Cars 3

Cars 3 is a 2017 American computer-animated sports-comedy adventure. As the third film in the Cars series, it is the sequel to the 2011 film Cars 2, and Disney/Pixar's eighteenth animated feature film, which was released in theaters on June 16, 2017.
==Synopsis==
"Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing's biggest stage!"
==Plot==
As the Piston Cup season progresses, Lightning McQueen, now a seven-time Piston Cup racing legend, finds himself overshadowed by Jackson Storm, an arrogant rookie who belongs to a new generation of racers that use the latest technology to improve their performance. Lightning's fellow veterans either retire or are fired by their sponsors, to be replaced by new-generation racers. He falls behind the pack in the final race of the season; while trying to catch up, he loses control and suffers a violent rollover crash, ending his worst season on record prematurely while Storm goes on to win the championship. Four months later, while recovering in Radiator Springs after the violent crash, a primer-coated Lightning watches footage of the crash that ended the career of his late mentor, Doc Hudson, even reminiscing the conversation they had during his first week in Radiator Springs. He tells his girlfriend, Sally Carrera, that he does not want to be forced into retirement as Doc was and decides to start training again, looking for new ways to regain his edge. Rusty and Dusty, the owners of Lightning's Rust-eze racing team, send him to a newly opened racing center, much to his surprise. When he arrives, he learns that they have sold Rust-eze to new owner Sterling, who assigns him to work with trainer Cruz Ramirez. Lightning eventually becomes impatient and annoyed with Cruz's methods and attempts to use a high-tech racing simulator, only to accidentally destroy it.
Convinced that Lightning is no longer capable of winning, Sterling is ready to take him off the racing circuit and use him for product endorsements. Lightning offers a deal instead: if he wins the first race of the new upcoming season in Florida, he can keep racing at his discretion; otherwise, he will retire immediately. Sterling accepts the deal and sends Cruz to work with him one-on-one at a nearby beach.
Instead of improving his own top speed to beat Storm's speed, Lightning spends most of the day helping Cruz get used to racing on the sandy coastline outside the training center. Then, for inspiration, they travel to a dirt track on which Doc raced but inadvertently ended up competing in a demolition derby, which Cruz ultimately wins, leading to Lightning being humiliated on national television. When he angrily lashes out at her for wasting his time and breaks her trophy, she gets angry, tells Mack to pull over instantly to let her out and reveals that she had wanted to race professionally when she was younger but never started a race because she felt outclassed by the other cars. Finally, she leaves to make the trip back to the racing center on her own, deciding to quit her job.
After seeing a report on Storm's new speed record, and looming over the possibility of inevitably losing his bet to Sterling, Lightning calls his best friend, Mater, for advice. Mater suggests that he track down Doc's mentor Smokey. Lightning picks up Cruz, but she refuses to go with him after what he said to her before. Lightning tries to make it up to her by fixing her trophy and dancing to help her get on Mack. Cruz, getting impatient by Lightning's dancing and singing, agrees, and the two travel to Doc's hometown of Thomasville, where they meet Smokey and several of Doc's old friends. Accepting that he is not the racer he once was, he allows them to coach him in methods to outsmart Storm instead of beating him with sheer speed. Smokey reveals that even though Doc never raced again after his crash, he found new happiness in training Lightning. During a final practice race, Lightning has a flashback to his crash and loses to Cruz, who has been taking some of Smokey's lessons to heart.
Lightning is surprised to find Smokey and Doc's old friends cheering him on, despite him falling behind to the next-generation racers at the race in Florida. Sterling spots Cruz among them several laps into the race and orders her to return to the racing center. Lightning calls her back to the speedway, has his pit crew outfit her for racing, and gives her his number so she can take his place. Using both Smokey's advice and her own, Lightning coaches her through the pack until she is in second place behind Storm. On the last lap, Storm rams Cruz into the wall, but she flips away using one of Doc's old techniques and lands ahead of him to win the race, much to the amazement of McQueen. She and Lightning are both credited with the victory, and she quits her job with Sterling to accept an offer to race for Dinoco.
