The more I thought about, the more I think its awful.

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2011)

I've watched the first movie with my kids a 100 times and we still love it.
But for the sequel, I should have known something was wrong with this movie when I saw a Mater toy with pop out machine guns.
Mafia boss cars torturing, saying "Kill him" and killing another car. My kids were 2.5 and 4 years old. Had I known I would not have taken my children. Questionable G-Rating. This is Cars meets Bourne Identity/James Bond. One car gets bashed in a bathroom fight scene, like in many adult movies.
Young kids were not following the plot. Oil companies, mafia, espionage etc.
The first movie had a great heart warming story and many great characters. There ware no memorable characters in this movie. The first had great music and scenes and action and is re-watchable many times.....where-as I was bored in the sequel...boring and too long.
I wish they developed the locations and characters more. Have a London Bus character etc like they had Radiator Springs characters in the first.
My kids had their first cinema experience and their first sequel disappointment! :) And I'm a little angry at some of the violence.