Cars 2 is one of those movies that you won't hate if you have to take your kids to see it. You won't love it, especially if you didn't love the first film. It's a very different film from that one, not so much a moral tale as a spoof of spy movies, and it's not bad for what it is, but I wouldn't watch it again. There is actually an interesting plot twist to the spy plot, which I saw coming, but still thought was executed neatly. So instead of spoiling the end, I instead offer ten things that I find strange/creepy/ridiculous about the Cars universe. Maybe I shouldn't think this deeply about kids movies, but in some of them, I have to think about something.
1) Who services the cars when they break down?*
2) Why do the cars have handles? Or windows?
3) Why would a spy car need scuba gear?
4) What must the oil crisis in that universe be like, when every living being runs on a combustible engine?
5) So no humans ever, but there used to be dinosaurs?
6) How exactly do cars die? I could understand getting crushed or blown up, but how could a car ever just die of old age? Wouldn't you just keep replacing parts to keep it going? If not, then what kind of sick universe is this?
7) If they have car insurance, wouldn't everyone have to pay it, just to exist? Even the "animals"?
8) What exactly does a car do with a martini? Or sushi? In fact, what is the sushi made from? If the cows and bulls and bugs are vehicles, wouldn't the fish be too?
9) How do cars have babies? For that matter, how do cars make babies?
10) How could you use knockout gas on a car? Why not just disconnect the battery?
* My son actually gave an interesting answer for this one already. He said the cars have other cars or machines that can repair them. Then when I asked, "Well, who repairs those machines?" he said that they repair each other. That actually makes a lot of sense, but only in Cars-logic.
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