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Cars (film)

January 01, 1970

This article is about the 2006 Pixar film. For the franchise that started with this film, see Cars (franchise).

Cars is a 2006 American animated sports comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Joe Ranft, produced by Darla K. Anderson, written by Lasseter, Ranft, Dan Fogelman, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, and Jorgen Klubien based on a story by Lasseter, Ranft, and Klubien, and stars an ensemble voice cast of Owen Wilson, Paul Newman (in his final voice acting theatrical film role), Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Michael Wallis, George Carlin, Paul Dooley, Jenifer Lewis, Guido Quaroni, Michael Keaton, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger and Richard Petty, while race car drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. (as "Junior"), Mario Andretti, Michael Schumacher and car enthusiast Jay Leno (as "Jay Limo") voice themselves.

Cars
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Lasseter
Screenplay by
Story by
  • John Lasseter
  • Joe Ranft
  • Jorgen Klubien
Produced byDarla K. Anderson
Starring
Cinematography
  • Jeremy Lasky
  • Jean Claude Kalache
Edited byKen Schretzmann
Music byRandy Newman
Production
companies
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release dates
Running time
117 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$120 million[1]
Box office$462 million[1]

Cars is set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic vehicles. The film follows a selfish and arrogant young racecar named Lightning McQueen who, on the way to the most important race of his life, becomes stranded in a forgotten town along U.S. Route 66 called Radiator Springs, where he learns about friendship and begins to reevaluate his priorities.

Development for Cars started in 1998, after finishing the production of A Bug's Life, with a new script titled The Yellow Car, which was about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world with Klubien writing. It was announced that the producers agreed that it could be the next Pixar film after A Bug's Life, scheduled for a 1999 release, particularly around June 4; the idea was later scrapped in favor of Toy Story 2. Shortly after, production was resumed with major script changes. The film was inspired by Lasseter's experiences on a cross-country road trip. Randy Newman composed the film's score, while artists such as Sheryl Crow, Rascal Flatts, John Mayer and Brad Paisley contributed to the film's soundtrack. Cars ultimately served as the final film independently produced by Pixar after its purchase by Disney in January 2006.

Cars premiered on May 26, 2006, at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina and was theatrically released in the United States on June 9, to generally positive reviews and commercial success, grossing $462 million worldwide against a budget of $120 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2006. The film received two nominations at the 79th Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature, but lost to Happy Feet (but won both the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film). The film was released on DVD on November 7, 2006, on VHS in limited quantities on February 19, 2007, and on Blu-ray on November 6, 2007. The film was accompanied by the short One Man Band for its theatrical and home media releases. The film was dedicated to Ranft, who died in a car crash during the film's production.

The success of Cars launched a multimedia franchise and a series of two sequels produced by Pixar and two spin-offs produced by Disneytoon Studios, starting with Cars 2 (2011).

Plot

In a world populated by anthropomorphic vehicles, the Dinoco 400 race marks the conclusion of the Piston Cup season. The event intensifies a rivalry between the retiring seven-time champion, Strip "The King" Weathers, the cunning Chick Hicks, and the talented but arrogant rookie, Lightning McQueen. Struggling with teamwork due to his self-centered attitude, Lightning is desperate to win the Piston Cup and gain sponsorship from the prestigious Dinoco team. He resents his current "small-time" sponsor, Rust-Eze Bumper Ointment, and the "rusty old cars" who use it. During the high-stakes race, Lightning avoids a major collision instigated by Chick but loses the lead by refusing to take a pit stop, causing his rear tires to blow out on the final lap. The race ends in a three-way tie, setting the stage for a decisive tiebreaker race at the Los Angeles International Speedway in one week.

After the race, Lightning rushes through the night on Interstate 40 to reach California inside his transport truck, Mack. A group of delinquent teenage tuner cars causes Mack to fall asleep and push him onto the rumble strips on the interstate shoulder, with an ensuing mishap leading to Lightning being stranded alone in the rundown desert town of Radiator Springs, where he inadvertently damages the main road. Lightning is sentenced to a community service assignment: repaving the road under the supervision of the town's judge Doc Hudson, a Hudson Hornet who is prejudiced against Lightning for being a race car.

Lightning shoddily repaves the road in a rush to leave, so Doc challenges him to a race. If he wins, he can leave, but otherwise, he will start over from scratch. The overconfident Lightning, having never raced on a dirt track before, spins out on an unbanked turn and crashes, forcing him to pave the road again. Over time, Lightning warms up to the town and befriends its residents, especially Mater, a rusty tow truck, and Sally, a Porsche 911 who dreams of reviving Radiator Springs. As he bonds with the locals, Lightning discovers the town was once a bustling attraction for drivers on Route 66 before the construction of the interstate caused them to lose all of their business traffic. Lightning also discovers that the bitter Doc, reticent about his past, used to race as the legendary "Fabulous Hudson Hornet" until a disastrous wreck ended his career. Lightning is dumbfounded that Doc considers his three Piston Cups worthless.

Lightning finishes repaving the road and decides to stay in Radiator Springs and help the local businesses. He buys tires from Luigi's store, gets a new paint job from Ramone, tries Filmore's organic fuel, and wears Sarge's military gear. However, Doc alerts the media to Lightning's location, leading them and Mack to descend on the town to retrieve him. Doc immediately regrets his decision after Lightning's departure leaves the residents disheartened.

At the race, Lightning initially struggles and contemplates quitting, but is buoyed by the sudden arrival of his friends from Radiator Springs, who come to his aid in the pit. With Doc now acting as his crew chief, Lightning stages a remarkable comeback and takes the lead. As Lightning closes in on the finish line, Chick employs a PIT maneuver that intentionally wrecks The King, rendering him unable to continue. Reminded of Doc's career-ending wreck, Lightning screeches to a halt just before the finish line and allows Chick to win the Piston Cup while ensuring The King finishes the race in second by pushing him forward.

The fans and media furiously condemn Chick's Piston Cup victory while praising Lightning's integrity and sportsmanship. Although offered a Dinoco sponsorship, Lightning decides to remain with Rust-eze. Returning to Radiator Springs, he reunites with Sally, Mater, and the other cars and declares his intention to establish his racing headquarters there, revitalizing the town and officially putting it back on the map, as well as training under Doc's mentorship.

