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mirkaltern 2012-05-24 13:25:57

Racing cars went slow

I liked the movie. But I found it terribly slow in a prettyconsiderable portion of it. I understand when a movie goes slow for awhile, it is hard to keep one's attention for 2 hours, but this time,was way too much!The ending is really good, and that's worth the whole movie, plus, CGIand sound are simply AMAZING.Go watch it, it's a "must" for the season, and enjoy it... maybe it'sbecause I haven't experience the Route 66 and don't particularly likeracing cars why I didn't enjoy it as much... Perhaps you'll get a better opinion! I think I'll have to watch itagain...

ehrldawg 2012-05-24 04:57:41

Did I Forget To Clean My ..

A race car needs to learn the meaning of teamwork.This movie is pretty cool. Lasseter and Ranft did a specially cool jobon the opening race sequence and the ending race sequence. But Mackshould have said "Dog gone it McQueen!!I've been at it for 24 hours andIm tired. Im gonna pull into the next truck stop and take a nap. Youcan go in and play the racing games in the arcade. Then in about 6 or 8or 10 hours,come out and wake me up. And then we will head toFontana!!" John Ratzenberger is the voice of Mack the 18 wheeler.John Ratzenberger is a permanent A list actor.Bonnie Hunt,Jennifer Lewis,Katherine Helmond,Elissa Knight, and LindseyCollins are hot!!---One truck Drivers Opinion---erldwgstruckermovies.com

badoli 2012-05-21 18:37:47

Much too shallow for what i expect of Pixar.

Don't judge this by the standards of a Toy Story or Monsters. It barelyreaches out for that. But even by normal movie standards it's astandard animation movie at best.This time Pixar borrowed a lot from various sources and didn't pack itwith enough own ideas. Did you see "Doc Hollywood"? Yes? Then youalready know the story.On the other side i had the feeling i was never meant to be the targetaudience of this flick. Too cute, too lovely, barely any mature ideasin there. Even the romance plot looks like written fortwelve-year-old's. In contrast all the previous Pixars felt much moreup for entertaining adults as well.On the base of that the whole moral aspect of the movie looks much moreunnecessary. I'm used to Disney shoving their morals into my face,Pixar usually delivered them in a more classy way. This time subtletywent overboard from start.All in all, worst Pixar ever, but then again, it's up against greatcompetition, so no big deal.

2012-05-21 09:41:29

Ooops, they did it again!

I never thought I'd see an animated film as good as Toy Story or Finding Nemo, but this one steals my heart! The CGI is simply mind-blowing--I don't think I've seen better. A must see for kids, the man of the house and even the ladies. How is it that PIXAR is able to keep churning out such wonderful flicks?

Joshua Starnes 2012-05-18 23:05:17

Cars is a nice homily to small town life and remembering the past - which definitely has its charms - and call for remembering our roots, but it's been done better elsewhere.

poco loco 2012-05-18 12:40:06

Hey, cars are a lot like people, maybe we could learn from them

The people at Pixar are geniuses, plain and simple. Part of what makesthem so wonderful is their attention to detail. From gravel bouncingalong the side of the racetrack as the cars zip by, to the way dustmoves when driving on dirt, to the flecks of grime on the car and ruston the fence, each detail is meticulous. They also have an eye for theironic, tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating humor. It is obvious theyenjoy making these films, as only a labor of love can succeed on somany levels.That said, this isn't my favorite Pixar film as the story, stripped ofits humor and auto setting, was less inventive than some. LightningMcqueen (Owen Wilson) is a rookie racer and pretty full of himself. Heends up lost in the dying town of Radiator Springs where he finds whathe is really made of and falls in love with a hot Porsche. Also, helearns a little something from a former racer, Doc Hudson (Paul Newman)who has become bitter with the outside world. Doc softens, Lightningreforms and becomes a kind, compassionate car and succeeds ateverything he's ever wanted, queue the happy music. Despite thepredictability of the story, the way it was told makes it well worthit. As always, make sure you watch through the end credits.This movie is like a vanilla éclair. It looks beautiful sitting thereon the shelf at the patisserie. The frosting has been applied with careand the éclair arranged just right in the little paper holder. When youtake a bite the frosting is just sweet enough, the pastry is crisp andflaky and crumbles away like it should. The filling has the rightconsistency, but it is vanilla flavored, and the vanilla flavoring isjust a bit weaker than you like, and you do prefer chocolate tovanilla, but it's still a good pastry. 7/10http://blog.myspace.com/locoformovies

