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Cars 2 Trailer: Eh, It's Pixar. You'll See It Eventually. What Choice Do You Have?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (18)

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There is something very sinister about how this trailer co-bills the movie as Disney and Pixar; I know it’s been true for a while, but the Disney tag has been downplayed. Here, they are side-by-side, which is kind of like saying a dish was created by Wylie Dufresne and Chef Boyardee, and if this trailer is any indication, Chef Boyardee’s flavors are starting to overpower Dufresne’s.

A bidet joke? Really.









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Comments

Meh...no doubt my kids will love it

Posted by: Nikkers at March 8, 2011 11:08 AM

I actually counted three bathroom jokes in there: a car falls into a septic truck, Mater goes into the wrong bathroom, and Mater gets a jet of water shot up his ass.

And yet, the line "Is the Popemobile Catholic?" redeems all.

Posted by: Paul Southworth at March 8, 2011 11:17 AM

I must say I still don't get it. They don't have limbs or thumbs. They have not been sufficiently anthropomorhized: they have some semblance of a face, speech, and wave their wheels like foreshortened appendages. How did they build anything? Why are they living in a human world? Did they rise up against their human overlords? Should I, for one, welcome them? I'm willing to accept Nemo picking up a pebble with his flippers or a bi-pedal Bugs Bunny firing a gun, but I just don't get the Cars thing. They are CARS! Can no one see this but me?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 8, 2011 11:20 AM

I don't remember ever wanting to see a Pixar movie less.

Posted by: Paultera at March 8, 2011 11:20 AM

In my fit of pique, I typed anthropomorphized incorrectly. I can only hope to be forgiven.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 8, 2011 11:28 AM

I couldn't even get through the first minute.

What a desperate money-grab. I guess after years of getting fat off the Girl market, Disney found a giant cash machine to get fat off the Boy market in Cars, and they're never gonna let it go.

It stinks. I'm never watching this.

Posted by: figgy at March 8, 2011 11:29 AM

I am not yet assimilated into the Pixarborg. I still haven't seen Cars, so I sure won't be seeing this.

They are very pretty movies, no question, but I really only like a few Pixar films. The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille...that's about it. I didn't hate the rest of them, but I do find them overly sentimental without enough redeeming humor.

Posted by: Wednesday at March 8, 2011 11:35 AM

Really, Mrs. Julien? You're completely willing to accept a trio of sharks giving up fish (what do they eat?), or a bunny rabbit firing a shotgun (when did rabbits get thumbs?), but the fact that the world in cars isn't possible is going too far? Why are only some of the think in wordworld made of letters? How can Ant eat most of a watermelon, then give the W to Duck? Where does Elmo sleep at night, since he doesn't seem to have a family? Why doesn't anybody notice that Clark Kent is just Superman with glasses?

Cars is definitely the red headed stepchild of the Pixar universe, and I would happily have gone through life never having seen it, but my toddler loves vehicles. He doesn't care how the world got built so long as Lightening is into speed. And I am less likely to blow my brains out watching that than watching Thomas.

Posted by: McSquish at March 8, 2011 11:55 AM

Since I didn't really care for Cars uno I'll pass on this. Although in response to Paultera I had absolutely zero interest in Up. I mean a floating house? With party balloons? Da hale are they smoking at Pixar?

Though admittedly Up did end up being fantastic, so I'll reserve judgement on this one til the release. The secret agent storyline could end up being intriguing if they do it right.

Posted by: aroorda at March 8, 2011 12:32 PM

Eh, It's Pixar. You'll See It Eventually.

Not me. I bathe.

Posted by: The Wanderer at March 8, 2011 12:43 PM

Yes, McSquish. Really. I never claimed logic. I ain't no freakin' monument to justice! I lost my hand! I lost my bride! Johnny has his hand! Johnny has his bride! You want me to take my heartache, put it away and forget? Huh, Sweetie?

That may have gotten away from me a bit toward the end there. Still.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 8, 2011 1:02 PM

I have a three year old son who is obsessed with vehicles in general, and Lightning McQueen in particular. I will see this - a lot - and I will probably like it. He caught sight of the movie poster in the mall, and asks me on a daily basis how soon it is until we can go see it. Scoff thought you will, Pixar has identified a formula that works, and this looks like they're sticking to it.

It could be worse. Barney could come back into style. I shudder.

Mrs. Julien, you're overthinking it. Just GO WITH IT. Otherwise you'll make yourself crazy. (Why do they need to sleep? How do they go to the bathroom, and what comes out when they do? What's actually inside the car itself, brains? How does anybody in Radiator Springs make money to pay for gas, and who's delivering the gas, if nobody has been to the town for years? etc. etc.)

Posted by: cydeleida at March 8, 2011 1:03 PM

Thank you 'Mrs. Julien'.
I'm not alone.

...but the main reason I hate 'Cars' is that the movie is boring.
The entire middle section just drags. It goes in circles until...

...just realized it's like those races. Cars going in circles.

...I need a life.

Posted by: OldSchool60 at March 8, 2011 1:24 PM

Damn that Lightning McQueen! He's so hot right now!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 8, 2011 1:41 PM

My toddler's still stuck on the Toy Story trilogy, and I'm cool with that. He's not at all interested in cars (with or without the capital C), and I'm doubly cool with that. Now if I could only get him interested in The Incredibles beyond his "Mr. Credible" (as my kid calls him) bath toy, we'd be doing super.

Posted by: Captain Tuttle at March 8, 2011 2:11 PM

Was it me, or did even Michael Caine sound bored?

Also, if you're using the Union Jack, you refer to the country as the United Kingdom. If you want to illustrate England, you fly the St George's Cross. I thought Pixar were always meticulous in their research?

I'm blaming Disney for that too...

Posted by: Simon at March 8, 2011 2:19 PM

Jesus, it's a kids' movie. It's for kids. I know this may be hard to accept, but despite the existence of the Internet, not every single last little thing in the world is meant to be scrutinized to death and held up against the greatest works in its category. I'll say it again. It's a kids movie.

Posted by: JohnnyBee at March 8, 2011 2:32 PM

It's a kids movie
Which means, JohnnyBee, that there are at least a dozen penises hidden in the animation of the movie! I saw three and a half of them in that trailer, which is just bad form. You don't wanna show more than two in the preview, or else people will already know where all the dongs are and the excitement will be lost.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at March 8, 2011 4:39 PM