Tell me other moms cried during Toy Story 3

[Leanna Tomlinson]

My kids think I'm looney.:glare:

 

But...

Dd#2 will be joining dd#1 in a few weeks when they leave for college...

I just decluttered a lot of toys...

Toy Story 1 came out when my big kids were little...

We had Buzz and Woody toys, cups, pajamas....

[kewb]

I was crying. Especially at the end.

[momofkhm]

Every local mom I know warned me to take tissues! I forgot and went to the bathroom and got some toilet paper. Then I had to share some with dh at the end of the movie!

[Lucy in Australia]

Not just other moms...

 

Why Buzz Lightyear and Woody are a ticket to tears

[SproutMamaK]

I overheard a group of teens at my church talking about it. One of them, about 19, starting teasing his little brother (16) saying, "And Eric was even CRYING at the end!" which was met by two simultaneous comments : "Shut up, dude, you cried, too!", and from one of the girls that everyone knows he wants to go out with :lol:, "SO? Most of us cried, is that a PROBLEM for you?"

 

:lol:

 

My FIL & MIL went to see it last week and didn't say if they cried or not (I didn't want to ask, lol) but got emotional just talking about it.

[Tabrett]

How about dad's. My dc cried more than me! Our 16yo will be going 4.5 hours away for school in the fall. DH cried and cried.:grouphug:

[TXMary2]

I cried. My ds 19 moved out 2 weeks before we saw it. I cry at almost everything though- even AT & T commercials. :tongue_smilie:

[Luckymama]

I held it together until Andy's mom saw the empty room. Then I fell apart. Ds will be going to college next year.

 

Everyone in our family cried at some point----dd15 cries at almost every movie she watches (so that doesn't really count :lol:), dd10 at scarey parts, dh at the empty room, and poor ds17 at the end with the toys.

 

He still has his Buzz Lightyear in his room. Buzz has been spotted moving around the room, striking different poses, since we saw the movie. Today Buzz is holding his sunglasses :)

[abbeyej]

Entertainment Weekly had a little commentary the other day about "Why Toy Story 3 Makes Grown Men Cry" or something like that. ;) I don't think you're alone. ;)

[bkpan]

Not only was I crying, but I could hear my 10yo sniffling loudly, lol!

[Pamela H in Texas]

I did! My kids are 15 and 17. A little too close to home!

[Leanna Tomlinson]

I held it together until Andy's mom saw the empty room. Then I fell apart.

 

:iagree:That's what go me too.:grouphug:

[1bassoon]

Aw, man!

 

Thanks for the heads up - I'm getting teary just reading this thread, and we're going to see TS3 for the first time tonight. . . . .

 

Better bring the whole box, eh?

[Leonor]

I cried from the very beginning.

 

Myds16 was teary-eyed himself.

 

Woody was his favorite toy. We watched this the night before he was going to a Teen Camp in Virginia (we live in Florida). He was flying by himself for the first time and going away from home for the first time.

 

I choke every time I think in 2 years he will be headed to college.

[Leanna Tomlinson]

Aw, man!

 

Thanks for the heads up - I'm getting teary just reading this thread, and we're going to see TS3 for the first time tonight. . . . .

 

Better bring the whole box, eh?

 

Let us know how you did. :D

[Sumiller]

Yup, I cried. I went to see it with my two boys who grew up with Buzz and Woody. . I mean, we watched the original Toy Story until my ds16 could act out whole scenes with his toys of which we had every. single. one. I can vividly remember him standing at the stair railing by our front door (we live in a split entry) and tossing his *soft* buzz over while singing "I Believe I Can Fly" Good thing it was the soft Buzz or parts would have been flying!:D

 

So, I sat between my two boys (and me with no tissues) trying very hard not to give in but the tears pushed their way down my cheeks regardless. It was a great movie.

[Dayle in Guatemala]

Totally. Both times I saw it.

[PinkInTheBlue]

Yep, that crying mom was me too. Matter fact I bought our 4 year old a big hard back book of Toy Story 3 from the bookstore about a week before the movie came out. He sat on my lap while I read it to him at home so he didn't know I cried then as well. I didn't tell anyone about either incident until now. :)

[mom31257]

Definitely!

[blessed3x]

I definitely sniffled and cried....

I have two dd's who left for college this year. The empty room was the worst for me! It is good to hear that we are not alone. : -)

[dangermom]

Oh, I totally cried.

[renabeth]

I cried too. And my kids are still little. :)

[Lovedtodeath]

It is about a kid growing up... and I have two of them who are leaving me (niece and nephew). Of course I cried.

 

I also realized my age since I automatically thought of myself as the college kid's mom.

Edited July 3, 2010 by Lovedtodeath

[newbie]

Why do cartoons have to be soooo sad. The kids dont cry , just the parents. Why put the sad parts in.

 

I think I have cried at the last three that have came out.

[Love2Smile]

I balled my eyes out!

[Gooblink]

Thanks for the warning.

 

I cried during "Barnyard," like a blubbering idiot for "Up," so I'm gonna wait for "Toy Story 3" to come out on DVD.

 

Yes, my boys think I'm looney. :tongue_smilie:

[Krista in LA]

Thanks for the warning. We are going to see it this afternoon - I'll be sure to pack some tissues in my purse.

