Cars 2 is the long awaited sequel to the 2006 Pixar movie Cars, Lightning McQueen again voiced by Owen Wilson has won his 4th Piston Cup when Sir Myles Axelrod develops an alternative fuel source called "Allinol" and to celebrate he's hosting a World Grand Prix in which McQueen will race, but a spy named Finn McMissile voiced by Michael Caine is also racing to advert a major disaster.
To be honest I wasn't looking forward to this film, mainly because I wasn't a big fan of the first Cars which looked amazing but had an average story but the trailers for the film made it look like a lot of fun so how did they do?
Well they failed, and rather miserably at that, the film is so Boring it is not funny, nothing of any substance in this works, there is too little of the actual racing which IS pretty exciting nor is there a lot of the spy subplot too which is setup terrifically with the opening sequence but just ends up wasting Caine as it goes on.
What we do get is endless jokes regarding Tow Mater, the tow truck character from the first movie who is shoved into the limelight as the central character when it's McQueen that fronts all the posters flying around the place but nope McQueen's sentenced to the race track while Mater gets all the screen time and boy oh boy does it get excruciating to watch after a while, director John Lasseter really should've known better in this regard.
What did work though was the Toy Story short prior to the main feature, in which Barbie and Ken hope to go to Hawaii with their owner Bonnie for Vacation but are left behind, so the other toys fill in the blanks, it's very funny with some great jokes and almost made me yearn for another Toy Story movie, but hopefully we don't get it.
You know, following that wonderful film with this one was like following Highlander 1 with Highlander 2, what a disaster this was, if you must see it wait for the Blu-Ray release, otherwise don't bother, 1 out of 5.
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