Cars 2 (2011)
We love Cars. It’s the kind of movie that brings all kinds of people together, young and old, liberal and conservative, coastal and landlocked, over our shared love for competition and, more importantly, cooperation. It’s a beautiful movie.
Cars 2 is one of the strangest movies we’ve ever seen. First, it has a lot of shooting for a kids movie. It’s like Pixar wanted to make a Bond movie, but for kids, with talking cars. And there’s also a very complicated conspiracy at the heart of it, involving alternative fuels. Michael Caine is very good as the British spy car, Finn McMissile, and Holley Shiftwell is a terrific name for a female Bond-type car.
But the whole movie has a what-is-happening feel, which culminates in a duet between Brad Paisley and Robbie Williams about how Americans and Brits can come together and get along, as if this were a source of tension and not a thing we mostly resolved with the Revolutionary War.
We like Cars 2, we just find it totally insane. Also, Cars 3 is fantastic and builds perfectly on the messages of Cars.
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