Movie: Cars (by Pixar) [Merged]

[ckj289]

Astig to movie na ito... I watched it today with my wife and 2 kids 5 yr. old and 2 yrs. Medyo likot lang ni bunso pero solved talaga ito.... Highly recommended...:cool:

[mazdamazda]

what a great movie...

it's a shame that the CARS shirt that they are selling are for kids only!!! hmp!

[chieffy]

ang ganda ng movie na ito ...kasama pa si jay leno at arnold he he...astig si Guido sa bilis magpalit ng tires he he...sa Waltermart kami nanood kahapon...ang luwag pati parking....

[1D4LV]

ganda sya. may mga morals na pwedeng ma-pickup ng bata maski matatanda.

[bajumbo]

Hirap naman maghanap ng Lightning Mcqueen na toy sa Happy meal...

[kimpOy]

great movie!!! gret story plus the fact they give homage to some nascar's icon like

"The King"'s (a plymouth superbird) voice was Richard Petty the nascar champ who drove the same car in the 70s


and this one the fabuloso doc

[BlueBimmer]

yehey buti nakakuha pa ako ng Mcqueen and Sally sa happy meal bago naubos hehe

high ratings * imdb - 7.8/10!

[ozcity]

hirap hanapin ni lightning...lagi out of stock sa mcdo..

so far eto pa lang nabili ko...

[wren]

great movie!!! gret story plus the fact they give homage to some nascar's icon...

it's also a great homage to route 66...someday, i'll make that trip.

[NazQ]

ganda!! sobrang nakakatawa yung clips sa huli..
daming cameos - dale earnhardt jr, andretti, pati si schumacher...

[NazQ]

double post. sorry

[theveed]

Sakin eto lang... (mini review), my goodness, I'm no movie buff but I love CGI Pixar films, and eto masasabi ko.

Overall, I love the movie...

But...

It's not really a kid's movie, there are way too many lines and instances where a kid will have no idea what the cars are talking about... They won't know who Andretti is, or Shumi, or statements made by Ali... They won't know who Leno is etc etc.

It's also a bit too long...

The story is way too shallow, compare it to Finding Nemo, you already know how the movie will progress from the first minute... Typical Disney "selfish hotshot turns into a caring character" deal... There's nothing to hope for in the storyline.

Unlike Finding Nemo, you'll be wondering what perils they'll face next, or how they'll end up in a dry-land dentist's office... Eto wala, you just KNOW that he's lost, he'll be found, he'll choose friends over fame. Period.

The post-movie clips were hilarious though.

Mater saved the whole movie IMO, all the other characters are too shallow (lack of "character")...

The graphics are, as usual, phenomenal, especially the scenes where they show the crowded cars in the stadium and when they were just driving along Route66 and the canyons.

Actually, first movie where my son fell asleep before it ended... He's seen Polar Express, Ice Age 2, Chicken Little, Madagascar, Over the Hedge among others and eto naantok sya. (He's 2 btw), his 7 year-old neice fell asleep as well... We were watching the 1130AM show btw.

I think a lot of kids were disappointed during the show as well, compared to the other movies I mentioned, kids laugh a lot during the outtakes, sa Cars, only adults were amused due to the lines and jokes used.

Pixar failed to induce facial and body languages to make their movements/dialogues funny as well.

Maybe it's harder to give cars characters than fishes.

I have to say Nemo and Incredibles still tops Cars with regards to "classic" value...

(BTW, I CAN'T FIND MCDONALD'S LIGHTNING MCQUEEN hehe, have all the others na.)

[BlueBimmer]

hehe baliktad tayo, i have lightning mcqueen but dont wanna look for the others na too lazy :D

[BlueBimmer]

sayang no ricer toys, i was surprised ricers/ricerockets were included in the movie hehe

[BlueBimmer]

also sayang walang schumacher toy sa happy meal, ganda pa naman f430 hehe

[ts1n1ta]

KachoW!!

