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Cars 2

Cars 2 is a 2011 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar, and it is the sequel to the 2006 film, Cars. In the film, race car Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and tow truck Mater (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) head to Japan and Europe to compete in the World Grand Prix, but Mater becomes sidetracked with international espionage.[3][4][5] The film is directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Brad Lewis, written by Ben Queen, and produced by Denise Ream.[4][5][6] Cars 2 is also the first film John Lasseter has directed since the first Cars in 2006.[7]
The film was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and was released in the United States on June 24, 2011. The film was presented in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as traditional two-dimensional and IMAX formats.[8] The film was first announced in 2008, alongside Up, Newt, and Brave (previously known as The Bear and the Bow), and it is the 12th animated film from the studio.[9][10] Although the film received mixed reviews from critics, it continued the studio's streak of box office success, ranking No. 1 on its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada with $66,135,507, and topping international success of such previous Pixar's works as WALL-E, Cars, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Toy Story 2.

Plot

British spy Finn McMissile infiltrates the world's largest untapped oil reserves, owned by a group of "lemon" cars. After being discovered, he is forced to flee and fake his death.
Four-time Piston Cup champion race car Lightning McQueen returns home to Radiator Springs and reunites with best friend Mater and girlfriend Sally Carrera. Doc Hudson is revealed to have died. Former oil tycoon Miles Axlerod, now a green power advocate, announces a racing series called the "World Grand Prix" to promote Allinol biofuel. When Italian formula race car Francesco Bernoulli challenges McQueen, McQueen and Mater depart to Tokyo, Japan for the Grand Prix.
Meanwhile, the lemons, led by Professor Zündapp and Axlerod, secretly plot to secure their oil profits by using a weapon disguised as a television camera to ignite the Allinol fuel in targeted race cars during the World Grand Prix; therefore, the public will depend on the group's oil. McMissile and partner Holley Shiftwell attempt to rendezvous with American spy car Rod "Torque" Redline at a World Grand Prix promotional event in Tokyo to receive information about the mastermind; however, Redline is cornered by Zündapp's henchmen and passes his information to Mater before he is captured. Shiftwell and McMissile mistake Mater as their American contact. In capture, Zündapp reveals to Torque that Allinol has one fatal flaw: it can ignite if impacted by a high electromagnetic pulse and kills him with it.
During the first race, McMissile and Holley help Mater evade Zündapp's henchmen; in the process, Mater inadvertently gives McQueen negative advice which causes him to lose the race. Meanwhile, Zündapp uses the weapon on several race cars. After McQueen lectures Mater, McMissile, who still believes Mater is an American spy, drafts him into foiling Zündapp's plot.
In Italy, the site of the second race, Mater infiltrates the criminals' meeting and discovers Zündapp's plan. Zündapp's henchmen, meanwhile, use their weapon on several more cars during the race, eventually causing a multi-car crash on the Casino Bridge. With the Allinol fuel under suspicion, Axlerod suspends its use for the final race in England; however, McQueen decides to continue using it. The criminals decide to kill McQueen in the next race; upon hearing this, Mater is exposed and is captured along with McMissile and Shiftwell, and tied up inside Big Bentley.
Mater realizes how foolish he has been acting. The criminals use the weapon on McQueen during the race, but nothing happens. Mater flees to warn his friends of a bomb planted in McQueen's pit stop, but McMissile and Shiftwell find that the bomb was planted on Mater. They warn Mater about the bomb before Mater flees to protect his friends. However, he is pursued by McQueen in an attempt to reconcile, unaware of the real danger until they are out of range of Zündapp's remote detonator. He sends his henchmen to kill McQueen and Mater, but they are foiled by the combined efforts of McMissile, Shiftwell, and the Radiator Springs residents. Upon his capture, Zündapp reveals that only the person who installed the bomb can deactivate it and Mater realizes that Axlerod is the mastermind behind the plot. When Mater forces Axlerod to deactivate the bomb in a final confrontation, Axlerod, Zündapp and the lemons are arrested.
As a reward for his heroism, Mater is knighted by the Queen and returns home with his friends, where the cars from the Grand Prix take part in the unofficial Radiator Springs Grand Prix. Fillmore reveals that before the last race, Sarge replaced McQueen's Allinol with Fillmore's organic fuel, which prevented McQueen from being affected by the weapon. McMissile and Shiftwell invite Mater to join them in another spy mission, but he turns it down. He gets to keep the rockets they gave him earlier, which he uses in the Radiator Springs race.

