Cars 2

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Cars 2

G

2011

1h 47m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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Racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his tow-truck buddy, Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), have had their share of adventures together but nothing like what they experience when they head overseas for the first-ever World Grand Prix. While Lightning has his eye on the road to the championship, Mater takes a detour to international espionage when he meets British master spy Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) and stunning spy-in-training Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer).

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Critics Consensus

Cars 2 is as visually appealing as any other Pixar production, but all that dazzle can't disguise the rusty storytelling under the hood.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

04/02/2019

2/5

The trouble with stuffing too much into a film quickly becomes evident in Cars 2, as the plotlines tumble and collide with each other creating, mostly, cacophony.

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Leah Rozen

TheWrap

10/07/2011

Don't tell the kids, but Santa Claus isn't real and Pixar is fallible.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

07/22/2011

3/5

It is all quite jolly and fast-paced, a feast for the eyes, but there's not much for the mind or the heart.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Jul 17

3/5

Cars 2 gives us a fun James Bond-style brainless plot that flat out entertains.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

03/12/2023

3/4

It may not live up to the usual sophistication associated with the animation studio, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad film.

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Petrana Radulovic

Polygon

03/01/2021

It's all the delight of a spy movie, but with the added fact of Oh right, they're all cars!

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Igor R

@RT06160377 17h

More focus on the racing aspect could made it better, but the movie is still severely underrated. The spy action was executed nicely, but the question is if the Cars franchise really needed all that?

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Johan A.

@Abraham.johan 21h

This movie is good, but it can be better.

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VILKO T

@RT22885190 1d

All the spy stuff was a terrible idea and it was stupid to shift from racing to such dark spy shenanigans, but thankfully it was executed well enough

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Rock T

@Alwaysright01 2d

I thought I was watching Cars 2 but I rented the wrong movie. Turns out I was watching the adult x rated edition. Lightning McQueen was a black man with a painted red…well you know. He was reeeeeally friendly with Mater. I ended up watching all the way through for the plot. I couldn’t find a way to review that specific film. I thought it was good, but not great. I enjoyed the original more.

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Zac H

@RT93494016 3d

Great choice for a kids movie mixing race and spy for all kids that like those things

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Andre T.

@andrestuckmannmoviereviews Mar 13

The worst Pixar movie ever made because not only is all over the place, is also because they chose to make Mater the main character of that movie and turn it into an spy thriller, I mean what are we doing man this movie is such an atrocity and very bad concept because it didn’t work at all and that’s the reason I couldn’t stand this movie. F

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Synopsis

Racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his tow-truck buddy, Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), have had their share of adventures together but nothing like what they experience when they head overseas for the first-ever World Grand Prix. While Lightning has his eye on the road to the championship, Mater takes a detour to international espionage when he meets British master spy Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) and stunning spy-in-training Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer).

Director: John Lasseter
Producer: Denise Ream
Screenwriter: Ben Queen
Distributor: Walt Disney, Pixar Animation Studios
Production Co: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studios
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 24, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Runtime: 1h 47m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS

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