Smarter Than Your Average

Fast Facts

Title: Cars
Director: John Lasseter/Joe Ranft
Year: 2006
Run time: 1hr 51

Background Info

This is another film that we watched and live commented on during the Sidepodfilmclub event. I have extracted the comments I made as we watched for this Film Watch post.

Live Blog

00:02:04 – I would have thought mounting the wall might be a bit illegal.
00:03:15 – Even animated NASCAR graphics are better than FOM.
00:04:19 – That green car has quite a lot of sponsorship going on – it looks like the million dollar homepage.
00:06:22 – 214 laps is quite a lot and they’re not even done yet!
00:11:48 – Mr The King. It always makes me chuckle when people put Mr in the front no matter what.
00:12:45 – You would think they could just countback other wins rather than make a whole new race.
00:16:41 – Pulling faces at a tanker looks like fun. I might try that next time I’m on the road.
00:17:33 – There’s no Jeremy Clarkson on this version.
00:23:24 – Little car flies! Aww, and… gross!
00:34:01 – I wonder if they shouldn’t get that traffic light fixed.
00:34:35 – That does look like the most disgusting job in the whole world.
00:45:09 – Does tarmac dry that quickly?
00:48:05 – It’s not every day a cactus falls on top of you.
00:53:09 – I heart tractor tipping.
00:56:25 – He has no light and no wing mirrors either. They must think he’s the backwards one.
01:04:44 – Is this the obligatory romantic bit? Boo.
01:09:04 – I hope the traffic light worked back then.
01:17:23 – I can’t believe he left the road without a nice straight line. It’s all wibbly.
01:21:26 – Will he not get in trouble with his sponsors because he covered their stickers?
01:21:28 – Not that I’m obsessed or anything, but the traffic light just spontaneously broke again.
01:42:49 – It is a rather good cameo, I have to say.
01:46:37 – The drive thru bit blows my mind.

Conclusions

I’ve seen this before but it was even better the second time round – whether that has to do with watching along with many others I don’t. Pixar movies are always so finely crafted, they are a real treat.

STYA Rating: 5/5