Voice cast

See also: List of Cars characters

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Dave Foley and John Ratzenberger reprise their vocal roles from previous Pixar films during an end-credits sequence featuring automobile spoofs of Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and A Bug's Life.[6] Cars was the final Pixar film worked on by Joe Ranft who died in a crash a year before the film's release, aged 45.[7] The film was the second to be dedicated to his memory, after Corpse Bride. The memorial showed the roles he had done in the other films directed by John Lasseter during the credits.[8] This is also the last (non-documentary) movie for Paul Newman before his retirement in 2007 and his death in 2008.[9] It turned out to be the highest-grossing film of his career.[9]

Production

Development

 
Writer and director John Lasseter in 2009

The development of Cars began in 1998, when Pixar finished production of A Bug's Life. At that time, Jorgen Klubien began writing a new script called The Yellow Car, which was about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world inspired by The Ugly Duckling, an idea triggered by the poor reception his fellow countrymen gave the Mini-El car.[10] Some of the original drawings and characters were developed in 1998 and the producers agreed that Cars could be the next Pixar film after A Bug's Life and be released in early 1999, particularly around June 4.[10] However, the idea was scrapped in favor of Toy Story 2.[10] Later, production resumed with major script changes, like giving Mater, Doc and a few other characters bigger parts.[10]

John Lasseter said that inspiration for the film's story came after he took a cross-country road trip with his wife and five sons in 2000.[11] When he returned to the studio after vacation, he contacted Michael Wallis, a Route 66 historian. Wallis then led eleven Pixar animators in rented white Cadillacs on two different road trips across the route to research the film.[12][13][14] In 2001, the film's working title was Route 66 (after U.S. Route 66), but the title was changed to Cars in order to avoid confusion with the 1960s television series of the same name.[15] In addition, Lightning McQueen's racing number was originally going to be 57 (a reference to 1957, Lasseter's birth year), but was changed to 95 (a reference to 1995, the year Pixar's first feature film Toy Story was released).[15]

In 2006, Lasseter spoke about the inspiration for the film, saying: "I have always loved cars. In one vein, I have Disney blood, and in the other, there's motor oil. The notion of combining these two great passions in my life—cars and animation—was irresistible. When Joe (Ranft) and I first started talking about this film in 1998, we knew we wanted to do something with cars as characters. Around that same time, we watched a documentary called 'Divided Highways,' which dealt with the interstate highway and how it affected the small towns along the way. We were so moved by it and began thinking about what it must have been like in these small towns that got bypassed. That's when we started really researching Route 66, but we still hadn't quite figured out what the story for the film was going to be. I used to travel that highway with my family as a child when we visited our family in St. Louis."[11]

Years later in 2013, Klubien said the film was both his best and most bitter experience because he was fired before it premiered and because he feels Lasseter wrote him out of the story of how the film got made.[16]

Animation

 
A rendered frame from the development of the film

For the cars themselves, Lasseter also visited the design studios of the Big Three Detroit automakers, particularly J Mays of Ford Motor Company.[11] Lasseter learned how real cars were designed.[11]

In 2006, Lasseter spoke about how they worked hard to make the animation believable, saying: "It took many months of trial and error, and practicing test animation, to figure out how each car moves and how their world works. Our supervising animators, Doug Sweetland and Scott Clark, and the directing animators, Bobby Podesta and James Ford Murphy, did an amazing job working with the animation team to determine the unique movements for each character based on its age and the type of car it was. Some cars are like sports cars and they're much tighter in their suspension. Others are older '50s cars that are a lot looser and have more bounce to them. We wanted to get that authenticity in there but also to make sure each car had a unique personality. We also wanted each animator to be able to put some of themself in the character and give it their own spin. Every day in dailies, it was so much fun because we would see things that we had never seen in our lives. The world of cars came alive in a believable and unexpected way."[11]

Unlike most anthropomorphic cars, the eyes of the cars in this film were placed on the windshield (which resembles the Tonka Talking Trucks, the characters from Tex Avery's One Cab's Family short and Disney's own Susie the Little Blue Coupe), rather than within the headlights.[11] According to production designer Bob Pauley, "From the very beginning of this project, John Lasseter had it in his mind to have the eyes be in the windshield. For one thing, it separates our characters from the more common approach where you have little cartoon eyes in the headlights. For another, he thought that having the eyes down near the mouth at the front end of the car feels more like a snake. With the eyes set in the windshield, the point of view is more human-like, and made it feel like the whole car could be involved in the animation of the character."[11] This decision was facetiously criticized by automotive blog Jalopnik.[17]

In 2006, the supervising animator of the film, Scott Clark, spoke about the challenges of animating car characters, saying: "Getting a full range of performance and emotion from these characters and making them still seem like cars was a tough assignment, but that's what animation does best. You use your imagination, and you make the movements and gestures fit with the design. Our car characters may not have arms and legs, but we can lean the tires in or out to suggest hands opening up or closing in. We can use steering to point a certain direction. We also designed a special eyelid and an eyebrow for the windshield that lets us communicate an expressiveness that cars don't have."[11] Doug Sweetland, who also served as supervising animator, also spoke about the challenges, saying: "It took a different kind of animator to really be able to interpret the Cars models, than it did to interpret something like The Incredibles models. With The Incredibles, the animator could get reference for the characters by shooting himself and watching the footage. But with Cars, it departs completely from any reference. Yes they're cars, but no car can do what our characters do. It's pure fantasy. It took a lot of trial and error to get them to look right."[11]

Lasseter also explained that the film started with pencil and paper designs, saying: "Truth to materials. Starting with pencil-and-paper designs from production designer Bob Pauley, and continuing through the modeling, articulation, and shading of the characters, and finally into animation, the production team worked hard to have the car characters remain true to their origins."[11] Character department manager Jay Ward also explained how they wanted the cars to look as realistic as possible, saying: "John didn't want the cars to seem clay-like or mushy. He insisted on truth to materials. This was a huge thing for him. He told us that steel needs to feel like steel. Glass should feel like glass. These cars need to feel heavy. They weigh three or four thousand pounds. When they move around, they need to have that feel. They shouldn't appear light or overly bouncy to the point where the audience might see them as rubber toys."[11] According to directing animator James Ford Murphy, "Originally, the car models were built so they could basically do anything. John kept reminding us that these characters are made of metal and they weigh several thousand pounds. They can't stretch. He showed us examples of very loose animation to illustrate what not to do."[11]

Character shading supervisor on the film Thomas Jordan explained that chrome and car paint were the main challenges on the film, saying: "Chrome and car paint were our two main challenges on this film. We started out by learning as much as we could. At the local body shop, we watched them paint a car, and we saw the way they mixed the paint and applied the various coats. We tried to dissect what goes into the real paint and recreated it in the computer. We figured out that we needed a base paint, which is where the color comes from, and the clearcoat, which provides the reflection. We were then able to add in things like metallic flake to give it a glittery sparkle, a pearlescent quality that might change color depending on the angle, and even a layer of pin-striping for characters like Ramone."[11] Supervising technical director on the film Eben Ostby explained that the biggest challenge for the technical team was creating the metallic and painted surfaces of the car characters, and the reflections that those surfaces generate, saying: "Given that the stars of our film are made of metal, John had a real desire to see realistic reflections, and more beautiful lighting than we've seen in any of our previous films. In the past, we've mostly used environment maps and other matte-based technology to cheat reflections, but for Cars we added a ray-tracing capability to our existing Renderman program to raise the bar for Pixar."[11]

