And I knew that she loved me.
So the years went by, I stayed the same
And she began to drift away, I was left alone
Still I waited for the day, when she'd say "i will always love you."
Lonely and forgotten, never thought she'd look my way,
She smiled at me and held me, just like she used to do,
Like she loved me, when she loved me[/quote]
This movie was note perfect.
"You never forget kids, like Emily, Andy... but they forget you.."
There are a few films I'd also consider, but Toy Story 2 is something I could watch no matter who is with me, and depending on what has happened recently, I always feel like I get new insight from it. Just a great, great film.
Edited by mattCR - 11/4/09 at 7:29am