M MALIK 2012-05-17 00:28:08

Boring & weak story

the cars 2006 is a animated movie on car racing. it made a lot of cashbut if you look at the story & as you watch it the plot is messed up.animation by pixar studios maybe good but the lightning MC queenfastest race car goes with drunk style gets stuck in another placesomewhere in USA.in the end gets back to the racing stadium to win the race.i mean what the hell was this for 2 hours..wasting of time.please do not watch this movie even kids should stay away .its a trashmovie by Disney & pixar to take money out of your pocket.plus where is the jokes & funny moments..not even one..my rating is 3/10...bad movie

kmwilson3 2012-05-16 09:34:18

Definitely in First Place

This was definitely a good movie. Kept me smiling and laughing all theway through. Not only was the acting (voices) good, there was actuallya moral of the story: don't lose yourself in all the fame and glory,and don't forget your friends, or how you got there. And it had a happyending, which is always good. Especially for a comedy, it's got to havea good ending otherwise what was the point in watching the movie? Outof all the characters, Mater was my favorite. They picked the perfectperson to do the voice for him, Larry the Cable Guy. He didn't have tocreate an accent or anything, that's how he really is. This movie isgood on so many levels, for adults or kids alike. But what I reallylike is that all the characters in the movie were vehicles. Theaudience at the races, the pit crews, the lost couple and even thebugs. And when it came to the Tractor Tipping, I couldn't stoplaughing. At first I thought the scene was out of place but it wasn't.Then the small movie with Mater and the Blue Light and the ScreamingBanshee, was definitely something to watch. I would recommend thismovie to anyone who wants to laugh and likes movies that make you feelgood afterwards. I've heard rumors about them making a sequel, I sayno. Leave a good thing alone. Let Cars stand alone and leave the sequelin the dust.

2012-05-14 13:51:50

One of the best

All I can say is this is one of the best movies that Disney has released in years and my favorite so far this year.

Claudia Puig 2012-05-14 05:03:03

The animation is stunningly rendered. But the story is always the critical element in Pixar movies, and Cars' story is heartfelt with a clear and unabashed moral.

Michael Dorsey 2012-05-13 09:58:58

Bypass this wreck of a movie.

It had to happen. Nobody's perfect (or near perfect), but Pixar hasbeen very close. Until now. This movie reeks of a poor Dreamworksproduction. Weak humor, too many topical (and dated) references, and alead that is as weak as the acceleration on a Ford Pinto. Where haveyou gone Woody and Buzz, Marlon and Nemo, The Parr family, Sully andStanley, and Flick and his band of lovable losers? You felt for theseguys; you laughed at and with them. Not in Cars. I saw this movie withthe ideal audience: A drive-in in rural Arkansas, full of kids andNASCAR fans on a (relatively) cool summer night. No laughs. The trucks(and a few cars) started immediately following the end of the movie.Pixar fans know that this can be a great chance to continue the movie,but know body cared. They just wanted to get out of there and pretendthe last two hours hadn't happened. I should have trusted my gut aboutCars, the feeling of dread that followed seeing the initial trailersand not been suckered in by undeservedly positive reviews. Would theyhave been this glowing for the same movie if it had been but out bysomeone other than Pixar: I don't think so. Bypass this wreck.

budandlou258 2012-05-12 13:26:08

Couldn't even finish it.

Maybe I'm biased. Fans of films will tell me that in order to produce awell-rounded review, I need to at least finish the film I'm reviewing.That's the problem. "Cars" couldn't hold me longer than twenty minutes.With every other Pixar movie (and I've seen and loved them all), I washooked within the first ten minutes. I was swept away by the story'sconcept, its characters, the amazing visuals, the fantastic music. I'ma huge fan of Pixar, Andrew Stanton in particular (You remember him,don't you? He's the screenwriter/director responsible for such films as"Toy Story," "Monsters, Inc.," "Finding Nemo," and "Wall-E."). Pastexperience has taught me that in the realm of film-making, there'slittle they can't do. So when I first saw the trailer for "Cars," Ithought something along these lines:"Well, it's Pixar, so maybe it'll be okay..."But when I sat down to watch this little "gem," as I've seen it called,I suddenly wondered if all the clocks in the house were broken. I feltno connection with any of the characters; the story's premise was loston me. I could barely make it to Larry The Cable Guy's entrance beforeI got off the couch and went elsewhere to stop the agony.Maybe I'm missing the point. Maybe I don't get this movie because I'mnot part of the NASCAR revolution. Maybe it's because Andrew Stantondidn't have any part in this movie other than providing a voice. MaybeI have a problem connecting with automobiles, or maybe it bugged methat there are all these cars, and no drivers behind the wheel. Ormaybe I just don't like Larry the Cable Guy. My point is, this movieclearly is not for everyone.