Later, in Radiator Springs, Lightning and Cruz put on an exhibition race for their friends. They have adopted Doc's old racing colors and number, respectively, to honor his memory. Dinoco has bought Rust-eze from Sterling, and Lightning decides to continue racing and train Cruz as well.
In a post-credits scene, Mater is singing a funny song and is cleaning in his lot, and when his iPad rings, he gets startled and jumps in fright, then inadvertently knocks over his reception antenna along with tires falling down from his shack's roof, and the FaceTime on his iPad goes dead, much to his dismay.
==Cast==
===Principal/Secondary Cast===
*Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen
*Cristela Alonzo as Cruz Ramirez
*Chris Cooper as Smokey
*Nathan Fillion as Sterling
*Larry the Cable Guy as Mater
*Armie Hammer as Jackson Storm
*Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera
*Tony Shalhoub as Luigi
*Lea DeLaria as Miss Fritter
*Kerry Washington as Natalie Certain
*Cheech Marin as Ramone
*Jenifer Lewis as Flo
*Michael Wallis as Sheriff
*Paul Dooley as Sarge
*Lloyd Sherr as Fillmore
*Guido Quaroni as Guido
*Katherine Helmond as Lizzie
*John Ratzenberger as Mack
*Bob Peterson as Chick Hicks 
*Richard Petty as Strip Weathers
*Jeff Gordon as Jeff Gorvette
*Darrell Waltrip as Darrell Cartrip
*Chase Elliott as Chase Racelott
*Daniel Suárez as Danny Swervez
*Ryan Blaney as Ryan "Inside" Laney
*Darrell Wallace Jr. as Bubba Wheelhouse
*Kyle Petty as Cal Weathers
*Shannon Spake as Shannon Spokes
*Humpy Wheeler as Tex Dinoco
*Ray Evernham as Ray Reverham
*Mike Joy as Mike Joyride
*Lewis Hamilton as Hamilton
*Bob Costas as Bob Cutlass
*Ray Magliozzi as Dusty Rust-eze
*Tom Magliozzi as Rusty Rust-eze (archive audio)
*Isiah Whitlock Jr. as River Scott
*Junior Johnson as Junior "Midnight" Moon
*Margo Martindale as Louise "Barnstormer" Nash
*Angel Oquendo as Bobby Swift
*Paul Newman as Doc Hudson/Fabulous Hudson Hornet (archive audio)
===Additional voices===
*Andrea Taylor Baker
*Doug Burch
*Catherine Cavadini
*Lanai Chapman
*Will Collyer - Brick Yardley
*Abby Craden - Simulator Voice
*Django Craig - Kurt, Superfly
*James G. Dashe 
*Andra Day - Sweet Tea
*E. Ambriz DeColosio 
*John DeMita - Thunder Hollow Announcer
*Rod Gnapp
*Willow Geer
*Isa Hall
*Aaron Hendry 
*John Hoffman - Thunder Hollow RV
*Barney Jones
*Mikey Kelley
*Carlyle King
*Daamen Krall 
*David H. Lawrence XVII
*Malana
*Jeremy Maxwell - Arvy
*Madeleine McGraw - Maddy McGear
*Levi Nuñez - Gabriel 
*Angel Oquendo
*Jason Pace
*Bob Peterson - Dr. Damage
*James Pace - Faregame
*Alex Puccinelli
*Steve Purcell - Tractors
*David Randolph
*Jerome Ranft - Red
*Noreen Reardon
*A.J. Riebli III - Albert Hinkey
*Peter Sohn - Mr. Drippy
*Galyn Susman
*Regina Taufen
*Nancy Truman
*Cheryl Tyre
*Andrew Vernon
*Jay Ward - Jeff Gorvette's Interviewer
==Production==
At the Disney stockholder meeting on March 18, 2014, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Pixar had begun pre-production on Cars 3.Disney Plans Third 'Cars,' 'The Incredibles 2'Incredibles Animated Sequel
Michael Wallis said on August 17, 2013 that the film would include Route 99 in California,Michael Wallis confirms there will be a "Cars 3" while John Lasseter said during the Tokyo International Film Festival that a Citroën 2CV will appear in the film as a reference to Hayao Miyazaki's movie Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro.John Lasseter Hails Hayao Miyazaki, Japan and the Joy of Juxtaposition
According to the 2015 São Paulo Disney Expo, the film's release was to be in 2018.'Cars 3' and 'Incredibles 2' Slated For 2018 and 2019 Release Dates? On July 20, 2015, while being interviewed by Autoweek, Lasseter stated that the film's release should be summer 2018 or 2019.Pixar Motorama is the coolest car show you've never heard of On October 8, 2015, it was confirmed to be June 16, 2017.Disney Announces Release Dates for 'Incredibles 2,' 'Cars 3'
The first concept images were released by USA Today on May 30, 2016. Director Brian Fee also gave some info on the characters and plot.
