The violence is not a problem, but this movie does contain some emotionally mature situations that can be disturbing to a more sensitive audience. The reviews neglect to mention a very dark scene in which a clown explains why the teddy bear and other toys turned bad. It was an unexpected turn for a comedy, and had both the adults and children raising eyebrows, and my sensitive 6 year old was in tears. I also didn't like the message of the bad bear staying bad in the end - there was no reforming him.

Our diehard fan was so excited to see TS3, but he got nervous when the daycare center characters became menacing. Then came the sinister screeching monkey, straight out of a Stephen King novel. The junkyard incinerator was the final straw. He's ok with the intense scenes from the first two movies but the dark & scary stuff is just relentless in this one; it went on and on. Several children in our theater were crying. We're thankful we didn't see it in 3-D!

pretty violent for a g rated movie!!!!!!!!1

We have four kids, the youngest is under two, so going to the movies can be a bit harry. I find that children under two aren't so worried about movies being scary, but once you hit the latter part of two up into three, children start relating things to their own lives, i.e. making connections. This movie was a bit emotional and intense, and for the most part younger kids (five and younger) will either not understand the emotional intensity or quickly forget the scary parts once the happily ever after happens. I personally loved this movie. It had everything the first two did and more. I thought it was sweet and sad, and it ended perfectly. I thought this movie was by far the best movie Pixar has produced. I can see the concerns for kids finding this movie too emotional. I think the best thing is to know your kids. For example, my three year old loves Monsters, Inc, but for awhile she didn't want her closet door open at night. So, just know your kids' limits. This movie is great for everyone, but just know it has a lot more drama and sadness in it than most kids movies. In the end the movie has great messages and characters your kids will love for years.

Just an fyi that we feel that kids should be 6 and up for the new Toy Story movie. Of course, It's just our experience with our twin 5 year old girls and 8 year old son, but our 2 girls found several parts of Toy Story 3 too intense and scary. And even 3 days later, one of them is saying that it was too scary and she never, ever, ever, wants to see that movie again. They are now skeptical of all of those toys shown in the movie. (Spoiler info below) Basically, the good toys get involved with some 'bad' toys at a day care center who not only 'punish' the good toys by locking them up in cages (crates) and putting them 'in the box (sandbox)' for trying to escape, but the climax involves a very intense scene of all the good toys (Woody, Buzz, etc) heading towards extermination in a landfill incinerator. (reminded us of the fiery last scene in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith). And the meanest toy is heartless and cruel throughout and even with many chances to 'change and do the right thing', he keeps choosing to be bitter and a villian. If you have a young child who still 'believes' in things, then this might not be the best choice. We didn't even see it in 3D and the effect would have been even more intense. We loved the other two Toy Story movies and still watch them all the time, but we were disappointed in the story line for this long-awaited movie. It's as though they made scary moments longer and more dramatic than necessary for 'effect'. Beginning is fine, end is fine, but the middle had our girls crying and screaming. Many little ones all around the theatre were jumping into their parents laps and we were all trying to explain that is wasn't real....but it took almost 20 minutes for 'everything to be okay' and that was frustrating. The movie is a good Pixar family movie, but we feel that people with young kids 5 and under may want to not see it on the big screen.

While Toy Story is a movie made for kids it has some very perilous and infecting scenes that made even me, a 21 YO kid who loves dark dramas a little uneasy. This movie introduces some new characters(Lotso, Big Baby ETC) and they're all very dark characters, especially lotso. These characters are portrayed gambling and laughing at the pain of the "new" toys at Sunnyside Day Care and none of the antagonizing characters find redemption. The oppressive new toys forcce characters like Buzz and Jesse to be in the "toddler Room" because they are seen as having no value. Lotso and his "crew" use terrorizing techniques to intimidate the new toys and force them to do what they want. It's not a good message to be sending to children. Scare people and they'll do what you want them to. Also the Scene with the incinerator at the landfill is outright heartbreaking. The toys accept their fate and wait to be killed in each others hand embrace. This scene brought back memories of Schindler's List for me and is far too deep a concept for young children to understand. It's not like in other movies where i character is heroic and does something risky to save their friends. It's just them accepting death for no reason. It was a powerful scene but for someone who can understand that.

