Cars: Standing the Test of Time

 This blog post will be analyzing the movie Cars (2006).  Cars (2006) is a comedy/animation movie that was released by Disney in 2006 and directed by John Lasseter.  Rewatching this movie again felt very nostalgic to me, as I haven't watched the full movie since I was very young.  However, despite myself being a lot older than I was back then, this movie was still very enjoyable.  The animation in the film is very good, even for today's standard.  Many of today's movies fall to the CGI trap, the CGI not being very good, but this film does not have this problem.  The animation on all the cars are crisp and smooth, and they feel like realistic animated cars, which showed that the animators had very good attention to detail.  Another thing this film does well, surprisingly, is the foreshadowing used.  An example of this is when Guido, early on in the film, states that he wants to perform a pit stop.  And at the climax of the movie, he ends up performing an impressive pitstop in the last race.  Funnily enough, the movie also does a fake out a little earlier than that, when he changes Lightning McQueen's tires in Luigi's shop.  Speaking of Lightning McQueen, his character arc/development in this film is very well done.  At the beginning of the film, he's this cocky, young hotshot racer on the rise that only cares about racing and being flashy.  But by the end of the film, he's a much more caring character towards the people he meets, and that he cares about more than just winning.  This is displayed throughout the film, with a lot of character to character interactions between McQueen and other characters, whether he visually realizes he's in the wrong, or has a change of heart.  Cars is a film that can appeal to audience's of all ages, can teach important life lessons to anyone, and can stand the test of time up to today's animated films.