Despite the generic story, it's a good Pixar movie.

Rating: 7/10 (8 August 2009)

Cars isn't one of Pixar's movies which became instant classics. It has its ups and downs, I'll start with the good. The plot is simple, but it has a morale. Our main hero is Lightning McQueen, a selfish egotistic rookie car which made it to the final of the Piston Cup, a Nascar tournament. He soon finds himself in a difficult situation, getting out of it proves to be challenging because of his hot-shot character.
The voice acting is very good, we have famous actors voicing the cars, like Owen Wilson, Michael Keaton, Paul Newman and so on. They all do a terrific job, so no complaints here.
Now, the bad. First of all, we have no back story for McQueen, how he got to be so good, why, when and so on. At least 3 minutes of back story would have been nice. On the bright side, we see some character development. The plot, while creative in ways, is actually a very common story, with a different approach. Another bad thing, all cars are stereotypes: there's a hippy car which always says something about "organic fuel" and hippy stuff, there's an army jeep which always uses army terms. That's not a major flaw, more like a minor one.
Overall, the story isn't very original. Cars has great production values, great voice acting, doesn't have an original plot, but still has a morale and a good script.
Final Score: 3.5/5 or 7./10