Car is a 2006 American computer animated adventure comedy produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed and co-written by John Lasseter, it was the last film produced independently by Pixar before it was purchased by Disney in May 2006. Set in a world inhabited entirely by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles, it starred in Owen Wilson's Paul Newman his last acting role), Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Guy Cable, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Michael Wallis, George Carlin, Paul Dooley, Jenifer Lewis, Guido Quaroni, Michael Keaton, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger and Richard Petty. Racing car racers Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Mario Andretti, Michael Schumacher and car enthusiast Jay Leno (as "Jay Limo") voice themselves.
Cars aired on May 26, 2006 at Lowe Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, and theatricalally released on June 9, 2006 for most positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Animated Feature, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The film was released on DVD on November 7, 2006 and on Blu-ray in 2007. The film was accompanied by a short One Man Band for theatrical press releases and home media. Movie-based merchandise (including scale models from multiple cars) broke retail merchandise record sales by Disney/Pixar films, bringing in around $ 10 billion over 5 years after the film's release. The film is dedicated to Joe Ranft, who died in a car accident during a film production.
A sequel, titled Cars 2 , was released on June 24, 2011, and a spin-off film titled Planes , produced by DisneyToon Studios, released on August 9, 2013., followed by its own sequel, Aircraft: Fire & amp; Rescue , was released on July 18, 2014. A series of short animated films titled Cars Toons debuted in 2008 on Disney Channel and Disney XD. The second sequel, Cars 3 , was released on June 16, 2017.
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Plot
In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic vehicles, the final race of the Piston Cup champions ends with a three-way tie between the defending veterans Strip "The King" Weathers, runner-up Chick Hicks, and rookie Lightning McQueen. The tiebreak race is scheduled one week later at Los Angeles International Speedway in California. McQueen is desperate to win the race, as it not only makes him the first rookie to win the championship, but also allows him to leave unflattering sponsorship from Rusteze, a bumper ointment company, and allow him to take the King's place as a sponsored car from the team Dinoco is profitable. Wanting to start training in California as soon as possible, he pushed his big rig, Mack, to travel all night. While McQueen was sleeping, Mack drifted, and was startled by a group of four reckless street racers, causing McQueen to fall from behind the trailer and onto the street. McQueen woke up in traffic and out of the highway to find Mack, but instead found a grumpy Peterbilt. He then decides to return to the Interstate to find Mack, but eventually disappears in the desolate Radiator Springs desert town, while accidentally damaging the main road sidewalk.
After being seized and seized overnight (temporarily guarded by a rusted, but friendly, tower truck named Mater), McQueen was ordered by city judge Doc Hudson to leave town immediately. The local lawyer, Sally Carrera, requested that McQueen be given community service to change the way, which Doc would reluctantly agree. McQueen tried to repair the road in one day, but it turned out to be bad, and he was forced to change the road again, which took several days to complete. During this time, he befriended several cars, and learned that Radiator Springs was once a popular stopover along Route 66 US, but with the building of Interstate 40 passing through it, the city completely vanished from the map. McQueen also discovered that Doc was the "Fabulous Hudson Hornet", a three-time Piston Cup winner, whose racing career ended after an accident in 1954, and was quickly forgotten by the sport. McQueen finished taking the road, which had refreshed the car to improve their city, and spent an extra day at Radiator Springs with his new friends, before Mack and the media took off in the city, led by a tip to the McQueen location. McQueen reluctantly went with the media to go to California in time for the race, while Sally criticized Doc after finding that he had told media about McQueen's whereabouts, not wanting to be found by them instead.
At Los Angeles International Speedway, McQueen's mind was not completely set in the race, and he soon fell to the last spot. He was surprised to find that Doc Hudson, who wore his old racing color, had taken over as crew chief, along with some friends from Radiator Springs to help in the pit. Inspired and recalled the tricks he learned from Doc and his friends, McQueen quickly emerged to lead the race to the last round. But at the last minute, Hicks, refusing to return to Weathers again, swept the Weathers side, and sent him into a dangerous round, causing him to fall. Seeing this and remembering Doc's fate, McQueen paused from the finish line, allowing Hicks to win, and pushed back to push Weathers at the finish line. The crowd and media condemned Hicks' victory, but remained impressed with McQueen's sportsmanship. Despite offering Dinoco sponsorship deals, McQueen refused, insisting on staying with Rusteze in recognition of their past support. Later, back at Radiator Springs, McQueen returns and announces that he will set up his headquarters there, helping restore Radiator Springs to the map.
