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Cars 2 in 3D is a Bolder, Brighter but Not Better Refit

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For the consequence Disney and Pixar have wisely attempted to keep the first of those mistakes by making the story international and throwing in references to car races that are prearranged far more value outside the US than those for which Lightning McQueen is supposedly incredible famous. They also took the ethos of the first film and essentially turned it on its loaf. In the result the message is more superficial (real friends are passive to become scrap metal to save each other), the story is even more boy-oriented than the first coat’s and the innocence of backwater Radiator Springs is replaced with a universal espionage adventure featuring guns, explosions, torture and Mater in a women’s dressing.

Speaking of Mater, this is really his film. Lightning McQueen is the discuss with why the old rust bucket gets to globetrot as part of the Out of sight Grand Prix but it’s Mater that gets off for an international spy and thereby falls into most of the dangerous stuff. The d is entertaining, action-packed and energetic silliness. Parents sensitive about violence might wish to for oneself it for when their smallest children get older (I didn’t and mine seemed to take advantage of it), but everyone else should get a kick out of it even if it isn’t up to the standards set by Woody and Sensation. At at least the writers can’t be accused of dredging from the same river twice.

Source: CINEMASPY.COM

Mattel opens Disney-Pixar 'Cars' exhibit at Petersen Automotive Museum

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 On Nov. 12, Mattel opened a new Disney-Pixar “Cars” disclose at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles for a six-month run. Called “From Greyish-white Screen to Die-Cast: Disney-Pixar Cars Imagined by Mattel,” The offer traces the history of Mattel’s “Cars” die-players collection.

Since the release of Disney-Pixar’s “Cars” in 2006, Mattel has produced more than 200 million die-hurl “Cars” vehicles, featuring more than 500 together designs. The special exhibit, part of Petersen Automotive Museum’s “Hollywood Gallery” offers a encompassing collection at these die-cast vehicles. It offers die-indefatigable “Cars” fans a look at precious and never-before-seen movie characters and provides a retelling of Mattel’s toy line.

During Saturday’s foot in the door, international auction house Bonhams sold a slice of the exhibit as part of its Classic California Sale, an auction that included prestige cars and motorcycles. The piece, a one-of-a-kind “Cars” die-pitch Piston Cup Race scene, featured clap-built, plastic prototypes of never produced in die-pick character cheering on their favorite racer Lightning McQueen, as he races against Chick Hicks, and Stripe "The King" Weathers.

Source: Examiner.com