It's meh

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 2019)

It's not as bad as everybody says but it's definitely the weaker of the Cars trilogy. I feel like this works better as a Matertoons short than a Cars movie. The story's about Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) being a spy for an organization while his friend Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is competing in races around the world. Mater has to find out who's been killing off the racers using a beam that ignited the gas they're using.
The animation's great as always but the story feels out of place. I like Mater but I think he worked better in small doses. Making him the main character instead of McQueen seems weird. If anything McQueen himself is pretty much sidelined. Some of the jokes are funny like when Mater gets trapped in a Japanese bathroom after eating a ton of wasabi thinking it was ice cream as well as a scene where McQueen's rival starts causing on tv after being slighted.
I can't really say much other than it's not bad but it's not one of Disney's best. Kids will like it but fans of the first one probably won't and with that being said you can probably lose it in a scrapyard.