Looking back at this review, I honestly feel REALLY stupid for insulting others' opinions around the beginning. Since I made this video, I have come around to realizing why some people enjoy this movie in a "dumb fun" way. My apologies for making the comment around 1:16. EDIT: At 24:44, pretend I say July 28. That’s right, I pushed the release date of that video forward.

Cars 2 could’ve been much better if it was entirely focused on the World Grand Prix and not about spies at all. In fact, since Doc is dead, Cars 2 could’ve been about Lightning trying to carry on Doc’s legacy.

Mankind's greatest feat will be understanding the world of Cars

“Guys, I think showing Doc getting killed off is a bit too dark, let’s not do it” “I have an idea, let’s kill off a bunch of other cars violently!” “Let’s do it”

I was so surprised the spy idea was originally a deleted scene from the first Cars, where McQueen would have took Sally on a date to see a spy movie starting Finn McMissle. Even if that “scene” wasn’t in the movie, it was stuck in John Lasseter’s head that he knew he needed to incorporate that to the second movie

I used to like Cars 2 ironically. Nowadays I hate it but it’s also kinda funny in a way.

I can’t believe John Lasseter thought to himself “what would Mater do in this situation” when being at a promotional tour for the first Cars film

In my opinion, not only did it break Pixar's winning streak, but also destroyed the legacy that the first film left behind (as well as the reception to the third film). Similar to what Shrek the Third did to it's franchise, this is when Cars 1 became seen only as a merchandise driven cash grab, instead of a compelling narrative. It's probably the reason why people like Mr. Enter or Blockbuster Buster hate the first film. In all honesty, 1 and 3 are actually great movies that don't deserve the reputation of Cars 2.

1:16-1:23 So at the beginning of the video you tell us to respect your opinion, when you can't even respect ours?

The Definitive Cars Trilogy: Cars 1 Cars: Race O Rama Cars 3 (Only put ROR out of the all Cars games because it has the most fitting story to pass as a sequel).

Great video! Definitely the best video I've seen about this movie, especially when it's always been and still is a guilty pleasure of mine. Keep up the good work!

I remember back in 2011, I watched the trailer for this wondering "they're making a Cars 2?" And when I was watching it, my thoughts were "this looks stupid". I was only thirteen when it came out, a time where I still enjoying stuff like Shark Tale and Shrek the Third... That says a lot when I say this movie looks stupid. EDIT: While watching this, I was thinking back to Dreamworks' Dinotrux, and how it surprisingly answered a lot of questions in a way that it doesn't make things confusing. How sad is that, a Netflix show made to sell toys somehow has a more coherent world with rules it usually strictly follows than a Pixar movie?

Excellent video, you found more issues with the script than I did. I both look forward to and dread August 31, 2022

This is one of the best video analyses I've ever seen, you've come up with stuff I never could've figured out myself, and I personally can't wait for August 31, 2022, you literally convinced me to give this film half a star on letterboxd

You know what's the worst thing about this movie? It came out on Pixar's 25th anniversary and it was shown on the theatrical version of the movie. That hurts for the movie this is.

Fun Fact: According to the new Disney+ series, we see in concept art that the dinosaurs WERE vehicles…what?

17:57 Mater didn’t get kicked from Mcqueen’s team, he left it by himself. McQueen even felt guilty for it and admitted that he didn’t want Mater to leave.

i did a marathon where i watched every single pixar movie, and i enjoyed my time with each one, but once i got to cars 2 i felt like my brain was about to explode from all the stupidity this film has.

Hey, keep up the good work. Despite only having 731 subs, I feel like your channel has the potential to grow. Especially with these long format essay videos

5:37 Cars on the road: Yes

Cars 3 was definitely what Cars 2 was supposed to be. I like Cars 2 for how bad it is. Just like Shrek the Third, Cars 2 is a guilty pleasure movie for me.

I think this movie was primarily John Lasseter’s idea and not all of Pixar.

great video!

at 13:10 you said that he just changed the pitch but fun fact that was just the actor with no editing to the voice

The amount of quality writing and editing in this video is shockingly good that I was surprised when I saw your amount of subs, you definitly deserve more man. Looking foward for your next videos

Cars 2 also works as somewhat of a fun guilty pleasure, to me. Given how much it felt like a Mater's Tall Tales sketch stretched into a feature-length spinoff to the Cars franchise. Side note, I wonder if Schaffrillas has seen this yet. I'd love to see you both do a collaboration review, soon, if possible. :)

You know John Lasseter fucked up real bad when he forgot about the teaser trailer for the film where McQueen was also gonna be a spy.

The biggest problem I have with Cars 2 is how it fundamentally destroys its universe by adding so much things to the universe that they might as well have turned them into humans. If this film didn’t exist maybe people will look back at the cars movies as decent additions to Pixar’s catalog and not known as the franchise that sent Pixar on a downward trend.

