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Cars wasn't a critical darling but has absolutely dominated Pixar revenues for years based on merchandizing. It's really hard to get accurate (or recent) data

Cars wasn't a critical darling but has absolutely dominated Pixar revenues for years based on merchandizing. It's really hard to get accurate (or recent) data about these things but at one point was 4x Toy Story merchandizing revenue. https://www.therichest.com/most-popular/10-movies-that-sold-the-most-merchandise/ https://www.therichest.com/most-popular/10-movies-that-sold-...

teekert 3y ago
I loved Cars 1 (theme: It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice) and Cars 3 (a time comes when you need to step aside, make peace with it, use it). I don't understand what went wrong with Cars 2 (theme: Idk, some short story expanded by chatGPT ;) to a long story) but I find it a very bad movie, really unwatchable almost.
- fatnoah 3y ago
  > I don't understand what went wrong with Cars 2 Cars 1 was a cute fish out of water movie where a self-centered braggart is humbled and finds true friendship and how to be a better person. Cars 2 is a kids movie full of gunplay and violence that opens with a torture scene, progresses towards murder, and finishes with the protagonists escape a death trap to prevent mass murder for profit. I mean, I don't know what anyone was thinking with this one.
  - teekert 3y ago
    Yeah man that torture scene, really, wtf. Since it happens off-screen my kids probably didn't really get it, but it's just... crazy. Imagine this conversation: - What's happening dad? * Oh, they are forcing this car to keep driving until, until ... yeah until he confesses something. - Why? * Well, if they make that car uncomfortable enough, like, when he almost dies, he will confess to anything. - So it's useless? * Yeah torture is useless, barbaric, something I hope you will just never come across in any shape or form in your life. It's a thing done by genuinely evil or very mislead people. - Jeez, that's quite something dad. * Yup, enjoy the rest of the movie matey. Let's hope they won't rape Sally next. - Wut? * Never mind bud.
    - civilitty 3y ago
      Jesus christ. Did you at least let them believe in Santa for a few weeks?
  - speedgoose 3y ago
    They wanted to make a James Bond movie with cars.
  - Maultasche 3y ago
    My son loved Cars, so we ended up getting him Cars 2. When he (probably about 4 at the time) saw cars being tortured in Cars 2, he got so upset that he started screaming and punching the TV screen. We turned it off immediately because it was just too intense for him (found out later that he had autism). He didn't end up watching Cars 2 until he was about 10. He still often watches the first and third movie, but rarely the second.
- joker_minmax 3y ago
  I have a complicated relationship with Cars 2. I'm southern, so Mater as a character represents a lot of stereotypes for better and for worse. They went over-the-top with his "stupid" moments so that he could have an internal character reckoning about tactfulness, while also being the hero of the movie. If they had just made him more normal, he wouldn't have had to be so shamed, and it's the shame aspect that made me feel weird. I just feel like the weakest part of the plot was the fake gasoline conspiracy. I haven't seen Cars 3 yet but my friends have told me "it's the sequel Cars deserved," and I'm hoping they're right.
  - teekert 3y ago
    They’re right.
mcphage 3y ago
> Cars wasn't a critical darling Cars 1 was good. Cars 2 was absolutely terrible. Cars 3 was very good. Cars 2 suffered when Paul Neumann died, since the relationship between him and Owen Wilson was the heart of what Cars was about. But Cars 3 made it about his passing, and what he left behind, in a really moving way.

teekert 3y ago

I loved Cars 1 (theme: It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice) and Cars 3 (a time comes when you need to step aside, make peace with it, use it). I don't understand what went wrong with Cars 2 (theme: Idk, some short story expanded by chatGPT ;) to a long story) but I find it a very bad movie, really unwatchable almost.

fatnoah 3y ago
> I don't understand what went wrong with Cars 2 Cars 1 was a cute fish out of water movie where a self-centered braggart is humbled and finds true friendship and how to be a better person. Cars 2 is a kids movie full of gunplay and violence that opens with a torture scene, progresses towards murder, and finishes with the protagonists escape a death trap to prevent mass murder for profit. I mean, I don't know what anyone was thinking with this one.
- teekert 3y ago
  Yeah man that torture scene, really, wtf. Since it happens off-screen my kids probably didn't really get it, but it's just... crazy. Imagine this conversation: - What's happening dad? * Oh, they are forcing this car to keep driving until, until ... yeah until he confesses something. - Why? * Well, if they make that car uncomfortable enough, like, when he almost dies, he will confess to anything. - So it's useless? * Yeah torture is useless, barbaric, something I hope you will just never come across in any shape or form in your life. It's a thing done by genuinely evil or very mislead people. - Jeez, that's quite something dad. * Yup, enjoy the rest of the movie matey. Let's hope they won't rape Sally next. - Wut? * Never mind bud.
  - civilitty 3y ago
    Jesus christ. Did you at least let them believe in Santa for a few weeks?
- speedgoose 3y ago
  They wanted to make a James Bond movie with cars.
- Maultasche 3y ago
  My son loved Cars, so we ended up getting him Cars 2. When he (probably about 4 at the time) saw cars being tortured in Cars 2, he got so upset that he started screaming and punching the TV screen. We turned it off immediately because it was just too intense for him (found out later that he had autism). He didn't end up watching Cars 2 until he was about 10. He still often watches the first and third movie, but rarely the second.
joker_minmax 3y ago
I have a complicated relationship with Cars 2. I'm southern, so Mater as a character represents a lot of stereotypes for better and for worse. They went over-the-top with his "stupid" moments so that he could have an internal character reckoning about tactfulness, while also being the hero of the movie. If they had just made him more normal, he wouldn't have had to be so shamed, and it's the shame aspect that made me feel weird. I just feel like the weakest part of the plot was the fake gasoline conspiracy. I haven't seen Cars 3 yet but my friends have told me "it's the sequel Cars deserved," and I'm hoping they're right.
- teekert 3y ago
  They’re right.

mcphage 3y ago

> Cars wasn't a critical darling Cars 1 was good. Cars 2 was absolutely terrible. Cars 3 was very good. Cars 2 suffered when Paul Neumann died, since the relationship between him and Owen Wilson was the heart of what Cars was about. But Cars 3 made it about his passing, and what he left behind, in a really moving way.