Browsing: Cars 3

It was 11 years ago when audiences first met Lightning McQueen, the cgi racecar with a big attitude voiced by Owen Wilson in the first Cars movie. Director John Lasseter  brought these vehicular characters to life, with a story of personal discovery and growth, but told from the point of view of sentient cars.  We’ve had a sequel, […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] So at this point Cars has been one of the cash cows for Pixar and for parent company Disney. It’s ironic given that of all of the Pixar entries, Cars isn’t really among it’s best works (you’ll have to go back to Up, WALL-E, and Toy Story for the real gems). To that end, […]

Disney / Pixar today dropped the first official teaser trailer for next Summer’s release of Cars 3, and it’s definitely got a different vibe of any other Cars trailer that we’ve seen in the past. The guess would be that it’s just setting up the basic idea of what might happen in the story, but then the actual film will handle it along the lines of the light-hearted fare we’re used to in the series. For NASCAR fans, seeing the image of Lightning McQueen in an uncontrolled crashing roll would probably have the same impact as the opening sequence in Up! (emotions and tears). While Pixar has long been good at playing with the heartstrings, we’re not sure if they’re up to a film with this level of grit.