Review of Cars 2 (2011) by Wesley W — 28 Aug 2015

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 under 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.