Voice cast

Main article: List of Cars characters
In international versions of the film, the character Jeff Gorvette is replaced with race car drivers better known in the specific countries.[13]

Production

Development

Cars is the second Pixar film, after Toy Story, to have a sequel.[17] John Lasseter, the director of the film, said that he was convinced of the sequel's story while traveling around the world promoting the first film. He said:
“ I kept looking out thinking, 'What would Mater do in this situation, you know?' I could imagine him driving around on the wrong side of the road in the UK, going around in big, giant traveling circles in Paris, on the autobahn in Germany, dealing with the motor scooters in Italy, trying to figure out road signs in Japan.[18] ”

Cars 2 was originally scheduled for a summer 2012 release, but Pixar moved the release up by a year.[19]
In 2009, Disney registered several domain names, hinting to audiences that the title and theme of the film would be in relation to a World Grand Prix.[20]
In March 2011, Jake Mandeville-Anthony, a U.K. screenwriter, sued Disney and Pixar alleging copyright infringement and breach of implied contract. In his complaint he alleged that Cars and Cars 2 are based in part on work that he had submitted early in the 1990s and he sought an injunction to stop the release of Cars 2 and requested actual or statutory damages. On May 13, 2011, Disney responded to the lawsuit, denying "each and every one of Plaintiff's legal claims concerning the purported copyright infringement and substantial similarity of the parties' respective works."[21] On June 22, 2011, the two parties settled the lawsuit, with Mandeville-Anthony receiving a free DVD copy as compensation from the company in advance of the actual DVD release, which at the time had been scheduled for around November 8.[22]

[edit] Casting

In November 2010, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs, Joe Mantegna, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, and Thomas Kretschmann were confirmed as the voice talent featured in the film.[23] From November 2010 until May 2011, Disney released information about the other voice talent, including Jenifer Lewis, Katherine Helmond, Michael Wallis, Darrell Waltrip, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Bruce Campbell, Sig Hansen, Michel Michelis, Jeff Gordon, Lewis Hamilton, Brent Musburger, David Hobbs, John Turturro, and Eddie Izzard.[24]
Much of the cast from the original Cars remained intact for the sequel, but three voice actors of the original film have died since its release. Joe Ranft (who voiced Red) died on August 16, 2005, ten months before Cars was released. Red appears in the film, but does not speak or vocalize. George Carlin (who voiced Fillmore) died on June 22, 2008 due to heart failure. Fillmore was cast in Cars 2, and was voiced by Lloyd Sherr. Paul Newman (who voiced Doc Hudson) died on September 26, 2008 due to cancer. After Newman's death, Lasseter said they would "see how the story goes with Doc Hudson,"[19] before he was eventually written out.[25]

Soundtrack

The Cars 2 soundtrack was released on both CD album and digital download June 14. It is the fourth Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino after The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Up. It also marks the first time that Giacchino has worked with John Lasseter as a director, as Lasseter had been executive producer on Giacchino's previous three Pixar films and that Lasseter hasn't worked with Randy Newman.
All music composed by Michael Giacchino, except as noted.
No. Title Writer(s) Artist Length
1. "You Might Think" (Cover of The Cars) Ric Ocasek Weezer 3:07
2. "Collision Of Worlds"   Paisley, Williams Brad Paisley and Robbie Williams 3:36
3. "Mon Cœur Fait Vroum (My Heart Goes Vroom)"   Michael Giacchino Bénabar 2:49
4. "Nobody's Fool"   Paisley Brad Paisley 4:17
5. "Polyrhythm"   Yasutaka Nakata Perfume 4:09
6. "Turbo Transmission"       0:52
7. "It's Finn McMissile!"       5:54
8. "Mater The Waiter"       0:43
9. "Radiator Reunion"       1:40
10. "Cranking Up The Heat"       1:59
11. "Towkyo Takeout Score"       5:40
12. "Tarmac The Magnificent"       2:39
13. "Whose Engine Is This?"       1:22
14. "History's Biggest Loser Cars"       2:26
15. "Mater Of Disguise"       0:48
16. "Porto Corsa Score"       2:55
17. "The Lemon Pledge"       2:13
18. "Mater's Getaway"       0:59
19. "Mater Warns McQueen"       1:31
20. "Going To The Backup Plan"       2:24
21. "Mater's The Bomb"       3:17
22. "Blunder And Lightning"       2:17
23. "The Other Shoot"       1:03
24. "Axlerod Exposed"       2:22
25. "The Radiator Springs Gran Prix"       1:30
26. "The Turbomater"       0:50