Still better than Planes

11:57 Aside from Kairi, Peach and that character from Xenoblade, who were the others you showed?

I love this video. A video that summarizes my EXACT thoughts of cars 2

I think most of us think the World Grand Prix is one of the best elements of this film. It’s a perfect way to show McQueen at the peak of his career, the second chapter of his 3 part arc.

0:43 THIS MOVIE BLOWS😃

I thought and STILL think the film is a certified hood classic

I really enjoyed cars 2. Honestly, I think Cars is a good trilogy . Cars 1 was a masterpiece. It has a great opening. Good events and character development, how radiator springs changed McQueen and how McQueen changed them. How at the beginning McQueen was so selfish and piston cup obsessed. But at the end, he just left it and helped strip weathers. ------------------ Cars 3 was decent and had amazing race scenes. But it didn't give any new ideas and ignored some information. McQueen’s problem was struggling to beat storm. But actually it’s the same issue as Cars 2 when McQueen had a challenge to beat francesco. It is not a whole new idea. How could McQueen beat a 224m/h car but can’t beat a 210m/h one? Did he get new parts from Ramone that made him faster? If yes, why didn't he do the same in Cars 3?! They didn't even explain it nor mentioned it. ------------------ My issue with Cars 2 that it had so much potential to be the greatest in the franchise. They had the best race tracks and the best race cars. All of the 11 racers including new look McQueen were nice-looking cars. I mean look at shu todoroki. I am pretty sure every Japanese will be so proud to see him and might want to have him as a toy cause he looks gorgeous. Nigel Gearsley, Max Schnell, Lewis Hamilton, Jeff gorvette all of them were pretty. But the movie did nothing with them and prefered spy stuff. When you look at any of them you can say “he might be a side character or a friend to McQueen” since they all look well-designed. I wanted to see more Jeff & Lewis scenes; they had good chemistry and friendship. Overall. Cars 2 is an enjoyable movie in my humble opinion. He might be the weakest in the franchise but still good.

You know what’s the biggest problem with Cars 2 is that literally everything the stuff they put in the movie is not even anything near to Cars it felt more like a human movie than a Cars movie like beer food iPhones and other random stuff this why this movie is a huge flop

How Shark Tale got nominated is a giant mystery. That movie was so awful in every way. Cars 2 is bad, but I would rather watch that instead.

I figure it's crazy how when the lemon Kingpin said that they stopped making parts for them that's basically saying the equivalent of they stop making life saving medications

It's a terrible film but I do occasionally rewatch clips of it every 2-3 years. Cars 2 feels like it's supposed to be a Mater spinoff film that was meant to reveal Mater having a very complex past (former spy, repressed memories) but walked away from that life for something else. It also felt like the original writer wanted to send a message through the "spy" aspect of the show that Mater simply enjoy the little things in life and learning to accept who he once was

This is one of my favorite brain shut down just have fun movies. I usually re-watch it once a year unironically

I have trouble believing that Pixar as a studio thought this was a good idea. I found out that they hated it so much that they wished they could forget its existence.

Did You Use Influence From Schaffrilas?

May I ask why does the emoji movie review need to be on August 31st 2022

cars 2, the best pixar movie, it hurts whoever hurts

14:17 you could ask the same question about "Toy Story" really

My friends defend this movie to the bitter end and call me an uncultured swine for thinking monsters inc is way better than cars 2 what should i do

In UK and US 24 June on other occasions 22 July

What editing software do you use, I’m an aspiring KZfaqr myself and wondered how to get clips into my videos

Excuse me, what happens on August 31st 2022? And what movie is it? Is it cars 2?

So in 2011 in high school my class went a trip to the movie theatres and do you know what movie we saw we saw kung fu panda 2 a movie with mature emotional moments proper comedy and an excellent voice performance from Gary oldman as lord Shen I got more from that film than this piece of sh🐬t. yes I know kung fu panda 2 came out before cars 2 but even if it didn’t I’m still glad my teachers picked kung fu panda 2 instead of this joke of a Pixar movie like When this movie received heavy criticism John Lassiter’s response was and I quote “I don’t make movies for film critics I make movies for the audience” to which I say WHAT AUDIENCE JOHN?! Because it’s not for everyone if you’re telling me you made it for infants and babies then yeah I’d believe you because it’s just a movie you’d put on to keep your kid quiet because this isn’t a film for the whole family and much like Batman and Robin this film is just one giant toy commercial it’s sad that toy story a movie about toys has more emotion in it than this steaming pile of garbage so yeah if you want to watch an actual great animated movie from 2011 I advise you watch kung fu panda 2 or rango

You roasted the film big time. What a court was that? I would assumed you were gonna sentence on death penalty someone . Jesus😂

As of June 17, 2022, this movie is no longer the only time Pixar was only in it for the money.