Rendering lead Jessica McMackin spoke about the use of ray tracing on the film, saying: "In addition to creating accurate reflections, we used ray tracing to achieve other effects. We were able to use this approach to create accurate shadows, like when there are multiple light sources and you want to get a feathering of shadows at the edges. Or occlusion, which is the absence of ambient light between two surfaces, like a crease in a shirt. A fourth use is irradiance. An example of this would be if you had a piece of red paper and held it up to a white wall, the light would be colored by the paper and cast a red glow on the wall."[11] Character supervisor Tim Milliron explained that the film uses a ground–locking system that kept the cars firmly planted on the road, saying: "The ground-locking system is one of the things I'm most proud of on this film. In the past, characters have never known about their environment in any way. A simulation pass was required if you wanted to make something like that happen. On Cars, this system is built into the models themselves, and as you move the car around, the vehicle sticks to the ground. It was one of those things that we do at Pixar where we knew going in that it had to be done, but we had no idea how to do it."[11]

Technical director Lisa Forsell explained that to enhance the richness and beauty of the desert landscapes surrounding Radiator Springs, the filmmakers created a department responsible for matte paintings and sky flats, saying: "Digital matte paintings are a way to get a lot of visual complexity without necessarily having to build complex geometry, and write complex shaders. We spent a lot time working on the clouds and their different formations. They tend to be on several layers and they move relative to each other. The clouds do in fact have some character and personality. The notion was that just as people see themselves in the clouds, cars see various car-shaped clouds. It's subtle, but there are definitely some that are shaped like a sedan. And if you look closely, you'll see some that look like tire treads. The fact that so much attention is put on the skies speaks to the visual level of the film. Is there a story point? Not really. There is no pixel on the screen that does not have an extraordinary level of scrutiny and care applied to it. There is nothing that is just throw-away."[11]

Computers used in the development of the film were four times faster than those used in The Incredibles and 1,000 times faster than those used in Toy Story. To build the cars, the animators used computer platforms similar to those used in the design of real-world automobiles.[18]

Soundtrack

Main article: Cars (soundtrack)

The Cars soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on June 6, 2006.[19] Nine tracks on the soundtrack are by popular artists, while the remaining eleven are score cues by Randy Newman.[19] It has two versions of the classic Bobby Troup jazz standard "Route 66" (popularized by Nat King Cole), one by Chuck Berry and a new version recorded specifically for the film's credits performed by John Mayer.[19] Brad Paisley contributed two of the nine tracks to the album, one being "Find Yourself" used for the end credits.[19]

Release

Cars was originally going to be released on November 4, 2005, but on December 7, 2004, its release date was moved to June 9, 2006.[20] Analysts looked at the release date change as a sign from Pixar that they were preparing for the pending end of the Disney distribution contract by either preparing non-Disney materials to present to other studios or they were buying time to see what happened with Michael Eisner's situation at Disney.[21] When Pixar's chief executive Steve Jobs made the release date announcement, he stated that the reasoning was due to wanting to put all Pixar films on a summer release schedule with DVD sales occurring during the holiday shopping season.[20]

Home media

Cars was released on DVD, in wide- and full-screen editions, on November 7, 2006, in the United States and Canada. This DVD was also released on October 25, 2006, in Australia and New Zealand and on November 27, 2006, in the United Kingdom.[22] The release includes the DVD-exclusive short film Mater and the Ghostlight and the film's theatrical short One Man Band as well as a 16-minute-long documentary about the film entitled Inspiration for Cars, which features director John Lasseter.[22] This THX certified release also features an Easter egg in the main menu, which is a 45-second clip showing a Cars version of Boundin'.[23] A VHS was released on February 19, 2007, to members of Disney's home video club.[24]

According to the Walt Disney Company, five million copies of the DVD were sold the first two days it was available.[25] The first week, it sold 6,250,856 units and 15,370,791 in total ($246,198,859).[26] Unlike previous Pixar DVD releases, there is no two-disc special edition, and no plans to release one in the future. According to Sara Maher, DVD Production Manager at Pixar, John Lasseter and Pixar were preoccupied with productions like Ratatouille.[27]

In the US and Canada, there were bonus discs available with the purchase of the film at Wal-Mart and at Target.[28] The former featured a Geared-Up Bonus DVD Disc that focused on the music of the film, including the music video to "Life Is A Highway", The Making of "Life Is A Highway", Cars: The Making of the Music, and Under The Hood, a special that originally aired on the ABC Family cable channel.[29] The latter's bonus was a Rev'd Up DVD Disc that featured material mostly already released as part of the official Cars podcast and focused on the inspiration and production of the movie.[30]

Cars was also released on Blu-ray Disc on November 6, 2007, one year after the DVD release. It was the first Pixar film to be released on Blu-ray (alongside Ratatouille and Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1),[31] and was re-released as a Blu-ray Disc and DVD combo pack and DVD only edition in April 2011. The film was released for the first time in 3D on October 29, 2013, as part of Cars: Ultimate Collector's Edition, which included the releases on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and DVD.[32] In 2019, Cars was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.[33][34]

Reception

Box office

In its opening weekend, Cars earned $60 million in 3,985 theaters in the United States, ranking number one at the box office.[35] For three years, it would hold the record for having the highest opening weekend for any car-oriented film until it was surpassed by Fast & Furious in 2009.[36] In the United States, the film held onto the number one spot for two weeks before being surpassed by Click and then by Superman Returns the following weekend.[37][38][39] The film then earned $33.7 million during its second weekend while competing against The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Nacho Libre.[40] Later on, Cars would team up with another Disney film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which was released a month later. Around this time, it had approached the $200 million mark, becoming the third film of the year to do so, following X-Men: The Last Stand and The Da Vinci Code.[41] It went on to gross $462 million worldwide and $244 million in the United States.[42] Cars was the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2006, behind Ice Age: The Meltdown.[43]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 75% based on 204 reviews and an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Cars offers visual treats that more than compensate for its somewhat thinly written story, adding up to a satisfying diversion for younger viewers."[44] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 73 out of 100 based on 39 critics reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[45] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[46]

William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer praised it as "one of Pixar's most imaginative and thoroughly appealing movies ever,"[47] and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly called it "a work of American art as classic as it is modern."[48] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, saying that it "tells a bright and cheery story, and then has a little something profound lurking around the edges. In this case, it's a sense of loss."[49] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "Fueled with plenty of humor, action, heartfelt drama, and amazing new technical feats, Cars is a high octane delight for moviegoers of all ages."[50] Richard Corliss of Time gave the film a positive review, saying, "Existing both in turbo-charged today and the gentler '50s, straddling the realms of Pixar styling and old Disney heart, this new-model Cars is an instant classic."[51] Brian Lowry of Variety gave the film a negative review, saying, "Despite representing another impressive technical achievement, it's the least visually interesting of the computer-animation boutique's movies, and -- in an ironic twist for a story about auto racing -- drifts slowly through its semi-arid midsection."[52] Robert Wilonsky of The Village Voice gave the film a positive review, saying, "What ultimately redeems Cars from turning out a total lemon is its soul. Lasseter loves these animated inanimate objects as though they were kin, and it shows in every beautifully rendered frame."[53] Ella Taylor of L.A. Weekly gave the film a positive review, saying, "Cars cheerfully hitches cutting-edge animation to a folksy narrative plugging friendship, community and a Luddite mistrust of high tech."[54]

