Flat Tires

Rating: 6/10 (20 June 2006)

Mildly amusing tale of brash rookie race car who learns lessons in humility after being stranded in a small town. The animation is pretty good but the story is not up to the standard of Finding Nemo or Monsters, Inc. The script is predictable and the characters are all clichés. The cop car and the deputy are like Andy Taylor and Barney Fife. The jokes are rather stale. Just the concept of talking cars becomes tiresome after a while. There is one nice song ("Life is a Highway"); perhaps more music would have livened things up. Wilson does OK as the hero car and Newman brings the right gravitas to the voice of the wise old champion.