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Toy Story 2: Al's Toy Barn

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Toy Story 2 is an animated movies about a toy cowboy named Woody who was kidnapped from his home by Al McWhiggin, who is the owner of a Al's Toy Barn. Woody's best friend Buzz, a space ranger toy and his other toy friends Rex, Hamm, Slinky Dog, and Mr. Potato decides to go and find Woody before their owner Andy comes back from summer camp. On the other side in Al's apartment Woody meets Jessie who is a cowgirl, a horse toy named Bullseye and Stinky Pete the Prospector. Woody discovers that he is a valuable toy they have been waiting for many years for from an old popular television show called "Woody's Roundup". He finds out they are all being sent to a museum in Japan Woody immediately tells them he has an owner to get back to. This leaves …show more content…

Jessie who was abandon from her owner tells Woody that Andy is growing up and will soon abandon him too. Feeling guilty for leaving them Woody decides to stay and go to Japan. When Woody lets Buzz and his other toy friends know he is not going back home once they found him Buzz makes him realize that "a toy purpose is to make a child happy and always be there for them". Realizing his mistake he decides to go back home and asks Jessie, Bullseye and Stinky Pete to come with him. They all come home before Andy arrives leaving Stinky Pete behind who still wanted to go to Japan. In this movie it shows many interpersonal concept. The concepts that were portrayed mainly were self-disclosure, self-concept, aggressive, cultural shock, and dyadic …show more content…

Lorraine Browna and Immy Holloway explains that when you experience you feel "anxiety that results from losing the familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse, and their substitution by other cues that are strange" (34). Woody was surrounded with unfamiliar background and was at unease when he first met Jessie. He was panicking and wanted to go home to where he was more comfortable. ".. the third Recovery stage the visitor feels more use to the new cultural environment and develops a sense of humor"(34). By the time Woody started learning about himself being a valuable collectable from an old popular show he was more comfortable with Jessie, Bullseye and Stinky Pete and was able to freely joke

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