Cars 2

2011 "Take a trip. See the sights. Save the world."
6.2| 1h46m| G| en| More Info
Released: 16 June 2011 Released
Producted By: Walt Disney Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://www.disney.go.com/cars/
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Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.

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priceturner Cars 2 is visually stunning and a very innocent kids feature that's sometimes funny and cute. However for big fans of Pixar and Disney this film is likely to rank at the bottom of many lists due to its dumb story and need to put Mater in the lead. Making me wonder why this wasn't just a direct to video sequel or an episode of Mater's Tall Tales.
Oliver Thatcher Watson After the first movie came out in 2006, some thought that that film was the worst Pixar film. But even at what seemed to be their worst, the film was one of the most beautifully animated and surprisingly great films of that year, so it wasn't crazy to think that Pixar could do no wrong. But this movie is a massive letdown that proved that theory to be wrong, because this film is easily the absolute worst from Pixar. I really wanted to like this film, but how stupid and ridiculous the story and premise are, it's nearly impossible to take this movie even remotely seriously. I liked it as a kid, but even then, I knew this wasn't anywhere near as great as the other Pixar movies. Now that I grew up, the flaws I was oblivious to when I was a kid are now more apparent than ever. First off, this movie is stupid. I mean REALLY stupid. I don't know who in the name of god thought that making cars spies was a good idea for a film, because that is one of the absolute dumbest things I've ever heard. It just makes no sense! Out of all the movies to make spy themed, Cars??? Why??? That's so dumb! Might as well make a movie about carrots that work at an office or a shoe that works as a police officer. I mean, why not if there are films like this, am I right? Despite this movie being stupid, this film does have a few highlights. One is that the animation looks stunning and beautiful, and is still one of the best I've seen in a film yet. Another is the structure of this movie, as everything seems to be at a very good pace, meaning that i'm almost 100% positive that children will have a lot of fun with this movie, because it can be very entertaining thanks to its good pace. The voice cast is great too. Everybody did a great job and I think Michael Caine was great as Finn McMissile. But, that's it when it comes to pros. I just can't recommend this to anyone else besides children, because i'm sure they'll enjoy it, but for everyone over 12, it's best to just skip this movie, because Cars 3 is the true sequel that the first film needed, and that movie is much more worth your time than this film by a landslide. Overall, despite this movie not necessarily being awful, it really is one of the dumbest movies of all time.
ErikPedersen1 The talented people at Pixar have brought us many excellent films over the years such as Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Ratatouille, Inside Out, and most recently Coco, to name a few. Unfortunately, as I watched Cars 2, I became increasingly dismayed as I began to realize it was the first film from Pixar that I actively disliked. Granted, I did not care much for the original Cars in 2006, but I would not go so far as to say it is a straight-up bad film. Cars 2, on the other hand, is very much so.The major differences between the first and second film is that whereas the first focuses on Owen Wilson's character, Lightning McQueen, going through a decent amount of character growth before a large racing competition, the second oddly focuses on the first film's comic relief character, Tow Mater (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy), being caught up in a plot involving secret agents and a monocle-wearing super villain. Meanwhile, McQueen and his new racing problem is relegated to something of a backdrop.The crux of the issue in this film, for myself at least, is the focus on Tow Mater, who I find annoying at the best of times and insufferable at the worst. Unfortunately for me, he is in the majority of this nearly two-hour long film. Additionally, the story itself is, simply put, dull. This is the sort of plot you have seen in many, many spy/action films before - there is really nothing new to see here. All in all, the story ends up feeling deflated and tedious as a result.However, despite my criticisms, I understand that this is a film targeted for a much younger audience than myself. I am sure children who see this film will indeed have a great deal of fun with it, but I am disappointed since Pixar films usually appeal to both children and adults. In Cars 2, sadly, there is very little for older audiences unless you like Larry the Cable Guy.I will give credit where it is due, however. Cars 2, in terms of visuals, animation, and voice-acting has a level of quality that is to be expected from a Pixar release with a production budget of $200 million. For that, I have to give the film at least some points.Overall, this would be an okay but completely unremarkable film if Larry the Cable Guy did not have such a large presence in it. As it stands though, listening to Tow Mater chattering throughout the 106 minute runtime brings my opinion of it from roughly neutral to moderately negative.
Fantasylover I loved the original cars movie. It is one of those movies I can stick on and watch nonstop without it ever getting old. So when cars 2 was released I was excited for more Lightning McQueen and friends.Cars 2 starts differently than its predecessor. It's like a spy movie instead, with fast paced spy cars and villains (like from a cheesy bond film) We see Cars fighting and doing stunts for a bit, and we are introduced to the lead spy Finn Mcmissile. It eventually cuts to Radiator Springs and we can tell that Mater is going to feature heavily in this movie. Now Mater is not everyone's cup of tea. I know I don't like him all that much but kids do. Anyway, Lightning comes home from winning his 4th piston cup and he and Mater play around for a bit before Lightning goes on a date with his girlfriend.We learn there's to be a world racing tour on and Mater inadvertently gets Lightning in it with a heap of international racers ( the Italian guy, Francesco, is a hoot!) though only one was a lady, but that's Pixar's choice and so their fault for not having more variety with their characters genders. At the same time there's a heap of spy stuff going on about some alternative fuel sources, defective car types being discriminated against, an oil deposit out at sea, and Mater accidentally gets involved with all this with Finn and another agent called Holley Shiftwell. This is the movies main focus, the spy stuff and not racing. Lightning doesn't know about the spy stuff till near the end of the movie and just does races. The races, of which there are only 3 which is odd for a WORLD tour, are beautiful to look at. Seriously, the one in Italy is so life like! Just like a really Italian seaside town with more racing areas built in. But there's not enough focus on them or the racers which is one of the movies problems. What we do see of them is fast paced and exciting though. That was a highlight of the movie.This was one of the main complaints from people. Not enough racing. If you look in the cars 2 artbook you can see that all kinds of races were also planned like an endurance one, a race in Russia, the Blackforest of Germany and other places across the globe. It's a pity we didn't see these.But it all boils down to Lightning finding out about Mater doing spy stuff, revealing the lead villain and making up as friends after an argument. The last third of the movie is really silly, with flying rocket cars and over the top fighting but it made people laugh and the young members of my family were happy. Once the bad guys have been stopped and Mater is knighted by the Queen car of England of all things, everyone goes back to Radiator Springs for some friendly fun. Lightning even becomes friends with the Italian racer who was constantly teasing him.It's a very silly movie really though there is some violence like one car being overheated till his engine blew. But I've see worse in cartoons. It looks spectacular and the races are fun. I loved Lightning and the other racers when you saw them and the spy stuff was amusing at times. It's just Mater I cannot abide in such large doses. He's not a good main character and not everyone goes for his type of humour. Kids like him though, so maybe that's why he was the star of the movie and not Lightning. I give it an 8 out of ten as I do find it beautiful, well animated fun but Mater makes me take of 2 whole stars.