- 10
...even with the bar raised high, Toy Story 3 enchanted and moved me so deeply I was flabbergasted that a digitally animated comedy about plastic playthings could have this effect.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 10
...never lets banter, visual gags, or the usual manic kid-flick running about interfere with its more delicately handled thoughts on loyalty, longing, broken relationships, and generational continuity. It honestly earns its emotion, moment by painstakingly executed moment.
—Tasha Robinson Onion AV Club
- 10
...a powerful, heartfelt mix of sugar and spice.
—Dezhda Gaubert E!
- 10
Impossible as it may seem, this anticipated sequel that was roughly 11 years in the making soars as high as its animated brethren, once again transporting lucky audiences to infinity and beyond.
—Sean O'Connell filmcritic.com
- 10
...by creating the emotions we have always counted on and so rarely find anymore, this film becomes the kind of love note to movies we want and need.
—Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times
- 10
...has more emotional power than either of its predecessors. Come to think of it, it also has more emotional power than most of the live-action movies out there.
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 9
...as sweet, as touching, as humane a movie as you are likely to see this summer, and yet it is all about doodads stamped and molded out of plastic and polyester.
—A . O. Scott New York Times
- 9
...a masterpiece...
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 9
Sorry, no, Toy Story 3 does not live up to its predecessors. It surpasses them.
—Alynda Wheat People
- 8
TS3, like its predecessors, is a clever, engrossing adventure...
—Eric Hynes Village Voice
- 8
Identifying with plastic figures has always been essential to the series' playfully perverse, aptly adolescent allure, but here, that empathy mutates into macabre existentialist dread. How many kids' movies lead their protagonists to the precipice of a flaming pit of hell?
—Eric Hynes LA Weekly
- 8
...a joy to behold. It hits every button from laughter to tears and lifts you up on waves of visual dazzlement.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 8
...may not be a masterpiece, but it still had me in tears at the end.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 8
...lives up to its predecessors in terms of cute yet clever humor and action-packed journeys...
—Kristin Hunt Premiere
- 7
It might no longer be the sparkling new thing on the block, but Toy Story 3 still has a few fresh tricks up its warm, fuzzy sleeve.
—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter
- 7
Though uneven and less witty than the first two, Toy Story 3 delivers quite enough in two dimensions.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 7
...sketchy, but it's also profoundly moving.
—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine
- 7
...a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier Toy Story sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
Whereas Toy Story 2 treated auds to a character-based sequel that handily justified its existence, this tertiary adventure delivers welcome yet nonessential fun, landing well after its creators have grown up and succeeded toying with more sophisticated stories.
—Peter Debruge Variety