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Cast
- Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen. The design of the car is based on a race car, described by John Lasseter at the Los Angeles Times as a hybrid between stock cars and the more plump Le Mans endurance racers.
- Paul Newman as Doc Hudson. The car design was based on the 1951 Hudson Hornet which was later revealed to be the Fabulous Hudson Hornet and was Newman's last non-documentary role before retirement in 2007 and death in 2008.
- Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera. The design of the car is based on the Porsche 911 Carrera in 1999 996.
- Larry the Guy Cable as a Mater. The design of the truck was based on the International Harvester L-170 "boom" truck of 1951 with elements of the mid-1950s Chevrolet. One-Ton Derek Tow Truck.
- Tony Shalhoub as Luigi. The design of the car is based on 1959 Fiat 500.
- Cheech Marin as Ramone. The design of the car is based on the 1959 Chevrolet Impala Lowrider.
- Michael Wallis as Sheriff. The design of the car is based on the 1949 Mercury Club Coupe (police package).
- George Carlin as Fillmore. The van design is based on the 1960 VW Bus.
- Paul Dooley as Sarge. The car design is based on the 1941 Jelys jeep model, in a style used by the US Military.
- Jenifer Lewis as Flo. The car design is based on Motorama's 1957 exhibition car.
- Guido Quaroni as Guido. The truck design is based on a special forklift, resembling the Isetta on the front.
- Richard Petty as the "The King" Weathers Strip. The car design is based on Richard Petty 1970 Plymouth Superbird
- Michael Keaton as Chick Hicks, described by Pixar as a public car of the 1980s. Very much like General Motors G-Body 1978-88 like Buick Regal or Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
- Katherine Helmond as Lizzie. The car design is based on the Ford Model T 1923.
- John Ratzenberger as Mack. The truck design was based on the 1985 Mack Super-Liner.
- Joe Ranft as Red. The design of the truck was based on a 1960s-style fire engine (most similar to the mid-1960s) and Peterbilt, a truck that made Lightning McQueen's mistakes to Mack when lost. These were Ranft's last two sound roles before his death in August 2005.
- Jeremy Piven (USA)/Clarkson (UK) as Harv, Lightning McQueen's agent, was never seen on screen.
- Bob Costas as Bob Cutlass, is 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora, announcer for the Piston Cup race and friend Darrell Cartrip.
- Darrell Waltrip as Darrell Cartrip, Chevy Monte Carlo in 1977, is a Piston Cup broadcaster and friend of Bob Cutlass.
- Humpy Wheeler as Tex Dinoco, was Cadillac Coupe de Ville in 1975, owner of Dinoco.
- Lynda Petty as Lynda Weathers, is the wife of Strip Weathers.
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. as "Junior" # 8,
- Michael Schumacher as Michael Schumacher,
- Tom and Ray Magliozzi as Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze, are 1963 Dodge and 1967 Dodge A100 and owner of Rust-eze.
- Richard Kind and Edie McClurg as Van and Minny, are the 2003 Ford Windstar and the 1996 Dodge Caravan.
- Lindsey Collins and Elissa Knight as Mia and Tia, are identical twin sisters of the 1992 Mazda MX-5 ("Miata").
- Mario Andretti as Mario Andretti # 11
- DJ Sarah Clark as Kori Turbowitz
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, and Dave Foley repeated their vocal roles from previous Pixar movies during the final credit sequence featuring car spoofs from Toy Story, Monsters, Inc.. , and A Bug's Life .
Production
Car is the last Pixar film created by Joe Ranft who died in a car accident a year before the film's 45-year-old release. The film is the second film dedicated to his memory, after Corpse Bride (which shows the role he has performed in other movies directed by John Lasseter during the credits). It was also the last (non-documentary) film for Paul Newman before retiring in 2007 and his death in 2008. The film became the best-selling film of his career.
