Cars 2 (2011) 8/10

Starring : Larry The Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard, John Turturro
Director : John Lasseter
Running Time : 102 mins

Race car Lightning McQueen (Wilson) is invited to take part in the World Grand Prix and invited his best pal Mater (Larry The Cable Guy) along for a much earned getaway, but when Mater is mistaken for an international spy by British spy cars Finn McMissile (Caine) and Holley Shiftwell (Mortimer), he finds himself involved in an investigation into a group of terrorist lemon cars that are causing cars using the latest oil substitute to explode.

I don’t know why so many people hate this movie so much. Maybe it’s because the lead role moves from Owen Wilson to Larry The Cable Guy, and Larry has never made a great movie. Usually it is the supporting actors in his movies that improve things, but here we don’t have to look at him which helps. Granted, there isn’t enough of the supporting characters, and a lot of the characters brought into this movie are simply there as plot device, but at least there was a plot, and the plot was actually pretty good, I enjoyed seeing the cars operating in the spy world, and fans of spy movies will love this, although there could have been more in jokes relating to things like Bond and Bourne.

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