[BlueBimmer]

"CARS" was a very personal story for John Lasseter. As a boy growing up in Whittier, California, he loved to visit the Chevrolet dealership where his father was a parts department manager, and got a part-time job there as a stock boy as soon as he turned 16.

According to Lasseter, "I have always loved cars. In one vein, I have Disney blood, and in the other, there's motor oil. The notion of combining these two great passions in my life - cars and animation - was irresistible. When Joe (Ranft) and I first started talking about this film in 1998, we knew we wanted to do something with cars as characters. Around that same time, we watched a documentary called 'Divided Highways,' which dealt with the interstate highway and how it affected the small towns along the way. We were so moved by it and began thinking about what it must have been like in these small towns that got bypassed. That's when we started really researching Route 66, but we still hadn't quite figured out what the story for the film was going to be. I used to travel that highway with my family as a child when we visited our family in St. Louis."

It was at this point that Lasseter's wife, Nancy, persuaded him to take a much-needed vacation, during the summer of 2001. Lasseter recalls, "Nancy said to me that if I didn't slow down and start paying attention to the family, the kids would be going off to college before I knew it and I would be missing a huge part of our family life. And she was right!"

The entire family packed up a motor home, and set out on a two-month trip with the goal of staying off the interstate highways, and dipping their toes in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. "Everybody thought we would be at each others throats the whole time," adds Lasseter, "but it was the exact opposite. When I came back from the trip, I was closer to my family than ever and I reattached to what was important in life. And I suddenly realized that I knew what the film needed to be about. I discovered that the journey in life is the reward. It's great to achieve things, but when you do you want to have your family and friends around to help celebrate. Joe loved the idea and our story really took off from there. Our lead car, Lightning McQueen, is focused on being the fastest. He doesn't care about anything except winning the championship. He was the perfect character to be forced to slow down, the way I had on my motor home trip. For the first time in my professional career I had slowed down, and it was amazing. The unique thing about Pixar films is that the stories come from our hearts. They come from things that are personal to us, and that move us. This gives special emotion and meaning to the films."

In 2001, Lasseter, Ranft, producer Darla Anderson, production designers Bob Pauley and Bill Cone, along with other key members of the production team flew to Oklahoma City and headed out from there in a caravan of four white Cadillacs on a nine-day trip along Route 66. Historian/author Michael Wallis led the expedition, and introduced them to the people and places that make that road so very special.

At each stop along the way, the team observed firsthand the "patina" of the towns, and tried to capture the richness of textures and colors. Painted advertisements on the sides of buildings, weathered and overlaid, were of particular interest. Careful studies were made of rock and cloud formations, and the variety of vegetation along the way.

Wallis notes, "Every road has a look based on where the road goes. It reflects the territory on both shoulders. The look of Route 66 is everything from the licorice colored soil of Illinois in the land of Lincoln, to the desert sands of the Mojave. It's the all-American look."

"On our research trip, we went to the cafes and mom-and-pop shops, and motels along the way. We talked to hitchhikers, cowboys, waitresses and mechanics. We met a lot of interesting characters along the way. If you're a real road warrior and you know the old highway, you will be pleased, because the film is going to remind you of places and people you might know on the Mother Road."

Out on the Texas Panhandle, just west of Amarillo, is an unusual site named Cadillac Ranch, where an eccentric Texan commissioned three artists collectively known as "Ant Farm" to create site-specific art work on his ranch. They buried a row of Cadillacs as a monument to the rise and fall of the tailfin, and Pixar has paid homage to that landmark in 'CARS.'"

[sarahbaby]

sobrang laugh trip kami ni russpogi dito! pati mga insekto mukhang kotse din! hehehe!



Lightning McQueen at Glorietta 4 (Russpogi look alike!hehehe! )

[KoKoNAT]

v. nice movie. gonna buy the dvd once it hits the market...

[GlennSter]

watched it earlier...maganda naman..

but i have to agree with theveed..i still find finding nemo better.

anyone remember AN AMERICAN TALE and LAND BEFORE TIME?grabe yun iyak ako hanggang ngayon pag pinapanood ko..hehehe