Gene Seymour of Newsday gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "And as pop flies go, Cars is pretty to watch, even as it loops, drifts and, at times, looks as if it's just hanging in midair."[55] Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film a positive review, saying, "It takes everything that's made Pixar shorthand for animation excellence -- strong characters, tight pacing, spot-on voice casting, a warm sense of humor and visuals that are pure, pixilated bliss -- and carries them to the next stage."[56] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film four out of five stars, saying, "What's surprising about this supremely engaging film is the source of its curb appeal: It has heart."[57] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post gave the film a positive review, saying, "It's the latest concoction from the geniuses at Pixar, probably the most inventive of the Computer Generated Imagery shop -- and the film's great fun, if well under the level of the first Toy Story."[58] Jessica Reaves of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying, "While it's a technically perfect movie, its tone is too manic, its characters too jaded and, in the end, its story too empty to stand up to expectations."[59] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "While Cars may cross the finish line ahead of any of 2006's other animated films, it's several laps behind its Pixar siblings."[60] Lisa Kennedy of The Denver Post gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "Cars idles at times. And it's not until its final laps that the movie gains the emotional traction we've come to expect from the Toy Story and Nemo crews."[61] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "It thunders ahead with breezy abandon, scoring big grins on its way."[62]

Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film a positive review, saying, "The animation is stunningly rendered. But the story is always the critical element in Pixar movies, and Cars' story is heartfelt with a clear and unabashed moral."[63] David Edelstein of New York Magazine gave the film a positive review, saying, "Like the Toy Story films, Cars is a state-of-the-computer-art plea on behalf of outmoded, wholesome fifties technology, with a dash of Zen by way of George Lucas."[64] Moira MacDonald of The Seattle Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "Though the central idea of nostalgia for a quieter, small-town life may well be lost on this movie's young audience -- Cars finds a pleasant and often sparkling groove."[65] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film two out of five stars, saying, "Cars might get us into car world as a gimmick, but it doesn't get us into car world as a state of mind. Thus, the animation, rather than seeming like an expression of the movie's deeper truth, becomes an impediment to it."[66] Derek Adams of Time Out gave the film a positive review, saying, "There are many other brilliant scenes, some just as funny but there are just as many occasions where you feel the film's struggling to fire on all cylinders. Still, it's a Pixar film, right? And they're always worth a gander no matter what anyone says."[67]

Accolades

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Cars

Cars had a highly successful run during the 2006 awards season. Many film critic associations such as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review named it the best Animated Feature Film of 2006.[68] Cars also received the title of Best Reviewed Animated Feature of 2006 from Rotten Tomatoes.[68] Randy Newman and James Taylor received a Grammy Award for the song "Our Town", which later went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song (an award it lost to "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth).[68] The film also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature alongside Monster House, but both films lost to Happy Feet.[68] Cars was also selected as the Favorite Family Movie at the 33rd People's Choice Awards.[68] The most prestigious award that Cars received was the inaugural Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.[68] Cars also won the highest award for animation in 2006, the Best Animated Feature Annie Award.[68] In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Animation Films list.[69]

Video game

Main article: Cars (video game)

A video game of the same name was released on June 6, 2006, for Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, GameCube, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Xbox.[70] It was also released on October 23, 2006, for Xbox 360 and November 16, 2006, for Wii.[70] Much like the film, the video game got mainly positive reviews. GameSpot gave 7.0 out of 10 for Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 2 versions, 7.6 out of 10 for the GameCube and Xbox versions, and 7.4 out of 10 for the PSP version.[71] Metacritic gave 65 out of 100 for the Wii version,[72] 54 out of 100 for the DS version,[73] 73 out of 100 for the PC version,[74] 71 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version,[75] and 70 out of 100 for the PSP version.[76]

Similar films

Marco Aurélio Canônico of Folha de S.Paulo described The Little Cars series (Os Carrinhos in Portuguese), a Brazilian computer graphics film series by Vídeo Brinquedo, as a derivative of Cars. Canônico discussed whether lawsuits from Pixar would appear. The Brazilian Ministry of Culture posted Marcus Aurelius Canônico's article on its website.[77]

It has also been noted that the plot of Cars mirrors that of Doc Hollywood, a 1991 romantic comedy which stars Michael J. Fox as a hotshot young doctor who eventually acquires an appreciation for small town values and falls in love with a local law student as result of being sentenced to work at the town hospital after causing a traffic collision in a small town.[78] Some have gone so far as to say that the makers of Cars plagiarized the script of Doc Hollywood.[79]

Literature

  • 2006: CARS: The Junior Novelization, RH/Disney, ISBN 978-0736422918

Expanded franchise

Main article: Cars (franchise)

Sequels

Main articles: Cars 2 and Cars 3

The first sequel, titled Cars 2, was released on June 24, 2011.[80] It was directed again by John Lasseter, who was inspired for the film while traveling around the world promoting the first film.[81] In the sequel, Lightning McQueen and Mater head to Japan and Europe to compete in the World Grand Prix, but Mater becomes sidetracked with international espionage.[80]

The second sequel, titled Cars 3, was released on June 16, 2017.[82] Directed by Brian Fee, the film focuses on Lightning McQueen, now a veteran racer, who after being overshadowed by a new generation of racecars, gets help from Cruz Ramirez, a young performance coupe, to instruct him for the increasingly high-tech world and defeat his new rival Jackson Storm.[83]

Spin-offs

Main articles: Planes (film) and Planes: Fire and Rescue

An animated feature film spin-off called Planes, produced by DisneyToon Studios,[84] was released on August 9, 2013.[85] A sequel to Planes, titled Planes: Fire & Rescue, was released on July 18, 2014.[86]

Television series

Cars has also spawned a television series of short films titled Cars Toons, which ran from October 27, 2008, to June 5, 2012 (as Mater's Tall Tales) and March 22, 2013, to May 20, 2014 (as Tales from Radiator Springs). A Disney+ streaming series, titled Cars on the Road, premiered on September 8, 2022.

