Early Screening - Mostly Spoiler free

Rating: 10/10 (17 May 2006)

I just got home from an early screening of Cars. I got to see it in a digital cinema, and it really brought out the beauty of this Pixar gem. It seems that with every Pixar movie they aim to tackle a new piece of animation. With Nemo it was water, Monsters Inc. was fur. Cars has some amazing effects as far as the lighting and reflections. The cars in the movie feel very real, because of the fantastic lighting work. Also, it seems there are a lot more landscape scenes which are done very, very nicely.
Now, about the movie itself ... this one definitely lives up to the Pixar name. I wasn't as excited about this movie as I was with some other Pixar productions, but I should have been. This movie is a full two hours long, which is quite long for a movie of it's type. It really doesn't feel that long though, as nothing is really drawn out past its due. There are a few story lines that progress nicely as the film drives on.
The movie is somewhat predictable (when isn't a family movie predictable). However, even though the story has been done before, it's rarely to the quality that Pixar does it. The movie somewhat caters to the "redneck", racing fan crowd, but I still loved it, and I am not a redneck (last time I checked).
This is the only spoiler I had to give away. It's not huge, I just want to make sure that people stay for the credits to watch the characters go to the movies and watch "Toy Car Story", "Monster Cars", and "A Bug's Life" (as in a VW Bug's life). It's a really funny bit.