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So we created this spy movie starring Finn McMissile. We storyboarded it. Then we shifted the location of their date, but I never forgot about how cool it would be to do a spy movie where the spy and the spy car are one and the same. See the voices of Pixar. In the opening scene of Cars 2 , Finn McMissile scales an oil rig in stormy seas and hangs in the air, Mission Impossible—style, while doing battle with a bunch of evil cars.

You defy all automotive logic as we know it. I will be frank with you: I am a little boy. The little boy in me comes out when I make these movies, and one of the best things for me is the gadget stuff. I like to think things through; by nature I have to have things logical — like how would a car drive vertically? He would have these little magnetic plates that would come around and coat his wheels so he could drive on anything metal.

In that initial sequence we wanted to establish Finn as the coolest spy car ever. In terms of total box-office grosses, Cars is ranked seventh of all the Pixar movies. Is that the case? The merchandising is gigantic. Cars is one of the biggest films in history when you combine everything. I have purchased at least four McQueens.

Why Mater? This is the first Pixar sequel to produced in 2. Boat in the opening scene of the movie is highly inspired by the FV Northwestern, a fishing vessel featured in Deadliest Catch Is this interesting? Rod "Torque" Redline's registration plate reads "MA1".

The plate also says "Michigan", which is where Rod's voice actor Bruce Campbell is from. One of the sponsor boards at the race reads "Lassetire", a direct call-out to director John Lasseter. The only Cars film not to be released the same year as a direct-to-video sequel to Bring It on , of which Cars was released the same year as Bring It on: All or Nothing , and Cars 3 released the same year as Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack The only Cars film where the main character doesn't appear in a new paint job at the end.

The only Cars film with co-director Bradford Lewis ' involvement before his exit from Pixar Animation Studios after this film was released. This is the first Disney's animated sequel to produced in 2.

The last Cars film to include Wilhelm Screams. Like with Cars , which released the same year as Happy Feet , this movie released the same year as its sequel Happy Feet Two The first Cars movie with the word "awesome".

The fourth of the very few theatrically released animated films of the s to be rated G by the MPAA. Lloyd Sherr 's second theatrically released animated film after Barnyard The last Cars film to be directed by John Lasseter. The last Cars film to have a co-director. The third computer-animated sequel to be produced at 2. Disney's first animated film to be released on June 24 since The Lion King Bradford Lewis ' final involvement with Pixar before his departure after the film was released.

Disney's third computer-animated film to not be nominated for the academy award for best animated feature after Meet the Robinsons and Tangled The scene inside Big Bentley is a possible nod to the animated movie The Great Mouse Detective which was the first Disney film to extensively use computer animation in a similar scene taking place inside Big Ben.

In the streetfight with the lemons near the end of the movie Flo literally "flashes her headlights" to distract her opponent. A joke for the grown up audience it seems. Spoilers The trivia items below may give away important plot points. Professor Z is the third character in a Pixar film thought to be the film's main antagonist, which is proven wrong during the climax, where he turns out to really be the secondary antagonist, with the real main villain being Sir Miles Axlerod.

Waternoose III. Axlerod's disguised voice as the Big Boss Lemon was accomplished by digitally altering Eddie Izzard 's voice. Although various makes and models of cars seen in the Cars movies are so identical to the original vehicles that you can easily identify them, the actual names and logos of the vehicles are never directly represented except in this movie.

In the scene where Mater and Lightning parachute in to confront Sir Axlerod who happens to be watching the race with the queen and presumably the rest of the royal family. The queen's security detail springs into action and you can clearly see and read the manufacturer name and model name of the security vehicles which was Land Rover and Range Rover respectively.

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Ranked Pixar movies. Back at the airport Lightning and his pit crew read a poorly scrawled note of Mater's telling him that he's gone back to Radiator Springs after causing Lightning to lose the race. Lightning feels rotten for blowing up at Mater. It is revealed to be a single photo of a car engine, belonging to the leader of the lemons not Professor Z.

Mater comments that the engine is nothing special: it belongs to a lemon, it looks like it leaks oil, and requires a lot of replacement parts. Also photographed are a few car parts Finn knows are only sold in Paris. Aboard the jet, Shiftwell fits Mater with a voice activated disguiser which will change his outward appearance to whatever he tells it to do. She also seeks to repair a large dent on Mater's bed. He refuses, saying that the dent is a part of him, and he would never repair it.

The three head to Paris where they track down McMissile's usual informant who sold the Big Boss those parts. Through their investigation, it is revealed that the owner of the engine will hold a meeting along with his lemon-lieutenants in Italy the same day as the Grand Prix race.

