Review of Cars 3 (2017) by Ladychaos — 22 Nov 2017

An absolute disappointment. The trailers looked awesome, as did some of the artwork for the movie but instead we get this messy let-down movie that contradicts itself, is full of bad jokes, gender stereotypes ( you damn millennial and gen z kids), age-shaming ( constantly.

the never let up on calling Lightning this throughout the movie) and basically retires Lightning McQueen for this Scrappy-do/Mary sue like character Cruz (who looks like a big mouthed house-car, has to be given everything, y'know confidence, training, her wins and half-asses her way to stardom), who is to be the new face of the franchise.

Well sorry Pixar but I highly doubt you'll have much of an audience for the next Cars movie after this one. The movies beginning had McQueen lose out to all these digital cars (who never would have been in a NASCAR race) and crash (this is pretty horrific looking).

He then decides to give racing a go again but his new trainer, Cruz, is so goddamn useless that it's almost painful to watch all the constant embarrassment and humiliation Lightning has to suffer from her.

He eventually has to make a deal that will let him continue to race, if he wins, but has to take cruz with him. Big mistake! The movie goes from being a comeback movie to CREED....you lied Pixar....you lied.

The rest of the movie is predictable plot lines/montages of Lightning training but actually training cruz as well and at the final race, where he does really good, puts her in to give her a chance at racing because women can't do it themselves y'know ( I am being sarcastic here).

They can only get their chance if a guy gives it to them. Plus Cruz, who is not a pro racer or expert or anything, wins the other half of the race and everyone's like "Yay! a girl won! look look look!!!!! "Yes Pixar, we are very much aware we can race and win at things, thank you.

Blah...it's all just message after message and disappointment. I really cannot see kids going out and asking for Cruz toys (girls as well as boys) after this movie. Oh! And it earned Pixar back, after production costs, 134 million less than Cars and 154 million less than Cars 2.

That says something alright about this.