"Cruz Ramirez is trying to figure out how this old dog can learn some new tricks," says Fee.
"Think of where he'd be in his career now in real time," says Fee. "(McQueen) is not an old man, but he's one of the older cars on the circuit with new rookies coming in. People start to wonder and ask when he might retire."USA Today article
On June 8, 2016, Lasseter revealed that the film will include a different tone as well as a tribute to the first film's deuteragonist Doc Hudson.Pixar boss John Lasseter: Cars 3 is 'very emotional,' closer in tone to Cars 1
On November 21, the first teaser trailer for the film was released and it showed McQueen about to have a horrific crash, like the one that forced the end of Doc Hudson's career.
On January 5, it was announced that Armie Hammer and Cristela Alonzo would voice Jackson Storm and Cruz Ramirez, respectively.
On January 9, Disney released the first trailer during the College Football Playoffs.
On February 1, 2017, it was announced that the Pixar short to be shown with the film is Lou.
On February 26, another trailer was released during the Daytona 500.
On April 25, a teaser was released saying that a full trailer was set to be released, which it was the following day.
On April 30, a one-minute trailer was shown at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards.
On May 7, a Japanese trailer was released, showing new footage.
On May 10, a new trailer was released, showing new footage.
On May 25, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton revealed on his social media an exclusive clip featuring his character in the film.
On June 6, a clip of McQueen and Storm was released on various movie clip YouTube channels, although it was not then uploaded on Pixar's official YouTube channel. However, on June 14, it did get uploaded on Disney's official YouTube channel made for United Kingdom viewers, and was uploaded on Pixar's YouTube channel a day later.
On June 9, a one-minute trailer was released (eleven years after the first Cars film).
On June 14, a "My Senior Project" clip was released on the Disney UK YouTube channel.
A 12-minute exclusive 4D sneak peek was shown at the "Bugs Life Theater" at Disney's California Adventure starting May 12, 2017 with short clips from the movie and a long demolition derby clip that featured McQueen and Cruz taking on Miss Fritter.
A one-minute "Legacy of 95" featurette was released on the Disney UK YouTube channel on June 22.
==Release==
Cars 3 was released in theaters on June 16, 2017 in the United States in 3D, and in selected IMAX 3D theaters and was accompanied by the Pixar short film Lou.
To promote the UK release, which was July 14, life-size models of McQueen and Storm were shown at the 2017 Formula 1 British Grand Prix, with Wilson, Fee and Reher attending.
===Home media===
Cars 3 was released on Digital HD on October 24, 2017 and was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on November 7, 2017, by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
==Reception==
===Box Office===
Cars 3 grossed around $172 million in USA and Canada and $310 millions in other territories for a worldwide total of $482 million, against a production budget of $150 million.
