The girls and I went to Cars 2 yesterday with my nephew. We arrived just as the 12:45pm show was about to start – it was the 3D version, which I wasn’t too excited about seeing.
The original Cars movie was pretty entertaining and even though I’ve seen it at least a hundred times over the past few years – it’s one of those movies that I don’t cringe when it is selected (unlike Jack Frost, Frosty the Snowman and Hope Floats).
Unfortunately, Cars 2 was just like the majority of sequels out there – not as good as the original. The plot is a little too much and I was pretty surprised that there wasn’t more content around Paul Newman’s character, the Hudson Hornet since Paul passed away since the original movie was released. Arlyce also reminded me that George Carlin also passed away since the original movie – Carlin was the voice of Fillmore.
There are some pretty entertaining scenes and lines with Mater (voice by Larry the Cable Guy) being the major character in this version.
The movie is still worth seeing and not necessarily waiting until the Blu-ray/DVD release but in my opinion it just wasn’t as good as the original.
