I am a huge Pixar fan, so I write this post with a sense of dread, but I have seen teaser trailers for Cars 2 and I predict it will be Pixar's first big FAIL--critically, at least, and possibly also box office.
Now, granted, I was not a huge fan of the first Cars. It was decent, but in terms of story, characters, and quality, it sat around the level of A Bug's Life for me: aka, pretty good for an animated movie generally (considering the other crappy fare out there), but at the very bottom of the Pixar rung.
I know one of the Pixar core loves cars, and Cars was his baby. But Cars also fared poorly internationally, because ain't nobody outside America that gives a damn about cars. A sequel with the same kind-of-annoying anthropomorphic vehicles from the first movie just seems to be a recipe for disaster.
I hope I am wrong. Pixar has been nearly infallible. But, gosh, I really think this is going to be its first big misstep.
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I don't think it will fail commercially - I think there's plenty of appetite for an animated G movie for kids.
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