Cars 2 Makes Sense.

Cars 2 has always been treated as the ugly duckling in the Cars franchise. I'm here to defend it. I think this film is the most logical next step you could have taken without playing it safe. To write the first Cars film, the weird geniuses in Pixar went out to find all the different ways that cars affected our life. The first film is feverishly devoted to vehicles, it's about (fictional) racing history rooted in real racing history. It's about settlements that get bulldozed over in the name of progress (quite literally by a bypass). Everything is derived from first principles about trying to do right by the concept of cars. The clouds are tire tracks. The bugs are cars. Everything is Cars. Even God. Now, if we think about this, there are only three major ways that cars have manifested in media: The racing film (Your Days Of Thunder, Speed Racer, fast cars competing in high octane sports) The spy film (The Cool Car in every James Bond film, The getaway car, the car that saves the day,…

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