Cars: A Lesson In Acting
Do cars have an ego?
Can cars be mean?
Can cars have an attitude?
Can cars smile, cry, laugh?
Can cars play pranks on other cars?
Can cars fall in love?
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Do cars have emotions?
If you have ever wondered the above things, then at the end of this masterpiece from Pixar, I am sure you will have the answers. And the answer to all these questions is “Yes”.
Cars is a movie about a young race car Lightning McQueen and his (yes, you read it right – HIS and not it’s!) realization of the meaning of life. It’s a movie about the transformation of a rookie champion from a vain car to a car who realizes that there’s more to life than winning. It’s a movie where the race car learns that there are times when you need to slow down to smell the roses.
It’s a movie in which all humans, animals and even insects have been replaced by cars. The movie kicks off with an awe-inspiring race sequence with detailed animation that has left no stone unturned. The rendering of the stadium and the surroundings, the details on the cars right up to the lug nuts is simply amazing! The details remain consistent throughout the movie through each frame which speaks volumes of the efforts put in to create this movie. The scenes with the desert and mountain landscapes make you wonder if it is real or animation.
But the show stealer in this movie is the portrayal of emotions on the cars that brings out the personality of each car. With the use of only eyes and lips, an entire array of emotions has been created that includes arrogance, compassion, disappointment, joy, happiness, sorrow, love, mischief and a lot more. Never once in the movie do you not understand the emotions of the cars. The cars have truly been brought to life!
An attempt had been made in the movie Final Fantasy to replace human actors with animated actors. But the only thing that movie managed to do was to create animated figures that looked exactly like humans but failed miserably in displaying the emotions. Maybe they should consult the Pixar folks for lessons in animating emotions!
My rating: A. This movie is a must see. It simply rocks in terms of dialogs and screenplay, animation, direction, sound and overall design. I have purposely left out any details of the story since it is something that you must watch unfold through the wonderfully created cars and their exploits.
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Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
- Did Cars do well? I thought I read not so great reviews about it. Though I’ll admit I’m not that big anymore on animation movies. The one I’ve enjoyed the best so far was the part animated part human movie = Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
It was a hit with the kids out here for sure (myself included!!). For some reason, people are not too keen on watching animation movies, but I am a major Pixar fan and I dragged along my friend to watch it
wow..nicely written…have been meaning to watch it but havent got the chance yet…
looks like it isn’t disappointing!
Chandni – Thanks. The movie surely isn’t disappointing and if you like animation, then you are in for a treat!
I saw cars a week back, its a good movie with some nice human touch to it. Its about a rookie car Lightning McQueen(Owen Wilson) trying to win Piston Championship. The story starts of with last race of the tournment where lightning McQueen is ahead of rest of the cars but due to an accident McQueen and rest of top 3 cars will finish almost with same timing. so the organizers decide to have one final race to decide the champion and this race will be held in california.
so lightning McQueen along with his crew will be going to California (here comes the twist) on his way to california McQueen gets lost and he finds himself in a small town called Radiator Springs in Carborator County. He will be charged with damaging roads and speeding and here will learn about winning,friends and other stuff in life.
Rest of the story is how this car will participate in final race.
The background score and detailed animation is highlight of the movie. Iam sure lot of people will like it.
My Rating: 7.25/10
PS: Some one help me out, I want to write my views on some of the movies that i see everyday. do i need to be a member of PFC or can any one write their views.