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seltzerlizard asked: Re: Cars 2 : I haven't seen it, don't plan to. I just didn't connect with Cars. It seemed like a John-Lasseter-really-likes-cars film. No great story, characters, and even the art was sort of disappointing. I mean, the movie was well executed, but the background mesas were sort of vaguely carlike, but not really. They struck me as the sort of backgrounds that wouldn't have made the cut on an old Warner Bros cartoon. I thought the entire story was too slight, too predictable, and overall it--

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just sort of lacked the sense of Fun that Pixar has always had. The only other film I haven’t seen is Toy Story 3 and that’s only because I want to see it with my wife. Being two working parents, it’s sometimes difficult to get a stay home movie night, but I look forward to it. Pixar usually rules. Cars 2 just holds no interest.

Agreed - although I enjoyed the carlike mesas and thought overall that the technical aspects of both movies were brilliant, just not in the service of a story or characters I cared much about.

But here’s a suggestion about Toy Story 3: watch it by yourself first. You’ll feel more freedom to weep like a baby during the third act and maybe get it out of your system for the second time when you watch it with the missus.

Just kidding. If I had a nickel for every time the wife tolerated my anguished tears!