===Critical Response===
Cars 3 received mostly positive reviews, the film received an approval rating of 69% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 228 reviews. With the site's critical consensus reads, "Cars 3 has an unexpectedly poignant story to go with its dazzling animation, suggesting Pixar's most middle-of-the-road franchise may have a surprising amount of tread left."
Owen Gleiberman of Variety magazine gave the film positive review stating, "Cars 3 is a friendly, rollicking movie made with warmth and dash, and to the extent that it taps our primal affection for this series, it more than gets the job done. Yet in many ways it's the tasteful version of a straight-to-DVD (or streaming) sequel."
==Soundtrack==
There are eight songs in the Motion Picture Soundtrack while the Score Soundtrack is composed by Randy Newman. For the film, there are two soundtracks: one containing songs, and the other consisting of the film's score. Both were released on the same day as the film.
==Video game==
Avalanche Software and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment developed a game adapted from the film, with release dates of June 13, 2017 in North America, June 14 in Australia, and July 14 in Europe.
==Gallery==
==Videos==
===Trailers and Clips===
Cars 3 Official US Teaser Trailer
Cars 3 Extended Sneak Peek – In Theatres in 3D June 16
CARS 3 - "Next Generation" Extended Look
How to Draw Cruz Ramirez from Cars 3 Pixar LIVE
How to Draw Jackson Storm from Cars 3 Pixar LIVE
Cars 3 - Official US Trailer
Cars 3 Disney Channel Sneak Peek (RDMA) 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards Trailer
Cars 3 "Rivalry" Official Trailer
CARS 3 Next Gens Clip Official Disney Pixar UK
CARS 3 Meet Jackson Storm Official Disney UK
CARS 3 My Senior Project Official Disney UK
Cars 3 - Lewis Hamilton - Official Disney Pixar HD
Cars 3 "The Limit" Official Trailer
"What Fuels You" with the Cast of Cars 3
CARS 3 Legacy of 95 Official Disney UK
CARS 3 Sneak Peek
===Interviews===
Cars 3 Director Brian Fee Interview
Cars 3 "Tex" Humpy Wheeler Interview
Cars 3 "River Scott" Isiah Whitlock Jr Interview
Cars 3 "Junior Moon" Junior Johnson Interview
Cars 3 "Miss Fritter" Lea DeLaria Interview
Cars 3 "Louise Nash" Margo Martindale Interview
Cars 3 "Ray Reverham" Ray Evernham Interview
Cars 3 "The King" Richard Petty Interview
Cars 3 John Lasseter Interview
Cars 3 "Sterling" Nathan Fillion Interview
Cars 3 "Natalie Certain" Kerry Washington Interview
Cars 3 "Cruz Ramirez" Cristela Alonzo Interview
Cars 3 "Jackson Storm" Armie Hammer Interview
Cars 3 "Lightning McQueen" Owen Wilson Interview
==International premieres==
*June 15, 2017 (Colombia)
*June 16, 2017 (Mexico)
*July 22, 2017 (Chile)
*June 25, 2017 (United Kingdom)
*July 13, 2017 (Brazil)
*July 20, 2017 (Portugal)
==Trivia==
===Cameos===
*Todd the Pizza Planet Delivery Truck is seen participating in the Crazy 8 Demolition Derby race in Thunder Hollow but is knocked out, losing his rocket topper in the process.
*Jeff Gorvette from Cars 2 returns as a retired racer, appearing in the Florida 500 race in Florida. He is the only character from that film to return in Cars 3. In Cars 3, before the Florida 500, Jeff tells Lightning to "win one for us old guys".
*The pumpkin coach from Cinderella (as an antique trophy), a picture of Miles Axlerod and a bonsai tree resembling Ant Island from A Bug's Life are seen in Sterling's office in the Rust-eze Racing Center.
*Miss Fritter's exhaust pipes are designed as a homage to Maleficent.
