Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Cars 3 Trailer Review

Cars 3 Trailer Review: Incredible trailer, at a glance. I'm not sure what Pixar was thinking when they wrote Cars 2. This doesn't add any depth to any of these already fairly shallow characters, even if the friendship between Lightning and Mater is allowed to be explored. The addition of Michael Caine to the voice cast is fine, but his character is basically a plot device for Mater to exploit. The film often seems a little too convenient for its own good. It will entertain the younger audience for a while, but Cars 2 doesn't do enough to separate itself from non-Pixar animated films.


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It's strange, I don't love the first Cars as much as many people do, but I don't hate Cars 2 as much as others do either. I surprisingly liked both Cars movies, for completely different reasons. The first Cars I thought had a nice ending and it had some colorful and memorable characters, but the story has been done to death, it's been overused. The story for Cars 2, is a fresh idea. I like that Pixar didn't do the same story twice, they took the opportunities they had with the idea of cars and took it to new lengths with spy movies. There are problems, however. Very much like the first Cars, one of the problems is the story, but for different reasons. 

In Cars 2, the story is problematic, and it can be kind of confusing. It's really disappointing when discovering who the real villain is, and It would be a better film if Mater stayed as the deuteragonist rather than becoming the main protagonist and making the film center more around him. I thought he made a good deuteragonist in the first one, and it seems like a bad move making him the main character in a story like this. I would say Cars 2 can be a really fun film and a great sequel, if the characters worked out better and if the story wasn't as problematic. However, despite all this, I enjoy watching this film. It's visually appealing, it's full of action, it's a spy story, it's a sequel that takes a story that's completely different from the first Cars.

The first awful film from a studio that seemed to never disappoint. Cars 2 right from the start just felt like a complete cash grab. Out of all the other films, Pixar could have made and they made this? They could have made the Finding Nemo sequel or The Incredibles 2 or some other better film instead of this. This movie is filled with beautiful animation but it is most certainly not enough to hide the fact that it has a weak as hell script, by-the-numbers voice acting, terrible uninteresting story, and forgettable one-dimensional characters. The first Cars movie I thought was just alright, it was nothing great but it was most definitely better than this dung heap. The biggest crime they made with this sequel is making Mater have the most screen time. 

He was one of the biggest problems of the predecessor and it was a huge mistake giving him more focus because Mater is a really annoying character and he was the main thing bringing the movie down. His voice got on my nerves at times and the slapstick humor that accompanied him was poorly written and was just lazy. If this character did not exist, Larry, the Cable Guy wouldn't even have a career in Hollywood right now. Not only that but the spy espionage story was just not interesting and I didn't care about the outcome whatsoever. In my opinion, Owen Wilson was pretty much just going through the motions when voicing his character this time around and he had nothing to offer. In the end, that is pretty much all I have to say about the movie. It is weak on almost all fronts as a feature film, it is highly forgettable, I hated it, it is Pixar's worst movie to date, and the only positives are the animation and Michael Caine as a secret agent.

Cars 2 is a mediocre, shallow film that's vastly inferior to the original. Rather than deliver another heartfelt tale, Pixar spoofs the spy genre with Mater accidentally being mistaken for a spy while touring Europe as part of Lightning McQueen's pit crew for the World Grand Prix. Seeming more like the goofball shtick of DreamWorks or Fox, it's hard to believe that this schlock came out of Pixar. Given how smart and savvy the Toy Story sequels have been, one would think that Cars would get the same treatment. But something went horribly wrong, as Cars 2 is a generic adventure film with no heart.

Considering how good Cars was I was surprised how bad this was. Pixar kind of just threw this one out there. Focusing on being better than the first in every aspect but it just does not work. It doesn't disappoint with its great animation and visuals but a noninteresting story really brings out the worse in the second installment.

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