Continues the visionary dominance, though falters slightly with pace

Rating: 6/10 (6 November 2006)

Needless to say, all the visionary spectacle that has guided Pixar's hand from day one remains brilliantly on display, articulated in new ways now that vehicles have become the human element. While not the masterpiece in tone and plotting that had distinguished this computer animation company's nearly flawless track record from countless imitators, Cars is nonetheless another heartfelt, beautiful triumph worthy of the Pixar label. As with all things animated, Cars works best when the action speaks for itself, when the animation suspends character interaction in favor of broad and breathtaking observational sweeps, via the American highway, poignantly harking back to days of old in completely new family-friendly gestures. While the humbling of hot-rod hot-shot Lightning Mcqueen (Wilson in one of his most convincing roles) and subsequent homage to mid west America may not have been pieced together in the most convincing of manners, Cars will still sweep excited children into it's blazing introduction, mellow out with it's sweet and funny character interaction and race past the finish line in a blaze of feel good family entertainment from the highest, visually animated order.