Disney and Pixar are famous for quality children films the like of Toy story, Monsters Inc and Ratatouille. Present with the same great quality is the film "CARS".
Having a toddler means I have had the opportunity to watch this film like a million times so I feel I can adequately give it a review, hopefully with having the flashbacks return.
Cars main character is Lightening McQueen. A fast red race car who is in his rookie year on the racing circuit. He is in a 3 way tie for taking out the championship - this is his life - racing, being the fastest, being the best. He is egotistical, having fired 3 crew chiefs because he knows he is the best and need no advice from anyone else. His sole aim is to win the piston cup and win a sweet deal with Dinico - the current sponsors of long time champion strip weathers (Blue color) who is about to retire from racing. Lightening's ego gets the better of him in the final race and he fails to pit, leading the race by almost a lap his tires blow and he ends up in a 3 way tie with Weathers, and his arch rival Chick Hicks (A green race car who will do anything to win). This necessitates a race-off in California between the 3. In his typical way McQueen gets his Mack to drive all night.
This is where the fun begins - McQueen falls out and ends up in Radiator Springs - the middle of no where and is sentenced to repairing the road. Here is meets the lovely Sally, the Funny - Mater - a tow truck and Hudson Hornet (secretly a 3 times piston cup winner himself). Along with those main characters are a bunch of other "looney's" a Italian tire salesman and off sider, sheriff, Big Red (a firetruck), a retired soldier and a hippy van.
McQueen learns that life is more than just himself and picks up some racing tips from the Hudson Hornet, as well as important life lessons. Lightening fixes up not only the road, but also all the fluro lightening so the town appears as it was in its heyday - in the 50's and 60's before the superhighway bypassed route 66 - the mother road.
The story has deeper overtones for adults about America and where it came from and where it is going and harks back to simpler happier time, with less complexities. I won't spoil the final race for you, but the end of the film ends up with a reinvigorated Radiator Springs with a new museum, new race headquarters, and more visitors.
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