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Cars (The Movie)

June 22, 2006 @ 11:53 am · By gbyeow · Filed under Movies & Shows

Wednesdays are great for movies simply because of the discounted ticket prices. For us, it was a choice between The Fast And The Furious 3: Tokyo Drift and Disney/Pixar’s animated feature Cars. Both titles were on the topic of cars and both featured some nifty roadsters with the only difference being that one was a cartoon and the other was not. We chose the latter.

For WL, she wasn’t interested in Tokyo Drift. For me, I was entertaining the child in me. Besides, we’ve been waiting to catch this much hyped about movie since seeing its trailer a year ago. Tokyo Drift can wait. I have a feeling its one of those movies that I’ll watch over and over again on the tele once it makes it to satellite tv. And so it was that we found ourselves sitting in a cinema surrounded by children accompanied by their parents. I held my stick of Mentos Dranges tightly in case any of the kids decided to hijack it and waited for the show to begin.

- One Man Band -

As with all Pixar productions, the movie opened with a short animated presentation titled One Man Band. It’s a funy sequence about two street performers, Bass and Treble, trying to outdo each other in order to get a gold coin from a cute little girl, Tippy, who wants to make a wish at fountain. They go through all sorts of antics as they face off in a musical duel for that coveted tip. It was really really good. Turns out the kid’s a pro as well. You’ll just have to see it for yourself.

- Cars -

Anyway, the story of Cars is centred around a flashy yet lonely stock car racer, Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), who’s out to win the Piston Cup. He’s on his way to California for the final tie breaker race when he gets side tracked to the quiet town of Radiator Springs off Route 66. Lightning wrecks the town’s main road and is forced to make ammends by the town’s mayor Doc Hudson (Paul Newman), an aging 1951 Hudson Hornet who turns out to be a previous Piston Cup champ, after some convincing by the sexy Sally (Bonnie Hunt), a 2002 Porche. Along the way, Lightning becomes best friends with Mater (Larry The Cable Guy), a rusty tow truck. Together the town’s quaint inhabitants, show Lightning that life is more than just achievements and glory. It is about the journey and the things you see along the way. A simple storyline with a powerful message that is typical of Disney movies. It is delivered with humour, high drama, action, and a pinch of nostalgia.

Superb animations, sprawling landscapes and backdrops, excellent voice acting, touching finale, and cool moments when you sit back and wish you were there. What more can you ask for in a movie? Trying to describe it wouldn’t do it justice. And because the storyline is simple, saying any more would be a spoiler. So I’ll just give it two thumbs up. Go see the movie, experience it and decide for yourself.

On a side note, the whole screening lasted 2 full hours. That’s more than I expected from an animated feature. If you do decide to catch it, do stay on through the credits. It contains funny spoofs of previous Pixar movies which had me in stitches. I laughed long and hard through out the movie and drew this weird look from the kid sitting next to me. What can I say. I’m a sucker for this sort of thing. Once again, go watch it in the cinema. Don’t wait for it to come out on the idiot box. Don’t download it off the net. Go watch it in a theatre.

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