Cars 2 (Pixar)

[WDOgF0reL1fe]

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Ahhhh haha.
I love it.

But yes youre right.
Pixar makes every movie seem more realistic because of the fact that it shows the movie is fake.
Finding Nemo had the dentist.
Toy Story 1 has Sid.
Wall E has the lazy human race.

Cars has.... seatbelts

[Blzer]

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Mr. Moviefone was on the radio and he said something that finally helped me realize what it is about Cars that I don't like - or don't get.

There's no people!

No, really, it sounds really stupid (I know), but every other Pixar film may have talking toys, robots, fish, rats, whatever it may be, but when in the real world, with people, they don't communicate with them. The toys are toys. The fish are fish. The rats are, well, they are rats.

But in Cars there's no people. They live in a world of living cars. And they have seats and doors for who? For WHO?!

It's driving me crazy right now. Like I said, it's stupid, but it is exactly what's bothered me about the franchise. I just never realized it.

I mentioned this in one of my posts.

[CMH]

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I mentioned this in one of my posts.

You did. I definitely overlooked it.

And I guess I can get over the cars being alive in their own and stuff, even though every other Pixar movie features humans in one way or another. Eventually it does seem to become too much, though. I don't think it's as appealing to people for the whole world to be based around vehicles.

I think hearing it rather than reading it is what made the old brain click here. My fault for not realizing what you were saying here. But, yes, I think you definitely get it. It's not appealing (at least not to me) that the whole world is based around vehicles.

It really takes me out of that sense of reality and I know you're one of the few guys here that really understands that point of reality in a fictional film.

[Blzer]

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You did. I definitely overlooked it.



I think hearing it rather than reading it is what made the old brain click here. My fault for not realizing what you were saying here. But, yes, I think you definitely get it. It's not appealing (at least not to me) that the whole world is based around vehicles.

It really takes me out of that sense of reality and I know you're one of the few guys here that really understands that point of reality in a fictional film.

Haha, no problem. Just don't want Mr. Moviefone to steal all my thunder.

I'm not really sure where Pixar came up with this idea, either. I always praised them for "taking the ordinary and offering a fantasmal extraordinary element to it." They use everyday, innocuous things and made something special out of them. Yes, the message in Cars was actually kind of nice... but using cars to do it? I don't know if that was really the best idea.

Think about it... talking cars docking talking ships, boarding talking planes, getting rigged to a talking trailer, heading toward a race track for the cars with cars in the stands, cars as the pit crew... it's just too much.

I never understood the racing aspect, either. What's the actual element of racing for them in the films? It seems like in the first movie, McQueen can just speed up whenever he wants to and get past other drivers. So weird lol. I'm not sure where Pixar came up with this idea for a film.

By the way, RT is now displaying a 36% score out of 99 reviews.

[Husker_OS]

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The cars replaced humans. I don't see the big deal with that.


It also told a great story for adults watching the movie.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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Plus, John Lasseter, the head honcho of Pixar, directed and helped write both installments as well as the TV series (Mater's Tall Tales) and the first Cars was one of his babies. Just look at his enthusiasm in the interviews about them! Prior to that the last film he directed was Toy Story 2, seven years prior. I figure if it's good enough for the big dog in Pixar, then it's good enough for me.

The lack of humans didn't bug me, and I thought the characterization of the whole world being living vehicles and having the architecture and landscapes was pretty interesting. I don't look for realism in my animated films ("oh no, Lightning is losing but now he's magically speeding up and going faster in REVERSE than he was in forward motion!"). I kid Blzer, but then again, I still don't see the edge enhancement in TDK, LOL.

[Watson]

I'd buy it on blu-ray just for the race scenes. Those were well-done.

Imo, Mater wasn't terrible as some critics made him out to be, but it wasn't awesome. There were secret agent clichès but what can you do about it? It took me about 3/4 of the movie to fid out who the real bad guy was. I was hoping for a bit more real-world references to people, but there was one race car driver i could not identify.

I liked it better than Up however.

And it included Brent's "You are looking LIVE" which gave me some goosebumps.

[moose1619]

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The Incredibles bored me to tears...while I love the original Cars to bits.

It just goes to show, one man's crap is another man's gold.

i agree spto, while I don't dislike the Incredibles it is one of mine and my kids least favorite Pixar films. My kids and I love cars and will probably enjoy the cars 2.

[TracerBullet]

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I'd buy it on blu-ray just for the race scenes. Those were well-done.