Short film

Main article: Hawaiian Vacation
The film is preceded by a short film entitled Hawaiian Vacation starring the characters of Barbie and Ken from the Toy Story franchise.

Reception

Critical response

Cars 2 has received generally negative reviews from film critics. As of February 2012, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 38% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 197 reviews, with an average score of May 5, 2010, making it the first Pixar film to garner a "rotten" certification.[26] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 57/100 based on 38 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[27] Most critics felt the story lacked warmth and charm, and that the movie seemed like a ploy to sell merchandise.[28] Other critics also found that the film had way too much of a focus on Mater, rather than on McQueen who had been the main focus of the first film.[29] It is the least critically acclaimed Pixar film to date. According the EW critic Owen Gleiberman, "Cars 2 is the first unadulterated Pixar misfire...Not every one of the studio’s digitally animated features is great, but even the shaggier, more modest tyke-friendly ones – like, say, Monsters, Inc. — seem to know their just-wanna-have-fun limitations. But Cars 2 is a movie so stuffed with “fun” that it went right off the rails. What on earth was the gifted director-mogul John Lasseter thinking – that he wanted kids to come out of this movie was [sic] more ADD?"[30] Considering the low reviews given to the Pixar production, critic Kyle Smith of the New York Post said, "They said it couldn't be done. But Pixar proved the yaysayers wrong when it made its first bad movie, Cars. Now it has worsted itself with the even more awful Cars 2."[31]
Conversely, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the movie 3 1/2 stars out of four, and said that "the sequel is a tire-burning burst of action and fun with a beating heart under its hood." He also praised its "fluid script" and called it a "winner". Justin Chang of Variety praised the film, calling it "the rare sequel that improves on its predecessor, this lightning-paced caper-comedy shifts the franchise into high gear with international intrigue, spy-movie spoofery and more automotive puns than [a person] can shake a stickshift at."[32] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film three and a half stars, saying; "At a time when some "grown-up" action films are relentlessly shallow and stupid, here is a movie with such complexity that even the cars sometimes have to pause and explain it to themselves."[33] In response to the negative reviews, director John Lasseter defended the film in a news release in The New York Times, saying that Disney did not force him to do the film and stating that in his opinion, it is still a special film.[34]