Im of the opinion cars 2 is good just because i have fun watching it. But i agree everything you say. Except they escape big ben easily on purpose because they want mater to go to the pits

You know, this is what I feel like this should happen. So back in 2004, they released The Incredibles, a lot of people say it's one of the best films of all time while I find it overrated. The biggest issue I have with The Incredibles is animation, it's a two-hour movie, and the rendering sucks and that is the biggest flaw that is keeping me from calling it a masterpiece like everyone else. I think The Incredibles is a good movie, but it also feels like a chore because the animation is not good, it has torn my experience, but not in a horrible way. Finding Nemo has phenomenal animation, I have no idea how Pixar fucked it up with this one. So you might be asking, how does this relate to Cars 2? Well since Cars have better animation than The Incredibles, Cars should've been an experiment project because of the animation. So I was thinking about this: what if The Incredibles came out in 2011 and Cars 2 came out in 2017? Do you know what I'm saying? Personally, The Incredibles would have been my favorite Pixar movie if the animation was better and everyone agreed that Cars 3 is the real Cars 2. And as a Cars fan, I would love to see it as a trilogy if Cars 2 was right but for everyone else, it works as a duology.

14:45 . I have you something hilarious about this one. On the greek dub of the film, the song that Mater was singing was replaced by an old greek song of the 80's and it litterally says "i will take you to a cruise"😂.

I love how this movies poster has Lightning McQueen front and center, trying to trick people into thinking he’s the main character again, even though he’s not. So if they needed to put Lightning in front because he was more marketable, and needed to adjust the rest of the cast to be stupid so Mater could seem like a more competent main character, then, bold idea Pixar: don’t make Mater the main character! If this is like Minions where you gave them their own movie BECAUSE they were marketable, then I understand. But if Mater isn’t marketable, nor is he able to properly lead a story, then why did they even think it was a good idea? I’m not enabling the mindset of doing things and making decisions for the sole purpose of money, but they could at least be bothered to make smart decisions for a cash grab. I really loved Mater in the first movie, but he just doesn’t work as the protagonist.

0:43 i smell a Scott The Woz Reference

14:32 lol 😂😂

16:17 I actually like that Pixar chose to do these things for maters dream, because that’s what dreams are like. You quite often see people that you haven’t met before or the dream is augmented instead of replaying exactly what happened!

I would like to add that I would much rather watch the Star Wars Prequels 50 times than watch this turd of a film. At least with those movies, it was George Lucas trying to make his own vision like he did for the Originals, and there were plenty of good moments in those movies despite the dialogue problems, the bad romance and boring political scenes. I don’t know what vision John Lasseter had with this movie, because it felt like it was tacked on at the last minute.

I can't tell the Deep pitch voice on Sriracha rod to the normal one

5:34 Well, Cars On The Road basically answered this.

In your dreams, Thunder.

The way I look at it. "Cars 2" is bad, but its ENTERTAININGLY bad. LIke I can see people viewing it as "So bad its good", whereas something like "Brave" or "The Good Dinosaur" were just flat out bad.

9:01 Haha, Gru's in Monika's room!

17:47 actually to be completely fair, that toy of Mater looks fucking awesome.

Schaffrillas job is done

15:24 PEASHOOTER 🤨

Ya Know Platy…….What If There Was An Alternate Timeline Where Cars 2 In 2011 Didn’t Exist? And That The Cars 3 That Followed Is The Real Cars 2. What Would You Think Of That?

The first you said in this video was pretty much me.

Today is a year until TEM review ☹

Do you think there was much more going on for the production of Cars 2 maybe John Lasseter actually misunderstood what made the Cars 1 a good movie or maybe Jon Lester did have any control over the movie and some other guy just said it's just a kids movie about talking cars

I am very confused by who in Pixar besides John Lasseter thought this movie was a good idea.

Yes

This is 100% accurate

I was a huge fan of tge first cars film. I went to see cars 2 in the cinema when I was 7. I remember liking it simply because it was a cars film. But I didn't rematch it despite having watched the first film hundreds of times. I lost interest in cars and only watched the third film recently

Idk, I have fun everytime I rewatch it...

In the beginning cars 2 was pretty cool and sounds when racing is just spot on its the spy stuff thst killed it

I love the cars movies! 😊

"Descramble that voice!" "I'm trying - it's too sophisticated!" Love how these supposedly super-intelligent spies can't accomplish something that fricking *KINEMASTER* can achieve In all seriousness, I'm very mixed on this movie. On one hand, the plot literally relies on contrivances AND everybody being idiots, Mater is annoying (no really?????) and the racing isn't the focus like it should be. On the other hand, though, I can still SOMEWHAT enjoy it for the potential I see in it and the stuff that is good. There's a handful of scenes in here (i.e. the oil rig chase, the World Grand Prix race in Japan, Rod Redline's death, etc.) that are actually pretty good. I for one actually like how this isn't afraid to shy away from being dark sometimes because the dark scenes in this actually feel somewhat grounded for the most part - which is why Rod's death is my favorite scene in the whole movie.

