A step back for Pixar.

Rating: 6/10 (21 September 2019)

Pixar had been riding on a wave of highly acclaimed animated feature films almost non-stop since its beginning with the mega hit of Toy Story, and sure a couple of movies shared a similar story structure like 2006's Cars, but they had something thoughtprovoking about them, but while I watched cars I had so many questions.
First of all, why did it have to be a world of cars? With this unoriginal story you could put anything in the car's place and you would still get the same outcome, so why cars out of all possible things. We at least got a glimpse of a plausible miniature world in A Bug's Life, but this world makes no sense. How do they mate? How do they use the rear-view mirrors when their eyes are the wind shield? And why are even the flies a car?
But it all comes back to the story, because how many times have you heard this: a self-absorbed city boy lives his life in the fast lane without thinking about other, some day he gets out of his comfort zone and must learn about appreciating the small things in life and care about others, then he gets his chance to be the greatest person in the world but has learned his lesson.
Yeah, it was predictable from start to finish, but I wouldn't say it's all bad, because even though he meets some colourful characters whereas most of them are one-note I did like McQueen's romance with Sally and how he played out with the race car veteran Doc Hudson which leads to a foreseen but heart-warming ending.
It may be Pixar's weakest original movie, but it's not all bad, we'll leave that to its sequel.