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

Don't tell the kids, but Santa Claus isn't real and Pixar is fallible.

| Oct 7, 2011

It is all quite jolly and fast-paced, a feast for the eyes, but there's not much for the mind or the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2011

The invention here is often still dazzling, the race sequences are invigorating and spirited voice work atones for the inexpressiveness of the cars themselves. Even so, this isn't Pixar at top gear.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2011

Not much engine-power here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2011

So-so.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2011

Sweet turbo mother of fuel injections, what is this?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 21, 2011

Time, perhaps, for the franchise to be towed off to the scrapyard. Sorry, Pixar.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2011

It's not vintage Pixar, but Cars 2 is still streets ahead of most of the animated pack.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2011

A sequel that improves on the original, Cars 2 is sheer delight.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 5, 2011

Capturing the spirit of old Saturday Morning cartoons, most notably of the Hanna-Barbara variety, the movie it a witty adventure kids will adore and parents will get a pretty decent kick out of.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2011

It's an example of what a sequel should, or at least can, be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2011

Cars 2 is marginally better than its predecessor, but the same problem still remains: Cars just aren't very interesting as anthropomorphic animation vehicles (pun intended).

| Original Score: B- | Jun 24, 2011

This is one Pixar film where you really do feel the length as keenly as the merchandising push.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 24, 2011

...by Pixar's outrageous standards of Oscar shoo-in virtuosity, this sequel is a disappointment at best.

| Jun 24, 2011

I have such high regard for Pixar and its creative team, led by John Lasseter, that it actually hurts to knock one of their movies-something I've never done before. But then, I've never gotten a headache watching any of their previous films. Despite...

Full Review | Jun 24, 2011

Larry the Cable Guy has helped make Mater one of Pixar's sweetest creations. He just happens to reside in the studio's least-magical franchise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2011

Not that Cars 2 is an actively bad animated film. It's just sort of an average animated film.

| Original Score: C | Jun 24, 2011

Unlike most Pixar fare, this isn't a movie you can imagine many adults wanting to see without their children in tow.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 24, 2011

A work of disheartening anonymity … not only is Cars 2 mediocre, it doesn't even feel like mediocre Pixar.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 24, 2011