Finn McMissile: Finn McMissile, British intelligence.
Mater: Tow Mater, average intelligence.
This year, full of movie sequels, receives one of the most expected films, particularly to Pixar Fans: Cars 2 or as I say, Cars 1 meets James Bond.
Nor the first one or the second are on my pixarian top (Headed by the Toy Story trilogy , Finding Nemo and maybe a tie between The incredibles and Up). However, this studio standars are high. And with this I mean, that if you enjoyed meeting Lighting McQueen and Mater on 2006, this will not dissapoint you.
New characters are truly interesting, particularly, British secret agent Finn McMissile, with an Aston Martin-like look.
Another excellent adding, is Professor Z, based on the 1957 german Zündapp Janus, a microcar. While the Lighting is all happiness and shinning, the professor is a bitter, evil and… very slow car. Anyhow it's kind of cute.
Plot develops in a Grand Prix, and happens in some of the greatest cities ever: London, Paris, Tokyo and a fictional italian city, Porto Corsa (something similar to Monaco but in the italian riviera).
Entertaining from beginning to end, especially for the little ones, the true value of Cars 2 doesn't lie on the screenplay, but in the creative and technical advances Pixar has achieved.
Renderings* with never-seen quality. Cars have amazing looks, with several levels of reflexion and complex materials. Movements are more realistic than ever, and to top it off, cinematography is awesome! You can watch Toy Story and the go trough filmic history of 3D animation to comprehend the advance in the technics.
When you see wonderful Tokyo of Cars 2, you want to be there; then you see Porto Corsa and you wander why this beautiful city is not real. Lighting didn't have creative boundaries. To achieve this quality in computer animation, you need not only the personnel, but the high-level creativity and many, many hours of rendering. To show you a bit if the results, watch this video:
I believe that if Toy Story trilogy is the pixarian equivalent of Star Wars Saga (in therms of Collective consciousness and box office success); maybe Cars is the Fast and the Furious one, with predictable script but a lot of action, entertaining and outstanding visual effects.
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spanish version here
3 comments:
so funny this film...I liked
Nice enjoying it with you!
Para mi, "Cars" es la película más débil que tiene Pixar (y claro, como tu lo mencionaste, los estándares de Pixar son muuuuy altos, lo cual la hace una buena película... solo no tan buena como las otras). "Cars 2" me parece ser la 2da más débil (solo superada por "Cars"). Es muy divertida, pero no tiene la profundidad de una historia de Pixar.
No había notado los avances en los gráficos que mencionas, y al ver de nuevo el video que pusiste me sorprendí =o Creo que la costumbre de ver siempre buenos gráficos me ha des-sensibilizado un poco, pero sí es una excelente observación, y como mencionas, la película está excelentemente fotografíada y divertida. =)
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