I'll admit it. That headline makes it seem like I was hoping that Pixar would fail. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. No other movie studio has produced such a string of hits for so long, movies that I've always liked and often loved.
My wife and I loved the original Cars. It was all the things that make Pixar great: charming, funny, smart, clever, and endearing. So it was with great anticipation that we went to Cars 2 Saturday evening. It was horrible. Take the opposite of all of those descriptive words above and then add boring. Don't bother.
One more thing: We went to the late showing to avoid children. You can't avoid children. There we were, in a theater in which the movie would not end until nearly 11 PM, surrounded by children. And not just older kids, many of these kids were four or five. And since their parents had already proven to be worthless, they went the full monty and loaded these kids up with soda to boot.
I fear for the species.
27 June 2011
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