Very odd film

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2019)

So apparently the original Cars was not exactly a critical success, but it was a real hit with the audiences, making mucho mucho moneez, as they say. So, a sequel was pretty much inevitable. Yay...
Interestingly enough the sequel chooses to focus much more on Mater (Larry the Cable Guy). You know, Lightning McQueen's rusty tow truck sidekick from that little town in the first movie. Yeah, he's the main character in this. He teams up with a pair of British spy cars who are tracking an international terrorist group looking to discredit a new bio-fuel initiative.
Yes, really.
And I have to admit, I was not expecting that. None of us were. And in its bat guano insanity, I managed to find something. Is it a good film? Not really. There world still makes no sense, the Lightning McQueen side plot is perhaps needed, but ends up feeling rather pointless, and the humour is still only so-and-so. But I have to admit that when you have British James Bond cars zooming across the skies with jet engines and pulling mounted miniguns out of their fenders, you suddenly become much more accepting of the little oddities this world has. Like the fact that these cars need fuel to function, but they still eat human food. For some reason. Isn't fuel their food?
And that's really the movie in a nutshell. It's Pixar's nice little break from the heavier stuff. It doesn't mean much, but you can have fun with it, and it's very much the definition of harmless. Personally I liked it even a bit better than the original, but then again that's not a high bar to cross.