FPAlpha 2012-05-09 09:23:13

It tries but it fails

Saw the movie recently and it finally happened.. Pixar failed todeliver a great movie. It was mediocre and for a company that producedso many good movies this is disappointing as hell but i guess everystreak ends sometime.The basics of the story revolve around an arrogant hotshot who bychance end up in the middle of nowhere and is slowly taught values bythe inhabitants who have a heart of gold. To be honest.. this story hasbeen filmed so many times in so many variations that i almost couldtell exactly what was going to happen before i saw it.It is an extremely lazy story effort by the Pixar team and i'm puttingthis movie on the same level as Robots which i truly didn't care about.The characters are bland stereotypes.. you have the redneck (a littlebit slow) guy, the wise old man, the love interest, comic reliefcharacters etc.At no point in the story did i truly become engaged with the characterssince they were so uninteresting and to be honest.. most of the timenot funny (even the comedy relief characters). I laughed a total of 3or 4 times throughout the whole movie whereas Nemo or Incredibles hadme on the floor for minutes almost from scene to scene.The whole movie lacks originality and the certain "it" to be consideredgood. Mind you.. Pixar good is groundbreaking for other companies butthis movie is mediocre and definitely the weakest of their entire line.

Brian 2012-05-09 07:48:37

Another great Pixar production

The most amazing part of this movie is in the details - check the list of voices -> it is a 'who is who' in both acting world, as well as in the auto racing world. The visuals are stunning ("Over the Hedge" can't hold a blade of grass to "Cars"). DO NOT leave the theater until the credits are completed.

Roland E. Zwick 2012-05-05 06:25:22

fantastic animaton but too often stuck in neutral

So who needs an opposable thumb when you can have a technologicallyadvanced civilization built and inhabited by nothing but cars, trucks,vans and a whole host of other automotive vehicles? "Cars," the latesthit from Pixar Animation, presents a world entirely devoid of peoplebut still replete with all the architecture, history and pop culturereferences we associate with human beings. It's an intriguing concept,and one which the skilled animators bring to remarkable life on screen.The vehicles that make up the cast of characters have been beautifullyanthropomorphized without betraying their basic nature astransportation devices. It's certainly a great deal easier foranimators to imbue living creatures with human qualities than it is todo the same with automobiles, so the filmmakers are definitely to becommended for their stunning work in this movie (the breakthrough hereis in putting the "eyes" in the dashboard rather than in theheadlights, which gives the cars a friendlier, more expressivecountenance than we are used to in animated-car tales).Owen Wilson voices the main character, Lightning McQueen, aself-absorbed, cherry-red racecar whose sole concern in life is to winthe Piston Cup so he can bask in the glow of fame and fortune andrustle himself up a higher class of products to endorse. While he's onhis way to California for the Big Race, Lightning finds himselfstranded in a small desert community named Radiator Springs - situatedon old Route 66 - that lost all its business when the big interstatehighway opened up a few miles outside of town. The film is a sweetlament for a bygone era when crossing the country was a more laid-backaffair and travelers were able to experience the joys of small townlife on the way to their destinations. It is in Radiator Springs thatthe cocky Lightning learns a thing or two from the townsfolk about whatis really important in life (and it isn't winning the big race).The town is filled with more quirky eccentrics than one would find inany low budget, independent feature shown at the Sundance FilmFestival. There's Doc Hudson (Paul Newman), the town's medic and judge,who seems to be harboring a deep, dark secret about his past from therest of the world; Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), a bucktoothed tow truckwho's none too gifted in the brains department but who issweet-tempered and good-natured and who becomes Lightning's mostdevoted follower in the town; Sally Carrera (Bonnie Hunt), the sexyyoung Porsche who fled the rat race of civilization to make her home inRadiator Springs and who becomes the inevitable love interest for ourhard-charging, drag racing Romeo. A large number of well-known voicespopulate the film, including Cheech Marin, George Carlin, MichaelKeaton, Jeremy Piven, Jay Leno, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Billy Crystal,John Goodman. You name it - just about anyone who's anyone in Hollywoodshows up in this movie. Heck, even racing legends Richard Petty, MarioAndretti and Dale Earnhardt Jr. make an appearance here.It goes without saying that the color and animation are truly topdrawer and state-of-the-art (this IS a Pixar product, after all), but,for all its richness of image and humor, "Cars" seems to be missingthat extra added something that would secure it a place in the pantheonof great animated features. Perhaps, there is a certain sameness builtinto the concept of having only animated vehicles as characters thatmakes the movie wear a bit thin after awhile. Perhaps, too, thenarrative needs a trifle more energy and "drive" (pardon the pun), ahigher octane fuel that would make it speed along at a faster clip.Lighting is stuck in this town for so long a spell that we begin tofeel a little bit stuck there ourselves. For a movie built entirely ondriving, "Cars" is surprisingly sedentary for long stretches of time.The one advantage animated movies have over live action films is thatthey are completely unbound by the laws of gravity, so there's reallyno excuse for any such film to "drag" (again, pardon the pun) in theway this one does. There's a lyrical scene where Sally and Lightningenvision what the town must have looked like in its pre-highway heyday,but so much of the middle section of the film is taken up with liquiddialogues and less-than-inspired slapstick routines that the movieoften feels like it is caught in cruise control or stalling outaltogether when what we really want is for it to race along at abreakneck speed worthy of its subject matter. In short, the filmprobably would have been better had it used such anarchic chase moviesas "The Great Race," "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" or "ThoseMagnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" as its source of inspiration.Then, perhaps, more of the film would have been on a par, in terms ofdynamism and excitement, with the astonishing racing sequence thatcloses the film.The movie pokes affectionate fun at the commercialization of racing,and there is no end to the clever punning that has gone into the namingof the characters and places that populate the film. These, along withthe stunning visuals, are enough to recommend the film for any viewer.But, in the long run, I have to say that, for all its good qualities,"Cars" is too often stuck in neutral.

