Review of Cars 3 (2017) by Brunovn00 — 11 Apr 2019

This is what Cars 2 should've been in the first place. It's pretty clear that Cars is the weakest Pixar movie franchise in terms of storytelling, character development and overall quality: The first Cars was not Pixar's worst but far from the best, Cars 2 was god-awful and Cars 3 is surprisingly a BIG improvement over the last film, it manages to be a good movie.

Cars 3 has amazing animation (as expected from Pixar), a generic but decent plot with actual conflict this time, having Lightning McQueen now struggle to stay relevant against a new generation of hi-tech racers. It has decent writing and it feels like this was an "apology letter" to Pixar fans, this is noticeable with the fact that Mater now has like a couple of minutes of screen time. The worst character of the last film, barely appears in this movie, thank God. I have some problems with the story and characters, like the way this ends, the ending was extremely predictable and hilariously ridiculous. Some characters from the previous movies (besides Mater) barely have any screentime, serve no purpose to the plot and feel like shoehorned in and the new characters lack development or charisma, they are pretty forgettable.

This is obviously not a great movie, it's actually decent and has a purpose in the story of the franchise. I enjoyed the movie and it isn't anything too memorable or something I would rewatch.