Toy Story 2 in 3D

Why Avatar is very hot? One of the reason is because it is the 3D version. It's easy to forget that Toy Story 2 was commissioned by Disney to be a cheap straight to DVD sequel to the landmark computer animated film which made Pixar's name. Throw in the fact that the film was almost completely rewritten and re-shot by the original creative team after an earlier attempt by a crew of second-stringers was deemed inferior, and it really is remarkable that this movie exists in its true, accomplished form at all.

Pixar's refusal to follow Disney down the path of facile followups helped establish the nascent company as a genuinely ground-breaking force with a constant mark of quality, rather than a one-hit wonder. Eleven years on, the critics are just as enamoured of John Lasseter's creation as they ever were. Toy Story 2 is more confident, more exciting and more adventurous than its predecessor, the first animated feature film to be shot entirely in CGI. Yet there's a sense that the 3D version, re-released in cinemas as a taster for the forthcoming Toy Story 3, fails to add an awful lot to the picture

The story this time sees Buzz Lightyear and the other toys setting out to rescue Woody the cowboy, who's been kidnapped by a collector. With Woody vascillating between his old life and the prospect of a rather straitened immortality in a Japanese toy museum, there's plenty of room for all-new musings on the wandering nature of children's attention spans and the precarious existence of their playthings.

"The film remains one of Pixar's finest moments. It's unexpectedly dark in tone, and, with its underlying theme of mortality and abandonment, it's perceptively written and superbly animated," says Wendy Ide in The Times. "Certain scenes, such as the toys' daring attempt to cross the road while concealed under traffic cones, work brilliantly, but with others you could almost forget you were watching in 3D were it not for the ridiculous spectacles."

"It drips with the panache and humour that put Pixar ahead of the competition," is Channel 4 Film's (uncredited) verdict. "The 3D on offer throughout is done with style, making this a perfect present for Pixar fans looking for a pre-meal appetiser ahead of the anticipated visual feast of Toy Story 3 in July 2010."

"Seeing the film ten years later – and in the mighty shadow of Pixar's recent masterpieces – the film feels a little chaotic, safe, tired on its feet: deficiencies that remastering it in 3D (which adds less than nothing to the viewing experience) serves to expose rather than conceal," writes Time Out's David Jenkins. "Still, the scene of Jessie the Yodelling Cowgirl singing about being dumped by an owner is a complete heartbreaker and a clear forerunner to the riskier material that Pixar would tangle with in future projects. In short: 3D, go home!"

"The story of Toy Story 2 is still bizarrely gripping and moving [and] getting this sublime Pixar classic in 3D indicates a different experience to the newer-than-new, gradualist, realist 3D pioneered by James Cameron in Avatar," writes our own Peter Bradshaw. "The sharp, clear shapes and planes, with their vivid colours and hyperreal light, promise to float in front of the audience's eyes, near and far, in something like the old-fashioned 3D way."

When the first Toy Story returned to cinemas last year, I wrote about the danger of audiences feeling rather short-changed by the 80-minute running time and fairly basic 3D transfer. The second instalment adds an extra 10 minutes, and has aged a little better: for many of us, I suspect this is the movie we will remember when thinking about the Toy Story films, if only for the brilliantly realised scenes in the supermarket, and Jessie's heartrending song. Yet the fact remains that in pretty much every other country than the UK, these movies have been re-released as a double header, and I still feel that would have been a better, and more reasonable way for us to have re-experienced them.

Did you catch Toy Story 2 in 3D at the weekend? Was it worth the price of admission, or do you wish you'd held on for the next instalment, which arrives in cinemas in July?In my opinion, if buy Toy Story  disney DVD ,then watch it at home.It's a good choice too.And the dvd's cost is very low.