{"id":8421,"date":"2007-01-24T04:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2007-01-24T04:38:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T09:38:30","slug":"cars-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/cars-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cars_171\"<\/a>Maybe it\u2019s because Pixar seems to be attempting to appeal to the NASCAR crowd, maybe it\u2019s because Pixar seems to be glorifying a \u201csport\u201d that\u2019s really just cars driving around in circles, or maybe it\u2019s because Pixar has created a movie that is preaching about the good days of society when it was more innocent, from a company like Disney that\u2019s basically sterilized and dominated the world with its utterly sickening spree of overpriced merchandise. Turn any corner in Times Square in New York and you\u2019re guaranteed to see something from Disney. And that\u2019s not a coincidence. Disney is the cause of many problems in America, one of which is their sheer monopoly on companies and media, and the contribution to the overall vast consumption that\u2019s ruined how Americans think.<\/p>\n

\u201cCars\u201d just didn\u2019t appeal to me from the get go. Watching the trailers, I didn\u2019t feel the sense of sheer wonder I did with \u201cThe Incredibles,\u201d and \u201cToy Story.\u201d Pixar\u2019s \u201cCars\u201d is a disappointing and brutally bland offering with plot that\u2019s just not entertaining. I was bored. A lot. And I was given too many shades of familiarity from an equally terrible film in the same vein \u201cRobots.\u201d The animation from the Pixar crew is as amazing as always. There are scenes in this that are so fantastic, that I could swear I was watching footage of actual cars that were spliced into the film. The racing sequences are exciting, and children will utterly love the race scenes involving Lightning McQueen’s sleek model ride, and his battle against the competing racers.<\/p>\n

Pixar is never one for shoddy animation, and they prove it here. It’s always a visual treat. There isn\u2019t much you can do with cars, and the animators on this film show that. There is a truck named Mac, there\u2019s Lightning McQueen who is quite possibly the most boring hero of the Disney library, there\u2019s possibly the most uninteresting romance between McQueen and a resident of Radiator Springs, and of course the old grizzled car who happens to be an ex-champion of the Piston Cup. I\u2019ve never seen a Pixar film so void of magic, and originality before.<\/p>\n

Pixar seems to have been pushed into creating a film based solely around cars, for the sake of merchandising for a variety of car companies, because \u201cCars\u201d just doesn\u2019t have the spirit behind previous entries from the company. There\u2019s just nothing here except a void story that is just utterly dull. Take the idiocy of NASCAR, the soulless corporate presence of General Motors, and the obligatory reference to Tex Avery and you have this vapid concoction. I\u2019m disappointed. Joe Dimaggio didn\u2019t always have a hit, Bruce Lee didn\u2019t always win a fight, and Pixar doesn\u2019t always create an animated masterpiece. \u201cCars\u201d feels like a corporate concept, twisted into an innocent story, that really just ends up feeling like a soulless corporate concept in the end. \u201cCars\u201d is a disappointment if I\u2019ve ever seen it. Great animation be damned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe it\u2019s because Pixar seems to be attempting to appeal to the NASCAR crowd, maybe it\u2019s because Pixar seems to be glorifying a \u201csport\u201d that\u2019s really just cars driving around in circles, or maybe it\u2019s because Pixar has created a movie that is preaching about the good days of society when it was more innocent, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71,99,170,219,290,340,349,580,779,974],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-c","tag-comedy","tag-disney","tag-family","tag-fantasy","tag-kids","tag-pixar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}