On one, there's a story about Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) going to participate in an international race (which, on the good side, gives Pixar a great chance to draw some of the world's great cities) while his buddy Tow Mater (voice of Larry The Cable Guy) tags along and their friendship is tested by Mater's self-esteem issues. What's happening in Cars 2 is, for one thing, taking place on two parallel and not entirely compatible tracks. While Cars 2 has a few nice nods at the idea of faithful friends, they're pretty by-the-numbers compared to the wallop of those opening and closing moments of Up, or the first third of WALL-E, or the furnace sequence in Toy Story 3. The other recent Pixar movies, while they're surely not perfect, combine all that great-looking animation with moments that are genuinely special from a story perspective – ones that speak to enduring characters and to real feelings. And that's one of the risks of the tremendous run that Pixar has had: ordinary seems deeply disappointing.
This is still a beautiful film (even in 3D, the format in which I unfortunately screened it), imaginatively and lovingly animated, and I certainly think the kids I saw it with enjoyed it well enough.Ĭontrary to what I'm guessing you're going to hear from some corners, Cars 2 isn't bad. Good news first: The best thing about Cars 2 is that Pixar is still Pixar.
With: Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard
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