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You may later unsubscribe. Create your account Already have an account? Email Address. Real Quick. As it turns out, the best time to leave the theater is at the moment the cars arrive at the location of each race, although the first and second arrivals Tokyo, 30 min into the movie, and Porta Corso, about 55 minutes in are better than the third arrival London, 90 minute mark , when you might miss more story.
All told, with previews and the Toy Story short, you'll be in the theater for a little over 2 hours. There's a fun little sequence at the beginning of the credits. After that, there is some very attractive artwork surrounding the remaining credits, but not any outtakes or anything you'll miss out on if you head for the door. Is it true that F1 driver Lewis Hamilton has a role in the film? And the amazing thing is that he doesn't wreck any other cars with his overly aggressive and impetuous style of driving.
Topics Armchair Geek cars pixar review Toy Story. The three head to Paris, where they track down Finn's usual informant, who is revealed to have sold the Big Boss those parts. Through their investigation, it is revealed that the engine owner is a lemon, one of history's loser cars, which are the same ones the agents have been dealing with.
It is also revealed that they will hold a meeting within Italy on the same day as the Grand Prix race, which most likely the boss will attend.
After watching from the computer and seeing some of the lemons arrive, it is decided that Mater will be disguised as one of the lieutenant's tow trucks and will gain access to the meeting where he can identify the leader of the lemons and owner of the engine.
The Italian race has begun as Finn and Holley stay to spy on the race and look out for lemons, while Mater infiltrates the meeting in disguise. The meeting revealed that all the Lemons' heads are present and wanted in several countries as Mater is nervous about this. A TV appears overhead, upon which Mater sees a live video of the Big Boss' engine apologizing that he can't attend in person due to engine trouble.
Big Boss' engine then goes over his plan, and it is revealed he and the rest of the Lemons are the owners of the world's largest untapped oil deposit in the middle of the ocean. Miles Axlerod and his Allinol alternative fuel threaten to put the Big Boss out of business, so they will use the pulse camera to destroy the WGP racers during the race broadcast, including Lightning McQueen.
The world will assume that Allinol is dangerous and will continue to use gasoline. Mater is afraid for Lightning. After the Brazil racer and the England racer are shot by the pulse camera, Finn immediately races off to get the pulse camera before any more racers are destroyed, but just as he jumps over to get it, he gets captured by a helicopter's magnet and Grem and Acer who was actually controlling the pulse camera shoots another racer and causes a massive multi quintuple crash.
Lightning and Francesco are neck and neck at the race, but Lightning manages to beat Francesco on his home turf to the latter's annoyance. For Lightning, 1st place is bittersweet, given the amount of carnage on the track. The Big Boss and his cronies anxiously watch the sports report. Finally, miles Axlerod appears and reluctantly declares that Allinol must be too dangerous and tells the world that the race's final leg will be run on gas.
This pleases the Lemons as they celebrate their fortune, as Holley contacts Mater to tell him that Finn has been captured before she gets captured as well by the Lemon Hugos. Eventually, Lightning is interviewed and asked if he, too, will run on gas. Lightning refuses, saying that he will continue to use Allinol. Mater is shocked and accidentally sheds his disguise and is recognized as an American spy. The lemons draw their weapons, while Mater accidentally draws his weapons, and a happens.
This little problem saves Mater, and he flees using a parasol which Finn gave him and flies directly for Lightning, who is still swamped by the press. Mater breaks through barricades and crowds and is about to warn Lightning when Mater is immediately captured by Lemons, and he is replaced by Ivan, an imposter tow truck who distracts Lightning while Mater is thrown into a cargo container.
While Mater is asleep, Mater dreams of his own immatureness and lack of immaturity, as demonstrated from scenes in Japan that were earlier in the film. He is tied up to the ceiling and is hanging 90 feet over a dangerous set of gears. Below him, Finn and Holley are also tied up, about to be smashed and crushed by a pair of intersecting gear cogs.
As they are held captive, Mater moans the situation as he finally tells Finn and Holley he is not a spy, and they now understand that Mater's "immature act" is not an act at all and that Mater is just himself. Mater puts the blame campaign on himself for what happened to Lightning before two lemons appear. They see that Mater, Finn, and Holley are awake and tell them that they have the pulse camera aimed at Lightning McQueen, who is still alive sitting at the starting line.
The two Lemons brag that they're going to kill McQueen, and Mater is to watch at Zundapp's order; this horrifies Mater. At the pits for the race, McQueen talks to the others about that Mater is still missing as they state Sheriff and Sarge that are looking for help.
However, the talk is interrupted as Axlerod comes to Lightning's pit stall to thank him for his decision because of how the fans reacted to the race crash in Porto Corsa. He even hoped McQueen will win so that his creation will be given the popularity it deserved. Sally tells McQueen to race for Mater, which he agrees to. The race begins as the lemons aim the pulse gun at Lightning and pull the trigger, while a horrified Mater looks on as the pulse gun is about to fire.
To their surprise, Nothing happens, and Lightning does not explode, and they are confused as Zundapp contacts them and angrily questions this before telling them to go to the backup plan. Mater questions this plan, and they tell him that they have planted a bomb in Lightning's pit and it will explode.