Development
The origin of the project came in 1998 when Pixar was finishing work at A Bug's Life. At that time Jorgen Klubien began writing a new script titled The Yellow Car, about electric cars that live in a gas-filled world. It was inspired by The Ugly Duckling , an idea triggered by the poor reception of compatriots giving the Mini-El car. Several original drawings and characters were produced in 1998 and manufacturers agreed that Cars could be the next movie after A Bug's Life and will be released in early 1999, especially around June 4th. However, the film was eventually removed for Toy Story 2. Then, production continues with major script changes, such as giving Mater, Doc, and some other larger part characters.
Meanwhile, John Lasseter said that the idea for Cars was born after he traveled cross-country with his wife and five sons in 2000. When he returned to the studio after the holidays, he contacted Michael Wallis, Route 66 historian. Wallis then led eleven Pixar animators in a white-leased Cadillac on two different road trips on the route to researching the film. In 2001, the title of the film's work was Route 66 (after US Route 66), but in 2002 the title was changed to prevent people from thinking related to the 1960 television show of the same name. In addition, Lightning McQueen's number will initially be 57 (the year of Lasseter's birth), but changed to 95 (year Toy Story released).
In 2006, John Lasseter talked about the inspiration for the movie, saying: "I always love cars, in one vein, I have Disney blood, and on the other side, there is motor oil.Its idea of ​​combining these two great passions in my life - cars and When Joe (Ranft) and I first started talking about this movie in 1998, we knew we wanted to do something with the car as a character.Around the same time, we watched a documentary called 'Divided Highways,' which dealing with interstate highways and how it affects small towns along the way.We were deeply touched by it and began to think about what it felt like in the small towns to pass.That's when we started really researching Route 66, but we still do not know what the story of the movie will be.I often travel to the highway with my family when we visit our family in St. Louis. "
Jorgen Klubien said the film was the best and most bitter experience because he was fired before the movie aired and because he felt John Lasseter wrote to him from the story of how the film was made.
Animation
For his own car, Lasseter also visited the Big Three Detroit automaker's design studio, specifically J Mays of Ford Motor Company. Lasseter learned how the original cars were designed.
In 2006, John Lasseter talked about how they worked hard to create trustworthy animations, saying: "It took many months of trial and error, and practiced test animations, to find out how every car moves and how their world works. Sweetland and Scott Clark, and animator directors, Bobby Podesta and James Ford Murphy, did a wonderful job working with the animation team to determine the unique moves for each character based on their age and type of car, such as sports cars and they are tighter in their suspension, others older '50s car that is much looser and has more bounce for them We want to get the authenticity there but also to make sure every car has a uniqueness Our personality also wants every animator to be able to put themselves in character and give spin Everyday in their daily life, that's a great success because we will see things we have never seen in our lives. the car world comes alive in a way that can be trusted and unexpected. "
Unlike most anthropomorphic cars, the eyes of the cars in the film are placed on the windshield (which resembles Tonka Talking Trucks, and characters from the family of Tex Avery One Cab's Family short and Disney itself Susie Little Blue Coupe ), not inside the headlights. According to production designer Bob Pauley, "From the beginning of this project, John Lasseter had his mind to have eyes on the windshield.For one thing, he separates our characters from a more general approach where you have a bit of an eye cartoon on the headlights. he thinks that having eyes near the mouth at the front end of the car feels more like a snake.With eyes set on the windshield, the viewpoint is more like a human, and makes it feel like an entire car can engage in character animation.This decision is heavily criticized by blogs automotive Jalopnik.
