Nice description, GD. Next time I wake up on the couch on a Sunday morning with the TV still on, I might spend a minute or two actually watching the race before I switch to Meet The Press or cartoons.

I've been wanting to see Cars again, and this post made me want to more than ever.

Hmm, who can I "take" to see it...

I still haven't seen Cars

Ahem, as of this evening, NA and € have still not seen Cars.


If they're not careful, talk will be on to the next Disney movie must (ahem, July 7) before they get around to this last one.

Finally saw Cars today. That was fun! I know that I missed a lot of the car references, but that's okay. There were a number of times were I thought "I know that's supposed to be a reference to something....." Which just means that now I want to watch it again!

If nothing else, it made me want to go drive Route 66. Usually I prefer fields and forests to dust and rock formations, but that was pretty amazing. I guess that's why my brother keeps heading down that way on vacations.

The little tidbit at the end with Van and Minnie was cute. They have two such distinctive voices. Although I couldn't explain to Ryan who Richard Kind was (couldn't think of his name.) "You know, the guy from Spin City." "Andy Dick?" "What???? No. Tall. Dark hair. Weird looking." "Jon Lovitz?" "I said *TALL*" (And yet, when I can't think of anything she's been in and say "you know, she does the Minnesota accent" he immediately comes up with Edie McClurg. :rolleyes: )

Anyhow, I thought it was cute. I liked it. Ryan says it's better than anything else he's seen lately, which is probably true. There was a lot of funny stuff in there, from the twins' headlights to the tractor tipping to the Pixar film roll call. And yet, I didn't feel like it was just a string of jokes lacking cohesion, which seems the standard mode for American comedies lately.

And even if they were just cartoons, I enjoyed seeing those obnoxious souped up cars in impound at the end. Take that!

And, like all of the more recent Pixar films, we get to wave at Katrin's name in the credits. Yay!

Um...

This is one of those movies where I wonder if I saw the same movie as all the rest of you...

I nearly walked out 20 minutes in to it. It was one bad car pun after another (which seems to be seen as "clever" by so many people). I really wish Owen Wilson would just become a mime, because his voice is the only thing more annoying than his face.

I did like "One Man Band", and the owners of the tire shop were cool... but otherwise, meh.

to me, cars and nemo are miles above the incredibles... after watching the incredibles i was like eh... cars and nemo both left me in awe- like wow... that was an awesome movie... i can't wait to see it again!

Sayyyyy, I have a question. Why do the cars in 'Cars' have doors and side view mirrors? People don't exist in their reality, right?

They have doors to help in the manipulation of objects. They have sideview mirros so that they can run backwards (as was highlighted in an important scene).

Though I'm trying to remember if we ever actually saw a car with its doors open.

Should we still be using spoiler tags? NA and Euro need to stop reading the thread and go see it ;)


When Lightning asks Mater how he drives backwards, Mater recommends that Lightning get a rear view mirror. Apparently the cars use the rear view mirrors too, and I guess that would include side views.

As for doors....well jeez, that's just the tip of the iceberg in a car-centric reality problem. If you pick at that loose end the whole thing will unravel :rolleyes: ;)

ETA - Alex, I don't think they ever manipulated objects with their doors.