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The Trailer to the Sequel to Everyone's Least Favorite Pixar Movie

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (27)

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Yes. I know. It’s not everyone’s least favorite Pixar movie, but whenever Cars is mentioned on this site, there’s a dozen people who come out say it’s their least favorite, and a half dozen people who come out to defend it, and a million parents who all say, “My kids love it!” In the end, because these are kids movies (that parents just so happen to enjoy), isn’t that what’s most important?

It’s not one of my favorites, but it’s not one of my least favorites, either. I loved the Americana. I hate Larry the Cable Guy, but he was perfect for this role. I’m going to miss Paul Newman, but Michael Caine is a more than suitable replacement (he’ll play a British car). My biggest concern here is that, because the Americana was my favorite part of the original, moving the setting to Europe may spoil it.

But, it’s Pixar. In Pixar we trust, right? Until they fuck it up, we’ll continue to give them the benefit of the doubt, eh?










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Comments

I don't get Pixar. Why is there not a sequel to The Incredibles already? As far as I'm concerned its the only movie they've made that screams for one.

Going over to IMDB now. There has got to be something in 3D Doublevision IMax HTX in the works.....

Posted by: Candy at November 17, 2010 11:55 AM

I didn't like Cars very much, so whatever. I find Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy to be incredibly annoying. I'm more interested in the upcoming Monster's, Inc. sequel since the original was, you know, better. This despite Billy Crystal's high annoyance factor.

In fact, throw Tim Allen and Albert Brooks in the mix, and I've managed to enjoy most of Pixar's movies despite my dislike for some of their major voice talent. Oh, they're goooood.

Posted by: Kballs at November 17, 2010 12:08 PM

Wall E sucked

Posted by: please at November 17, 2010 12:26 PM

Why does this feel like a Pixar version of the I, Spy remake which also starred Owen Wilson?

Posted by: Fredo at November 17, 2010 12:37 PM

"It’s not one of my favorites, but it’s not one of my least favorites, either"

So are we taking bets on what Dustin's least favorite Pixar movie is then?

Posted by: Scott at November 17, 2010 12:45 PM

My three-year-old is obsessed with this movie, and the release of the sequel is perfectly timed to be his first real movie-in-a-theater experience, so Pixar has our money. But I have to say, the trailer does not inspire hope. It looks pretty awful, to be frank. But Pixar has yet to make a movie that I really disliked, so I'm keeping the faith over here.

And for all you childless heathens out there asking why there is a Cars 2, I have one word for you: merchandising!

Posted by: wealhtheow at November 17, 2010 12:48 PM

Did I just detect the dulcet tones of Jean Reno in ze French Bad Guy (TM)?

Giacchino is also doing the score - so it might be worth matinee admission in 2D.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at November 17, 2010 12:48 PM

1. @please - You have no poetry in your soul.

2. Are they still anthropomorphized cars living in a human-style environmnet? I'm out.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 17, 2010 12:49 PM

Oh Dustin, please don't say Ratatouille was your least favorite. Sure it wasn't Incredibles level of goodness, but it was light and cute. Plus it had Ian Holmes as the evil chef, and he's only like my 3rd-favorite AARP crush.

I thought Cars was just dull.

And becuase someone ^^up there^^ mentioned Jean Reno and we are talking animated films: I liked Flushed Away more than 90% of Pixar films.

[Slinks back into the shadows]

Posted by: shanmarie at November 17, 2010 1:09 PM

Toy Story 2 was my least favorite. I liked Cars better.

Yeah, that's right!!

Posted by: Julie at November 17, 2010 1:14 PM

In the end, because these are kids movies (that parents just so happen to enjoy), isn’t that what’s most important?

No way, kids have appalling taste, they'll watch any old shit.

Posted by: Steph at November 17, 2010 1:14 PM

I am with Candy on that. Incredibles 2, where are you?

I felt hoodwinked when I went to see Cars, looking around to no one in particular, questioning "Isn't this a remake of that crappy Doc Hollywood movie with Michael J. Fox?" Why do I even know that!??! Thank you Saturday afternoon TBS for that, or else I would have had to actually blame Pixar for a crappy original and not a just a crappy remake.

Lets just hope they KNOW that the Cars consensus is FAR below the standard of any of their other movies and do something original with it. I have faith in Pixar; they actually try not to turn out the same formulaic movies, unlike Dreamworks of late.

Posted by: Melissa C. at November 17, 2010 1:16 PM

shanmarie, it's Kate Winslet as the cool girl mouse, isn't it?

