Crying...

31 year old guy here...yes cried for the last 15 minutes or so...was watching by myself so no one else saw me! What a great movie especially after seeing the first one many years ago. Andy grew up!

I was pretty OK for most of the movie, although towards the end when Andy donates his toys to Bonnie and introduces all of them one by one, my eyes started twitching. However, it was only at the end when Andy gets into his car and sees his toys one last time and says "Thanks Guys" that my eyes got flooded with tears. Even though the previous Pixar movies, like Wall-E and Up were also emotional, this is the only one where I actually cried.

BTW, one thing I noted that it was mostly guys crying towards the ending. The girls were quite composed and were not at all affected by it. Just my observation.

"I'll be back!"

I'm a college student and I grew up watching Toy Story. The ending made me cry...the first time I ever cried over an animated film. Heck, I didn't even sob during Up, but this movie made me think of not only the other Toy Story films, but also my own experience as a kid with my toys. It brings back great old memories and tears.

Just watched the movie. I'm 23. I totally just cried.

I'm not a crier and the movie got me three time; the opening, the scene where they're holding hands waiting to be melted down, and the end. I don't entirely know what came over me. I loved the first movie so much as a kid. This one was like watching a movie where my childhood was moving moving on and... *sniffle*...

Absolutely ... Cried twice when they were approaching the flames, and the second time at the end ...

Isnt the human being such a complicated creature?!

Pixar, you did a masterpiece ... I wish all the kids in the world would watch the toy story movies ... if they did, we would have no more war, famine, or violence

Well. I thought the ending was the most cry worthy. Because of the many reasons people have listed.

The movie really is just as much a good bye to Andy as it is to us. And it is a worthy goodbye. Andy was hestitent but willing to give the other toys away, but when he hesitated when Bonnie tries to take Woody from him. Woody in some sense representing the last bit of his childhood that Andy was hanging onto.
Even if Andy "knows" they are just toys. He, just like we do at certain points in our lives, come to think of our toys and belongings as extensions of ourselves. Even friends.

Or... something like that.

It's definately the saddest of the trilogy. Not only the parts mentioned in the rest of this thread. But also other little scenes in the beginning. Loss of Bo Peep and the other toys. The fact that Andy is lost to them. And the admirable pursuit of Woody to stay loyal to his owner, despite knowing that he will never get played with again.

To answer the question. Despite all that, no. I didn't cry. Not because I couldn't. I could easily have squeezed out a tear or two at the apropriate times. Probably will the next time I watch all three movies in a row. I did at the beginning montagé of UP, mostly because it caught me off-guard at a bad time. :P

Toy Story is my favourite movie series by Pixar. And while I am hoping for a fourth movie, or at least continuation in some form. I would also be perfectly content to leave the toys where they are.

I have never cried at a movie but this movie...I had to fight harder than i've ever fought before, i was on the very edge of losing control of my emotions and just bawling uncontrolably. The end scene was just too much to handle. When I have children, I'll make them watch the first 2 films as children, again as young teens and then show them this film on their 18th birthdays.

I thought the ending was so powerful, indeed because it reminded me of my own childhood, and saying goodbye to it.
Now I have kids of my own and I wanted to see what effect the ending had on my eldest.

I skipped the incineration part of the movie and went straight to the part where Andy reads the note on the box and thinks about giving his toys to Bonnie. My 4 year old daughter was sitting on my lap when we watched the ending together. And I ofcourse was tearing up again, but I thought my daughter was keeping it together pretty well.
But then when Andy drove off, and Woody said his last goodbyes, she turned around with tears rolling down her face. She said in a broken-up voice 'The tears just came, I just have to cry' while trying to smile at me.

This amazed me greatly, how she seemed to perfectly capture and understand the emotions that were going on in those scenes.

Then I hugged her, and cheered her up again.
But that moment I had together with my daughter touched me even more than the movie itself.