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Wank machine keeps on rollin'
1. Pixar makes incredible, mind-blowing third movie in Toy Story series.
2. Rotten Tomatoes logs over 130 reviews - all positive.
3. Toy Story 3 gets it's first (so far, only) bad reviews.
4. Internet explodes. (Also here.)

The wank seems to be focused on Armond White's review, as he is known for seemingly giving any review that goes against the general consenus. (He inexplicably seems in favour of Transformers 2, for instance.) He also doesn't appear to have actually watched the movie (identifying Hamm as a villain.) His negative review was actually predicted by a number of commenters in this earlier article, asking readers to predict where Toy Story 3 would end up on the Tomatometer rating.

It's all very dramatic, with wank in every corner. But of course, the most important Toy Story-related argument is and always will always be: Buzz/Jessie or Woody/Jessie?*

*Anyone's who's seen the movie will know the right answer to this.

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	rose_tyler 2010-06-20 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	...That's not really a legit reason to give a movie a negative review. He should be judging the quality of the film, not what the folks at the MPAA decided to rate it. Plus, has he even rewatched any classic children's movies lately? They're ALL scary. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fernmonkey 2010-06-20 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	Traditional fairy tales and folktales tend to be pretty gory as well. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rose_tyler 2010-06-21 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Yes, they are. I feel like sometimes adults forget how scary the stuff they probably liked as kids was and thus go "THIS IS TOO SCARY FOR CHILDREN." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fernmonkey 2010-06-21 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	Children tend to be bloodthirsty little monsters in my experience. Full props to Terry Pratchett for recognising that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sylvacoer 2010-06-20 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	Hellz, yah - Maleficent? Can call on the powers of HELL. And turn into A FREAKING DRAGON. I screamed in terror when that happened.* *I was also 6 at the time... ^^; (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	emily_goddess 2010-06-21 12:12 am UTC (link)
	There are parts of The Neverending Story that I couldn't watch when I was little because they scared the crap out of me. It was still one of my favorite movies. (Reply to this)(Parent)

dar
2010-06-21 05:19 am UTC (link)

She scared the crud out of me as a child. But then I began to like her. In the bath I'd get my hair all shampooed up and then mold it into horns and say I was Maleficent.

She's still my favourite villain, because she's so damn scary. At Disney World, the women they get to play her are fantastic. I was 27 when I saw the very end of a parade that had Maleficent in it. The float was about to disappear into the backstage area and I screamed her name. Maleficent merely rolled her eyes to the side to regard me with an eeeevil stare and I about shit my pants in terror, lol.

/thoughts on stuff

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kookaburra
2010-06-21 02:07 am UTC (link)

Those reviews can be handy though- for instance, I have to be pretty careful about what I watch. Some things can stay with me for YEARS afterwards. If a movie looks like it might be too much for me, I go to one of those super-conservative religious movie review websites where they dissect every possible thing about it that could be objectionable so I can make a better decision about it.

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rose_tyler
2010-06-21 02:22 am UTC (link)

I have no problem with him noting, somewhere in the review, that he thought it could be a bit too scary for small children (even if, in doing so, I think he's really underestimating kids). The problem I have, and why I think it's a failtastic review, is that he's judging the quality of the film and the rating he gives it on that. That's irrelevant to the quality of the film.

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chibikaijuu
2010-06-29 09:04 pm UTC (link)

It's useful to know, if you or your kid is sensitive to that sort of thing, but it should have no bearing on the actual review of the film. I also think that people underestimate kids, who often enjoy being scared (to a point) - I know some of my favorite children's films had parts that scared the SHIT out of me as a child, but I still loved them then, and now (and also, the things that disturbed me the most as a kid (and now) were/are not usually the "scary parts" - for example, I loved the boat ride scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, but Gene Wilder as Wonka himself scared me so much that to this day I'm kind of freaked out by Wilder).

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	Totally OT librarianmouse 2010-06-30 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	I'm still terrified of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There's a commercial that plays all the time with that stupid "imagination" song, and I have to change the channel every time. Don't get me started on Oompa Loompas. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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