I agree with you even as kid and my dad hate it

I heard some people & Pixar fans say that Turning Red is worse than this.

I really think you should try and differenceiate yourself from Schafrillas, your editing style and writing and everything are almost identical to him. You seem to have alot of potential but you should try and find your own style in my opinion. You reuse some word for word things/jokes as he does

Call Cars 2 "Mater: The Movie" There. That's a way to make it look better.

A lot of your points, are practically the exact same as another underrated KZfaqr called Trev views, not saying you copied him, it’s probably just a “genius think alike” situation.

Yeah maybe thats just your opinion of Cars 2 being bad.

I'm still impressed by the animation because I can't 3D model anything

24:15 Lightyear felt pretty soulless too, but cars2 is still worse

Yes there is too much meter in this movie

Man cars 2 is my favorite movie ever and I don't care if anyone loves it cause one it's the first pixer of John Lassiter cause he went around the world

My take is that Cars 2 is ONE of the worst Pixar films, but it's not THE worst - that would be Toy Story 4. In fact, I'm going to disagree with you and say I think Cars 3 is even worse than Cars 2, but somehow it gets a relative pass.

I remember being so excited 4 a cars 2 at the time and boy was I disappointed when I watched it when it came out in 2011. I watched it again just now and I still hate it. I've never seen the 3rd one but I will and I hope it's better than the 2nd one. I always consider the 2nd one to be filler.

Let me ask you this . Would the plot of cars 2 have worked if it was it’s own separate Pixar film and not a sequel to cars ?

You know I really respected John lassenter for defending cars 2, until I found out he bashed lilo and stitch . 🤦‍♂️

I rather watch this over wreck it ralph 2 lol.

Thank god at least the animation was still pretty nice.

go see the deleted scenes from cars 2 the one where Leland turbo died

I've enjoyed Cars since I was 10 years old, but even I kept asking myself, "Where do the cars come from, though? How are cars created? What would I see inside a living school bus? Would there be seats?". Making a movie where everyone is an automobile is like making a movie where everyone is a computer, a toaster, or a house. They're all consumer products built by humans, for humans. You can't take humans out of this context. Sure, a car has way more personality and charisma than a toaster. People will get way more obsessed with a Ford Mustang, a Chevy Corvette, a Lincoln Navigator, or a Mercedes Benz S-Class than, say, a boring computer mouse. A car is bigger and more noticeable than a computer mouse is, so it's more impressive to look at. No one has a dream computer mouse, but a lot of folks have a dream car. At the end of the day, though, those are all consumer products like the computer mouse. They LITERALLY can't exist without humans. I can't say for sure whether Cars would ever have been as critically-acclaimed as Toy Story, The Incredibles, or Finding Nemo. But, I can say with 99% confidence that Cars' reception would've been way closer to the receptions of those movies had humans been there. No questions over how the world works. Instead of a typical (but fun, entertaining, and quirky) "jerk wad learns the value of friendship and community" story, we could've gotten a story that went deeper into mankind's relationship to the automobile. Believe it or not, Cars' storytelling potential could've been greatly expanded with the presence of humans. Maybe we could've gotten a storyline about how someone's relationship with their beloved living car slowly deteriorates from the person owning the racecar to the racecar owning the person. Such a story could've been an analogy to a toxic romantic relationship, including the financial havoc and the unhealthy dependence that can result from such a situation. Heck, they could've had a story where humans are gone, but the vehicles remember them. Some of the vehicles try to figure out their purpose in life without kids to carry to school or families to take on long road trips. Either one of these storylines could've connected to a larger commentary on how overly car-centric human society is. Cars still could've been a billion-dollar merchandising juggernaut because, you know, kiddies and their talking cars. It just could've had a story that was potentially more standout and unique, had humans existed in the series.

1:45 what the heck?? I get that this world is very confusing and dump and that's what it's all about so why would you think about it too much? This movie seems bad for you just because you put things that way.

There's one problem I have with this video (and its not the actual review.) Somewhere near the beginning, you state that people started liking Cars 2 and you question why. I'd like to state that opinions do exist. Sure, a whole article about it could be a tad bit weird, but if other people like it, that's completely fine! I know because I've seen videos of people reviewing films, and saying that its just their own opinion and Cars 2 ise'nt any different. People are fine to dislike or like anything like films, games, shows, merch, and more. I personally love Cars 2 and so do other people. You're fine to dislike it, but at least state that this is your own opinion. This is a really well made video otherwise though! Great job!