Not the strongest Pixar movie

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2011)

Cars 2 has the pacing of a long Chevron commercial with nice visuals. Pixar's track record has been close to untouchable when crafting their films. Their movie are geared toward children with the thought process of parents interest in mind. They create intelligent, emotionally driven, beautifully detailed animated films, with plenty of humor and heart to appeal to movie for parents and children both to enjoy. With this in mind the creators of films behind the Pixar brand forgot about these elements when making a sequel to the off center original. The makers of the first Cars shied away from those various things to a certain degree and just intended the film to be loved by kids. Cars one was not a bad film at all just not as good or on the same level as its counterparts.The first Cars turn out nice box office numbers despite the some bad reviews by Pixar fans and what they were looking for, but hit home to the children expectation and imagination. In knowing that, this movie take that leap again that the first movie makes and tries to leap again and falls short of the capable entertainment. Cars 2 does not feel like a Pixar film at all, but resembles something that Dream works ( not hating on those movies) would have put out. It does not connect with me emotionally as a fan of Pixars various other films. Kids will enjoy every minute of this, witnessing all the new automobiles that the movie presents on the course of it's running time, but for older generation this movie may be a hit and miss. I for one did not care for the route that this film took and making a sequel. In viewing the first movie at the end of it I felt that it was a complete movie not needing a forced sequel like it received.The movie sequel feels like a straight to DVD quality film or a cartoon movie that would be screened on Disney channel or children networks. They also didn't explored the characters that were loved in the first movie. Every scene the audience was introduced to a new character which became the down fall of this film. They displayed some nice roles, but overcrowded the story of the two main characters that we wanted to know more about. Besides the action and some nicely displayed cars that made it to the film this movie just loses it's flame that it had in the first. The director placed the whole spy flick theme into the film to serve as a distraction for kids so they can introduce new cars. The plot didn't fit right with the whole world of Cars 1. One thing that Disney has done in this film that made it a passable movie is add this element to introduce the action that the first movie didn't have. They knew that another Cars original story line would not work a second time so they went this route to create another film for kids. The idea that Pixar has done was smart and inventive to capitalize on merchandize, but it was a fail attempt.This movie also lacks in comedy and heart that was also present in the first movie, but improve on the visual which are beautiful. Mator became annoying at times and served no purpose while he was on screen and I just never connected to the film as a older audience member. That is how this movie lacks the Pixar brand name influence because it falls short in those categories. Compared to the numerous dazzling hits that Pixar Studio has released in the past years, this film is a great disappointment to their track record, but can still achieve box office glory with the amount of fans of the first that this franchise has. With the growing number of animation films that have been put out in the last 10 years that are not under the umbrella of Pixar Studio's, this film still couldn't make the list of the top animation movies to date.