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Cars was not critically successful, but it has been a merchandising goldmine. Every NASCAR mom and dad bought a Lightning McQueen, or a Mater, or other Cars toy
by rootbear 10y ago
Cars was not critically successful, but it has been a merchandising goldmine. Every NASCAR mom and dad bought a Lightning McQueen, or a Mater, or other Cars toy for their kids.
- trentlott 10y agoI'm surprised that Cars holds ~75% on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatos, while Inside Out and Toy Story and others have >95%. I see Cars as a film that appeals to children primarily, while the others are "family" movies in the best sense. It always seemed to me that Cars was intended to be a more child-oriented movie, but I don't know that it should suffer for that critically. Maybe it w as hoped to be a film on the same level as those others, but I can't imagine anybody read the script and thought it would be.
- intoverflow2 10y ago> I see Cars as a film that appeals to children primarily, while the others are "family" movies in the best sense. They're not family movies, they're movies that parents want their kids to be interested in but the reality is kids prefer Cars, Frozen, Shrek and Minions.
- ChristianGeek 10y agoI'm 54 and Cars is one of my favorite Pixar films (no, I'm not a NASCAR kind of guy). I never understood why it received such poor ratings.
- cookiecaper 10y agoLittle boys love cars like little girls love dolls. Cars has appeal far beyond the NASCAR set.