I liked How To Train Your Dragon more than Toy Story 3.
I know, blasphemy but the truth.

I didn't even like How To Train Your Dragon as much as I liked Kung Fu Panda. Not that I disliked it, but it was nothing special, imo.

Oh, I REALLY liked How to Train Your Dragon. I'd almost say it was better than TS3, because the latter was a bit long on the heart-string pulling and was a sequel where concern for the characters has been in-bred in humans for decades - an unfair advantage when said movie is going to expose them to such harrowing ordeals.

But I'm a sucker for emotion. And the final 15 minutes or so of Toy Story 3 hit so many of them that I think it should win Best Picture, and not just Best Animated Picture. I think a fair result would be TS3 for BP, and How to Train Your Dragon for BAP. ;)

If there's a category for Best Claw Joke At A Harrowing Moment, TS3 gets my vote.

If there's a category for Ending Most Obviously Contrived To Make A Sequel Easy Even Though It Spoils A More Emotional Ending, TS3 gets my vote.

I'm not at all sure what you mean by your last comment. That was the steel hatch closing shut forever on Toy Story, and a more emotional ending?? What planet are you on, sir?

I guess a more emotional ending would be the toys melting in the furnace.

I guess. Nah, that was as emotional as it could get, too. Seriously, I felt more for those toys and their stoic yet loving way of facing imminent disaster than I did for any of those supposedly real and real-life characters in that stupid Cameron Titanic movie. Pixar for the win.

The actual ending where I cried my eyes out was a super-duper tremendo BONUS. Pixar For President!!

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It would have been. And a more honest one. Short of that, as I've said before, the proper ending would have been for the toys to all be separated like the Jews at the end of Fiddler and be dispersed among many children, not all given to the one child in the movie who, other than Andy, apparently knew how to play correctly and thus deserved them.

What a terrible shame that, in the end, this is a children's movie and it had the happiest of endings.