Cars 2: THE HTF 3D ADDICT REVIEW - Page 2

You're trying to cloud the issue by talking about Larry The Cable Guy or egos or Pixar being biased against women (though I have no clue how you came to that conclusion) when none of that has anything to do with the point that I keep making. You said that the movie was made only because of the merchandise and that's ridiculous. Merchandise is a huge reason why the movie exists but it's not the ONLY one.

It certainly wasn't made for it's message.

27 years in the business, 12 films, 20 shorts, and not one female lead. Sure, there are times when a Pixar film does have a great female character that's on par with the male lead (Jessie from Toy Story 2, and EVE from WALL-E being my favorite), but most of the time they're just the love interest who are more of an award than an actual character (Bo from Toy Story, Princess Atta from A Bug's Life, Celia from Monster's Inc., Colette in Ratatouille, Sally in Cars). I'm glad Sally's role was expanded for Cars 2....... right?

I enjoyed this film, and so did my six-year-old son. There seems to be a lot of hate for it because it wasn't like the first film. But if it was exactly like the first film, it would have been accused of being like "Hangover 2." At least Lassiter and company attempted to change things up a bit.

I liked it well enough. It was a lot better than Puss and Boots for us. We bought it.
Edited by benbess - 2/25/12 at 9:50am

I didn't hate t; I just didn't love it, a first for a Pixar film. It was very ambitious trying to balance Mater's James Bond-like adventure with Lightning's Grand Prix race-off, and I felt (as I said in my review) that they didn't really do justice to either plot.

Well, it's not like John Lasseter isn't known for this sort of thing. In fact, it seems to be his M.O. Look at Chris Sanders and his "American Dog" project. BOLT wasn't an awful movie, but I think it could have been much more if Lasseter had kept his nose out of it. On the other hand, maybe Sanders started spinning his wheels on the project and might have been relieved to leave it when Lasseter canned him. We'll never know for sure. As for CARS 2, I thought it wasn't all that bad because it was obvious that it was meant to be an homage to old spy movies. I actually thought it was a better "Bond" film than most of what passes for a James Bond movie nowadays. I don't think it was nearly as good as the first one; the first one being unfairly maligned in my opinion. CARS is going to outlast a lot of Pixars other films.