Quentin Tarantino thinks “Toy Story 3” is one of the best movies of all time, which is why he refuses to watch 2019’s “Toy Story 4.” In an interview on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, the Oscar winner said that “Toy Story” could have been one of the great film trilogies if the animated franchise had not continued with a fourth film. A fifth “Toy Story” film is now on the way.
“I don’t watch all the cartoons and stuff, but I’m a huge fan of the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy,” Tarantino said. “I think there’s only one trilogy that absolutely and utterly works, and that’s ‘A Fistful of Dollars,’ ‘For a Few Dollars More,’ and ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.'”
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“It does what no other trilogy has ever done,” he continued. “The first film is great, but the second film is so great and puts the whole idea on such a big screen that it eclipses the first. And then the third film does the same thing to the second, and that’s what somehow never happens. You see this big jump from the first to the second, and they don’t really make the third one.”
Tarantino noted that the original Mad Max trilogy failed to achieve a successful ending, with Mad Max Thunderdome being a step backwards after The Road Warrior. In the case of Toy Story, the franchise achieved the rare feat of being a perfect film trilogy, only to continue on. For this reason, Tarantino will never see Toy Story 4.
“With ‘Toy Story,’ the third one is just great,” Tarantino said. “It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve seen the other two, it’s just devastating. But the thing is, they made a fourth one three years later or something, and I have no desire to watch it. You literally finished the story as perfectly as you could, so no, I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done.”
Woody and Buzz now return for “Toy Story 5,” directed and written by Andrew Stanton, the director of “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E.” “Toy Story 4” was released in 2019 to rave reviews and grossed over a billion dollars at the box office worldwide, as well as winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
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