Cars 2

Cars 2 picks up pretty much where the 2006 hit left off, with Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) at the top of the racing circuit while his best friend Mater (voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) stays back in Radiator Springs thinking up ways for them to have fun together when the race season is over. A challenge to take part in a global rally designed to prove that a new fuel alternative is just as good as gasoline puts their plans on the back burner and Lightning and Mater head off on an adventure that soon has them joining a British spy car (voiced by Michael Caine) to stop a mysterious bad guy from taking over the world. If you strip away the fact that the story is being told by animated cars with eyes where their windshield should be talking though their bumpers, the plot to Cars 2 is a reheated rehash of spy movie clichés dumbed down for kids. So to keep the audience interested enough to ignore the obvious plot points of the story, co-directors John Lasseter and Brad Lewis fill the screen with eye-popping images, from the neon lights of Tokyo to a photo-realistic re-imagining of London.