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Will Cars 2 be PIXAR'S first flop? Will you see the movie?

Will you see Cars 2?

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While many people talk about Cars as being their least favorite Pixar movie, the fact remains it was beyond the most profitable of ALL the Pixars movies. Hell it's merchandising alone made more then all other Pixar movies, combined.

I agree that Cars is the most Child friendly of all the Pixar movies and I like that a lot. My 2 1/2 year old is a huge Cars fan. He can recite the dialog along with the movie. Listening to him sing "Life is a highway" always makes me smile. It has a very simple, yet no overly shoved down your throat message. I think most people who dismiss it, haven't really give it a chance.

I for one am really looking forward to Cars 2. I already bought tickets for us to go to the matinee on Sunday, Cars 2 will be my sons first movie in a theater.
 
I'm not a fan of the first film, but my kids love it and I'm sure sometime this summer I'll be taking them to go see it.
 
Would I see Cars 2, for eleven or twelve bucks, in this economy?


Well, no; my current hourly wage is eighteen, and, assuming this is a two-hour movie, you'd therefore have to offer me thirty-six bucks. If you do, we could talk it over. Still not a sure bet.
 
I liked Cars (Thought Monster's Inc was Pixar's weakest film, but probably need to see it again) so I am looking forward to this one. And to say Cars flopped is wrong, with all the merchandise, and box office sales Disney has made. Maybe creatively, it was one of the more weaker efforts (And a weak effort at Pixar is a good day at another studio), but financially, it might be their most successful. Personally, I've never really understood why Cars became such a hot commodity for Pixar/Disney and something like Toy Story really didn't.
 
tomalak301 said:
Personally, I've never really understood why Cars became such a hot commodity for Pixar/Disney and something like Toy Story really didn't.
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I think Cars was their first movie to come out after Disney acquired them. That said, It's easily their most Disneyfied movie, in the sense that it's more about the merchandise than it is the actual movie. The target for these movies are young kids, which in turn sell boatloads, or maybe carloads in this case, of merchandise, and the market for it is crazy. It sells like hotcakes. I remember going to a daycare for an errand and seeing Cars characters posted all over the place. Cars in general, not the movie but the the vehicles themselves, are easily marketable. Make car characters and sell them to kids and you've got a goldmine due to how easily produced they are due to them being generic. You see the same kind of phenomenon with Thomas the Tank Engine too, which come to think of it is very similar to Cars in concept. To me, it's not such a surprise why Cars did so well due to the marketing opportunities. I see it more like a marketing franchise than a movie franchise, where the marketing franchise pretty much dictates the direction things go in.
 
T'Baio said:
http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/06/22/will-cars-2-be-pixars-first-rotten-movie
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Something worth thinking about from that article:

Of course Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t really mean much; as an aggregator service it’s troubled because it deals only in absolutes, which is why so many middle of the road/wishy washy Super 8 reviews got fresh ratings. And I’m sure many of the upcoming Cars 2 middle of the road/wishy washy/leaning to negative reviews will also get fresh ratings. Metacritic, which has more nuance, is a better indicator of real critical consensus (and Cars 2 is currently doing middling there right now).
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Browsing the RT reviews, it looks like the middle-of-the-road/wishy-washy Cras 2 reviews are being counted as negative. And at Metacritic, Cars 2 is up to 63% ("generally favorable reviews") currently, albeit pulled from only 10 reviews as opposed to the 50 or 60 at RT.

That said, I wasn't expecting this one to be any good – like everyone else has said, the first Cars is probably their weakest outing yet, and as I understand it the push for making a second film was merchandise-driven. So I don't hold out hope for this one.
 
I was hesitant when Cars came out, and waited for the DVD. Watched it and loved it. I'm looking forward to this sequel.
 
Cars for me was the only Pixar film I was "meh" on. I will be seeing the sequel however at a Producers Guild screening at Pixar on Tuesday night and will comment on it after.
 
Cars was a big disappointment for me.. a lacklustre story, steretoype characters without the spark that still made them unique and interesting and overall pretty forgetable.

If it were any other studio it would have been an ok movie but Pixar has set the bar so high for itself that a mediocre movie is considered a failure.

So Cars 2 will be the first movie i won't pay any money for and probably wait for it on free TV.
 
Yes I will see the movie... on DVD.

Everyone needs to remember this movie was made so that they could sell 100 billion different toys and if you go to any store it's clearly working. Even if the reviews suck and the movie doesn't make the money as much as the other Pixar movies I still think there will be a 3rd movie, or even a TV show, just to continue to make toys.
 
While many people talk about Cars as being their least favorite Pixar movie, the fact remains it was beyond the most profitable of ALL the Pixars movies. Hell it's merchandising alone made more then all other Pixar movies, combined.
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I agree.

But Pixar supposedly stood for more than just profit.

Or maybe I'm wrong
 
While the least impressive film of Pixar's, I still enjoyed the first one and have no doubt the sequel will make A LOT of money.
 
My least favorite Pixar films (and I'm a huge fan, about the only modern Disney stuff I don't detest) is Ratatoullie. I could not get past the fact that the hero was a cooking rat: that made me want to hurl throughout the film whenever I thought about it too much. That one you can burn as far as I'm concerned. I'm not too gone on A Bug's Life either: don't like bugs or them eating a "poo-poo platter." Could have lived without that.

I digress. Anyway. being no fan of country music OR Nascar, two things my dad adored and I dispise, I was prepared to HATE Cars. What I found was a film with a lot of heart and good message. I've read the new film really trashes the oil industry, so it can't be all bad. Looking forward to it, but not expecting it to be as good as the first.
 
Flying Spaghetti Monster said:
While many people talk about Cars as being their least favorite Pixar movie, the fact remains it was beyond the most profitable of ALL the Pixars movies. Hell it's merchandising alone made more then all other Pixar movies, combined.
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I agree.

But Pixar supposedly stood for more than just profit.

Or maybe I'm wrong
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It's a personal favourite of John Lasseter, so it's not just a merchandising thing.
 
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