Pizza Planet truck!!! A113 license plate!!! Pizza Planet driver!!! My Neighbor Totoro!!! Bud Luckey (Rick Ricker from The Incredibles)!!!
Lee Unkrich did an absolutely incredible job tying together everything the Toy Story universe has meant to a generation of fans. This film is absolutely phenomenal.
And there’s really awesome promotional materials all over the place!
At the Century 20 theatres…
At Disney’s California Adventure…
And I’m sure much more. Way to go Disney-Pixar! 
Laura and I elected to not pay a surcharge for fancy 3D.
Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois?!?!?! That’s what you get, Disney! Well, then again Disney couldn’t make a movie like this one, but my point is somehow still valid! Not really, I’m just stubborn. Anyways – as I understand it, Chris and Dean were key players at Disney’s Florida animation studio (located inside Disney’s MGM Studios before the name change and before they shut it down) and were partially responsible for Mulan (1998) and almost wholly responsible for Lilo and Stitch (2002), which are two of my favorite post-Frank Wells animated feature films (Chris was also prominantly featured along with other crew members of Mulan in Drawn to Animation at Disney’s California Adventure until it was replaced with The Animation Academy). To the best of my understanding, Chris Sanders left or was fired after which Disney turned Chris Sanders’ American Dog (a quirky road comedy) into Bolt (2008).
This film is delightful, quirky and a wonderfully poignant father-saddled-with-oddball-son-who-ends-up-proving-his-father-wrong tale.
There was a delightful “Whole New World” sequence in the film (without waxing musical) when Toothless takes Hiccough and Astrid for a fly (soaring, tumbling, free-wheeling!).
The music was wonderful! It is interesting to note that there were a lot of Scottish influences, being that they’re vikings, but Craig Ferguson is in there too, so it all balances out.
Credit Game Final Score: Jeremy 4, Laura 3
There was also a preview for Shrek 4 which looks to me (having not seen Shrek the Third) to be better than Shrek the Third, mostly because Rumpelstilskin makes a WONDERFUL villain. Although the plot outlined in the trailer reminded me A LOT of Santa Claus 3 which reminded me A LOT of It’s A Wonderful Life. Tale as old as time….
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. The trailer sets up the idea of an astronaut on a routine mission to a supposedly barren planet only to discover the planet is fully inhabited. But it gets better than that – the planet’s civilization has a parallel timeline to Earth but it’s about 60 years behind us (and with various technological differences like hover technology) – so they’re at the peak of the 50′s, listening to rock and roll a watching drive-in movies about – an alien invasion by the humaniacs. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg!
The vocal cast was unlisted at the end of the film (an interesting choice), but it’s quite an all-star cast: Dwayne Johnson (who doesn’t sound like himself at all, making him an even more versatile actor than before) as wayward astronaut Chuck Baker, Justin Long as the “alien” Lem who helps Chuck, Sean William Scott as his paranoid conspiracy theorist who works at the local comic book store, Jessica Biel as Lem’s love interest, Gary Oldman as the militaristic general out to protect his planet from alien invasion, and John Cleese as the leading scientist in charge of curing the alien invaders.