Cars 2 (2011)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 201
Fresh: 77 | Rotten: 124
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: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 23
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
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Owen Wilson
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Larry The Cable Guy
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John Turturro
Francesco Bernoulli -
Eddie Izzard
Miles Axlerod -
Michael Caine
Finn McMissile, Finn Mc... -
Emily Mortimer
Holly Shiftwell -
Bonnie Hunt
Sally -
Tony Shalhoub
Luigi -
Cheech Marin
Ramone -
Jason Isaacs
Leland Turbo, Siddeley -
Joe Mantegna
Grem -
Peter Jacobson
Acer -
Thomas Kretschmann
Professor Z, Professor ... -
Guido Quaroni
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Lloyd Sherr
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Paul Dooley
Sarge -
John Ratzenberger
Mack -
Jenifer Lewis
Flo -
Michael Wallis
Sheriff -
Katherine Helmond
Lizzie -
Franco Nero
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Rod "Torque" Redline -
Michel Michelis
Tomber -
Jeff Gordon
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Darell Waltrip
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Lewis Hamilton
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David Hobbs
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Jeff Garlin
Otis -
Richard Kind
Van -
Edie McClurg
Minny -
Stanley Townsend
Ivan the Tow Truck, Vic... -
Brad Lewis
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Brent Musberger
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Velibor Topic
Alexander Hugo -
Patrick Walker
Mel Dorado -
John Mainieri
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Teresa Gallagher
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Sig Hansen
Crabby
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All Critics (202) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (125) | DVD (9)
Don't tell the kids, but Santa Claus isn't real and Pixar is fallible.
Top CriticTime, perhaps, for the franchise to be towed off to the scrapyard. Sorry, Pixar.
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 the duller than duller "Cars," this is better than the toys they sell along with it.
Despite a more interesting plot, Cars 2 still leans on a number of problems established in the first film -- specifically leading men, Lightning McQueen and Mater.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Cars 2
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- Mater: I'm not a spy!
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- Finn McMissile: I'm looking for a car.
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- Mater: Whatever you do, do not eat the free pistachio ice cream!
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- Mater: Stay away from me!
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- Holly Shiftwell: A good agent gets what he can, then gets out before he's killed.
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- Finn McMissile: Friendships can be dangerous in our line of work, Mater.
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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 of tea and his humor ratcheted it up to be every minute of the show was a bit much to me.
The good parts of Cars 2 is that everyone else does actually do well in their parts and makes it worth while. By far not the best Pixar movie but far from horrible. My daughter enjoyed the whole thing from beginning to end and was extremely happy.