Top 10 Saddest (Emotional) Moments in Pixar Movies

1. Andy’s Departure

If you didn’t already cry during UP then I don’t care who you are, you cried here. Not only the most emotional moment in Pixar, probably in Disney, and in my case childhood. I grew with Buzz and Woody. I was Andy’s age when he first received those toys. Then fifteen years later I had grown into a man, I was in college. I cherished my childhood and toys above anything. It was an innocence and simple time that I will no longer get back but I must find it in other ways now. And here, at the conclusion of Toy Story 3, it is done in so many ways. From the drive to Bonnie’s, the slow personal departure with each toy, to Woody sitting and watching as Andy drives away, for good. A man now. No need for toys. His responsibilities and goals lay elsewhere. Everything that was important to Woody, his commitment, his life, now finished. We watched Andy grow into a man then not only symbolically, but psychically give his childhood away (but I love that he handed that joy to another child who needed it). It was an end to an era of childhood as it was for me. It was a parallel to my life and tears come to my eyes every moment I watch it. How did you do it Pixar, how did you do it? It was such an amazing piece of story telling that was the greatest example of what movies and art are suppose to be–a reflection of human nature. I mentioned it before, but here it is through a toy, and in addition a boy. We are Andy. We are Woody. We are Toy Story. This scene hits you from every direction and every emotion. Departure, purpose, a place in the world, growing up, change…you name it, it was there. Just thinking about it now gets me choked up. A phenomenal piece of emotional story telling all the way to the final “Goodbye partner.” Amazing–simply amazing.

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