Cars 2 [DVD] [2011] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

My and my boy had a movie night and it was a great watch!

I took my 6 year old son to the cinema to see this film and he was glued to the screen all the way through, it was colourful and fast moving which was perfect for my son who tends to bore easily. I have to say I'm quite surprised at the negative response this film has had, its good fun and definitely one for the Kids!!

Has good quality

Good film

I don't think this film is as bad as people are saying. Its not Pixars best film but is still really good.The 3D in this blu ray isn't that bad, nothing really sticks out much but there is depth and everything is easy to see despite the fast pace.There is a seance of speed in the film which Pixar has managed to capture really well; usually in films trying to portray speed it doesn't really do a good job.On the whole a good 3D blu ray and a very nice film which most people will enjoy.

The graphics and storyline was excellent. My 12 year old son loved the new cars and I could hear him laughing throughout the movie.

If I split this review into two parts, that will make it easier to understand my thoughts.Technically, the presentation of this film is superb. The animation of PIXAR is captured beautifully by the resolution capabilities of Bluray and the rich depth that they introduce into their productions is stunning. Also, the 3D is very good too. Disney/Pixar clearly 'get' that the 3D does not need to have things flying out of the screen at you to be good. You can do that in a 3D film of course...but that is a sure fire path to eye-strain and headaches and is nothing more than a parlour trick really. The real genius about using 3D well, is utilise it to give real depth to a frame. You give the viewer the illusion that you are looking out of a window, out into a deep and vast landscape of real, solid objects in a real open space.That is something that James Cameron also 'got' with AVATAR. In both of these films, they throw in the odd 'in your face' 3D tricks, but they never intrude too far into your living room/theatre and so did not over work your eye muscles.All the usual, superbly high quality presentation from Disney then. Walt Disney discs (be they DVD or Bluray) are usually always placed at a slightly higher price point, and with justifiable reason. Their stuff is always amongst the best of any item I have ever bought in the home media environment, and I do mean ever, even going back to the dim-and-now-distant days when I used to pre-order the latest Disney VHS titles for my sister (dear lord...pre-ordering VHS titles, did I really do that?).As to actual story. Oh dear. Allow me to elaborate a little, it's not a bad story as such...a PIXAR animated spy adventure...no it could have been a great little film, if they had decided to do that. Instead, they shoe-horned the idea into the CARS world. And that was a big mistake. Firstly, like all good films, CARS sure as doo-doo did not need a sequel. It was a done thing, that friendship, honour and loyalty meant more than winning Winning WINNING!! McQueen realised that, for all his simpler, slower and 'country' ways, that 'Mater was actually happy. Job's done!For him to now take several steps backward and deride his friend in public and try to elevate himself in JAPAN is just one overly obvious plot contrivance too far, it is clearly done to separate McQueen from 'Mater solely to allow the story to happen. In CARS, this separation of McQueen from his team mates happen believably, due to a realistic series of mistakes by his overly tired drive 'Mack' but here it has to happen to allow 'Mater to become the 'man inside'. McQueen's growth in the first film means that you know that these simple country ways are just one of the things he loves about his friend, there is not any pretence in 'Mater, so to suddenly re-notice his ways and them suddenly becoming an embarrassment to him is ludicrous!But as it's only put there to make the separation possible, it makes the whole story seem forced and implausible.Great presentation of a rather poor sequel, shame. Possibly PIXAR's first real failure?

Grandson aged 3 wanted to watch this but my 66 year old husband loved it too