The two Lemons quickly leave to meet with Professor Zundapp. Mater manages to free himself from his bonds and offers to save Finn and Holley, but he is told instead to save his friends at the pit stall. Mater obliges and takes off to save his friends. Finn and Holley are two minutes away from being smashed and crushed in the clock tower when she manages to turn back the clock in Big "Bentley" Clock Tower, which sends the clock's gears in reverse and saves them both.
Now free, the two find Mater's air filter is discarded on the ground. They both realize that the two lemons have actually lied to them, and the bomb isn't in the pit; it's planted on Mater, in taking the place of his air filter.
Holley sprouts her weaponry wings while Finn takes off on the ground to both save Mater and stop Professor Zundapp from exploding the bomb. Mater quickly makes his way onto the track and arrives at Lightning's pit; he is surprised to see all of his friends are there because of him and warns them of the bomb before Finn contacts him and tells him the bomb is on Mater. Mater, now aware of where the bomb is, seeks to outrun Lightning, who immediately spots him and is about to apologize to Mater.
Instead, Lightning hooks himself to Mater, who sprouts a pair of rocket boosters given by Finn , and the two burst through the track wall into the streets of London. Professor Zundapp tries exploding the bomb, but by now, Mater and Lightning are so far away, the bomb is well out of range. Finally, Holley and Finn arrive, with the latter ordering Holley to handle Mater's situation while he goes after Zundapp, and a chase takes place between them.
Meanwhile, the lemons go after Lightning and Mater. Professor Zundapp arrives at the docks, where his ship is waiting for him to board, but Finn is close behind and manages to grapple himself to the Professor's back bumper. Unfortunately, the ship produces a giant magnet, and a tug of war between the ship and Finn occurs.
Finn immediately projects several magnetic grenades toward the ship's magnet, which causes it to explode. Holley catches up to Mater and McQueen; she tells him to stop, but he refuses, and she is forced to stop the lemons from earlier to prevent them from attacking Mater and McQueen.
After Holley dive swipes them, the two lemons crash into a royal bar and get beaten up and destroyed by other angry cars who mash them up for it. In the center of London, Mater, and McQueen finally stop as Holley states they have to disarm the bomb that was planted on Mater. Lightning is shocked at this situation and questions who put a bomb on Mater. Immediately, Finn arrives with a tied-up Professor Zundapp, who angrily questions McQueen on why his death ray didn't kill him, which shocks McQueen even more.
At Finn's demands, Professor Zundapp reveals the bomb is voice-activated, which means it can be deactivated by voice. Mater quickly attempts to disarm the bomb using voice activation but discovers that the bomb has a fail-safe for such a scenario. It begins counting down from 4 minutes. Professor Zundapp states the bomb can only be disarmed by whoever's voice is that armed it, as Holley threatens Professor Zundapp to disarm it.
He obliges, but the heroes are shocked to find the bomb's timer count down from 4 to 3 minutes, meaning that Zundapp did not arm the bomb. When he asks if anyone else would try, Holley zaps him unconscious with her Taser Beam, defeating him once and for all.
As they wonder what to do, the lemons and their army arrive to make sure the bomb goes off. Lightning notes they are the ones who want him dead, which they confirm but state that it's not personal. Each movie has had some wow moment where audiences can't help but be amazed by what they're seeing.
There were times in Cars 1 when it looked almost real. Cars 2 lacks any wow factor. One of the most impressive sets, Tokyo, were already spoiled by the Tokyo Mater short. This more than anything makes me wonder if Pixar was even trying to up the ante or if they were just using what they had to make a movie a year.
Spies and Cars seems to work well together. After all, any Bond or Bourne film will easily demonstrate why the two go together. Indeed, the opening scene on the drilling platform is easily the best with the fast chase and cool gadgets. But they weren't able to properly combine the racing and spy elements, almost as if you're watching two movies at once.
Perhaps Pixar should have set it as simply a spy movie set in the Cars universe and had McQueen and his friends in cameos or as a background story. Another lousy spot is the music. Cars 1 had a terrific soundtrack with excellent uses of popular songs like Life is a Highway and Route But there's not one memorable song or music cue in this movie. Giacchino usually does terrific work like with The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Up. But he too fumbles the ball here.
Perhaps he was just uninspired by what he had to work with. Cars is Lasseter's pet project. But I think he's too close to it. He's got that Lucas Star Wars prequel trilogy problem.
The people around him either were in awe of the man who made Pixar and Toy Story or they were afraid to hurt his feelings since he loves the Cars franchise so much. Pixar efforts have been so well done because they were collaborative efforts, each fixing each other's problems to make a better project.
But with Lasseter off working more directly with Disney, he really should have had a co-director or perhaps given the reins to someone else like he did with Toy Story 3. I almost rated this movie higher. It is fun while you're watching it, even if as soon as it's over it becomes too easy to pick apart the problems.
But this is Pixar. They've dominated the animation market since Toy Story and have been pushing the boundaries at the Academy Awards ever since. To see them stumble with a not-so-great film would be one thing. But they're coming off from two Best Picture nominees to a movie that's simply flashy but with little substance.
Kids will love the bright colors and silly antics, but parents will hate having to then buy twelve new Mater toys. Cars 2 is stalled and in need of a tune-up.
ARTaylor Jun 24, FAQ 3. Was Cars 2 made in Stereoscopic 3-D?
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