See also

References

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cars, film, this, article, about, 2006, pixar, film, franchise, that, started, with, this, film, cars, franchise, cars, 2006, american, animated, sports, comedy, film, produced, pixar, animation, studios, distributed, walt, disney, pictures, film, directed, jo. This article is about the 2006 Pixar film For the franchise that started with this film see Cars franchise Cars is a 2006 American animated sports comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures The film was directed by John Lasseter co directed by Joe Ranft produced by Darla K Anderson written by Lasseter Ranft Dan Fogelman Kiel Murray Phil Lorin and Jorgen Klubien based on a story by Lasseter Ranft and Klubien and stars an ensemble voice cast of Owen Wilson Paul Newman in his final voice acting theatrical film role Bonnie Hunt Larry the Cable Guy Tony Shalhoub Cheech Marin Michael Wallis George Carlin Paul Dooley Jenifer Lewis Guido Quaroni Michael Keaton Katherine Helmond John Ratzenberger and Richard Petty while race car drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr as Junior Mario Andretti Michael Schumacher and car enthusiast Jay Leno as Jay Limo voice themselves CarsTheatrical release posterDirected byJohn LasseterScreenplay byDan Fogelman John Lasseter Joe Ranft Kiel Murray Phil Lorin Jorgen KlubienStory byJohn Lasseter Joe Ranft Jorgen KlubienProduced byDarla K AndersonStarringOwen Wilson Paul NewmanCinematographyJeremy Lasky Jean Claude KalacheEdited byKen SchretzmannMusic byRandy NewmanProductioncompaniesWalt Disney Pictures Pixar Animation StudiosDistributed byBuena Vista Pictures DistributionRelease datesMay 26 2006 2006 05 26 Lowe s Motor Speedway June 9 2006 2006 06 09 United States Running time117 minutes 1 CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 120 million 1 Box office 462 million 1 Cars is set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic vehicles The film follows a selfish and arrogant young racecar named Lightning McQueen who on the way to the most important race of his life becomes stranded in a forgotten town along U S Route 66 called Radiator Springs where he learns about friendship and begins to reevaluate his priorities Development for Cars started in 1998 after finishing the production of A Bug s Life with a new script titled The Yellow Car which was about an electric car living in a gas guzzling world with Klubien writing It was announced that the producers agreed that it could be the next Pixar film after A Bug s Life scheduled for a 1999 release particularly around June 4 the idea was later scrapped in favor of Toy Story 2 Shortly after production was resumed with major script changes The film was inspired by Lasseter s experiences on a cross country road trip Randy Newman composed the film s score while artists such as Sheryl Crow Rascal Flatts John Mayer and Brad Paisley contributed to the film s soundtrack Cars ultimately served as the final film independently produced by Pixar after its purchase by Disney in January 2006 Cars premiered on May 26 2006 at Lowe s Motor Speedway in Concord North Carolina and was theatrically released in the United States on June 9 to generally positive reviews and commercial success grossing 462 million worldwide against a budget of 120 million becoming the sixth highest grossing film of 2006 The film received two nominations at the 79th Academy Awards including Best Animated Feature but lost to Happy Feet but won both the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film The film was released on DVD on November 7 2006 on VHS in limited quantities on February 19 2007 and on Blu ray on November 6 2007 The film was accompanied by the short One Man Band for its theatrical and home media releases The film was dedicated to Ranft who died in a car crash during the film s production The success of Cars launched a multimedia franchise and a series of two sequels produced by Pixar and two spin offs produced by Disneytoon Studios starting with Cars 2 2011 Contents 1 Plot 2 Voice cast 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 2 Animation 4 Soundtrack 5 Release 5 1 Home media 6 Reception 6 1 Box office 6 2 Critical response 6 3 Accolades 7 Video game 8 Similar films 9 Literature 10 Expanded franchise 10 1 Sequels 10 2 Spin offs 10 3 Television series 11 See also 12 References 13 External linksPlotIn a world populated by anthropomorphic vehicles the Dinoco 400 race marks the conclusion of the Piston Cup season The event intensifies a rivalry between the retiring seven time champion Strip The King Weathers the cunning Chick Hicks and the talented but arrogant rookie Lightning McQueen Struggling with teamwork due to his self centered attitude Lightning is desperate to win the Piston Cup and gain sponsorship from the prestigious Dinoco team He resents his current small time sponsor Rust Eze Bumper Ointment and the rusty old cars who use it During the high stakes race Lightning avoids a major collision instigated by Chick but loses the lead by refusing to take a pit stop causing his rear tires to blow out on the final lap The race ends in a three way tie setting the stage for a decisive tiebreaker race at the Los Angeles International Speedway in one week After the race Lightning rushes through the night on Interstate 40 to reach California inside his transport truck Mack A group of delinquent teenage tuner cars causes Mack to fall asleep and push him onto the rumble strips on the interstate shoulder with an ensuing mishap leading to Lightning being stranded alone in the rundown desert town of Radiator Springs where he inadvertently damages the main road Lightning is sentenced to a community service assignment repaving the road under the supervision of the town s judge Doc Hudson a Hudson Hornet who is prejudiced against Lightning for being a race car Lightning shoddily repaves the road in a rush to leave so Doc challenges him to a race If he wins he can leave but otherwise he will start over from scratch The overconfident Lightning having never raced on a dirt track before spins out on an unbanked turn and crashes forcing him to pave the road again Over time Lightning warms up to the town and befriends its residents especially Mater a rusty tow truck and Sally a Porsche 911 who dreams of reviving Radiator Springs As he bonds with the locals Lightning discovers the town was once a bustling attraction for drivers on Route 66 before the construction of the interstate caused them to lose all of their business traffic Lightning also discovers that the bitter Doc reticent about his past used to race as the legendary Fabulous Hudson Hornet until a disastrous wreck ended his career Lightning is dumbfounded that Doc considers his three Piston Cups worthless Lightning finishes repaving the road and decides to stay in Radiator Springs and help the local businesses He buys tires from Luigi s store gets a new paint job from Ramone tries Filmore s organic fuel and wears Sarge s military gear However Doc alerts the media to Lightning s location leading them and Mack to descend on the town to retrieve him Doc immediately regrets his decision after Lightning s departure leaves the residents disheartened At the race Lightning initially struggles and contemplates quitting but is buoyed by the sudden arrival of his friends from Radiator Springs who come to his aid in the pit With Doc now acting as his crew chief Lightning stages a remarkable comeback and takes the lead As Lightning closes in on the finish line Chick employs a PIT maneuver that intentionally wrecks The King rendering him unable to continue Reminded of Doc s career ending wreck Lightning screeches to a halt just before the finish line and allows Chick to win the Piston Cup while ensuring The King finishes the race in second by pushing him forward The fans and media furiously condemn Chick s Piston Cup victory while praising Lightning s integrity and sportsmanship Although offered a Dinoco sponsorship Lightning decides to remain with Rust eze Returning to Radiator Springs he reunites with Sally Mater and the other cars and declares his intention to establish his racing headquarters there revitalizing the town and officially putting it back on the map as well as training under Doc s mentorship Voice castSee also List of Cars characters Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen a red custom built 2006 racecar who is described by John Lasseter in the Los Angeles Times as a hybrid between a stock car and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance race car 2 Paul Newman as Doc Hudson a navy blue 1951 Hudson Hornet who is later revealed to be the legendary Fabulous Hudson Hornet Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera a sky blue 2002 Porsche 911 Carrera Larry the Cable Guy as Tow Mater a rusty blue tow truck inspired by a 1951 International Harvester L 170 boom truck 3 4 and a mid 1950s Chevrolet Task Force 5 Tony Shalhoub as Luigi a yellow 1959 Fiat 500 Cheech Marin as Ramone a custom 1959 Chevrolet Impala Lowrider who has different colors in each sequence of the film