Booooring

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2007)

My 5 year old can sit through anything. He was asking if it was over yet. My 3.5 year old can sit through a lot and was dancing in the aisles - not through any efforts of the movie. We saw Chicken Little and loved it - clear bad guys and lots of tension. Cars had no bad guys and the only tension was provided by trying to keep my kids quiet.
It is inconceivable to me what people see in this movie. Is it not obvious that besides having name actors and a nice look, this movie was booooooring? Bah.
I have grown to appreciate kids movies in recent years. It is clear what they need: some action, some tension, music/singing is good, but mostly  bad guys. They need clear delineation of who is good and who is bad. Just having the nearly wooden Owen Wilson search for himself in the guise of a sports car does not cut it. (There was a small scene with the bad guy/car gang on the highway, but it seemed forced and had no further impact in the movie.) That said, it was a beautiful movie, and I enjoyed some of the other actors' efforts (Paul Newman, Larry the Cable Guy).