2012-05-04 17:57:44

Cars Crazy

I thought that this was an exceptionally good movie for kids and grown ups alike. The characters that the actors play are very funny. I would definately buy this movie again for a gift for Christmas or a birthday. Check it out and it will make you laugh again and again, but it also has a really good moral to the story. When you start out small and make your way to the top ALWAYS remember the little people that helped you to get there.

2012-05-04 21:59:06

Loved IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Myself, my husband AND our 5 year old son all enjoyed this movie so much. Can't wait to show our 17 year old son. It was such a great family movie we had a blast! Well worth the wait!!

sethness 2012-05-04 07:44:04

*yawn* predictable, stereotyped, and limited

The film's characters go through almost no character development,except for two very obvious, predictable changes. Every part of theplot can be guessed from the outset. The ethnic stereotyping, too, isboth predictable ...and slightly offensive as well.And let's face it... a car presents very little opportunity foranimation and anthropomorphism. It doesn't have arms and legs togesture with, nor much flex in its body. Aside from eyes and mouth,there's very little in the way of animation going on here....and themovie suffers for it.I'm hoping that this, the last movie Pixer is contracted to do forDisney, was just a half-hearted gesture to complete the contractualobligations. Pixar has done some wonderful stuff in the past, but thisis a definite four or five levels below previous work in storyline,characterization, and animation. In scenery, however, it is impressiveand above Pixar's previous work-- the ground, particularly when Mater'shood falls off a cliff, is very real-looking.

Jay Addison 2012-05-03 07:49:22

Pleasantly Surprised!

When I saw the trailer for this movie, I thought it lookeduninteresting and unfunny. My family dragged me to see it last weekend,though. I was amazed! This movie rocked! True, it was very different from theother Pixar movies. I kept thinking that this one had so much more of astory and so much more real drama, instead of just trying to makepeople laugh (which it did). They were literally trying to tell a real,genuine story with CARS as the characters.The scary part? It worked! The plot was excellent, the story wastouching (my sister actually almost cried), and the characters wereadorable. It was super cool!Oh, did I mention it was hilarious? Watch for a particular "TractorTipping" scene! No way you can't laugh!!! 7/10 stars!!!Jay Addison

jhamil 2012-05-02 10:03:23

I love this movie.

I'm not going to tell you all of the things I liked about this movie. IDO NOT want to spoil it for you. I laughed. I cried. I got choked up.There was one scene that took my breath away! I've been watching moviessince 1960. This is hands down THE best movie I've ever seen. The onlyadvice I have for you is to pay attention to peripheral things, notjust the main action. You will be astonished. They didn't miss a trick.If there truly are infinite universes, you can just imagine a universewhere these creatures actually exist. And I can just see them actingjust this way. I haven't been out of the theater 2 hours and I'vealready told over a dozen people they have to go see it.