Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 198
Fresh: 76 | Rotten: 122
Cars 2 is as visually appealing as any other Pixar production, but all that dazzle can't disguise the rusty storytelling under the hood.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 20
Cars 2 is as visually appealing as any other Pixar production, but all that dazzle can't disguise the rusty storytelling under the hood.
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Star racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) take their friendship to exciting new places in Cars 2 when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours and hilarious surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage. Mater finds himself torn between assisting
Jun 24, 2011 Wide
Nov 1, 2011
$191.5M
Walt Disney Pictures/PIXAR
All Critics (199) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (123) | DVD (9)
It's an example of what a sequel should, or at least can, be.
Cars 2 is marginally better than its predecessor, but the same problem still remains: Cars just aren't very interesting as anthropomorphic animation vehicles (pun intended).
Larry the Cable Guy has helped make Mater one of Pixar's sweetest creations. He just happens to reside in the studio's least-magical franchise.
Not that Cars 2 is an actively bad animated film. It's just sort of an average animated film.
Unlike most Pixar fare, this isn't a movie you can imagine many adults wanting to see without their children in tow.
Although it would be unfair to label Cars 2 as unwatchable, it is surprisingly tedious in parts and not as satisfying as one might expect.
Cars 2 is a very messy concoction, but it does prove entertaining every once in a while.
With Cars 2 it seems Pixar may have fallen on the self-made sword of success. But even for adult audiences, it is no more than middling - it is neither terribly good nor terrible, but it still out-performs the majority of rival animation studios' output.
It's so eye-popping that Cars 2 easily ranks as one of the best 3D entries this year.
...Cars 2 is a bright and breezy excursion that avoids the slow patches the original had...
Cars dazzled my eyes and warmed my heart. Cars 2 ... inspired resistance instead of welcome.
A two-disc Blu-ray set intended for those head over heels in love with the movie or Pixar purists unwilling to leave a void in their collection.
Kids will be entertained and so will adults. I just didn't find myself particularly engaged.
The action is non-stop and pleasing to the eye, but somewhere along the way, Pixar's soul was left behind.
Don't tell the kids, but Santa Claus isn't real and Pixar is fallible.
The summer's first must-see family film is another cross-generational treasure from Pixar-Disney, with a full tank of humor, high-tech animation in the service of a good story, and heart.
unlikely to be regarded among the best of the American studios' work, Cars 2 is a likeable sequel with dazzling visuals and adheres to everything Disney stands for.
Pixar's first bad film relies more on merchandising opportunities than storytelling ones.
The whole thing's basically Theseus' paradox as performed by a cast of sentient automobiles.
Though technically up to snuff, it's flat-footed stuff.
Visuals look spectacular and action sequences take full advantage of the 3D format so you feel like you are burning rubber down winding roads at dizzying speed.
First pretty sure the 3d was useless. Really not needed. Second this is Pixar and the movie looked amazing. Nothing short of stunning.The problem with Cars 2 is it really is the mater show. My daughter liked the entire movie. But to me it was James Bond with mater. Unfortunately for me Larry the Cable Guy is not my cup
June 20, 2011Super Reviewer
The question that popped in everybody's mind when Pixar announcing they will make the sequel for 'Cars' is : "Is Pixar already insane by making a sequel of a talking cars that lost to some dancing penguin?" For me, no Pixar is not crazy but they already built 'Cars' with full of the merchandise and they afraid to lose
September 28, 2010Super Reviewer
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