Carl's Movie Mini-Review: Cars
Cars
It's the summer of drift racing! First Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift, now Cars, though you wouldn't expect it until you see it. (And if you know racing/driving, you'll see it way before they get to that lesson.)
From the very beginning, I couldn't understand the use of the car allegory, but now I kinda do. But I still feel it's almost forced. Sure, it makes the story more interesting than if they just used boring ole humans, but what does that say about the strength of the story? Any quibbles I have aside, they use the car theme to its fullest. That feat in itself gets a big round of applause from me, and shows that it's not just tacked on. There's lots of car porn for the sharp-eyed and historically minded. There's a lot of love in this project.
The moral of the story is to respect those that came before you and don't leave the old ways to die. The story of the main character is just a vehicle (oy, a pun) to deliver to the audience that point and is otherwise inconsequential.
I saw the movie on a digital projector, and it was absolutely breath-taking. The only thing cartoony were the characters, but everything else looks so damned life-like. You could swear you were watching real-life claymation. But better than Aardman's Chevron commercials.
That said, this is almost guaranteedl to be an ugly DVD. There are so many dynamic scenes of the enormous crowds speck-sized characters at the raceways that I was imagining the compression headache it will be to squeeze it onto a disc. This is absolutely the first movie I know will only be worth watching on the new HD disc format, either HD-DVD or Blu-ray, whichever Buena Vista winds up supporting.
The real story is hidden behind a pretty lackluster and cliched by-the-books "facade-story" but the absolute charm of its questionable theming makes this movie impossible to not enjoy. Highly recommended. And highly-recommended to catch a digital showing. And as always, stay through the credits.
Did that teaser trailer really say 2007? That's not long enough! Holy shit, I'm scared for the production team. They've already shown a teaser the next Pixar film "Ratatouille" which seems to be a rat who craves to eat gourmet French food instead of garbage. In so many words. This teaser and the short film "One Man Band" which preceeded the feature show incredible strides in capturing the nuance of not only facial but also body expression.
It's the summer of drift racing! First Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift, now Cars, though you wouldn't expect it until you see it. (And if you know racing/driving, you'll see it way before they get to that lesson.)
From the very beginning, I couldn't understand the use of the car allegory, but now I kinda do. But I still feel it's almost forced. Sure, it makes the story more interesting than if they just used boring ole humans, but what does that say about the strength of the story? Any quibbles I have aside, they use the car theme to its fullest. That feat in itself gets a big round of applause from me, and shows that it's not just tacked on. There's lots of car porn for the sharp-eyed and historically minded. There's a lot of love in this project.
The moral of the story is to respect those that came before you and don't leave the old ways to die. The story of the main character is just a vehicle (oy, a pun) to deliver to the audience that point and is otherwise inconsequential.
I saw the movie on a digital projector, and it was absolutely breath-taking. The only thing cartoony were the characters, but everything else looks so damned life-like. You could swear you were watching real-life claymation. But better than Aardman's Chevron commercials.
That said, this is almost guaranteedl to be an ugly DVD. There are so many dynamic scenes of the enormous crowds speck-sized characters at the raceways that I was imagining the compression headache it will be to squeeze it onto a disc. This is absolutely the first movie I know will only be worth watching on the new HD disc format, either HD-DVD or Blu-ray, whichever Buena Vista winds up supporting.
The real story is hidden behind a pretty lackluster and cliched by-the-books "facade-story" but the absolute charm of its questionable theming makes this movie impossible to not enjoy. Highly recommended. And highly-recommended to catch a digital showing. And as always, stay through the credits.
Did that teaser trailer really say 2007? That's not long enough! Holy shit, I'm scared for the production team. They've already shown a teaser the next Pixar film "Ratatouille" which seems to be a rat who craves to eat gourmet French food instead of garbage. In so many words. This teaser and the short film "One Man Band" which preceeded the feature show incredible strides in capturing the nuance of not only facial but also body expression.