In 2006, watching animators on Scott Clark movie, talking about the challenge of animating the character of the car, said: "Getting the various performance and emotions of these characters and making them still look like cars is a difficult task, but that's the best animation, You use your imagination, and you make gestures and gestures according to the design Our car's character may not have arms and legs, but we can lean the tire in or out to suggest an open or close hand We can use the steering wheel to indicate the direction We also designed special eyelids and eyebrows for the windshield that enable us to communicate expressions that the car does not own. "Doug Sweetland, who also serves as animator supervisor, also talked about the challenge, saying:" It takes a different kind of animator to really- can actually interpret the Car model, rather than interfacing tasikan something like The Incredibles models. With The Incredibles , the animator can get a reference to the character by shooting himself and watching the recording. But with Cars , it departs entirely from any reference. Yes they are cars, but no cars can do what our characters do. This is pure fantasy. It takes a lot of experiments and errors to make them look right. "
Lasseter also explained that the film begins with pencil and paper designs, saying: "The truth for the material begins with the design of pencils and paper from designer Bob Pauley production, and continues through modeling, articulation, and shadow characters, and eventually becomes animated, production teams working hard to have the character of the car stay true to their origins. "Character department manager Jay Ward also explains how they want the cars to look as realistic as possible, saying:" John does not want the car to look like clay or soft. insisting on the truth for the material.This is a big thing for He tells us that steel needs to feel like steel.The glass should feel like glass.These cars need to feel heavy.They weigh three or four thousand pounds.When they move they must have that feeling, seem mild or too bouncy to the point where the audience may see them as a play n rubber. "According to animator James Ford Murphy," Initially, the car model was built so that basically they can do anything. John keeps reminding us that these characters are made of metal and they weigh a few thousand pounds. They can not stretch. He showed us a very loose animated example to illustrate what not to do. "
The shadow-directing character of the Thomas Jordan movie explains that chrome paint and car paint are the main challenges in the film, saying: "Chrome and car paint are our two main challenges in this movie.We started by learning as much as we can. saw them painting cars, and we saw how they mixed paint and applied various layers.We tried to dissect what went into the original paint and make it back on the computer We know we need the basic paint, where the color comes from, and the clearcoat, which gives a reflection. We can then add things like metal flakes to give a glittering glow, a pearlescent quality that may change color depending on the angle, and even pin-striping layers for characters like Ramone. "The technical director of the watchdog on the Eben Ostby film explains that the biggest challenge for the technical team is creating a metal surface and painted from the character of the car, and reflection that the surface "Given that our movie stars are made of metal, John has a real desire to see realistic reflections, and more beautiful lighting than we have ever seen in our previous films. In the past, we mostly used maps of the environment and other matte-based technologies to deceive reflections, but to Cars we added light-tracking capabilities to our existing Renderman program to raise the standard for Pixar. "
Rendering lead Jessica McMackin talks about using ray tracing on film, saying: "In addition to making accurate reflections, we use ray tracing to achieve other effects.We are able to use this approach to create accurate shadows, like when there are multiple light sources and you want get a shadow of feathers on the edge or an occlusion, in the absence of ambient light between two surfaces, like a fold in the shirt.The fourth use is radiation.Example of this is if you have a piece of red paper and lift it to a white wall, the light will be colored by paper and emit a red light on the wall. "Tim Milliron's watchdog explained that the film uses a ground-locking system that keeps the cars firmly planted in the street, saying:" The ground-locking system is one of the things I'm most proud of in this movie. then, characters never know about their environment in any way. A simulation is required if you want to make something like that happen. At Cars , the system is built into the model itself, and as you move the car around, the vehicle sticks to the ground. It was one of the things we did at Pixar where we knew it had to be done, but we did not know how to do it. "
The technical director of Lisa Forsell explains that in order to increase the wealth and beauty of the desert landscape around Radiator Springs, the filmmakers created the department responsible for matte paintings and sky plates, saying: "Matte digital painting is a way to gain a lot of visual complexity without having to build geometry complex, and complex shader writing, We spend a lot of time working in clouds and their different formations they tend on multiple layers and they move relative to each other Cloud does have some character and Personality is that just as people see themselves in the cloud , the car sees various cloud-shaped cars.This is smooth, but surely there are some shaped like a sedan.And if you look closer, you will see some that look like tire tread The fact that so much attention is placed in the sky speaks to the visual level of the film. Is there a ce point rita? Not really. There are no pixels on the screen that do not have the exceptional level of supervision and care applied to them. No one is just wasting. "
The computers used in movie development are four times faster than those used in The Incredibles and 1,000 times faster than those used in Toy Story . To build cars, animators use computer platforms similar to those used in real-world car designs.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack Cars was released by Walt Disney Records on June 6, 2006. The nine tracks on the soundtrack are by popular artists, while the remaining eleven are scoring cues by Randy Newman. It has two standard versions of the classic Bobby Troup jazz "Route 66" (popularized by Nat King Cole), one by Chuck Berry and a new version recorded specifically for film credits performed by John Mayer. Brad Paisley donated two of the nine songs to the album, the first being "Find Yourself" used for final credits.
