A Step Up

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2007)

It's a long time after Cars now, and Ratatouille has been out awhile. The Cars IMDb threads are dying down, and less updates for stories are happening than ever over on fanfiction.net. But yet- there are still those surges when Cars fans once again get an urge and watch the movie.
I really just wanted to see this movie because it was a Pixar film. Truly, I didn't care if it had been about flying spiders or frogs in a blender- it's Pixar, isn't it? I went on June 11th 2006 to see this movie with a friend. To tell the truth, I left the theater thinking 'THIS is truly Pixar's downfall'.
A month later, I was re-reading the Star Wars Guide To The Characters- I was a huge Star Wars fan- and I realized I'd read it too many times. I picked up a Boba Fett book, but for the first time since probably May 2005, I put it down. I didn't want to watch Star Wars, didn't want to read it. I felt that I couldn't.
Suddenly, I realized something- Star Wars was for the people born when it first came out. Not many kids my age liked it.
I moved on to Monsters Inc the next day. Talk about a dying fandom! No one updated their stories, no one talked on the IMDb boards. It was boring.
Skip to November, 2006. Picture me, my dad, my brother, and my mom watching Cars on the TV on the DVD player. Me, cheering for Lightning McQueen. My mom, falling asleep, claiming it's boring. My dad, staring at the TV like what the heck? My brother, doing the same.
By November, I'd started a Cars series- not because I liked the movie, but because I needed to write something, and Cars was the first idea. But yet- there was something else. A spark inside me whenever I so much as heard the word 'lightning'. A feeling that you can't ignore- and the same thing I'd felt at the height of my Star Wars obsession.
I was obsessed with Cars.
Suddenly I realized something- Cars was awesome. It was like being hit by a baseball and realizing it hurts.
Like a grasshopper jumping from place to place, I normally jump from obsession to obsession. And yet- I'm stuck on Cars. It's something about that Pixar magic mixed with the different thoughts of a different world, where you're a car.
No having to earn a driver's license, and you can drive anywhere anytime. Faster than people.
Pixar is a movie making studio that comes out with a movie once a year, sometimes skipping a year. They skipped 2005, when I started my Star Wars obsession. Yet, in 2006, I ended up a Cars fan.
Pixar does an awesome job of taking inanimate objects and turning them into a living character. And with cars, they brought me a whole new world.