Just got back from the movies with my sons. As I wrote about earlier, we went to see the new Disney-Pixar film, Cars. Over the years, we have seen every Pixar film. Cars is one of the best! It has all of the elements of the previous Pixar blockbusters, a great story with a lesson, fantastic characters and phenomenal, keep you in your seat, computer animation. In fact, the animation in Cars is their best yet. If you thought the underwater scenes in Nemo were good, you ain't seen nothing. At some points you don't even realize it is an animated movie. The "sets" of the race tracks are great, but the scenes of the American west around old Route 66 are breathtaking. This movie raises the bar for animation technology. The car characters themselves look so realistic, you almost forget that cars don't have eyes in their windshields and mouths in their grills. The light reflections off of their paint are fantastic.
Another very different thing about the movie, is there are no people. It is a world of cars. The fans in the stands, the folks inhabiting the world, the TV crew, everyone is one sort of vehicle or another. Making these characters exhibit human emotions was quite a task, but Pixar pulled it off beautifully. You can really connect with the characters, they did a great job of humanizing them. From the peripheral characters, like the VW Van hippie and the Italian tire store owner to the main players, every character is done perfectly
This movie has something for everyone, including a hot little Porsche, named Sally.
Boys and girls, city folk and country folk, young and old, will all find something for themselves in this movie. The tractor tipping is hysterical! Don't worry if you don't have any kids to take with you to see this movie, it is no excuse. I would recommend you go out and see it right away.





