Review: Cars 2 offers more layers than a good paint job

Jul 25
08:41

2016

mandycheung

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There is layer upon layer of intricate detail in the movie Cars 2, the sequel to the successful 2006 Pixar release Cars. So much detail, in fact, that you might want to wait until the DVD comes out so that you can freeze the frames and pick out all of the subtle automotive styling with distinctive car dvd and android car GPS cues that abound within.

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But go see the movie. It's worth every frame to see the transformation of what used to be our planet to a purely automotive paradise,Review: Cars 2 offers more layers than a good paint job Articles all kinds of unique car , luxury installation of car dvd player, android car stereo and so on

 

The Pixar team once again constructed an entire world where cars, trucks and boats are the characters. The only hint of a human presence is a ladder hanging from a huge mining truck that Tow Mater and Lightning McQueen upend when they go "tractor tipping." Everything else--from bridge abutments to cathedral domes--has touches of internal combustion somewhere in it.

 

Transverse leaf springs hold up a bridge in Paris, snow on Mt. Fuji looks like tire tracks, the top of the Arc de Triomphe is a big valve cover for gm navigation, the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (Car-thedral?) in London is a differential and Big Ben is now Big Bentley.You'll see details that barely have time to register, and which had to have taken weeks if not months of work on someone's behalf, that then disappear as we are flung forward in this fast-paced film. One 12-minute race scene in Italy is composed of 250 shots, each one featuring car-themed buildings, bridges and barricades.

 

It must be exhausting to work at Pixar. All that hard work is worth it, though, as the movie is so visually intriguing that it will have you wishing you could freeze each frame in the theater.

 

Racing themes with which you'll be familiar also abound. The real Jeff Gordon voices a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R named Jeff Gorvette while Lewis Hamilton voices a McLaren supercar named . . . Lewis Hamilton. Up in the announcers booth are a Chevy Monte Carlo named Darrell Cartrip, a Jaguar E-type with android car stereo named David Hobbscap  and a Ford Mustang named Brent Mustangburger. We'll let you figure those out.

 

But the directors--Pixar chief John Lasseter and Ratatouille director Brad Lewis--may have been so successful in creating the world in which Cars 2 plays out that they lost some of the simplicity that made the first Cars installed with android car GPS--as well as so many other Pixar movies--such successes.

 

When Cars 2 does deliver its life lessons, they don't come as the gentle epiphanies of Cars or Toy Story so much as public-service announcements. Then it's time to rush back out in the world and start the chase anew. It's not that you'll get lost in the twin plots driving the movie along, but the charm that came from the first Cars with built-in car dvd player and gm navigation was in the simple, slow-paced truths that revealed themselves over time in the forgotten desert town of Radiator Springs.