Review of Cars 3 (2017) by Jon C — 16 Jun 2017

Cars 3 successfully makes up for the dismal failure of its predecessor, hard to believe PIXAR considering their flawless track record.

This series as a whole is middling at best but while not being the finest of the canon of films it still does a lot of things right.

Owen Wilson is back voicing Lightning McQueen; he faces the next generation of racing cars including newcomer Jackson Storm voiced by Armie Hammer.

McQueen has also now has reached the point in his racing career where he may start noticing he's aging as an athlete, and after a big burnout he starts to reflect on how much he has learned from the late Paul Newman as the Hudson Hornet.

He can't be the same as he was before but maybe he can do better in another light.

Amazing that this film in the trilogy has so much poignant storytelling and a bit of emotion to go with the dazzling visuals.

McQueen gets help from trainer Cruz Ramirez whom has dreamt about racing her whole life but felt like she didn't belong as a whole to the rest of the competition.

They both have to start practicing on a much different level if they want to make a big comeback.

This movie is on par with the original tying a few things back-and-forth while also making allegories on the passing of time, moving over for the younger, more experienced competitors, deciding whether or not we should finish now or later, and who inspires who young or old.

Thank goodness PIXAR fixed the problems from last time.

A few chuckles and Jackson Storm missing from the majority of the film aside Cars 3 is a worthy sequel that revs the anamorphic vehicles back into excitement.