Quentin Tarantino believes Toy Story 3 is one of the greatest films ever made, which is why he refuses to watch 2019's Toy Story 4. During an interview on Bill Maher's Random Club podcast, the Oscar winner suggested that Toy Story would have been one of the greatest film trilogies had the animated series not continued with a fourth film. Now, a fifth Toy Story film is in the works.
“I don't watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I'm a huge fan of the Toy Story trilogy,” Tarantino said. “I think there's only one trilogy that works completely and completely, and that's A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
“It does what no other trilogy has ever been able to do,” he continued. “The first movie is great, but the second movie is so great and takes the whole idea to a bigger canvas that it obliterates the first movie. And then the third movie does the same thing to the second, and that’s kind of what never happens. You see this big jump from the first to the second and they don’t really get the third movie done.”
Tarantino has noted that the original Mad Max trilogy failed to deliver on its promise of ending with Mad Max Thunderdome being a step backwards from The Road Warrior. In the case of Toy Story, the franchise managed the rare feat of being a perfect trilogy just to keep the series going. This is why Tarantino has never seen Toy Story 4.
“In the case of Toy Story, the third one is absolutely fantastic,” Tarantino said. “It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And if you watch the other two, they’re devastating. But the problem is, three years or so later, a fourth movie comes out, and I don’t want to watch it. I literally finished the story as best I could, so no, I don’t care if it’s good or not. I’m done.”
Woody and Buzz are now back in “Toy Story 5,” directed and written by Andrew Stanton, director of “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E.” “Toy Story 4” was released in theaters in 2019 to positive reviews and grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. It also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