It is decided that Mater will be disguised as one of the lieutenant's tow trucks and will gain access to the meeting where he can identify the leader of the lemons and owner of the engine.

The Italian race has begun. McMissile and Shiftwell stay to watch the race, and look out for lemons, while Mater infiltrates the meeting in disguise. In the meeting, it is revealed that the Big Boss is not attending in person due to engine trouble. A TV appears overhead upon which Mater sees a live-video of the Big Boss' engine block speaking to the room. The Big Boss' plan is revealed. He, and the rest of the Lemons are the owners of the world's largest untapped oil deposit, in the middle of the ocean.

The world will assume that Allinol is dangerous and will continue to use gasoline. Mater is afraid for Lightning.

Lightning manages to beat Bernoulli on his home turf, but the win is bittersweet, given the amount of carnage that took place on the track. The Big Boss and his cronies anxiously watch the sports report. Miles Axlerod appears and reluctantly accepts that Allinol must be dangerous and tell the world that the final leg of the race will be run on gas. This pleases the Lemons. Moments later Lightning is interviewed, and asked if he too will run on gas. Lightning refuses, saying that he will continue to use Allinol.

Mater is shocked and accidentally sheds his disguise. The lemons draw their weapons, while Mater draws his and a firefight happens.

Mater flees using a parasol and flies directly for Lightning, who is still swamped by press. Mater breaks through barricades and crowds, and is about to warn Lightning when he is kidnapped by lemons, thrown into a cargo container, and knocked out.

Mater dreams of his own foolishness, and lack of maturity demonstrated from scenes earlier in the film. He is tied up and is dangling a hundred feet over a dangerous set of gears. Below him, McMissile and Shiftwell are also tied up, about to be smashed by a pair of intersecting gears.

The two Lemons brag that they're going to kill Lightning. The two lemons aim the gun at Lightning and pull the trigger. To their surprise Lightning does not explode. They try again and again, but he remains in tact. Annoyed the two turn to Mater and say that they have a back-up plan: they've planted a bomb in McQueen's pit and it will explode. The two Lemons quickly leave to meet with Professor Z. Mater and McMissile talk and McMissile finally understands that Mater's "foolish act" is not an act at all and that Mater is just Mater.

Mater manages to free himself from his bonds and offers to save McMissile and Shiftwell, but he is told instead to go save his friends at the pit stop. Mater obliges and takes off to the race. In the clock tower, McMissile and Shiftwell are seconds from being smashed when she manages to reverse the polarity of the clock, which sends it in reverse and saves them both. Now free the two notice Mater's air filter discarded on the ground. They both realize that the bomb isn't in the pit stop; it's on Mater, in place of his air filter.

Shiftwell sprouts a pair of wings while McMissile takes off on land to both save Mater and stop Professor Z from exploding the bomb. Mater haphazardly makes his way onto the track and surprises Lightning who seeks to apologize for his actions in Japan.

Mater, now aware that HE is the bomb, seeks to outrun Lightning. He sprouts a pair of rocket boosters installed by Shiftwell, and bursts through the track wall into London. Professor Z tries exploding the bomb, but by now Mater is well out of range.

McMissile arrives, and a chase takes place between the two of them. Professor Z arrives at the London docks, where his battleship is waiting for him to board.

McMissile is close behind and manages to grapple himself to the Professor's back bumper. The battleship produces a giant magnet and a tug of war between the ship and McMissile occurs. McMissile is ultimately able to project a few grenades at the ship's magnet, which cause it to explode.

In the center of London Mater, Shiftwell and Lightning attempt to disarm his engine-mounted bomb. McMissile arrives towing a tied-up Professor Z. Despite his best efforts Mater is unable to unscrew the bomb from his engine, citing that the screws are only used in Lemons. Using voice activation Mater attempts to disarm the bomb, but discovers that the bomb has a fail-safe for such a scenario. It begins counting down from 5 minutes. McMissile and Shiftwell theorize that the bomb can only be disarmed by the car's voice that armed it.

They demand that Professor Z disarm it. He obliges, but the good guys are shocked to find the clock tick from 5 to 4 minutes; meaning that Professor Z did not arm the bomb. So when filmmakers decided to make Doc a part of Cars 3 and were loath to use a soundalike, they had plenty of material. I think the actual real Paul Newman believed every phrase of that little rant he goes on.

Going through the tapes brought up a lot of old feelings for Lasseter. Facebook Twitter Email.