This review starts with a small disclaimer. I have not seen any of the previous Cars or Planes films and I must admit that I could not fully invest in the story of a champion racer who suffers an injury and trains to become a firefighter because I could not fathom the logic of this world.
I know that might be harsh to the Pixar/Disney franchise, especially when I have no problem with a world of talking bugs or toys that come to life when the kids aren't in the room but the idea of a world populated by nothing but talking cars and planes? Too much.
Perhaps the genesis of this world was explained in one of the previous films but for this reviewer, there are just too many questions created by this scenario.
For example who makes the cars and planes?
Do the vehicles get together and procreate, spawning Minis?
Do they assemble each other? If so, how? They do not possess the opposable thumbs required for the manual labour involved in building a complex piece of machinery.
If they are assembling each other, it then leads to the question, why?
There is a world populated by vehicles designed to transport humans but there are none. Is this some weird dystopian future where humans have died out, leaving behind artificially intelligent vehicles?
If it is, then what killed them? How did they die out? Can't have been from a lack of fossil fuels as there still seems to be enough petrol, diesel, etc to power and entire planet full of planes and cars. And who exactly is mining and refining these fuels?
These are just a few of the questions that came to mind and found infinitely more interesting that the film going on in front of me.
No need to call 999 because it sure isn't plane sailing for this turgid animation as there isn't even a spark to start a fire here.
1 star
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