Cars 2
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: June 24, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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18
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16
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireIan FreerJul 18, 2011
It's not vintage Pixar, but Cars 2 is still streets ahead of most of the animated pack. For all its energy and Bondian panache, perhaps its problems are insurmountable: Pixar's cars - and their universe - don't resonate and endear as much as its toys, monsters, clownfish and OAP dreamers. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 24, 2011
This savvy and sensitive company has unapologetically made a movie for (very) young moviegoers. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 22, 2011
What Cars 2 lacks is that moment the best Pixar films have, when parents and children alike stand slack-jawed with awe at something wonderful happening on-screen - when the films move beyond mere entertainment and become something more, something better. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoJun 21, 2011
Formally, everything's in order-it's an attractive film with some ingenious action sequences-but the problems overwhelm the pleasures, leading to the conclusion that this film's trouble is under the hood. Read full review
58
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 24, 2011
The redneck rust bucket is on screen so much that 3-D glasses should come with tetanus shots. Read full review
55
MovielineStephanie ZacharekJun 23, 2011
The plot of Cars 2 is both overly convoluted and thin, and it folds in so much unvarnished toddler-instruction that it almost feels like an educational film. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 24, 2011
For the first time in its 25-year existence, Pixar has created an utterly ordinary film. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJun 23, 2011
Just who is Pixar aiming this movie at? Contemporary children or their great-grandparents? Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 23, 2011
It is not entirely without charm or wit. Directed by John Lasseter (with Brad Lewis credited as co-director) from a script by Ben Queen, Cars 2 lavishes scrupulous imaginative attention on its cosmopolitan settings. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 23, 2011
The movie has its own deficits - a lack of variety, originality, subtlety, clarity and plain old charm. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJun 23, 2011
Cars 2 makes for a decent play date but is not an especially good movie. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 23, 2011
Lasseter's sequel smooshes the vehicular ensemble of the first "Cars" into a nefarious James Bond universe, heavy on the missiles and ray guns and Gatling guns and electrocutions. Sound peculiar? It is peculiar. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick SchagerJun 21, 2011
Notwithstanding John Turturro's amusingly smug Italian F1 speedster and a few lighthearted jabs at Japanese TV and technology, Cars 2 generally remains stuck in neutral. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinJun 23, 2011
Cars 2 looks fantastic, but the studio has never given audiences - especially audiences over the age of 10 - less reason to be emotionally invested in the beautiful shiny things flying across the screen. Read full review
40
TimeMary PolsJun 23, 2011
A Pixar movie is always lively, and this might be the studio's liveliest (and loudest) yet - but its leanest in terms of warmth and heart. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJun 21, 2011
The razzle-dazzle can't distract from the monotonously overstuffed spy-film plot. Read full review
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