Brilliance

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2006)

I'm beginning to thing that Pixar doesn't know that such words as "bad" or "mediocre" exist... The characters were excellent, the humor, both adult and child was excellent, the plot was beautiful... Cinematography was beautiful. The acting was spot-on. The music and the animations themselves were incredible. It's a bummer that I'm restricted to 1,000 words...
The characters of cars are incredibly well done. Each car, each voice, each store - everything felt like it had a history behind it, unlike many of Disney's current films, which generally seem to be drenched in superficiality and their characters, albeit traditional, are too stereotypical. Pixar has in every one of their films created memorable characters such as Mater, McQueen, and Sally; yet in each film the characters remain brilliantly unique and captivating. You can't forget how Mater is like a "Ta-mater, 'cept without the 'Ta'", or how McQueen is changed by the town, and the Cars in the town are changed by McQueen. The characters are so excellently entwined in the storyline that the plot IS the characters and their relationships. The small elements of the film brought it to life even more, such as the flies being cars, or the characters replacing common human lingo with "car lingo", or the tire marbles from the car tires. I thought the movie was excellent - one of the best that Pixar's done, thanks to the unforgettable characters and the extremely beautiful and lifelike animations. Even though Pixar's movies can't really be fairly compared to one another because they are each so different, I call cars their best film yet! Undoubtedly, if I could name a "Film of the Year", Cars would be that film.