[michaeljenn]

Good Grief.. I have not even seen the movie yet, and reading these posts are making me tear up. I WILL be taking a big box of kleenex when I do go! LOL

[jplain]

Oh, I cried. And mine are still little!

[Wyndie]

Yep, wept openly. lol And DH had a severe attack of covert sniffles at the end himself. ;)

[AndyJoy]

Yep, I cried too. I warn all of my friends to bring tissues.

[Donna T.]

I cried :crying: a little at the very beginning and the end.

[gpsings]

I BAWLED. My kids didn't though. I guess they didn't get it, and my dh is a robot, so...;)

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

I cried- both times! So did my mother. My sister said she was the only one not crying when she saw it.

[jenL]

I cried. My boys are still young, but the thought of them going to college and seeing an empty room is something I know will become our reality.

[Hedgehogs4]

DH, DS 8 and I all cried. DD 5 did not.

[Lovin Learnin]

DH and I plan to take dd soon so we have not seen it yet, but both sons went with my two teenage nephews. DS19 was telling me that he nearly lost it at the end, and one of my nephews did cry. DS said it was too close to home, since he is the same age as the kid in the movie and feels like they "grew up" together. He said he was thinking "Oh man, they seriously aren't going to end it like this!!" I love my boys.

[Food4Thought]

DH took the kids. He was still all teary-eyed when he got back, and freely admits that it made him weep. I haven't seen it yet.

[Garga]

I cried at the part when Andy played with his toys One Last Time. After all those years in the toybox, waiting for Andy to love them again...and he did for the Last Time Ever. (The tears are coming again--sheesh!)

 

It's the same sort of crying as when the Velveteen Rabbit becomes real. It's supposed to be happy (the rabbit is real), but something about it turns you into a sobbing mess.

 

Same thing. Andy was playing with the toys and they had a wonderful new home to go to...but...sobbing mess.

Edited July 4, 2010 by Garga

[Mom in High Heels]

Dh and I both cried, but it started with the dog, who was old and fat. Five days before we saw TS3 we had to have our oldest dog put down, so seeing that dog put us both over the edge. We both cried at the end too when the mom was looking around Andy's empty room. We have 9 years before this will happen for us, but we both cried at the thought.

 

A friend of mine went to see it with her oldest son who is leaving for college soon. TS1 was the first movie he ever saw in the theater and he asked if they could see TS3 together (just the two of them) before he left for school. She started crying in line to buy tickets.

[1bassoon]

Sniff. . . .sniff. . . . .

 

Saw it tonight. GREAT movie.

 

And the score:

 

Me = big time crying.

 

Dds 17, 11, 9 = cried

 

ds 13 = nothing. He said, "Maybe if I was younger, I would have."

 

Dh = "I was touched. No crying."

 

We all LOVED it.

 

Ken was the. best. EVER.

 

"No! Not the Nehru!"

[HS Mom in NC]

I didn't cry. I have no emotional attachment to objects, so I'm the wrong demographic for the movie. I'm not generally a symbolic person by nature, so stuff is just stuff to me, it doesn't represent relationships or trigger memories for me.

 

I got a little choked up when the mom and the son were standing in the empty room. If they had interacted much with each other, I probably would have teared up. If there had been a significant good-bye moment between mom and son when he drove away, I probably would have cried then too.

 

I have three brothers and just had a hard time buying into them getting misty-eyed at 17 years old over toys they hadn't played with in years.

 

Lisa

Homeschooling 3 girls from the beginning14, 12, and 5.

 

My 12 year old got a little misty eyed, but neither of the other girls did.

[joannqn]

This thread prompted me to take a couple of my kids to go see the movie. Loved it! I thought it had THE perfect ending for the trilogy. I can't think of a better ending.

 

DD10 cried.

DS3 didn't.

DD 11 months was too busy being frustrated with being stuck in a dark room with nothing to do.

 

I was too busy trying to keep said 11 month old from annoying everyone in the theater, so I saw it. I appreciated it. But I didn't cry.

 

DH was seeing Iron Man 2

DS8 was with DH.

[AndyJoy]

I didn't cry. I have no emotional attachment to objects, so I'm the wrong demographic for the movie. I'm not generally a symbolic person by nature, so stuff is just stuff to me, it doesn't represent relationships or trigger memories for me.

 

I got a little choked up when the mom and the son were standing in the empty room. If they had interacted much with each other, I probably would have teared up. If there had been a significant good-bye moment between mom and son when he drove away, I probably would have cried then too.

 

I have three brothers and just had a hard time buying into them getting misty-eyed at 17 years old over toys they hadn't played with in years.

 

Lisa

Homeschooling 3 girls from the beginning14, 12, and 5.

 

My 12 year old got a little misty eyed, but neither of the other girls did.

 

Well, I cried not over "emotional attachment to objects" as you put it, but the idea of Andy growing up and passing the legacy of his imaginative games to the little girl as he left his boyhood playthings behind. I didn't cry because he left his beloved toys, but because I remember tearing up as I left my home behind for college as a new chapter of my life unfolded. I cried because in about 17 years my little boy will be grown up, and the time is already flying by!

[MotherGoose]

I cried, as I held my 4yo dau on my lap and envisioned the empty rooom scene one day! :)

[Ellen_TX]

Oh there were tears with all the moms in our group.:crying: Oh Andy's last speech about Woody. I am snorting....

 

Oh how the brave little toys held hands...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh