Friday, August 5, 2011

Movie Review: With Cars 2, Pixar Finally Whiffs

Even Pixar ever make a lemon. It's not that you will receive two cars (or, rather, the middle son, 9 years) from point A to point B, a little 'entertainingly, Pixar standards but outrageous for a shoo-in Oscar virtuosity, this is a further disappointment for the better .

Up to the expectations the fans of Pixar's', and the toy-based spectacular sequelizing franchise, which has earned more than about a dollar for children gazillion market is difficult: after you take the commercial risk of a green and peaceful planet the robot and grizzled old man to fly a home sad, there is no logic in taking an easy victory lap. Talking cars are easier to sell because it was the first film. And the two shots against Lightning McQueen car fun nasty F-1 Racer Francis (voiced by John Turturro in his worst DeLouise Sun) is a three-city international competition to promote a new type of green fuel.

No doubt there are some interesting bright, cartoon greeting card assembly that the use of each of the cities - Tokyo, Paris and London - and McQueen is a fast, sprawling racing is a plastic material, number of pixels, the excitement of video games Great Tourism. But it becomes confusing, or at least confusing. Race sponsored by former oil tycoon with a questionable past, creates a bond like James with a subplot of confidence McQueen, rusty tow truck Mater, pal (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy in a voice that leaves galunking and continue to be puffing out from the cliche idiot). And 'because it was a shoulder comic relief in the first film is like giving Jar-Jar Binks to see the movie with a love mess Mater hot little coupe (Emily Mortimer) and 007-as a super-spy (Michael Caine, who can bang-up distribution, which is a more elegant piece of movie storytelling.)

However, when Mater is such a dull clunk, the story plays less like a parody of Bond and more like a paragraph of this episode of Chuck.

Apparently, the emotional through-line is growing friendship between McQueen and Mater, but these two are physically separated much of the film, as Mater is lost in a miasma of clean fuels, oil reserves secret secret agents , and romance. Even for a movie about cars is a lot of plot machines. What is usually so exceptional Pixar films - that Miyazaki-like ability to tap into something universal and simple - is absent. With three distinct races to run an international conspiracy to unravel, and a pit crew crowded supporting characters who each need their time, Sprint is the film transitions so fast and so suddenly that the film is just grinding its gears trying to quit.

Does your child have fun? Sure, but a green-energy-page plot is too complex. What parents, politically, seems to focus grouped loophole. Lefties are flattered by the automotive environment, the ideals, conservatives cheer when it seems that green energy is not working. Do not worry, the shareholders of Disney: Not a car cross-branding opportunity was in danger.

There is plenty of vrooom and zoooom, but two hours of life can be confusing and a bit 'boring to recurrent mood Doofus Mater and McQueen frequent competitions. Perhaps it was easier to animate Pixar animals or toys, or a robot cowboy because we had always imagined that their personality. As children, when we played in the car, drove them, we killed them, jumped from the couch - and imagine themselves in them, jumping off the scale, or a ring around the track in plastic brittle. We wanted to drive a car, not cars. Maybe we need a vehicle traffic will always remain a mechanical fantasies - empty inside without any humanity.


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