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Cars (2006 - Disney/Pixar) | 
 enlarge | Director: John Lasseter
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £21.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 304
Format: Anamorphic, Pal
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.5
EAN: 8717418095376
ASIN: B000ENV5WK
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 27, 2006
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Amazon.co.uk Reviews
There's an extra coat of hot wax on Pixar's vibrant, NASCAR-influenced comedy about a world populated entirely by cars. Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is the slick rookie taking the Piston Cup series by storm when the last race of the season (the film's high-octane opening) ends in a three-way tie. On the way to the tie-breaker race in California, Lightning loses his way off Route 66 in the Southwest desert and is taught to stop and smell the roses by the forgotten citizens of Radiator Springs. It's odd to have such a slim story from the whizzes of Pixar, and the film pales a bit from their other films (though can that be a fair comparison?). Nonetheless, Cars is another gleaming ride with Pixar founder John Lasseter, who's directing for the first time since Toy Story 2. There's the usual spectrum of excellent characters teamed with appropriate voice talent, loads of smooth humor for kids and parents alike, knockout visuals, and a colorful array of sidekicks, including a scene-stealing baby blue forklift named Guido. Lightning's plight is changed with the help of former big-city lawyer Sally Carrera (Pixar veteran Bonnie Hunt), the town's patriarch Doc Hudson (Paul Newman), and kooky tow truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy). The Incredibles was the first Pixar film to break the 100-minute barrier, but had enough story not to suffer; Cars, at 116 minutes (including some must-see end credit footage), is not as fortunate, plus it never pierces the heart. Trivia fans should have bonanza with the frame-by-frame DVD function; the movie is stuffed with in-jokes, some appearing only for an instant. Ages 5 and up. --Doug Thomas
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 Cars fabulas September 9, 2008
Caroline Holland (bradford, west yorkshire)
Cars is a brilliently delightfull film. From the moment you watch ti you are left with the feelings of affection for this car. its a really entertaining film were you feel happy one minute and sadered the next. A remarkable film that both adults and children will enjoy.
Not the best Pixar film, but enjoyable and funny film August 24, 2008
Stampy (England)
In one of Pixar's most underappreciated film, a race car gets lost on the way to the biggest race of his life, and winds up in a town where he learns the meaning of life.
With the opening montage of a race car getting himself geared up for a race, audiences are invited into a fast and flowing animation which doesn't match the peak of Toy Story or Wall-E, but is entertaining throughout.
Pixar have been there or thereabouts with every film they have released in the past decade, with hit after hit, and this family adventure is up there with the others, but falls slightly due to an annoying central protagonist and a fair amount of predictability.
Lightning McQueen is stubborn, unfunny, egotistical and negative; everything that can be annoying about in a character is justified by the race car. McQueen is partly the reason why this film doesn't match the class of other Pixar films. Toy Story had the funny and courageous central character Buzz, Wall-E had a loveable lonely robot, and even without a great central character, others have fallen on support characters, such as Dory in Finding Nemo. Other cars which include Sally, Mater and Luigi save the film with funny physical moments, especially the tractor sequences.
The ideology of friendship is heart-warming and beautiful to watch all the way through as we watch McQueen face new challenges in his personal life.
The visual effects are stunning as you would expect from the best animation team in the world. The direction does the graphics justice with a fast and flowing style from Lasseter.
The plot does follow many conventions, but has a laugh along the way and the likeability of the support characters and the general ideology of the plot with twists and turns, quite literally at the end, are enough to cement it as a good animation, which is fun and likeable for the entre family.
7/10
Pixar does it again! March 18, 2008
Garry Williams (London (Enfield))
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Cars has been out for a while now and it has accrued some critical baggage with many reviews saying that this is the moment when Pixar jumps the shark. The company's 7th film is the first directed by guiding light and Toy Story creator Lassetter since Toy Story 2 and it is, almost unquestionably, their worst film. However this is Pixar, their worst is better than a lot of people's best. The story is simple. Racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) falls from the truck transporting him across country to his big race and ends up in a backwater town called radiator springs. There he meets cars that are at first suspicious of him but become his friends. Lets begin with the problems. There are, unusually, for a Pixar film, many of them. The film takes a long time to really kick into gear, in fact we've almost reached the midway point by the time it really gets going and becomes the sort of consistently funny piece we expect from Pixar. Part of the problem is that there's quite a bit of setup to get through and, again unusually, the characters don't really get fleshed out for a long time which makes much of the first half feel like dead time. I think this is the essential difference between Cars and Pixar's previous films. Before they've made me care desperately about toys, bugs, monsters and fish but here the characters take so long to advance beyond a single dimension that that never really happens. Happily there's also much about Cars that is good. The vocal cast is excellent with particularly fine contributions from Paul Newman, Larry The Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt and Pixar's lucky charm John Ratzeburger and the film looks simply jaw dropping. The desert scenery is a wonder to behold and the animators find ingenious and varied ways to get emotion out of their big hunks of simulated metal. The comedy really kicks into gear when Lightning and Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) go tractor (cow) tipping, funny in itself, but absolutely gutbusting once the combine harvester (essentially a bull) enters the picture. From there on the gag hit rate goes up with incidental characters like Luigi and Guido getting a laugh on almost every line and Lassetter and company even manage to come up with an unexpected and rather affecting ending. After the credits roll stay in your seats for some flat out hillarious extra scenes including the characters watching Pixars other films recast with cars (You are a TOY CAR. You are a sad, strange little wagon, and you have my pity) and a touching dedication of the film to Pixar's late head of story Joe Ranft. Cars isn't a great film and that, from this company, ranks it as a disappointment, but it's a pretty damn good one and no disgrace to them.
cars March 13, 2008
Mrs. S. Dowds (sydney)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK , where do i start ?
cars is brilliant !
me and my son and boyfriend
went and saw it the weekend it
was out ! and thought the bit were
gets lost, my daughter nearly cried,
even though its brilliant its not worth
8.50 plus p&p ! the film is brill but
far too exspensive ! im not saying dont
buy it im just advising you go elsewere !
my apoligies to any sellers who think i thought
buyers off but its a fact you can find them
5 in a store now its nearly a year old
A very special movie... February 12, 2008
Big John (UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the greatest animated car films ever made. The detail is amazing, the flies are VW bugs for instance. There is not one human being in the whole movie. Instead of using Headlights to give the cars expression they took the unusual step of using the windscreen. The effect is clever. Paul Newman was an inspired choice for Doc hudson, and the cameo of Michael Schumacher (former F1 driver) is a wonderful surprise. There are many very funny moments. It is watchable many times over and details you missed in earlier viewings often appear subsequently. The car haters, Guardian Readers, and those who dislike a simple story will be bored. But in fact the story does have a moral, and its about swallowing your pride. What is more it does have a plot with some nice twists and turns (pardon the pun!) Anyone who dismisses this film just has not got the point. For an animated film to appeal to both adults and kids alike, it has to be special. This is one such very special movie. Disney Pixar has done it again,dont hesitate to buy this DVD
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