Cars 2 [DVD] [2011]

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However, at the end of the film when the ra Meanwhile, Redline is captured and killed by Zündapp, who reveals that Allinol ignites when hit with an EMP. In a scene that never went beyond storyboarding, Lightning and Sally went to see a movie about a British spy car named "Finn McMissile". Although Leonard Maltin on IndieWire claimed that he had "such high regard for Pixar and its creative team led by John Lasseter" he said he found the plot "confusing" and felt that Mater's voice was annoying, saying that he'd "rather listen to chalk on a blackboard than spend nearly two hours with Tow Mater. While his weapons get confiscated, he keeps the rockets and speeds off with Lightning, just as Siddeley speeds into the distance.

Life-sized remote-controlled models of Lightning McQueen, Mater, and Finn McMissile were created for Cars 2 as part of the “Agents on a Mission” tour, presented by State Farm, to promote the film. The 1-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack versions include the shorts "Air Mater" and "Hawaiian Vacation", plus "Director John Lasseter Commentary. While looking at spy films, story supervisor Nathan Stanton payed particular attention to how car chases are shot.In 2009, Disney registered several domain names, hinting to audiences that the title and theme of the film would be in relation to a "World Grand Prix". Cars 2 is also the first time that Michael Giacchino had done the scoring of a Pixar movie franchise that was previously done by Newman, and it was the only time he did so until Lightyear in 2022 (Almost 11 years later). Its Blu-ray share of home media was 47 percent, indicating an unexpectedly major shift of sales from DVD to Blu-ray. The jungle from which Miles Axlerod emerges during the clip on the Mel Dorado show is a carbon copy of the same style from Up.

By suggestion of Lightning's girlfriend Sally Carrera, Mater travels with him to Tokyo, Japan to the first race of the Grand Prix. Its mixed critical reception was also raised over the G rating, with rumors that it should have instead been rated PG in relation to its violence and rude humor. The original Cars was not greeted with exceptional warmth," said The New York Times, "but the sequel generated Pixar's first truly negative response. A central current of the negative reviews was the theory that Cars 2 was forced out of Pixar by its corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, out of greed to drive merchandising sales.Justin Chang of Variety commented, “The rare sequel that not only improves on but retroactively justifies its predecessor. Critics generally criticized the focus on Mater and felt the film lacked warmth and charm, while also feeling the film was made as an exercise in target marketing and was too violent to be given a G rating. Finn is shortly discovered, and is forced to escape without getting enough info about the Professor's schemes. After discovering Turbo's death, Finn's presence gets exposed to the lemons, and he escapes by faking his death. Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell find that the agents are coming after Mater, and manage to have him flee to the streets by hacking the transmitter he is using to pass instructions to Lightning, which ends up having Lightning surrendering the lead to Francesco by mistake.

Considering the low reviews given to the Pixar production, critic Kyle Smith of the New York Post said, " They said it couldn't be done. At the end of the movie, Finn McMissile tells Mater that if he needs anything, just ask, and Mater says that there is one thing. With most cars out of the race due to the explosions, Lightning and Francesco end up in first and second respectively. It is the lowest-rated Pixar film on the site to date and the only one to earn a "rotten" certification. Overall, Cars 2 became seventh biggest Pixar film in terms of worldwide box office among fourteen released, making it the highest-grossing film in the Franchise.This was the final Pixar film to be directed by John Lasseter before his departure from Pixar and Disney animation at the end of 2018. In November 2010, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs, Joe Mantegna, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, and Thomas Kretschmann were confirmed as the voice talent featured in the film. Still mistaking him for a secret agent, Finn and Holley ask Mater to help them thwart Zündapp's plans. When McQueen says that he will still use Allinol in the final race in London, he mentions about Mater, which Mater had his eyelids pointing up.