I can’t wait to watch Toy Story 3 because I loved the first two, and because this one is in 3-D. You may know that in this film, Andy is going off to college. So there is an aspect to the movie that asks, “What do you do with childish things when you grow up?” On the one hand, Paul says, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways” (1 Corinthians 13:11). But on the other hand, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it” (Luke 18:17).
Ben Witherington suggests keeping these questions in mind while watching the movie.
1) When you grow up, do you out grow play, or just out grow toys?
2) How do you remain childlike in some important aspects of life without being naive or immature or childish?
3) Why do we turn objects like toys into important persons in our lives and invest so much energy and love and time in them? Is this a good or a bad thing?
4) When do you cross the line between fantasy and reality, and more to the point what do you do when you are a person whose fantasy life is far more important to you than your reality, and is just an escape from that reality? Unfortunately for many children, especially in broken homes, this is true.
5) Why is a fantasy life so important for a child? One of the things that you learn from watching this film is that even in the world of toys, there is good and evil, and childlike innocence is not enough to overcome the evil.
