Stunning

Rating: 7/10 (28 July 2011)

An animation movie is worth what's worth that's all. But this one has a whirl of stunning images and scenes technically almost perfect and extremely efficient and impressive. The humanized cars are greatly expressive in terms of "facial" and "body" features and gestures that make us always forget they aren't people. Their movements look human indeed. And we don't see a single human being all through the movie as if the world was peopled with cars behaving like people and showing human feelings and thoughts, some of them being the "bad" and some others the "good" ones. There also several good humoured sequences like those performed by the tow van character, a really well conceived one. And the reproduction of cities like Paris, London and Italy are very realistic and beautiful almost looking like photos. And the story? Well the story the less important aspect of the movie as it often happens in animation movies. Something about the use of car fuel, the very modern duel between petrol and alternative less polluting fuels which in this story involve a fight between the "goodies" who defend the former against the "baddies" that try to discredit it in favour of petrol by means of several criminal and violent actions. If you go to see this movie you'll spend a pleasant time having a visual very effective entertainment