*Car number 86 of Thunder Hollow's Crazy 8 Demolition Derby race is a reference to Luxo, Jr., due to his number 86 (when it was released), and he has the Pixar Ball on his hood.
*Buy n Large from WALL-E and Triple Dent Gum from Inside Out appear as sponsors for Dinoco Races.
*Due to Coco being in development at that time, two elements appear in the film itself.
**The town of Santa Cecilia appears on one of the treadmill screens during Cruz Ramirez's training regime.
**Héctor's Guitar appears as a decoration in Thomasville's Cotton Pin Bar & Grill.
*A113 appears once again as Mater's license plate number, on the door of Sterling's main office in Rusteze Research Center and on Shannon Spokes' press sticker as well as one of Miss Fritter's victims' plate numbers.
*A billboard advertises Sleep Well Motel from Toy Story of Terror on the bridge in which Mack sleeps under. It also says "Lux Co."
*This film's soundtrack reuses a lot of music from the first Cars film.
*In one of the flashback scenes, Doc is balancing a stack of objects on his hood while telling Lightning, "You might wanna take notes on this one." This is the same voice clip Doc says in Cars: The Video Game sometimes when passing another car in a race.
===Other Trivia===
*This is the first Cars film not to be directed by John Lasseter.
*This is the shortest Cars film in the franchise, having a run time of 102 minutes.
*This is the first Pixar film to be directed by Brian Fee.
*This is the first Pixar sequel not from the Toy Story franchise to focus on its original protagonist (Lightning McQueen); Inside Out 2 marks the second time this occurs.
**Typically, the majority of other Pixar sequels instead focus on the deuteragonist or another major character from the original film: Mater in Cars 2, Mike Wazowski in Monsters University, Dory in Finding Dory, and Elastigirl in Incredibles 2.
*This is currently the last Pixar sequel to feature a male main antagonist as Pixar's next three sequels Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4 and Inside Out 2 all had female main antagonists - Evelyn Deavor, Gabby Gabby and Anxiety. Ironically, those same female characters, despite them being greater obstacles than Jackson Storm, have also been depicted as being far more sympathetic than he was (since Storm is simply a massive jerk with little-to-no redeeming qualities whatsoever).
*This was the final film written by Daniel Gerson, as he died in 2016 and the film was dedicated to his memory.
*Originally, the film was going to have California Route 99 though it was removed.
*In the teaser trailer, the viewer can actually see a cloudy glimpse of the front of one of the race cars, when the announcer says "McQueen is fading, fading fast!"
*Mia, Tia, Van, and Minny are the only characters from the first film that didn't make an appearance.
*Some scenes didn't end up in the film, such as when McQueen and Cruz went into Thomasville.
*This is the first and only Cars film not to have a main antagonist with a green color outline.
*This is the first and only time in the Cars franchise in which Lightning McQueen does not say his famous catchphrase, "Ka-Chow!" However, the catchphrase was mentioned by his old arch-nemesis, Chick Hicks, when he interviews Jackson Storm, as well as making insulting comments on McQueen, calling him "Caboose", due to falling behind the next-gen racers.
*This is the first feature-length Pixar film (and also Disney's first animated theatrical feature-length film) to have been designated a G rating from the MPAAhttp://www.filmratings.org/downloads/cara_rating_bulletin.pdf since 2013's Monsters University. This compares to the PG-rated Planes films, which are part of the Cars franchise.
**Thus, it is also the first major theatrical animated film to have been designated that rating from the MPAA since 2015's Blue Sky Studios film The Peanuts Movie (now owned by Disney as of March 20, 2019).
*This marks the first time since Cars 2: The Video Game where Michael Keaton, Chick Hick's original voice actor from the first film, does not reprise his role as Chick, due to scheduling conflicts with Spider-Man: Homecoming.
*This is the sixth Pixar film to have different than usual music accompanying the Disney and Pixar logos, after A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 3, and Finding Dory.