Release
Car was originally planned to be released on November 4, 2005, but on December 7, 2004, the release date changed to June 9, 2006. Analysts see the release date of the changes as a sign of Pixar that they are preparing for the end of the Disney distribution contract with preparing non-Disney material to be presented to other studios, or they buy time to see what happens to Michael Eisner's situation at Disney. When CEO Pixar, Steve Jobs made an announcement of the release date, he stated that the reason was because he wanted to put all Pixar movies on the summer release schedule, with DVD sales going during the holiday shopping season.
Home media
Car was released on DVD, in widescreen and full-screen editions, on November 7, 2006 in the United States and Canada. The DVD was also released on October 25 in Australia and New Zealand and on November 27th in the UK. This release includes an exclusive DVD-exclusive DVD movie Mater and the Ghostlight and the theatrical short film One Man Band and a 16-minute documentary about the movie titled Inspiration for Cars >, featuring director John Lasseter. It also shows Pixar short Boundin '.
According to Walt Disney Company, five Ã, million copies of the first two-day DVDs were available. The first week, it sold 6,250,856 units and 15,370,791 total ($ 246,198,859). Unlike previous Pixar DVD releases, there are no special editions of two disks, and there are no plans to release them in the future. According to Sara Maher, DVD Production Manager at Pixar, John Lasseter and Pixar are busy with productions like Ratatouille .
In the US and Canada, there are bonus discs available with purchase of movies at Wal-Mart and at Target. The first showcases the Up-Driven Disk DVD Disks that focus on movie music, including music videos for "Life Is A Highway", Making "Life Is A Highway" , < i> Cars: The Making of the Music , and Under The Hood , specifically those that were originally aired on the ABC Family cable channel. The most recent bonus is the Rev'd Up DVD Disc which features most of the material already released as part of the official Car podcast and focuses on inspiration and film production.
Car was also released on Blu-ray Disc on November 6, 2007, one year after the DVD release. This is the first Pixar movie to be released on Blu-ray (along with Ratatouille and Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1), and re-released as Blu-Ray DVD and DVD combo packages and a DVD-only edition in April 2011. The film was released for the first time in 3D on October 29, 2013, as part of the Car: The Ultimate Collector Edition, which includes releases on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D , and DVDs.
Video game
A video game of the same name was released on June 6, 2006, for Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Xbox. It was also released on October 23, 2006, for Xbox 360 and 16 November 2006, for the Wii. Video games got positive reviews. GameSpot gives 7.0 out of 10 for Xbox 360 and Wii versions, for PlayStation 2, 7.6 out of 10 for GameCube and Xbox versions, and 7.4 out of 10 for PSP versions. Metacritic gives 65 out of 100 for the Wii version, 54 out of 100 for DS version, 73 out of 100 for PC version, 71 out of 100 for PlayStation 2 version, and 70 from 100 for PSP version.
Reception
Critical response
Car greeted with positive reviews. Review the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 74% approval rating with an average rating of 6.9/10 based on 198 reviews. The consensus of the site reads " Cars offers more visual treats than offsetting somewhat thin stories, adding a satisfactory diversion to a younger audience." At Metacritic, which provides a normalized ranking of the top 100 reviews of the main criticism, it calculates a score of 73 out of 100 based on 39 reviews.