Posted by: Fredo at November 17, 2010 1:46 PM

I'm putting my guess for his least favorite Pixar movie as A Bug's Life.

Posted by: Sean at November 17, 2010 1:59 PM

7.)Cars
6.) Ratatouille
5.) Toy Story 2
4.) Toy Story
3.) Monsters, Inc.
2.) A Bug's Life
1.) The Incredibles
1.) Finding Nemo
1.) Up
1.) Wall-e

Haven't seen Toy Story 3.

That scene in Toy Story 2 when the little girl puts the cow girl doll in the box,with the sad song? Yeah - that makes me cry every single time.

Posted by: IneptFake at November 17, 2010 2:04 PM


It honestly just makes me sad that THIS is Pixar's next big thing. It's gorgeous, yes, and cute and whatever, but so...feh. Cars? really? It all just kinda falls apart byt hat premise alone. They're CARS. That's it? Blah.

Also it just looks like a cheapo Dreamworks movie. All explosions and nothing THERE there.

They need to stop making sequels. Whatever happened to the one studio that took some real risks with their stories?

Posted by: figgy at November 17, 2010 2:18 PM

Oh IneptFake, if that scene in Part 2 made you cry, you're gonna fuckin' lose it during the 3rd movie.

Posted by: Kballs at November 17, 2010 2:19 PM

If Wall-E was poetry, than I stand by my decision to hate ALL poetry. What a dull fuckin' film. From my experience its either loved or hated, and my son and I hated it. Cars was fun the first time and every time since. I look forward to its sequel, though not a huge amount, because in the end, its still a sequel.

Posted by: EJ at November 17, 2010 2:33 PM

I kept wondering why the merchandising for Cars never stopped in the better half of a decade since it was released. Apparently they were planning this all along.

It's Pixar so no doubt it will be good and cute and all but it was definitely not my favorite and the whole selling toys from a six year old movie things irks the hell out of me for some reason. I'm going to try and avoid this until DVD. Hopefully the kids allow me that.

Posted by: Paultera at November 17, 2010 3:05 PM

Everyone told me I'd cry my eyes out at Toy Story 3, but...I didn't. I was more horrified at what they were putting the toys through, and that last scene felt weird because the animation of Andy was so off somehow. And the scene with Hugso and the girl was the exact damn thing as Jessie in the second one, which DID make me cry.

I don't know...I didn't feel it. And I bawled my eyes out at Up and even Finding Nemo, so it's not like I have no soul.

Posted by: figgy at November 17, 2010 3:28 PM

Ya think maybe they're taking the "cars as humans" motif a little too far with this one?

Posted by: BAM at November 17, 2010 4:59 PM

To reiterate the fact that the movies are all about the kids (and the parents $$):

Disney has been revamping a HUGE section of California Adventure to create a whole CARS area. Kids love Cars. Parents love their kids. Disney loves their money. Cha-ching.

Posted by: BAM at November 17, 2010 5:09 PM

I saw Toy Story 3 and just about cried.

I see this and I want to cry. for a totally different reason.

Where in the Sands of Mordor is The Incredibles 2?

Posted by: LordNinja at November 17, 2010 5:46 PM

I join the crowd saying that Cars is my least favorite Pixar movie but I will give this trailer points for using BitterSweet for the soundtrack.

Posted by: Dome'loki at November 17, 2010 5:59 PM

They are their own worst enemy for setting their standards so high. Once you've made movie magic AND box office squillions out of a French rat in a kitchen, a grumpy old widower, an amnesiac fish and a silent movie with robots - sequels just seem so pedestrian and uninspired.

Where's the company that said "Fuck it - we're going to cast Ed Asner, Albert Brooks, Patton Oswalt and Ellen DeGeneres as our leads, even though they're not box office stars."

Posted by: Simon at November 17, 2010 6:26 PM

It was a known fact that prior to the film that:

-Little boys like Hot Wheels
-Little girls like princesses
-The weird ones like dinosaurs

Dinosaurs already got the treatment in countless The Land Before Time videos, and there are more Disney princesses than there are black characters in Disney movies. So giving the automobiles voices & personalities is like a little boy's wet dream. And now that I've wrote that sentence, I realize how unsettling it is.

Posted by: shanmarie at November 17, 2010 6:32 PM

I love that movie "Cars", so I came here to defend one of my favorite pixar movies! those who dont like cars need to get run over by a car!!!

Posted by: jackolope444 at November 18, 2010 11:26 PM