Good But Not Super Unleaded

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2019)

23 June 2006. Cars sputters its engines out of the starting block, overly long, and not as funny as previously animated blockbusters, provides a continuing look at the progress of animation technique that threatens to become indistinguishable from live action. While the trend of this form of animation towards realism will likely pose serious dilemmas for future movie makers, currently as provided in Cars, the animation is at times superb and at other times flat and artificial. The inconsistency of presentation is a major distraction. Car does possess good substance, a decent storyline, with some cute one-liners for car racing fans. Yet the flow of the movie is oddly flat for the first third of the movie. The rapid fire funny scenes are missing that the audience has come to expect with no constant sidekick. Seven out of Ten Stars.