*This is the fourth Pixar film that had no humans, preceeding A Bug's Life, Cars, and Cars 2.
*Although the film is a triquel, the events of Cars 2 are not directly mentioned, but there are several visuals from the second film proving it still exists within the timeline (including a picture of Sir Miles Axlerod).
*This is Pixar's second film to feature the full 2011 Disney opening logo as a closing logo after Finding Dory.
*This is Pixar's sixth film to have a post-credits scene after Finding Nemo, Cars, Brave, Monsters University, and Finding Dory.
*This is the first Pixar film to have a 4K Ultra HD release.
*This is the first Pixar sequel to feature archive recordings of a deceased actor, and for this case, it's Paul Newman (who voiced Doc Hudson).
*This is the sixth Pixar film with the closing music of Disney and Pixar logos, with the first five being A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 3, and Finding Dory.
*This is the second time that Chris Cooper does a role for a Disney film, after playing Tex Richman in The Muppets.
*The stunt that Doc and Cruz do in the film when a racer tries to ram them is somewhat similar to the stunt Herbie does in the 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded, in which Herbie does a turnover jump after going on the fence to avoid hitting Trip Murphy, who flipped his car while trying to wreck Herbie.
*This is the first Pixar film to receive a simple "Fresh" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, instead of a "Certified Fresh" unlike all previous Pixar films had, the only exception being Cars 2 which got a "Rotten" rating.
*In some international cuts of the movie, Lightning's final paint job as the "Fabulous Lightning McQueen" has the word "Lightning" replaced by a lightning bolt. This is very likely due to Lightning's first name being translated in most foreign countries.
*This sixth Pixar Animation Studios film's both opening and closing logo cuts in from black, after WALL-E, Up, Cars 2, Brave, and Finding Dory.
*Cars 3 marks the second time a Pixar franchise has become a trilogy, after Toy Story 3.
*This is the film that made Jessica Heidt realize the uneven gender balance in Pixar movies. This inspired her to create a program in the Pixar algorithm.
*Unlike its predecessors, Cars 3 is the only Cars film not to be released on an anniversary year for Pixar. Seeing as how Cars was released on the studio's 20th anniversary in 2006 and Cars 2 was released on the 25th anniversary in 2011.
*Jerome Ranft is not directly credited as Red, instead only being credited as an additional voice, despite Red having an audible cry in the film, Ranft having been credited as him in Tales of Radiator Springs, and his late brother Joe Ranft having been credited as Red in the first Cars film.
*Interestingly, not only is this film released within 10 years after Ratatouille, but they're also 10 Pixar films apart from each other. Coincidentally, both their plots revolve around characters being newcomers to different professional fields, both of which are stemmed from their respective idols (Remy strived to become a culinary artist under the influence of Gusteau; Cruz wanted to be a racer herself after looking up to Lightning).
==Goofs==
*The same mistake about the number of cars is that the first race recurs in the film.
*When Lightning is between Reb Meeker and Speedy Comet, Jack DePost is seen. But when Lightning finally passes Reb and Speedy, Jack disappears.
*The King spent his retirement as his nephew's crew chief after his wreck and retirement on the first film. But when Lightning, Bobby, and Cal come into the pits, Cal's crew chief doesn't look like The King and those of the crew chiefs of the other racers.
*Murray's roof appears to be orange and aqua, but in the shot after Gale Beaufort leaves the speedway, his roof is colored light green.
*We see that Chase Racelott is third, but when Lightning flies, Eric Braker was shown.
*When Lightning, Luigi, and Guido are at the Rust-eze Racing Center, we can see that Land Rover paparazzi is blue. But when Lightning, Luigi, and Guido enter, he is purple.
*Lightning McQueen was close to Smokey after he stops. But when we see Lightning later, he is several feet away from Smokey. 
*In the crash, Sheldon Shifter can be seen with a neutral expression, which means his face isn't animated.
==References==
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