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June 18, 2010 8:09 AM   Subscribe

Toy Story 3, which comes out today, has got a metrosexual Ken doll, an involved escape scene, a wannabe Commedia Dell'Arte performer, and, 111 critics in, a perfect 100% rating on RottenTomatoes, making it the site's third best-reviewed movie of all time. (It's got a 90% on MetaCritic, which isn't perfect but still places it on the site's Top 100.)
posted by Rory Marinich (14 comments total)

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Saw a preview of this. It's everything you would expect Pixar to do. Go.
posted by cavalier at 8:11 AM on June 18, 2010


Every single movie in Rotten Tomatoes' top 100 has a perfect 100% rating.
posted by box at 8:12 AM on June 18, 2010 [1 favorite]


Oh, and to be quite honest it feels like the 3-D parts are quietly shoved in, and can be quietly pulled back out. Nothing feels like an egregrious "OOH LOOK THAT SPOON", which I think is a plus.
posted by cavalier at 8:13 AM on June 18, 2010


I saw the cliffhanger edition back in April. I loved it, but apparently the part we didn't see makes audiences cry. So I'm going back to see it with the ending included.
posted by Rory Marinich at 8:15 AM on June 18, 2010 [1 favorite]


If even a single person gives this a negative review, it'll drop out of the top 100. The only reason it's so high is because (like over a hundred other movies) all reviews are ranked as positive, and because it has had over a hundred reviews (Movie #4 has 82 positive reviews)
posted by delmoi at 8:16 AM on June 18, 2010


... a perfect 100% rating on RottenTomatoes, making it the site's third best-reviewed movie of all time.

Note that the best-reviewed movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes is... Toy Story 2.
posted by Johnny Assay at 8:17 AM on June 18, 2010


Pixar Blue.
posted by ColdChef at 8:17 AM on June 18, 2010


TOY STORY 3 will make you think about Auschwitz.

Woody holds a meeting, where the assembled toy family discusses possible outcomes for their new position in the world. Change a few words and it is the same exact scene at the train station from Roman Polanski's award winning Holocaust drama The Piano.
posted by philip-random at 8:18 AM on June 18, 2010


The RT Tomato rating system is an incredibly crude standard for judging a film's merits.
posted by tybeet at 8:20 AM on June 18, 2010


Rhaomi did it better.
posted by Rory Marinich at 8:21 AM on June 18, 2010


Note that the best-reviewed movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes is...

The big problem with RT ratings is they're entirely based on whether or not the given movie has been given a thumbs UP or DOWN (ie: worth seeing or not), as opposed to the enthusiasm of those UPs. So an intense, provocative, brilliant, challenging film like BLUE VELVET (which let's face it, some people were always going to HATE) isn't going to have a chance in hell of stacking up against a merely good (very good?) bit of non-threatening, easygoing, family friendly fluff.
posted by philip-random at 8:22 AM on June 18, 2010


What's so commedia dell'arte about that hedgehog?
posted by kenko at 8:35 AM on June 18, 2010


kenko: It's much more pronounced in the movie, but that's absolutely what Pixar's drawing on here.
posted by Rory Marinich at 8:40 AM on June 18, 2010


Metacritic has a more refined rating averaging scheme than rotten tomatoes. They give Toy Story 3 a 90/100, which puts it about 50th on their all-time best list.
posted by Popular Ethics at 8:43 AM on June 18, 2010


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