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.
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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!