Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2006)

I guess Pixar finally fell into the old trap of getting wrapped up the golly gee technology and forgetting about a story. The technology is amazing but after the whiz bang of the first scene it didn't add anything to the film. The characters are very simple and not funny except for the Italian cars. Every part of the story is un-original and borrowed from other mediocre movies. I don't understand why writers of kids movies always fall back on the "capitalism is evil and mean people are greedy" plot when they run out of new ideas. Pixar is going to make money on this, but I doubt that they are proud of it. Every other Pixar movie I have seen has had a great story and still watchable after a few dozen viewings. A very poor choice to showcase new technology. Oooh look at the colored lighting, lens flare and reflections and different textures, it's better than most xbox 360 games but not much.