Only So So

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2006)

Having raised the bar so high in the past, it would be unrealistic to expect Pixar to constantly match past successes and sadly Cars is at best only on a par with most of competition.
The problem is not the animation techniques, but telling yet again the same story of the lost toy/ant/little girl/fish and now car. Worse, the ending of the story was sign posted from the moment the hero was trapped in the little town. Compared to Toy Story this was scripting by numbers and it showed. The huge number of credited writers (and lord knows how many script doctors) does lend credence to a good idea (let's do a film about cars) which went wrong.
My kids didn't want to go to the cinema to see this ( I did) as they are bored with computer animated films. I rented it on DVD. They gave up watching it half way through and never bothered watching it again during the next week.
Disney may have bought Pixar just as it lost its way.