Toy Story 3 Discussion Questions

1) Near the beginning of the movie, as the toys wonder about their uncertain future, Woody tries to assure the group saying, “Andy must care about us or we wouldn’t be here.”
- What does he mean?
- Buzz says, “Whatever happens, at least we’ll all be together … for infinity and beyond.”
- What does this statement say about friendship?
- How does this idea play out in the story? …with Andy? … with the toys? …with Mom?


2) Trying to convince the others to stay with Andy, Woody says, “I have a kid; you have a kid - Andy. And if he wants us at college or in the attic, then our job is to be there for him.”
- What is he trying to get across to the others?
- Why does Woody feel the way he does about Andy?
- At the end of the movie, what has changed for Woody in this regard?


3) The teddy bear Lotso observes, “When the kids get old, new ones come in. When they get old, new ones replace them. You'll never be outgrown, or neglected. Never abandoned or forgotten. No owners means - no heartbreak!”
- What has shaped this philosophy in his experience?
- What is the weakness of this point of view? Where does it fail?
- And how does Big Baby feel about this perspective as the story goes along?


4) What do the toys do as they are sliding toward the incinerator in the dump?
- What does this action say to you about friendship?


5) SPOILER ALERT - IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE YOU MY NOT WANT TO READ THESE QUESTIONS!
- Why does Andy finally decide to give his toys to Bonnie?
- What is he feeling as he gives them to her?
- What makes Woody change his mind and put himself in the “give away” box instead of the college box?
- What does Andy feel when he sees Woody in the box and how does he decide to go
ahead and give him to Bonnie?



Scripture references for “Toy Story 3”
- How do each of the passages relate to the movie?

John 14:15-19
‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
‘I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.


John 15:12-17
‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.


1 Corinthians 13:1-8a, 13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.