Imo, Mater wasn't terrible as some critics made him out to be, but it wasn't awesome. There were secret agent clichès but what can you do about it? It took me about 3/4 of the movie to fid out who the real bad guy was. I was hoping for a bit more real-world references to people, but there was one race car driver i could not identify.

I liked it better than Up however.

And it included Brent's "You are looking LIVE" which gave me some goosebumps.

I'm guessing your brain shot forward to September for those few moments.

[Watson]

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I'm guessing your brain shot forward to September for those few moments.

You could say that, lol.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Easily, like this:

I stopped watching that scene at 1:34 with no desire to watch Cars, or the sequel, anytime soon.


See?

I thought the first one was boring as hell. Probably the only Pixar movie I did not enjoy watching at the end of the film.

[Blzer]

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I already posted this in the What movies have you seen recently? thread, but I thought I'd bump this thread and re-post my impressions here for people who might have been on the edge before:

Cars 2

After creating the thread and posting the ugly Rotten Tomatoes overall score, I must say I went into the theater with a clear head and decided to ignore the negative criticism about the film. Needless to say, despite it being Pixar's poorest effort when it comes to delivering a story with a beating heart, I very much enjoyed the film.

The annoying part for me was, the positives in this film were also the negatives, and vice versa. The biggest issue was that, thinking back, this film was "doomed to fail" from the start. Nobody wanted Cars 2, and it wasn't necessarily because they disliked the first one, but it was because there wasn't really anything interesting to bring to the table if they wanted to stick true to the original's formula. So, what did they do? They deviated from it. They left Radiator Springs. Hell, they left North America. They went international, and showed us a new world of more talking cars, ships, planes, etc. This is both good and bad. What happened to the first movie heavily involving characters like Sally and Doc? A lot of times, I really felt like they ignored the first film in this regard. People will see the connections between the two, but this "new world" that we jump into is probably too sudden to feel the wanted connection. But again, if you wanted to make the story compelling enough, you probably had to do what they did.

As you know from the trailers, Mater takes the lead (even more so than Lightning McQueen, at least in terms of screen time) and is mistaken for an undercover spy. I really thought I would hate this aspect. Truthfully, I wanted Mater killed off, he's annoying. And yeah, he still is annoying... but I can't put up a double-standard here. Dumb & Dumber worked very well with the tactical ploy of two nimrods getting away with everything by making the most ridiculous decisions and being regarded as undermined professionals. Cars 2 used Mater in the same way, and frankly, it was fun... stupid, but fun.

I enjoyed the action, the racing, the gadgetry, the animation, and the 3D. I think the movie lost some of its luster as it neared the end, but it kept me engaged, as well as the children. For a G-rated movie, I don't know if all of the explosions and car destruction (in other words, cars die) in the film, but I'm not going to take that up with the MPAA. If they want to sell merchandise... and I see how they can even use "Monster Truck Mater" as a toy... they might as well get everyone to see their film.

It wasn't tied up in a pretty bow like most Pixar movies do, either leaving some sort of raised hairs, goosebumps, spine chills, or teary eyes... but I saw Kung Fu Panda 2 last weekend for free as well, and I'm going to have to say that Pixar still does something else with their films that I enjoy more than DreamWorks. Kung Fu Panda 2 is a great animated film, but I just don't walk out of the theater remembering it the same way that I will with Pixar films, and I can assure myself that this will be a Blu-ray purchase for me down the road.

I also wanted to make a couple of more notes that I didn't really get into before:

- The visuals are gorgeous! You can't do much with cars in terms of showboating awesome animation, but everything was quite a vibrant spectacle, especially the montages and cityscapes. The 3D was a major turn-on, and only really had one element of something "popping out of the screen," but not in the way where you are dodging yourself, so it's not that obtrusive. It was done very well.

- They brought in my new favorite character in the series, Finn McMissile. I was kind of annoyed at first because all I could picture was Michael Caine as a talking car, but eventually he became his own character, and he is really the one car I wanted to keep seeing on screen. For the record, my previous favorite characters were Fillmore and Sheriff.

[Watson]

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Well, Fillmore plays a bit of an unseen major role in Cars 2.

[ESPNdeportes]

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In terms of popularity with kids, Cars blows all the other Pixar movies out of the water, with Toy Story a distant 2nd. Finding Nemo had its time but it hasn't lasted like Cars has. Thats why there is a Cars 2