Cars
Fairly cute movie, good amount of humor but nothing terribly original. As much as I hate NASCAR, I love Pixar.
The usual opening animated short was absolutely great. They should make a whole 2 hours movie of these shorts.
As to the movie for which I went to the theater: Lightning McQueen is the hotshot rookie sensation tied for the lead in the Piston. He's got skills but he's an arogant bitchhead. On his way to his last race he falls out of his Mack truck and gets lost in the middle of nowhere. He then gets in lots of trouble and has to fix things. Flah flah flah. He meets good people (read: cars). Yadda yadda yadda. Learns the lessons he needs to learn and off he goes to win with the support of his new friends.
So we all know the story is pretty predictable and formulaic. The animation is fantastic as usual. Lots of little jokes for kids and lots of little jokes for adults. Lots of little things to be watching for (like flies being VW bugs). One question: how do the cars reproduce? Since they have cars doing everything, do cars build other cars? Do the cars have sex? Being this is a kids movie, I'm betting the former so then who built the first car or who built the thing that allows for the construction of the first car? Flah flah flah.
It's an endearing, enjoyable movie. But it doesn't really jump out and isn't heartwarming like Nemo or Monster's Inc. Many of the side characters were more interesting than the main characters. Luigi (voiced by Monk) and Guido. Owen Wilson's Lightning wasn't all that appealing. The entire racing premise was just dull.
I also really enjoyed the ending sequence in the drive in theater watching "Toy Car Story" and "Monster Truck Inc." That was quality.
I need to stop going to any movie that could possibly be construed as a kids movie at any time kids may be in attendence.
3 of 5.
The usual opening animated short was absolutely great. They should make a whole 2 hours movie of these shorts.
As to the movie for which I went to the theater: Lightning McQueen is the hotshot rookie sensation tied for the lead in the Piston. He's got skills but he's an arogant bitchhead. On his way to his last race he falls out of his Mack truck and gets lost in the middle of nowhere. He then gets in lots of trouble and has to fix things. Flah flah flah. He meets good people (read: cars). Yadda yadda yadda. Learns the lessons he needs to learn and off he goes to win with the support of his new friends.
So we all know the story is pretty predictable and formulaic. The animation is fantastic as usual. Lots of little jokes for kids and lots of little jokes for adults. Lots of little things to be watching for (like flies being VW bugs). One question: how do the cars reproduce? Since they have cars doing everything, do cars build other cars? Do the cars have sex? Being this is a kids movie, I'm betting the former so then who built the first car or who built the thing that allows for the construction of the first car? Flah flah flah.
It's an endearing, enjoyable movie. But it doesn't really jump out and isn't heartwarming like Nemo or Monster's Inc. Many of the side characters were more interesting than the main characters. Luigi (voiced by Monk) and Guido. Owen Wilson's Lightning wasn't all that appealing. The entire racing premise was just dull.
I also really enjoyed the ending sequence in the drive in theater watching "Toy Car Story" and "Monster Truck Inc." That was quality.
I need to stop going to any movie that could possibly be construed as a kids movie at any time kids may be in attendence.
3 of 5.
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