It’s a deceptively simple film that plays with more profundity as you get older and appreciate its themes more.

| Mar 1, 2024

This is a very good piece of animation, but given the source, it’s not unreasonable to expect better.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2023

No pun intended, but Cars is a prominent example of a middle-of-the-road animated feature.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 10, 2023

The film's two-hour length is unbearable for an animated feature.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 15, 2020

An absolute wonder that... gives us almost two hours of great cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

Children will love the Toy Story-like simplicity, but adults will appreciate the humor aimed right in their direction.

| Original Score: B | Nov 19, 2019

The movie's Route 66 mythology, coupled with the presence of Paul Newman in what would turn out to be his final theatrical feature, lends it a nostalgic, bittersweet tinge.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2019

Its simple elegy for a once-buzzing small town bypassed by an interstate and forgotten by time is a poignant tribute to small towns everywhere.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Overall [I] enjoyed it.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 21, 2019

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get a ticket for doing 70 in a 45-mile-an-hour zone. It's that kind of a movie, and the real feel of the racing footage is absolutely spectacular.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 5, 2018

'Cars' has energy and heart-two things that 'Robots' lacked.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 23, 2013

Cars is a nice homily to small town life and remembering the past - which definitely has its charms - and call for remembering our roots, but it's been done better elsewhere.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 10, 2011

Pixar's latest visual stunner with a heart of gold honors our obsession with the automobile. Although it will make many nostalgic for the open road, especially the historic Route 66, the kids might get a little bored with this one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2009

Pixar's grown so metallic that having automobiles for animated characters becomes disturbingly apt

| Aug 30, 2009

Although the plot coasts along a predictable path, the verbal jokes and sight gags rev things up along the way, making the film enjoyable almost from start to finish.

| Jun 6, 2009

I've never seen a Pixar film so void of magic, and originality before...

| Apr 29, 2009

Owen Wilson's infectious good-natured energy permeates Pixar's light-hearted animated movie about "Lightning McQueen" a rookie competition race car that discovers there's more to life than winning races.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 23, 2009

This noisy animated paean to NASCAR and Route 66 gets mired in the middle laps on a grippy track.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

Cars is Pixar's most improbable success to date, a film that could easily have misfired, but somehow does not.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 29, 2008

Here it is, another masterpiece from director John Lasseter and his fellow geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios, once again raising the bar out of reach of everyone but themselves.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2008