Notable gags stemming from Maters heightened hyperactivity include him publicly urinating (or the vehicle equivalent to such) and eating a large amount of wasabi. Alas, Maters personality changes in Cars 2 are for the worse, making him more irritating than he was in the original film for the purpose of.comedy, I guess? Why, arcs that have an individual grow and change are why we can love certain characters.
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Just look at how Han Solo progressed over just the first Star Wars movie from a guy who shot Greedo (first, I might add) with no hesitation to someone who was willing to come back and help out his new friends take out the Death Star. Maters entire conceit as a character was to be a lovable piece of comic relief in the first Cars, and with him having a different purpose in the story of Cars 2 (he needs to not only be the lead, but also be capable enough in combative situations to be mistaken for a spy), it would take tremendous storytelling skill to bring him into this new realm of character development.Ī daunting task, to be certain, but not one that's impossible. Maybe their personality was just innately likable, or in the case of Marlin and Carl Fredrickson, they had a tragic backstory that made us stick with them in their darkest hours. However, the likes of Remy and WALL-E excelled as leads because the audience was given reasons to like them.
A primarily mute robot? A rat who wants to cook? A paranoid fish father? Looking at the other titles PIXAR has behind, they've had lead characters that seem, in theory, to be far more prone to failure than Larry The Cable Guys tow truck. But at least Lightning McQueen had a touching climax at the big race, whereas Mater has.truthfully, nothing of note to talk about. The main element that brings Cars 2 down as a feature film is pretty simply, truth be told like its predecessor, the protagonist that the audience goes on a nearly two hour journey with is a bust.
That in and of itself is a legitimate achievement, I've never seen this sort of unity in the feral realm of the internet. Disagreements run rampant across the internet, but amazingly, even amidst the landscape of the world wide web, it's pretty much treated as a fact by everybody that Cars 2 is the worst feature created by PIXAR. You know which one I'm talking about.the entity known as Cars 2. With yet another feather in their box office victory cap, I thought it might be interesting to look back on PIXAR's only critical and financial miss.
To boot, it was the second biggest opening for a PIXAR movie in history, only behind the mammoth $110 million debut Toy Story 3 had five years back. The newest effort from the studio made $91 million in its opening weekend, the biggest opening for an original film (one that's not a sequel or based on a preexisting source material) in history. A two year hiatus from releasing a motion picture left many wondering if audiences would show up for the newest PIXAR film, Inside Out, but this weekends box office made it blatantly clear that there was no reason to fret.