Monday, February 7, 2011

Too Much of a Good Thing?

SCI-FI sends word of something interesting:

Meet "Grem" and "Acer," Cars 2’s newest car stars

(from link)

Here's an exclusive first look at Grem and Acer, the two newest digital automotive cast members to Cars 2, Disney's sequel to the hit flick Cars, one of the best car movies of all time. Let's meet the two aptly-named "lemons" below.
Hmm. Not sure how to take this one, actually. Toy Story 2 was, in my opinion, just as good as the original; Toy Story 3 was, again IMHO, starting to stretch the storyline a bit thin. I might also be a little disappointed that Pixar is making a sequel to "Cars" before "The Incredibles" (please, for the love of all that's good and holy, please tell me there is going to be an "Incredibles II" at some point in the future...) Done well it could be the next TS2; done wrong it could signal the end of Pixar's reign as the king of animated kid movies.

I'll still line up to watch it in the theater, of course...

That is all.

6 comments:

ViolentIndifference said...

I liked the NASCAR tie-in in Cars. It was a fun movie.

The negatives for me - the voice of the lead man...er...auto was uninspiring.

The plot was thin with no clever depth like Incredibles or even Monsters Inc.

bluesun said...

Ever since pixar was bought out by disney...

Well, let's juts say it gives me one more thing to blame Steve Jobs for.

Ancient Woodsman said...

They both look like they could use some Rust-eze medicated bumper ointment.

Someone in this house is very, very much looking forward to Cars 2, and it ain't Mom & Dad.

Stretch said...

Any movie that has a Gremlin and a Pacer (a.k.s. the glass assed Gremlin) as leads ... well, clearly the writers/animators are way too young to remember the 70s.

lelnet said...

It says something about Pixar, I think, that the worst movie they've ever made (and yes, I'm talking about "Cars") still managed to be one of the three best movies released in its year.

Don't know about "Incredibles 2", though...the best parts of that movie were elements that wouldn't work again in a sequel.

Lissa said...

The Incredibles does blu-ray in April -- maybe they'll greenlight the sequel if it sells well?