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how was the 3D?

This was basically my reaction to the film as well, although I'm closer to **. It's bland and uninspired, and Pixar's first real misstep.

"The 3-D is irrelevant, often used with such subtlety as to appear almost 2-D. Pixar veteran director John Lasseter understands how to avoid most of 3-D's common pitfalls, including motion blur and washed-out colors, but the "extra dimension" adds so little to this movie that one has to wonder: why bother?"

On the cast list in the sidebar, you credit Mater instead of Larry the Cable Guy.

I personally liked Cars 2, but it's definitely the weakest Pixar feature to date.

Which sounds more like a real credit: "Mater" playing "Larry the Cable Guy" or "Larry the Cable Guy" playing "Mater"?

Hold up - 'Voice of Larry the cable guy'... who the hell is Larry the cable guy? Seriously?

I feel asleep on this in an afternoon matinee. this is a well rendered boring kids movie. Don't believe me? Ask the kids there. They were ss bored as me.

Yep. I had small kids sitting in front of me at a midnight showing (WTF?), and they were bouncing around the aisles by the time the movie reached its second half.

Also, that's the last midnight showing I'll be going to for a long while. My rationale was that I would go at a time where there wouldn't be any kids. I was wrong about that, but I also forgot that midnight is the time when all the high school tools come out to wreck havoc and assert their idiocy, while their girlfriends laugh at every inane comments. "OMG, you're so funny!!" Listening to that bullshit in a half-empty theater for two hours, dealing with drunk girls throwing candy back at the audience from the front row, and having to run out to the lobby after the movie started to tell them to fix the aspect ratio = the worst theater experience I've ever had.

Did you enjoy the movie? The funny thing is it could probably have been fixed some, but strangly, I get the impression they didn't realize how off it was until they finished. And that was too late.
Oh well, it will still make a billion, nothing to see here.
Also, I was impressed at how well they rendered London from the rooftops. That visual was spectacular.

No, I didn't enjoy it. A couple laughs here and there, but overall it's Pixar's weakest, and the first of theirs I consider to be below average.

You know your movie is in trouble when Larry The Cable Guy is one of the first names listed on the cast credits.

Love this quote by Leonard Maltin from his "Cars 2" review:

"I’d rather listen to chalk on a blackboard than spend nearly two hours with Tow Mater (Larry The Cable Guy), who is in fact the leading character in Cars 2."

http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmalti ... ew_cars_2/

That's a great quote, and exactly right. Mater is far and away the most grating character in the Cars universe.

Here's an even more scathing review


http://themovieboy.com/reviews/c/11_cars2.htm

Wow, looking around the site and reading a handful of reviews, that guy is hard to please. Not quite at Armond White level, but close.

I wouldn't say he's hard to please(especially since he gave positive reviews to widely hated films like Freddy Got Fingered and Gigli) and he is NOTHING like White At least you can tell Dustin has alot of passion for what he does for a living. White on the other hand just dosen't seem to give a damn, his reviews are just so "mechanical" it sounds like he dosen't even care about the films he reviews, plus it's almost impossible to understand what the hell he's talking about 90% of the time.

He's best known as one of the four comedians on the "Blue Collar" comedy tour along with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Ron White. His catcth phrase is "Git Er Done". I can take him in certain doses. But after a while he gets annoying. A few years ago he got into a public feud with the far superior comedian David Cross.

I find his Blue Collar material grating, though I actually don't mind his movies so much.

I saw this at a midnight showing (the press screening was during a time when I was on babysitting duty). There were no kids (under 15) in the audience, but there were quite a few high school students. For the most part, they were well behaved (although a lot of them put bare feet on the backs of the seats in front of them - when those seats were empty, that is). Lots of text messaging going on, however, and the light from a cellphone screen in a dark theater, even when its ten rows in front of you, can be really distracting. Still, the midnight showing was a better option than going during the day.