Trite, oversentimentalised twaddle

Rating: 1/10 (20 August 2006)

Let's face it, we don't expect searing revelations on social issues from Pixar- but we've been spoiled by Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Bugs Life.... to expect a story for the kids with enough amusement to keep parents entertained. This time, they just skipped that bit. Probably much of this cultural- for once again we have an American movie that assumes everyone watching it is American. Indycar racing is dull and almost unknown to Europeans- which does not help. Many of the other clichés are again almost unknown outside the US of A, and even as a Brit who has lived in the midwest they rankle. Combine the two and you have a film where gnawing my own legs off provided a superior alternative. My 9 year old twins loved it. My 15 and 17 year olds cried off and went to Pirates of the Caribbean 2, next door. Good call.