Michael Wallis as Sheriff a 1949 Mercury Eight Coupe police package George Carlin as Fillmore an aquamarine 1963 Volkswagen Type 2 Paul Dooley as Sarge a 1941 Willys jeep in the style of U S military usage Jenifer Lewis as Flo an aquamarine 1957 General Motors Motorama show car Guido Quaroni as Guido a custom blue forklift who resembles a BMW Isetta at the front and only speaks Italian Richard Petty as Strip The King Weathers a blue 1970 Plymouth Superbird stock car Michael Keaton as Chick Hicks a green race car described by Pixar as a generic 1980s stock car 5 who is Lightning McQueen s rival Katherine Helmond as Lizzie a black 1923 Ford Model T John Ratzenberger as Mack a custom red 1985 Mack Super Liner Joe Ranft as Red an untalkative 1960s style red and silver fire engine the design is most closely resembled to be a mid 1960s truck and Jerry Recycled Batteries a grumpy red cab over Peterbilt who Lightning mistakes for Mack while he is lost These were Ranft s last two voice roles before his death in August 2005 Jeremy Piven US Jeremy Clarkson UK as Harv Lightning McQueen s agent who is never seen on screen Bob Costas as Bob Cutlass a gray 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora and announcer for the Piston Cup races Darrell Waltrip as Darrell Cartrip a gray red yellow and blue 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Piston Cup racing announcer Humpy Wheeler as Tex Dinoco a gold 1975 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and owner of Dinoco Lynda Petty as Lynda Weathers a Chrysler Town and Country station wagon and Strip Weathers wife Dale Earnhardt Jr as Junior 8 a generic stock car Michael Schumacher as Michael Schumacher Ferrari a red Ferrari F430 Tom and Ray Magliozzi as Rusty and Dusty Rust eze a 1963 Dodge Dart and a 1967 Dodge A100 who are the owners of Rust eze Richard Kind and Edie McClurg as Van and Minny a forest green 2003 Ford Windstar and a violet 1996 Chrysler Town and Country Lindsey Collins and Elissa Knight as Mia and Tia the red identical twin 1992 Mazda MX 5 NA sisters Mario Andretti as Mario Andretti 11 a 1967 Ford Fairlane Sarah Clark as Kori Turbowitz a turquoise sports car resembling a 1997 Ford Puma and race announcer Jay Leno as Jay Limo a blue Lincoln Town Car who appears in a cameo Jonas Rivera as Boost a violet Nissan Silvia who is the leader of the Tuner Gang E J Holowicki as DJ a blue Scion XB and member of the Tuner Gang Adrian Ochoa as Wingo a green and purple Mitsubishi Eclipse and member of the Tuner Gang Lou Romano as Snot Rod an orange Plymouth Barracuda and member of the Tuner Gang who sneezes often Jess Harnell citation needed uncredited as Sven the Governator a light yellow Humvee caricature whose voice resembles that of Arnold Schwarzenegger Mike No Name Nelson as Not Chuck a red forklift of Lightning McQueen s former racing team Tom Hanks Tim Allen Billy Crystal John Goodman Dave Foley and John Ratzenberger reprise their vocal roles from previous Pixar films during an end credits sequence featuring automobile spoofs of Toy Story Monsters Inc and A Bug s Life 6 Cars was the final Pixar film worked on by Joe Ranft who died in a crash a year before the film s release aged 45 7 The film was the second to be dedicated to his memory after Corpse Bride The memorial showed the roles he had done in the other films directed by John Lasseter during the credits 8 This is also the last non documentary movie for Paul Newman before his retirement in 2007 and his death in 2008 9 It turned out to be the highest grossing film of his career 9 ProductionDevelopment nbsp Writer and director John Lasseter in 2009 The development of Cars began in 1998 when Pixar finished production of A Bug s Life At that time Jorgen Klubien began writing a new script called The Yellow Car which was about an electric car living in a gas guzzling world inspired by The Ugly Duckling an idea triggered by the poor reception his fellow countrymen gave the Mini El car 10 Some of the original drawings and characters were developed in 1998 and the producers agreed that Cars could be the next Pixar film after A Bug s Life and be released in early 1999 particularly around June 4 10 However the idea was scrapped in favor of Toy Story 2 10 Later production resumed with major script changes like giving Mater Doc and a few other characters bigger parts 10 John Lasseter said that inspiration for the film s story came after he took a cross country road trip with his wife and five sons in 2000 11 When he returned to the studio after vacation he contacted Michael Wallis a Route 66 historian Wallis then led eleven Pixar animators in rented white Cadillacs on two different road trips across the route to research the film 12 13 14 In 2001 the film s working title was Route 66 after U S Route 66 but the title was changed to Cars in order to avoid confusion with the 1960s television series of the same name 15 In addition Lightning McQueen s racing number was originally going to be 57 a reference to 1957 Lasseter s birth year but was changed to 95 a reference to 1995 the year Pixar s first feature film Toy Story was released 15 In 2006 Lasseter spoke about the inspiration for the film saying I have always loved cars In one vein I have Disney blood and in the other there s motor oil The notion of combining these two great passions in my life cars and animation was irresistible When Joe Ranft and I first started talking about this film in 1998 we knew we wanted to do something with cars as characters Around that same time we watched a documentary called Divided Highways which dealt with the interstate highway and how it affected the small towns along the way We were so moved by it and began thinking about what it must have been like in these small towns that got bypassed That s when we started really researching Route 66 but we still hadn t quite figured out what the story for the film was going to be I used to travel that highway with my family as a child when we visited our family in St Louis 11 Years later in 2013 Klubien said the film was both his best and most bitter experience because he was fired before it premiered and because he feels Lasseter wrote him out of the story of how the film got made 16 Animation nbsp A rendered frame from the development of the film For the cars themselves Lasseter also visited the design studios of the Big Three Detroit automakers particularly J Mays of Ford Motor Company 11 Lasseter learned how real cars were designed 11 In 2006 Lasseter spoke about how they worked hard to make the animation believable saying It took many months of trial and error and practicing test animation to figure out how each car moves and how their world works Our supervising animators Doug Sweetland and Scott Clark and the directing animators Bobby Podesta and James Ford Murphy did an amazing job working with the animation team to determine the unique movements for each character based on its age and the type of car it was Some cars are like sports cars and they re much tighter in their suspension Others are older 50s cars that are a lot looser and have more bounce to them We wanted to get that authenticity in there but also to make sure each car had a unique personality We also wanted each animator to be able to put some of themself in the character and give it their own spin Every day in dailies it was so much fun because we would see things that we had never seen in our lives The world of cars came alive in a believable and unexpected way 11 Unlike most anthropomorphic cars the eyes of the cars in this film were placed on the windshield which resembles the Tonka Talking Trucks the characters from Tex Avery s One Cab s Family short and Disney s own Susie the Little Blue Coupe rather than within the headlights 11 According to production designer Bob Pauley From the very beginning of this project John Lasseter had it in his mind to have the eyes be in the windshield For one thing it separates our characters from the more common approach where you have little cartoon eyes in the headlights For another he thought that having the eyes down near the mouth at the front end of the car feels more like a snake With the eyes set in the windshield the point of view is more human like and made it feel like the whole car could be involved in the animation of the character 11 This decision was facetiously criticized by automotive blog Jalopnik 17 In 2006 the supervising animator of the film Scott Clark spoke about the challenges of animating car characters saying Getting a full range of performance and emotion from these characters and making them still seem like cars was a tough assignment but that s what animation does best You use your imagination and you make the movements and gestures fit with the design Our car characters may not have arms and legs but we can lean the tires in or out to suggest hands opening up or closing in We can use steering to point a certain direction We also designed a special eyelid and an eyebrow for the windshield that lets us communicate an expressiveness that cars don t have 11 Doug Sweetland who also served as supervising animator also spoke