Tow Mother (Larry Cable Guy) can’t wait for her pal Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) to return to his hometown, Radiator Springs. Mother’s best friends play with fun activities all summer long. However, when Lightning enters a unique series of global nations, their plans will be taken as the new plans of the group make their way.
Leaving the Radiator Springs, the first Mother trembles as she leaves the ancients; who, that they might be a charming house, blushed before the lightning race cars. In the end, however, the fish out of water was thrown out of the intrigue for the real thing, Hitchcock’s spy story, in which an innocent Mother is mistaken for British American super-spies, Finn MacMissile (Michael Caine) and Holly. Shiftwell (
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According to the British, some super-criminal is trying to destroy the market with a new type of alternative fuel that was used in the lightning race, and so the bad guys are Nisl in the race cars. It will be the mother and the Brit car spies to stop them.
Under normal circumstances, outside the world of “Cars,” I’m not the Larry Cable Guy; I find his redneck shtick grating. However, in the role of Mother, Larry is truly amazing. Larry found a note in Mother’s voice that was pitch perfect. Loud and sincere, with a good meaning of hope and when hurt, a mother’s voice takes on a childlike innocence, truly pregnant.
That’s Funny Right There
Oh, and a pretty funny mother too. A scene in a men’s room in Tokyo running a course that could be destructive about bathroom humor takes place honestly ; cruelly funny for the clever Larry/Mother/Mother’s odd, ‘behavior’ of this bathroom we’ll call the most alien.
Is “Cars 2” as good as the original “Cars?” No, the sequel lacks the grace of the original characters, mainly due to the lack of the authoritative voice of Paul Newman as Doc. Hudson. That said, “Cars 2” thanks to the Mother has charms and a really fun detective homage that runs the gamut from Austin Powers to Hitchcock (a mistaken identity, a staple of Curls) of course to James Bond.
Too many ‘Car’ Chases?
The plot lacks depth but it makes up for it by being exciting, if a tad repetitive. It sounds ridiculous to say that “Cars 2” chases a few to many cars, but actually there is an excess of something in the number of cars that chase themselves several times through the strange streets of Tokyo, Rome and London.
“Cars 2” may not be counted among Pixar’s greats, and it certainly doesn’t have the luster of the original, but it has enough fun and adventure that I recommend it to anyone who listens. The kids will love it and mom and dad won’t be bored. Time shows a certain way in the theater; “Cars 2” is preceded by a “Toy Story” short film called “Hawaiian Vacation” that revolves around funny movies. The “Toy Story” band would be worth the ticket price alone to see “Cars 2,” up to the 3D price.