Box office

Cars 2 grossed $191,452,396 in the USA and Canada, and $368,400,000 in other territories for a worldwide total of $559,852,396.[2] Worldwide on its opening weekend it grossed $109.0 million, marking the largest opening weekend for a 2011 animated title.[35] Overall, Cars 2 became sixth biggest Pixar film in terms of worldwide box office among twelve released.
Cars 2 was released in 4,115 theaters in the USA and Canada on June 24, 2011.[36] This set a record-high for Pixar, surpassing the studios' previous widest release Toy Story 3 (4,028 theaters),[37] and marked the widest release for a G-rated film.[38] It made an estimated $25.7 million on its debut Friday, marking the second-largest opening day for a Pixar film after Toy Story 3's $41.1 million, but it was still the third least-attended first day for a Pixar film, only ahead of Up and Ratatouille.[39] It also scored the fourth largest opening day for an animated feature, trailing only Toy Story 3, Shrek the Third ($38.4 million) and The Simpsons Movie ($30.8 million).[40] On its opening weekend as a whole, Cars 2 debuted at No.1 with $66.1 million,[36] marking the largest opening weekend for a 2011 animated feature, the fifth largest opening for Pixar,[41] the fourth largest among films released in June[42] and the third largest for a G-rated film.[43] In its second weekend, however, the film dropped 60.3%, the largest second weekend drop ever for a Pixar film, and grossed $26.2 million.[44] Despite the film being a box office success and also becoming the highest-grossing animated feature of 2011 in these regions, it is Pixar's lowest-grossing film in North America since A Bug's Life.[45][46][47]
Outside North America, it grossed $42.9 million during its first weekend from 3,129 theaters in 18 countries, topping the box office.[48] It performed especially well in Russia where it grossed $9.42 million,[49] marking the best opening weekend for a Disney or Pixar animated feature and surpassing the entire runs of Cars and Toy Story 3.[50] In Mexico, it made $8.24 million during its first weekend,[51] while in Brazil, it topped the box office with $5.19 million ($7.08 million with perviews).[52] It also premeiered at No.1 with $5.16 million in Australia,[53] where it debuted simultaneously with Kung Fu Panda 2 and out-grossed it.[48] It is the highest-grossing film of 2011 in Lithuania ($477,117),[54] Argentina ($11,996,480).[55] It is the highest-grossing animated film of 2011 in Estonia ($442,707),[56] Finland ($3,230,314),[57] Norway ($5,762,653).[58]

Accolades

Award Category Winner/Nominee Result
British Academy Children's Awards (BAFTA) Favorite Film
Nominated
2012 People's Choice Awards[59] Favorite Movie Animated Voice Owen Wilson Nominated
69th Golden Globe Awards Best Animated Film
Nominated
Kids Choice Awards Favorite Animated Movie
Pending
Saturn Awards Best Animated Film
Pending

Release

During the Summer of 2008, John Lasseter announced that Cars 2 would be pushed forward and released in the summer of 2011, one year earlier than its original 2012 release date.[8] The US release date was later confirmed to be June 24, 2011, with a UK release date set for July 22, 2011.[60] The world premiere of the film took place at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on June 18, 2011.[61]

Home media

The film was released on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, and Movie Download on November 1, 2011. The release was produced in four different physical packages: a 1-disc DVD; a 2-disc combo pack (Blu-ray and DVD); a 5-disc combo pack (Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, and Digital Copy); and an 11-disc three movie collector's set featuring Cars, Cars 2, and Mater's Tall Tales. The film was also released as a Movie Download option in both standard and high definition.[62]
The Movie Download version includes four bonus features: the new Cars Toon “Air Mater,” the Toy Story Toon “Hawaiian Vacation,” “World Tour Interactive Feature," and "Bringing Cars 2 to the World." The 1-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack versions include the shorts “Air Mater” and “Hawaiian Vacation,” plus "Director John Lasseter Commentary." The 5-disc combo pack includes all of the same bonus features as the 1-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack versions, plus “World Tour Interactive Feature" and "Sneak Peek: The Nuts and Bolts of Cars Land." The 11-disc three movie collection comes packaged with Cars (Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy), Cars 2 (Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy), and Mater's Tall Tales (Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy).[62]
Cars 2 sold 1,983,374 DVD units[63] during its opening week, generating $31.24 million and claiming first place.[64] It also finished on the top spot on the Blu-ray chart during its first week, selling 1.76 million units and generating $44.57 million. Its Blu-ray share of home media was 47%, indicating an unexpectedly major shift of sales from DVD to Blu-ray.[65] Blu-ray 3D contributed to this, accounting for 17% of total disc sales.[66]

Video game

Main article: Cars 2 (video game)
A video game based on the movie was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Disney Interactive Studios for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC and Nintendo DS on June 21, 2011.[67] The PlayStation 3 version of the game was reported to be compatible with stereoscopic 3D gameplay.[68]

App

An app based on the film was released on iTunes for a dollar on June 23, 2011. The Lite version was released for free that same day. The object of the game is to complete each race, unlock new levels, and get a high score. As of June 28, 2011, The app has hit No.1 on the App Store.[69]

Spin-off

Main article: Planes
A direct-to-video computer animated Cars spin-off titled Planes is in production at DisneyToon Studios for a Spring 2013 release.



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