More Cars (Disney)! | 2011

It took a whole month after the movie Cars 2 premiered in the US to get here. Quite a while, and all attempts to sneak a peak had led to disappointment. And while the toys kept pouring in from all directions in all variations, all we could do was wait. 


It opened on the 22nd of August, yet, I never even bothered getting advanved screening tickets for it. Somehow, if you deprive someone of something for so long, you eventually lose your excitement over it. Still, it wasn't a movie that I was just going to let pass. Jakjak and I practically grew up on the first Cars movie (all that monologue might get us somewhere soon). At least I knew that there would not be as much people and kids watching, but what surprised me was that the movie theater was not even half full. They must have gone through the same feeling that I did. 


Excitedly, we went through the doors and I was surprised to see 3D glasses at the entrance. I was thinking "The ticket dude made a mistake and gave me tickets for the 3D movie! Cool!". However, what greeted us was a 3D movie of Final Destination! Jakjak froze and only then did I think to look at the movie ticket. It says "1". Mum led us to "2" because we were going to watch Cars 2. Makes sense.


We settled down to the correct theater with popcorn and soda on hand. One of the things I like doing is just watch trailers of upcoming movies, look for which ones might be good watch. That dolphin movie looks just about right. 


Jakjak surely enjoyed himself watching Cars 2. He likes Francesco. I liked it, but I missed everybody. It does not feel like Cars, except maybe for Mater. Everybody elses character feels a bit off. It's still a very good movie for what it is. While all the extra cast are a welcome sight (feels good to have that challenge of identifying the car's real life counterpart), I feel like there are just too many of them that you lose out on the others. Towards the end of the movie, it became a contest to identify the places where the Lightning and Mater went to as they travelled around the world. It was a good exercise for Jakjak doing that.

All in all, it did make an impression on him. He ended up playing with his old Cars die-casts when we got home. But it did not have the same effect that the first Cars movie had on us. That one, still rocks!