William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer praised him as "one of the most imaginative and exciting Pixar films ever" and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly calls it "an American artwork classic like modern. "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave this film three out of four stars, saying that the movie" is great to look at and it's fun, but somehow there's no extra push from the other Pixar. It's probably because there's little at stake here, and there's no substitute for the kid to identify. "Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying" Fueled by a lot of humor, action , heart-wrenching dramas, and outstanding new technical accomplishments, Car is a high octane pleasure for movie audiences of all ages. "Richard Corliss of Time Speaks this movie reviews positive, said "There's both a turbo-charged today and a softer 50s, straddling the Pixar style field and the heart of old Disney, this new model Cars is an instant classic. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the film a negative review, saying "While representing another impressive technical achievement, it's the most visually appealing of computer-animated boutique movies, and - in an ironic twist to a story about racing Cars - drifts slowly through the semi-dry midids. "Robert Wilonsky from The Village Voice gave the film a positive review, saying" What ultimately redeems the Car from extinguishing the total lemon is his soul. Lasseter liked these animated dead objects as though they were relatives, and it was seen in every beautiful frame. "Ella Taylor of L.A. Weekly gave the film a positive review, saying" Car cheerfully mounted sophisticated animation for a simple narrative connecting friendship, community, and Luddite distrust of high technology. "
Gene Seymour of Newsday gave the film three of four stars, saying "And when the pop fly away, the Car is beautiful to watch, even then it's hovering, flying and, at times , it looks as though it's just hanging in the air. "Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film a positive review, saying" It takes everything that makes Pixar stands for animation excellence - strong character, strict pacing , casting direct sounds, warm feelings of humor and pure visual, luminous happiness - and bringing it to the next stage. "Bill Muller of The Arizona Republic gave the film four out of five stars, saying" The most size The truth of the film is that we finally forget we watch a bunch of vehicles with faces and start thinking of them as individual characters.This is quite an accomplishment, and perhaps the only one possible by Pixar. "Kenneth Turan from Los Angeles Times gave this movie four out of five stars, said "The surprise about this fascinating movie is its source of attraction: It has a heart." Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post gave this film a positive review, saying "This is the latest herb from geniuses in Pixar, perhaps the most inventive of Computer Generated Imagery stores - and this movie is great fun, if it's on below the first Toy Story level. "Jessica Reaves of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying" Even though this film is technically perfect, its tone is too manic, its character too tired and, in the end, the story is too empty to meet expectations. "James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three of the four stars, saying" While the Car can cross the finish line at ahead of the other 2006 animated films, it's a few laps behind Pixar's brother. "
Joe Williams from St. Louis Post-Dispatch gave an A-movie, saying "It's supported by the human heart through the way of natural wonders and cultural signs on the way to the checkered flag." Lisa Kennedy from The Denver Post gave this movie three out of four stars, saying " Cars are idle at times, and it's not until the last lap that the movie gets the emotional appeal we hope from Toy Story and Nemo crew. "Tom Long of The Detroit News gave the B movie, saying" It's touching, it's funny, it offers a warning about the modern step of life, and it depends on the flavor of rural Americana for his soul. "Rick Groen from The Globe and Mail gave the two-and-a-half stars out of four, saying" For parents out there whose future holds certain prospects of the DVD version repeatedly from the family-screen of the room, let this be your adviser Warning: Cars come without two important choices - good charm and exhaust. "Amy Biancolli from Houston Chronicle gave this movie three out of four stars, said "It rumbles in front with the breeze leaving, scoring a wide grin on the way." Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave this film four out of four stars, saying "It's reaching almost impossible, transforming cars, trucks, tractors, and agricultural harvesters into cute Disney characters that your fate will be. care. "Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave this movie three and a half stars out of four, saying" The car somewhat spoils itself for almost two hours - but overall it's worth travel. "Lisa Rose from Newark Star-Ledger gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying" This is a piece of innovative entertainment from an animation studio, bringing the audience on a kinetic journey to a world inhabited only by cars. "
