Cars 2

I watched this on the 26 of June, 2024, in the living room of the shared house, but of course I watched it much before that as a kid.

I forgot how insane the film is? Cars the original is a fun racing movie about making friends and priorities, but Cars 2 took the concept and RAN with it. All the vehicles are alive, the number of background puns is just absolutely spectacular, and it’s way darker and more convoluted than a kids’ movie is expected to be? But I did love it as a kid so maybe it’s just perfectly pitched.

The body count in this film is just insane, plus the false-flag operation carried out by Sir Miles Axelrod is kind of hard to keep track of. I also forgot just how much this film centres on Mater - McQueen is totally out of it until the very end.

The spy bits were great, loads of Bond homages, but my favourite scenes were still the racing ones - cars weaving, speeding past, with really great sound design.

My friend loved it too, she said she can’t believe she hasn’t seen it before.