Handling
Pixar's first rotten tomato is like finding your first acne. After finding that
small glitch, you start hoping that it doesn't continue and pray to god that
it's just a mistake. As human nature, we make mistakes and are trained to fix
it. Hopefully I'm right about this because I'm in the denial process right now
and I don't want it to transition into aggression.
The
fact of the matter is, Cars 2 is the
worst Pixar movie to date, and that's pretty harsh considering that Pixar was
consecutively the one film company that was consistent with raking in money
while at the same time, making wonderful movies. That's why, when rating any
Pixar movie, I judge it with high expectations. If Pixar releases a movie
that's average looking, then I would become disappointed in it. Cars 2, on the other hand was slightly
below average to me, and because of that, I hope that it stays as the worst
Pixar movie of all time.
I
did like the fact that this movie was faster than its previous movie. In this
movie, there is a James bond like plot that involves a mastermind scheme
that'll eventually resolve itself at the end of the movie. I will say though
that the scheme with the Alinoll bio fuel, the Lemon cars, and Professor Z
trying to get rid of the World Grand Prix racecars was indeed smart. For an
action movie, it was pretty smart and became a good guessing game for a while
until it got too predictable. They practically gave away the ending at one
point in the film. Is this what Pixar has come to? Has Pixar stopped taking
risks and decided to stick with conventions like the cliché Bond type film?
Because
of being faster instead of living the slow life, we sacrifice the fundamental
attribute of relating a character. The whole premise felt like a joke to me and
it pains me to see that thousands of heads collaborated on this. The movie
shifts its focus on Mater, the tow truck, more than Lightning McQueen. This was
my first problem because Mater is a comic relief, and if one makes a comic
relief the main character, and then the movie will not be taken seriously.
Pixar has come up with a huge array of protagonists that stays ingrained in our
memories. I never had a problem with switching the main characters, being that
they did the same thing in Toy Story 2,
but if the main character is nothing but a buffoon for a bulk of the movie,
then there will be problems.
Lightning and Mater's friendship
doesn't fit well in with me. Why should Lightning be friends with Mater again
after what he did? Was it because of a gut feeling? Also, we see that Mater's
fundamental flaw is that he can't be normal; however, at the end of the movie, we
never really resolved this problem. Should he learn to a better car, or be the
same idiot as he is? Or should he learn in being different in a different
scenario when possible? Can we change human nature or can't we? The morality is
blurred in this movie, whereas the first Cars
was very fine and clear.
My problem with the first movie stems with how there are
so much characters that it seemed impossible to relate to all of them. In
conclusion, they were there to sell some toys. I guess that they are doing the
same approach in this movie where the more characters on the screen will pay
off on the toy shelves, especially now that there are ships and planes in this
movie as well.
Most
of the Pixar endings have a great way of tying up every story, plot, and
character conflicts into a neat bow. Sometimes, these endings can be really
brief and some don't even need words to explain the ending to us. In this
movie, there is a lag ending, never knowing when the movie is going to end.
Lastly,
the reason why it's the worst Pixar movie was because of the audience's
reaction in the theater. There are some that makes us laugh, and some that makes
us cry. Even though these movies are from Disney, they show some of the darkest
things in animation history, making us dread at tension filled moments. In Cars 2, there was nothing. The entire
audience was silent, except during the Pixar short that shown in the beginning.
There were some comedic touches at times, but in general, my biggest criticism
towards this movie is about how I felt nothing, as if I lost my soul and found
no way of enjoying the pleasures of life.
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