Claudia Puig from USA Today gave the film a positive review, saying "The animation is fascinating, but the story has always been an important element in the Pixar movie, and the Cars story is sincerely vivid and non-venomous. David Edelstein of New York Magazine gave the film a positive review, saying "Like the Toy Story Movie Car is a state-of- the name of an outdated and healthy fifties technology, with a bit of Zen through George Lucas. "Roger Moore from Orlando Sentinel gave this movie three out of five stars, saying" It's wonderful to see. " feel more alive than the talking car. " Peter Howell from Toronto Star gave this movie three out of four stars, saying " Cars made me want to jump on my jalopy and go to Route 66, past the boring interstate boulevards that make The Mother's Way becomes useless. "Moira MacDonald of The Seattle Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying" Though the nostalgic mainstream idea for a quieter town life might be lost to the young audience of this movie - Cars found a fun and often sparkling flow. "Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film two of five stars, saying" Cars may be brings us to the world of cars as a gimmick, but that does not make us into the car world as a state of mind, so animation, instead of looking like a deeper expression of the film's truth, becomes a hindrance to it. "Derek Adams from Time Out give the movie a review of posi tif, saying "There are many other brilliant scenes, some are just as funny but there are many occasions where you feel the film is struggling to shoot on all cylinders" Still, this is a Pixar movie, right? And they're always very valuable, no matter what people say. "
box office
At the opening weekend, Cars earned $ 60,119,509 at 3,985 theaters in the United States, ranking number one at the box office. In the United States, the film occupies the number one spot for two weeks before being exceeded by Click and then by Superman Returns over the following weekend. The film grossed $ 462,216,280 worldwide (ranked sixth in the 2006 film) and $ 244,082,982 in the United States (the third grossing film of 2006 in the country, behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Night in the Museum ). This is the second best-selling film released by Walt Disney Pictures, behind Dead Man's Chest and is the second best-selling animated film of 2006 in the United States.
Accolades
Car went very successfully during the 2006 award season. Many film critics associations such as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and National Board of Review named it the Best Animation Feature Film of 2006. Car also received the Feature title Best Animation of 2006 from Rotten Tomatoes. Randy Newman and James Taylor received a Grammy Award for the song "Our Town," which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the award losing "I Need to Wake Up" from an Unflattering Truth ). The film also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Happy Feet . Car was also voted Favorite Family Movie at the 33rd Person Awards. The most prestigious award received Cars is the inaugural Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Car also won the highest award for animation in 2006, Annie Award Best Animation Feature. In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated the film for a list of Top 10 Animation Movies. In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated the film for a list of Top 10 Animation Movies.
Similar movies
Marcus Aurelius CanÃÆ''nico of Folha de S.Paulo describes the The Little Cars series ( Os Carrinhos in Portuguese), a series of computer graphics films Brazil, as a derivative of Car . CanÃÆ'Â'nico discusses whether lawsuits from Pixar will arise. The Brazilian Ministry of Culture posted Marcus Aurelius CanÃÆ'Â'nico's article on its website.
It has also been noted that the plot of Cars has a striking resemblance to Doc Hollywood , a 1991 romantic comedy starring Michael J. Fox as a young whiz doctor who, after causing a traffic accident in a small town, was sentenced to work in a city hospital, fell in love with a local law student and eventually gained an appreciation for small town values. Some people have said that the Carrier maker copied the Doc Hollywood script.
Literature
- 2006: CARS: Novelisasi Junior , RH/Disney, ISBN 978-0736422918
Sequel
The sequel to the movie, titled Cars 2 , was released on June 24, 2011. The film was directed again by John Lasseter, who was inspired for the film while traveling the world promoting the first film. In the sequel, Lightning McQueen and Mater head to Japan and Europe to compete in the World Grand Prix, but Mater becomes sidetracked with international espionage. The film failed to meet or exceed the critical success of its predecessor, but still a success at the box office.
The second sequel, titled Cars 3 , was released on June 16, 2017. Lasseter did not return to direct so Brian Fee took over the board of directors. The film focuses on Lightning McQueen, now a veteran racer, who gets help from young racing car Cruz Ramirez to teach him to the high tech world.
See also
- Mandeville-Anthony v. Walt Disney Co. , a federal court case in which Mandeville claims Disney infringes on his copyright idea by making Cars
References
External links
- Official website from Disney
- Official website from Pixar
- Cars at AllMovie
- Car at Rotten Tomatoes
- Car in The Big Cartoon DataBase
- Car on IMDb
- Car in the TCM Movie Database
- Car on the Internet Movie Cars Database
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