I saw Toy Story 3 with my parents yesterday. After the movie, we all came to one conclusion: It was the worst of the trilogy, and too scary. It was almost a very bad movie. The beginning was okay, and there was nothing bad there. In fact, the beginning and the very VERY end were the only good parts of the movie. The middle had a LOT of fighting and violence. At one point they are carried off in a dump truck, and Buzz Lightyear glows (because he can glow in the dark) with an eerie green light. My mother says, "It looked like a horror movie. It also reminded me of a horror movie." In the eerie light they desperately climb over the pieces of dirty glass, plastic, and paper, which is a scene that could look creepy. What shocked me the most (and scared me!) was the scene where all of the toys are holding hands with their eyes closed, waiting for a very painful death. They are sliding down into a big, fiery pit, which is an incinerator. It was very sad, and it really shocked me. I am especially afraid of fire, so this is NOT a movie I want to see again. Just because of that scene. You can also see some of the plastic toys' 'skin' starting to blacken. "Lotso" the bear who is the antagonist in this movie, is stuck to what he thinks is right. And this is what he thinks is right: "If your kid replaces you, or donates you, or sells you, or anything along those lines, they do not love you at all and never will." He is very brutal, and causes the fire scene. He will attack any toy that wants to go home, back to their kid. If they toy loves the kid, the toy should try and give the kid a 'second chance.' Lotso never realizes this along the course of the movie, and never softens. He stays just as cold and doesn't change, and that is not a good message. Lotso forces Woody and the other new toys to stay in the Caterpillar Room, where they abused and thrown around by young toddlers. At the end of the movie, a guy who is taking care of the trash and taking trash from trashcans back to the dump truck, finds Lotso. "I had me one of these when I was a kid!" He exclaims, and tapes Lotso to the front of the garbage truck. There are other toys there who have been 'abused' and 'worn out' from being tapes to the front of a truck for many days. They could have inserted a message there that said "Even if I'm not a kid anymore, I can't treat this thing like trash." Though the movie ends well, and Andy expresses his good feelings toward his toys, it is sad that Disney Pixar would make such a scary movie. In my opinion, some of Pixar's PG movies were milder than this, but that is just my family's opinion. This should have been given a PG rating at the least.

Well to clarify I say this movie at the Harkins theatre in Chino Hills Ca. on the midnight screening. The theater was PACKED! Surprisingly though not with children as most people would expect from a Pixar movie. The thing that needs to be clarified is that this movie was NOT made for children. As visible by the age group filling the theater, this movie was made for those young adults in their late teens, early twenties. That's why I loved this movie. I first saw TS1 when I was 5 in 1996. I even remember getting a Buzz doll on my 6th birthday. Pixar making a movie for the people who originally saw the movie 15 years ago is absolute genius. Not one movie studio would ever be loyal enough to their customers to do this. There is some dark humor and a lot of macabre as other reviewers were pointing out. I went with my girlfriend (19) and she cried silent tears next to me in the trash incinerating scene as everyone gasped in horror and just as they where saved the humor in the scene rejuvenated the crowd the way no other movie could. If you fit in this category you will absolutely LOVE this movie, just understand that most likely this will be a date movie and not a movie you take your little sibling on. What a lot of overprotective parents don't understand is that every age category will take this movie in a different perspective. A (4-6 y.o.) child (one of 4 in the whole theater) in the seat below me was clapping his hand in excitement to the last scene while I was grabbing onto the edge of my seat. Aside from that there are a lot of social jokes thrown in (such as Barbie pulling out a quote about under-controlled governments) that will make adults laugh out loud while their child will laugh along and not understand, which is completely OKAY, it's what makes this movie so great for a general audience. This movie in general was made for my age group but CAN be enjoyed by a whole family. I do advise though that if you have a child that is oversensitive to wait until they are mature enough to understand this film critically (usually 13 maybe 16 for the overprotected bunch). For those that can take this action filled style they will get a moral lesson in loyalty, trust, and learning that righteousness or doing the right thing is always correct. This movie is packed with positive messages it just might be a little mature for some.

Don't underestimate how scary the baby and monkey are. They really scared my 6 year old son and are not appropriate for a G rated movie.