It's That Time Again

[Miriel]

I sincerely hope that "How to Train Your Dragon" bests Toy Story 3. The latter was good, but not exceptional, and "How to..." is just a better movie.

How To Train Your Dragon was awesome, but I think it was a much easier film to do than Toy Story 3. One of the most impressive things about Toy Story 3 was just how perfectly this final film finished the story that began 2 films and 15 years ago.

It's one thing to make a funny, touching, adventurous film. It's another thing to do all those things AND be one of the most cohesive, poignant and pitch-perfect ending to a movie series, ever. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 = great animated movies. But Toy Story + Toy Story 2 + Toy Story 3 combined makes for one of the best film trilogies of all time. Lord of the Rings is still my favorite trilogy, but it had it's bad total "wtf?" moments whereas the Toy Story trilogy has been consistently amazing from start to finish. How many film series can say that?