Without going so far to say that everyone has lost their minds, I'm going to have to blow it the raspberry. Some of the major problems:
1) the set up was tedious.
2) the villain was a retread from Toy Story 2.
3) the conflict at the daycare center: the problem of the lack of age appropriateness was contrived and uninteresting. Perhaps the plight in which our hero toys found themselves was meant to evoke some of the horrors of the 20th century, but it still needed to stand on its own, and it did not.
4) The moving set up of the characters' demise at the dump--which, frankly, I was expecting--was shat on to throw in another claw joke.
5) At first I thought Bonnie was a poor kid who was stuck at the center where her mom worked. Then it looked like she was quite well off. Why did she deserve all the toys?
Etc.
Yes, there were some good jokes, and a few moving bits, but it didn't add up. For a more moving meditation on the putting away of childish things, I recommend listening to Puff the Magic Dragon a few times and saving the ticket prices.
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