Rotten
Don't tell the kids, but Santa Claus isn't real and Pixar is fallible.
Leah Rozen, TheWrap
Cars 2
Going where no car has gone before.
2011 · 1h 46m · G
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Directed by
John Lasseter
,
Bradford Lewis
Overview
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
Director and cast
- John Lasseter Director
- Bradford Lewis Director
- Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen (voice)
- Michael Caine as Finn McMissile (voice)
- Emily Mortimer as Holley Shiftwell (voice)
- Michael Keaton as Chick Hicks (voice)
- Jason Isaacs as Siddeley (voice)
- Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera (voice)
- John Ratzenberger as Mack (voice)
- Tony Shalhoub as Luigi (voice)
- Larry the Cable Guy as Mater (voice)
- Eddie Izzard as Sir Miles Axlerod (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Time, perhaps, for the franchise to be towed off to the scrapyard. Sorry, Pixar.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
It's an example of what a sequel should, or at least can, be.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Fresh
Cars 2 is marginally better than its predecessor, but the same problem still remains: Cars just aren't very interesting as anthropomorphic animation vehicles (pun intended).
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
...by Pixar's outrageous standards of Oscar shoo-in virtuosity, this sequel is a disappointment at best.
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture
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