Cars

Year: 2006

Grade: B

Country: USA

Director: Lasseter/Ranft

Review

pretty decent little pixar pic with a bevy of stars behind the mics. i liked the story of a bygone era due to the infiltration of major highways. i think one strength of these computer-animated pictures is that you can add depth to them easily and depth is also a result of the process. that is, adding a digital piece of text in the background is easy and might make for a joke or witty element that is only noticed after repeated viewings. further, the fact that you have complete control of the landscape and that it takes a while to build these landscapes from scratch on a computer, gives the artists more time to come up with, and incorporate, details like the mountains that look like car hoods, etc. in a regular film the filmmakers would have that latitude and often don’t have the time to think of these creative touches either.

Watched in theater