It’s not awful, but it just felt so perfunctory to the point of apathy.

| Mar 1, 2024

It may not live up to the usual sophistication associated with the animation studio, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2023

It's all the delight of a spy movie, but with the added fact of Oh right, they're all cars!

| Mar 1, 2021

This sequel wisely alters course - in the most extreme direction imaginable - to spoof spy thrillers.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

The problem with Cars 2 isn't that it's a bad film. It's that it's not a Pixar film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Start your engines! You're in for the adventure of your life with Cars 2.

| Nov 16, 2019

Yes, the movie has some weak spots. A little long, a little light on story, and, gratefully, heavy on visuals...but I say, with Pixar, do we always need missing parents and tearjerking, with tissues always an arm's reach away?

| Jul 26, 2019

I defy anyone to tell me with a straight face that this is anywhere near as awful as 2011's other family hits, Zookeeper and Mr. Popper's Penguins. Case closed.

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

The trouble with stuffing too much into a film quickly becomes evident in Cars 2, as the plotlines tumble and collide with each other creating, mostly, cacophony.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2019

The animation... alone is good enough for it worth a watch.

| Original Score: C | Feb 21, 2019

There's a fine line between being healthily assertive in joining the conversation and being rude, however unintentionally. Mater is on the wrong side of that line, which gives Cars 2 a bit of a strange message.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 13, 2019

There's much to look at, but little to follow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Cars 2 suffers from a charmless and immoderately talky storyline that hikes up the thrills but forgets the widespread appeal of its far superior contemporaries.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2018

The animation whizzes at Pixar shift from weightier fare to madcap action in "Cars 2," a zippy, multitrack adventure custom built for gearheads, racing fans and little boys.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2018

If you're interested in seeing wonderful landscapes created by the magic of digital animation and some of the most colorful characters never created in the automotive industry world, this is just the movie for you... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2018

The problems start and end with the uninspired, witless and convoluted script.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 26, 2018

To its credit, Cars 2, despite its over-busy plot and constant action, certainly isn't, well, on automatic. But the secret agent schemes do get confusing.

| Aug 25, 2017

A fairly disastrous sequel...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2015

Undoubtedly flawed, this animated film is still (barely) worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

Minor Pixar, but it would be a major film were it made by just about anyone else. I, for one, will not get greedy.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2013