about the challenges saying It took a different kind of animator to really be able to interpret the Cars models than it did to interpret something like The Incredibles models With The Incredibles the animator could get reference for the characters by shooting himself and watching the footage But with Cars it departs completely from any reference Yes they re cars but no car can do what our characters do It s pure fantasy It took a lot of trial and error to get them to look right 11 Lasseter also explained that the film started with pencil and paper designs saying Truth to materials Starting with pencil and paper designs from production designer Bob Pauley and continuing through the modeling articulation and shading of the characters and finally into animation the production team worked hard to have the car characters remain true to their origins 11 Character department manager Jay Ward also explained how they wanted the cars to look as realistic as possible saying John didn t want the cars to seem clay like or mushy He insisted on truth to materials This was a huge thing for him He told us that steel needs to feel like steel Glass should feel like glass These cars need to feel heavy They weigh three or four thousand pounds When they move around they need to have that feel They shouldn t appear light or overly bouncy to the point where the audience might see them as rubber toys 11 According to directing animator James Ford Murphy Originally the car models were built so they could basically do anything John kept reminding us that these characters are made of metal and they weigh several thousand pounds They can t stretch He showed us examples of very loose animation to illustrate what not to do 11 Character shading supervisor on the film Thomas Jordan explained that chrome and car paint were the main challenges on the film saying Chrome and car paint were our two main challenges on this film We started out by learning as much as we could At the local body shop we watched them paint a car and we saw the way they mixed the paint and applied the various coats We tried to dissect what goes into the real paint and recreated it in the computer We figured out that we needed a base paint which is where the color comes from and the clearcoat which provides the reflection We were then able to add in things like metallic flake to give it a glittery sparkle a pearlescent quality that might change color depending on the angle and even a layer of pin striping for characters like Ramone 11 Supervising technical director on the film Eben Ostby explained that the biggest challenge for the technical team was creating the metallic and painted surfaces of the car characters and the reflections that those surfaces generate saying Given that the stars of our film are made of metal John had a real desire to see realistic reflections and more beautiful lighting than we ve seen in any of our previous films In the past we ve mostly used environment maps and other matte based technology to cheat reflections but for Cars we added a ray tracing capability to our existing Renderman program to raise the bar for Pixar 11 Rendering lead Jessica McMackin spoke about the use of ray tracing on the film saying In addition to creating accurate reflections we used ray tracing to achieve other effects We were able to use this approach to create accurate shadows like when there are multiple light sources and you want to get a feathering of shadows at the edges Or occlusion which is the absence of ambient light between two surfaces like a crease in a shirt A fourth use is irradiance An example of this would be if you had a piece of red paper and held it up to a white wall the light would be colored by the paper and cast a red glow on the wall 11 Character supervisor Tim Milliron explained that the film uses a ground locking system that kept the cars firmly planted on the road saying The ground locking system is one of the things I m most proud of on this film In the past characters have never known about their environment in any way A simulation pass was required if you wanted to make something like that happen On Cars this system is built into the models themselves and as you move the car around the vehicle sticks to the ground It was one of those things that we do at Pixar where we knew going in that it had to be done but we had no idea how to do it 11 Technical director Lisa Forsell explained that to enhance the richness and beauty of the desert landscapes surrounding Radiator Springs the filmmakers created a department responsible for matte paintings and sky flats saying Digital matte paintings are a way to get a lot of visual complexity without necessarily having to build complex geometry and write complex shaders We spent a lot time working on the clouds and their different formations They tend to be on several layers and they move relative to each other The clouds do in fact have some character and personality The notion was that just as people see themselves in the clouds cars see various car shaped clouds It s subtle but there are definitely some that are shaped like a sedan And if you look closely you ll see some that look like tire treads The fact that so much attention is put on the skies speaks to the visual level of the film Is there a story point Not really There is no pixel on the screen that does not have an extraordinary level of scrutiny and care applied to it There is nothing that is just throw away 11 Computers used in the development of the film were four times faster than those used in The Incredibles and 1 000 times faster than those used in Toy Story To build the cars the animators used computer platforms similar to those used in the design of real world automobiles 18 SoundtrackMain article Cars soundtrack The Cars soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on June 6 2006 19 Nine tracks on the soundtrack are by popular artists while the remaining eleven are score cues by Randy Newman 19 It has two versions of the classic Bobby Troup jazz standard Route 66 popularized by Nat King Cole one by Chuck Berry and a new version recorded specifically for the film s credits performed by John Mayer 19 Brad Paisley contributed two of the nine tracks to the album one being Find Yourself used for the end credits 19 ReleaseCars was originally going to be released on November 4 2005 but on December 7 2004 its release date was moved to June 9 2006 20 Analysts looked at the release date change as a sign from Pixar that they were preparing for the pending end of the Disney distribution contract by either preparing non Disney materials to present to other studios or they were buying time to see what happened with Michael Eisner s situation at Disney 21 When Pixar s chief executive Steve Jobs made the release date announcement he stated that the reasoning was due to wanting to put all Pixar films on a summer release schedule with DVD sales occurring during the holiday shopping season 20 Home media Cars was released on DVD in wide and full screen editions on November 7 2006 in the United States and Canada This DVD was also released on October 25 2006 in Australia and New Zealand and on November 27 2006 in the United Kingdom 22 The release includes the DVD exclusive short film Mater and the Ghostlight and the film s theatrical short One Man Band as well as a 16 minute long documentary about the film entitled Inspiration for Cars which features director John Lasseter 22 This THX certified release also features an Easter egg in the main menu which is a 45 second clip showing a Cars version of Boundin 23 A VHS was released on February 19 2007 to members of Disney s home video club 24 According to the Walt Disney Company five million copies of the DVD were sold the first two days it was available 25 The first week it sold 6 250 856 units and 15 370 791 in total 246 198 859 26 Unlike previous Pixar DVD releases there is no two disc special edition and no plans to release one in the future According to Sara Maher DVD Production Manager at Pixar John Lasseter and Pixar were preoccupied with productions like Ratatouille 27 In the US and Canada there were bonus discs available with the purchase of the film at Wal Mart and at Target 28 The former featured a Geared Up Bonus DVD Disc that focused on the music of the film including the music video to Life Is A Highway The Making of Life Is A Highway Cars The Making of the Music and Under The Hood a special that originally aired on the ABC Family cable channel 29 The latter s bonus was a Rev d Up DVD Disc that featured material mostly already released as part of the official Cars podcast and focused on the inspiration and production of the movie 30 Cars was also released on Blu ray Disc on November 6 2007 one year after the DVD release It was the first Pixar film to be released on Blu ray alongside Ratatouille and Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1 31 and was re released as a Blu ray Disc and DVD combo pack and DVD only edition in April 2011 The film was released for the first time in 3D on October 29 2013 as part of Cars Ultimate Collector s Edition which included the