Cars 2: NR review #3

Finally! back to sitting into a comfy seat with some great, tasty, buttery popcorn. I just wish it was for a movie I really wanted to see. Yes, this is the first "Forced to see a movie for the readers" review and that movie is....

Let's begin..

PLOT

We begin our story in Radiator Springs with Lightning Mcqueen just getting back from winning his 4th Piston Cup and he just wants to spend time with his best friend, Mater. But, after Mater gets Mcqueen involved in a fight with the famous Italian race car, Francesco Bernoulli, Mcqueen gets involved in a Grand Prix around the world and brings Mater along with him. While they are at there first stop in Towkyo (GET IT!?) Two spie cars are there looking for an American spie who has some information on new plot to take over the world. Mater is mistaken for this spie is taken away to help them find out whats going on.


PROS

The animation is AMAZING as always for Pixar.
There are SO many references and continuity that they actually follow in this movie. You don't need to see the original but you might get a few more chuckles.
There is a pretty obvious "Ratatouille" reference that no one but me seemed to find. It was one of the few chuckles I got out of this movie.
Bruce Campbell, my hero, makes a brief cameo as the American spie.


CONS

This movie is WAYYYYYY below Pixar standards. It feels like a lazy straight to dvd Disney sequel that somehow got to the big screen.
There is 1 maybe 2  funny jokes in this WHOLE MOVIE. It's mostly terrible car puns and fart jokes. The only things I laughed at were small, short chuckles at tiny things in the movie.
The Pixar short "Toy Story: Hawaii Vacation" before Cars 2 had the audience laughing more than the actual movie. Including me
The movie should have been called "Cars 2: Mater's Spie Shenanigans" cause that's what it is. Mcqueen is barley even in the movie.
There would be long stretches of Maters story and then out of nowhere, it would switch to Mcqueen being sad about telling his friend to grow up.
BRUCE CAMPBELL WAS UNDER USED!!!
The spie stuff was very, VERY badly done, non of it was exciting or cool, even the great Micheal Caine couldn't make the spie plot cool.
If you are above the age of...6 months in the womb, then you can figure out who the villain is long before they reveal it.


CONCLUSION

I could go on for hours about why this is bad. When I first came out of the movie I thought "That was...ok. Not great but...ok" But the more I thought about it the more I disliked the movie. And being directed by the man who started pixar and directed the first 2 Toy Story movies, John Lasseter, just makes the blow even worse.


RATING

DRIVE AWAY!!!! (See, I can make bad car puns too.)