CARS

Can Pixar continue its run of succes with Cars?

It would be hard to argue with Pixar that Cars isn't going to be a huge critical and commercial success. Given that over the past 10 years, they have produced 7 of the best family movies, all gaining critical acclaim putting their parent company in the shade at the same time. Coupled with the fact that Pixar's worst film, A Bugs Life is nothing less than excellent gives them a good argument.
So far however, the general view of critics has been that of mild dissapointment with both released trailers failing to show any of the imaginitive flair that make Pixar's films such a joy to watch. Judgement of course must be left until the film is reviewed and until then there are certain things that must be taken into account before giving judgement. The first is that from the 2 trailers we have seen very little dialogue, the trailers instead looking to concentrate on the films Nascar racing action scenes. What the trailers do is in a Pixar tradition, give very little away about the story or plot of the film. Instead we are introduced to a selection of the charactrs and locales that will be present in the final film. Secondly it is important to remember about the voice talent in the film, the biggest draw being one of Hollywood's most comedically talented actors, Owen Wilson. He has proven time and time again to provide laughs to an audience in succesful comedies such as Starsky and Hutch and Wedding Crashers. He was able to make his mark in smaller, supporting roles such as Meet The Parents giving a lot of confidence that Cars will be a very funny film
While there has been in those areas of the film, nobody can argue with the visuals that show the sort of vibrancy and confidence that Pixar have always been able to garner from its teams. While not intended to be completly realistic, it is the small details such as the rust on the cars that sets this above Pixar's own and the competitions work. One thing that interests from a design point of view is how the cars will interact with each other, due to the apparent lack of humans in the film, a good example being the workers changing the Nascar racers tyres.
With only a couple of months till release, it won't be long till we can if Lasseter and co have done it again.

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