releases on Blu ray Blu ray 3D and DVD 32 In 2019 Cars was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu ray 33 34 ReceptionBox office In its opening weekend Cars earned 60 million in 3 985 theaters in the United States ranking number one at the box office 35 For three years it would hold the record for having the highest opening weekend for any car oriented film until it was surpassed by Fast amp Furious in 2009 36 In the United States the film held onto the number one spot for two weeks before being surpassed by Click and then by Superman Returns the following weekend 37 38 39 The film then earned 33 7 million during its second weekend while competing against The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and Nacho Libre 40 Later on Cars would team up with another Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man s Chest which was released a month later Around this time it had approached the 200 million mark becoming the third film of the year to do so following X Men The Last Stand and The Da Vinci Code 41 It went on to gross 462 million worldwide and 244 million in the United States 42 Cars was the second highest grossing animated film of 2006 behind Ice Age The Meltdown 43 Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 75 based on 204 reviews and an average rating of 6 9 10 The website s critics consensus reads Cars offers visual treats that more than compensate for its somewhat thinly written story adding up to a satisfying diversion for younger viewers 44 On Metacritic the film has a score of 73 out of 100 based on 39 critics reviews indicating generally favorable reviews 45 Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A to F scale 46 William Arnold of the Seattle Post Intelligencer praised it as one of Pixar s most imaginative and thoroughly appealing movies ever 47 and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly called it a work of American art as classic as it is modern 48 Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film three out of four stars saying that it tells a bright and cheery story and then has a little something profound lurking around the edges In this case it s a sense of loss 49 Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three and a half stars out of four saying Fueled with plenty of humor action heartfelt drama and amazing new technical feats Cars is a high octane delight for moviegoers of all ages 50 Richard Corliss of Time gave the film a positive review saying Existing both in turbo charged today and the gentler 50s straddling the realms of Pixar styling and old Disney heart this new model Cars is an instant classic 51 Brian Lowry of Variety gave the film a negative review saying Despite representing another impressive technical achievement it s the least visually interesting of the computer animation boutique s movies and in an ironic twist for a story about auto racing drifts slowly through its semi arid midsection 52 Robert Wilonsky of The Village Voice gave the film a positive review saying What ultimately redeems Cars from turning out a total lemon is its soul Lasseter loves these animated inanimate objects as though they were kin and it shows in every beautifully rendered frame 53 Ella Taylor of L A Weekly gave the film a positive review saying Cars cheerfully hitches cutting edge animation to a folksy narrative plugging friendship community and a Luddite mistrust of high tech 54 Gene Seymour of Newsday gave the film three out of four stars saying And as pop flies go Cars is pretty to watch even as it loops drifts and at times looks as if it s just hanging in midair 55 Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film a positive review saying It takes everything that s made Pixar shorthand for animation excellence strong characters tight pacing spot on voice casting a warm sense of humor and visuals that are pure pixilated bliss and carries them to the next stage 56 Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film four out of five stars saying What s surprising about this supremely engaging film is the source of its curb appeal It has heart 57 Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post gave the film a positive review saying It s the latest concoction from the geniuses at Pixar probably the most inventive of the Computer Generated Imagery shop and the film s great fun if well under the level of the first Toy Story 58 Jessica Reaves of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars out of four saying While it s a technically perfect movie its tone is too manic its characters too jaded and in the end its story too empty to stand up to expectations 59 James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three out of four stars saying While Cars may cross the finish line ahead of any of 2006 s other animated films it s several laps behind its Pixar siblings 60 Lisa Kennedy of The Denver Post gave the film three out of four stars saying Cars idles at times And it s not until its final laps that the movie gains the emotional traction we ve come to expect from the Toy Story and Nemo crews 61 Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle gave the film three out of four stars saying It thunders ahead with breezy abandon scoring big grins on its way 62 Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film a positive review saying The animation is stunningly rendered But the story is always the critical element in Pixar movies and Cars story is heartfelt with a clear and unabashed moral 63 David Edelstein of New York Magazine gave the film a positive review saying Like the Toy Story films Cars is a state of the computer art plea on behalf of outmoded wholesome fifties technology with a dash of Zen by way of George Lucas 64 Moira MacDonald of The Seattle Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four saying Though the central idea of nostalgia for a quieter small town life may well be lost on this movie s young audience Cars finds a pleasant and often sparkling groove 65 Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film two out of five stars saying Cars might get us into car world as a gimmick but it doesn t get us into car world as a state of mind Thus the animation rather than seeming like an expression of the movie s deeper truth becomes an impediment to it 66 Derek Adams of Time Out gave the film a positive review saying There are many other brilliant scenes some just as funny but there are just as many occasions where you feel the film s struggling to fire on all cylinders Still it s a Pixar film right And they re always worth a gander no matter what anyone says 67 Accolades Main article List of awards and nominations received by Cars Cars had a highly successful run during the 2006 awards season Many film critic associations such as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review named it the best Animated Feature Film of 2006 68 Cars also received the title of Best Reviewed Animated Feature of 2006 from Rotten Tomatoes 68 Randy Newman and James Taylor received a Grammy Award for the song Our Town which later went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song an award it lost to I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth 68 The film also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature alongside Monster House but both films lost to Happy Feet 68 Cars was also selected as the Favorite Family Movie at the 33rd People s Choice Awards 68 The most prestigious award that Cars received was the inaugural Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film 68 Cars also won the highest award for animation in 2006 the Best Animated Feature Annie Award 68 In 2008 the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Animation Films list 69 Video gameMain article Cars video game A video game of the same name was released on June 6 2006 for Game Boy Advance Microsoft Windows Nintendo DS GameCube PlayStation 2 PlayStation Portable and Xbox 70 It was also released on October 23 2006 for Xbox 360 and November 16 2006 for Wii 70 Much like the film the video game got mainly positive reviews GameSpot gave 7 0 out of 10 for Xbox 360 Wii and PlayStation 2 versions 7 6 out of 10 for the GameCube and Xbox versions and 7 4 out of 10 for the PSP version 71 Metacritic gave 65 out of 100 for the Wii version 72 54 out of 100 for the DS version 73 73 out of 100 for the PC version 74 71 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version 75 and 70 out of 100 for the PSP version 76 Similar filmsMarco Aurelio Canonico of Folha de S Paulo described The Little Cars series Os Carrinhos in Portuguese a Brazilian computer graphics film series by Video Brinquedo as a derivative of Cars Canonico discussed whether lawsuits from Pixar would appear The Brazilian Ministry of Culture posted Marcus Aurelius Canonico s article on its website 77 It has also been noted that the plot of Cars mirrors that of Doc Hollywood a 1991 romantic comedy which stars Michael J Fox as a hotshot young doctor who eventually acquires an appreciation for small town values and falls 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