Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Cars the review

Watched cars on sunday. Though I have always been a great follower of Disney movies, I felt cars was not as good as their previous flicks like Lion king or A bugs life. It nevertheless was a very nice movie, one of the better ones I watched this year. An amazing creative effort to imagine a car's world,with Anthropomorphic cars, all around. So we had the protagonist(a male , ambitious car) ,his goofy friend, the leading lady(a caring considerate one), the villain, every character a car. In fact so complete is the director's imagination, that the moths surrounding a tube light are also cars(beetles, to be specific).During the races, the entire stadium is full of cars, be it 'Oh! my god' screaming red(female) cars, or the beer(rather mobil oil) guzzling stud pick ups. And so are the names of locations, say cadillac valley or radiator springs. The plot is relatively simple.The hero, wants to win the piston cup, a major car racing event. He is self centered and mean to start with, who wants to win the cup desperately, to get fame fortune and,well romance.On his way to race, he is stuck in a country side suburb.He meets nice people there, and his perspective about life changes. He realizes that there are other things to life than just winning and racing .So in the final race, he behaves differently, and wins hearts, apart from all what he wanted. But he refuses to live that charmed life, for now his ideas of a good life have changed. He returns to the simple and caring folks he befriended on his way, to live a purposeful life. The script is endearing to say the least. The dialogs are nice and sweet. The sound effects and animation are as good as you would expect from a pixar studio movie. Simply the best possible. However the film is a bit slow and boring during the middle part. Not as entertaining as some of the previous films from Disney. But still very watchable. These movies have often had some really moving dialogs, particularly worth mentioning here is Lion king. Sadly this film's punch line (the cup is empty ) misses the mark by a distance.

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