![]() ![]() That sleepy little town off Route 66 only pops up for a few minutes, and.heck, even Lightning McQueen is barely in the movie. Just about everyone your tykes came to know and love in Radiator Springs gets shoved to the sidelines. I'm sure that doesn't hurt, but if Cars 2 were some kind of coldly calculated marketing ploy, why take so many chances? This is a sequel that's definitely not interested in dishing out more of the same. So, the cynical explanation goes that since Cars sold something like eighteen hojillion dollars' worth of merchandising, this sequel is just Pixar's way of keeping the cash registers ringing. ![]() #Cars 2 the video game dvd movie'Course, it's not a great movie either, but.well, I'll get into that part later. No matter how much venom you've seen spewed its way, Cars 2 really isn't a bad movie. I don't think there's anything more to it than that. John Lasseter had a blast making the original Cars, and he wanted to pull out those toys and play with 'em again. I'm not one of those guys who's been camped out in a deck chair waiting to see the mighty Pixar stumble and fall, and I'm not going to start moaning about how Cars 2 is "the end of an era!!!!!!" or anything 'cause.well, it's not. ![]() A composite score of reviewers is just a number, and a box office tally doesn't say anything meaningful about whether or not a movie's worth seeing. C'mon, though, you and me.? We're better than that. I guess I'm obligated to follow that up with a bunch of box office analysis.how Cars 2 is the studio's lowest grossing movie domestically since A Bug's Life all the way back in 1998, or, if you adjust for inflation, their worst box office tally I know I'm supposed to kick this review off by saying something about how Cars 2 scored Pixar's first-ever "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. ![]()
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