So wrong, so bad and so uninteresting!

Rating: 4/10 (20 October 2013)

First of I want to make it very clear that I'm a huge Disney/Pixar fan. I own all of the feature length films they have ever put out on DVD, I watch them regularly and I enjoy them very much. To me what makes them special is that they represent the highest quality of animated films in that while they are expertly executed and produced they are also imaginative, innovative, interesting, engaging and funny. This goes, in my opinion, for all of Disney/Pixars 14 feature length films out on DVD with the one sad exception of Cars 2.
The story in itself is without a doubt the weakest and least imaginative of all the Disney/Pixar movies to date (I haven't yet seen Planes, but I'm not exactly holding my breath for that one either). I fail to see how the executives at Disney/Pixar could be fooled by a plot that is so thin and uninteresting that it makes the Tinker Bell movies seem levels above.
And what on earth possessed Mr. Lasseter to make him "okay" the ridiculous levels of violence and weaponry displayed in the movie. And how did he think that a spy movie would be interesting to children. I have watched it with children ages 8, 9 and 12. They all had a hard time following the plot, and while the smaller ones were scared at times the big one simply wasn't drawn in at all.
As others have said before me, it seems that this movie (and the "Planes" spin off) was only made to make money on more merchandise. What I don't understand is, why they had to change the whole concept of the first movie "Cars" that centered around old fashioned values and friendship into some deranged global good/bad war over fossil fuel/CO2 neutral fuel. I just don't get it. And I didn't like.
I can't recommend this film to anyone who liked the other Disney/Pixar movies. And I must say that it has been a great relief to me that Brave and Monsters University both proved to be back to the old standards - and I'm very apprehensive about Planes...