

Did “Cars 2″ rev your engines or did it stall out?



Ah, all streaks have to come to an end some time. After 25 years and 11 consecutive animated classics, the studio has rolled a lemon off the showroom floor according to the pundits. (And that mild metaphor is the least of the auto-related puns and quips you’ll see in the movie headlines today.)

So what did you think about “Cars 2″? Did it dilute the franchise? Was the retro charm of the original lost in the international spy sequel? Did the critics get it wrong, or even if they got it right, are they overreacting? Let us know. 

CJ Lais

2 Responses

  1. T says:

    My kid enjoyed it. That is all that matters.

    Wall-E is still garbage and overrated.

  2. Grover says:

    The critics were half-right. It was 2 hours of eye candy, Mater being Mater, a few good laughs and plenty of stuff exploding. There was no need for character development. Our son is 2 1/2, too young to have seen the original when it was released, but we’ve worn our dvd copy down to nothing. He wasn’t the target audience for #2. Children who saw the original when it was released are 6 and up now, and they are the kids who will appreciate the secret agent angle. The secondary story of alternative energy and big oil was, too me, a bit preachy, but Pixar has never shied away from environmental issues (umm, Wall-e, anyone?).

    That said, my son will have an armload of the die-cast cars and a movie poster on his door before the end of summer. And we’ll probably see it again. It’s too much fun not too.