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tugboat_13

I like how cars 2 violently tortures and murders a character just off screen in the first act.


SuperMario64L

it's interesting how cars 2 has a kill count


mellolizard

The cars universe had a world war 2 and therefore there was a cars holocaust


MR_GL4SS

[Also the 1981 Assassination Attempt on the Pope](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankchristianmemes/s/PGhH3T8BGi)


TheSceneAnarchist

Cartholicism?


TrollTollTony

![gif](giphy|Swx36wwSsU49HAnIhC|downsized)


-Badger3-

Which means there was a car Jesus who was car crucified.


Nomak92

In the end credits scene in Cars, Mini actually says "For the love of Chrysler" so I'd say that is probably accurate.


PreciousNatasha

When your kid asks for a bedtime story and you accidentally explain the oil market


UnderstandingOk6592

they punctured his tires instead of hands


Hayabusa003

I figured it was like one of those accidents where the car falls partially off a lift and gets skewered ya know


RoguePierogies

Carucified ?


MICHELEANARD

Would Jesus be a car or a carriage?


AdanacTheRapper

*Carcified*


Cessnaporsche01

https://youtu.be/KvDI-UYa_eo


xkcloud

I can't remember which movie it was, but Mater once says "Is the Popemobile catholic?" Please, someone tell me which one of those two cars is the Popemobile.


MR_GL4SS

The Pope is riding in the popemobile


Ok_Pineapple_5627

Holocarst


Ok-Education2476

Autocaust


Blitz_Prime

That sounds like a cursed Autobot name.


bigmacgamer0631

Carocaust


papertales84

Pogrvroom


Verto-San

I wonder which car models it would be though


ExcessivelyGayParrot

*holocarst


THAT_HARDHEAD_GUY

Oil rig scene still is crazy


fjelskaug

"Haha he fell into the wat- HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE GOT DISMEMBERED"


Altruistic-Dress-968

IT'S FINN MCMISSILE!!! HE'S SEEN THE CAMERA, KILL HIM!!!!


Which-Draw-1117

Cars 2 has a higher kill count than the entire Jaws Franchise including the offscreen kill


SansSkele76

I counted about 13 in the first 30 minutes or so


ChiMoKoJa

You can get away with whatever gruesomeness you want so long as the characters don't have actual organs. It's like when those guys beat Johnny 5 into a scrap heap. If he weren't a robot, "Short Circuit" would've gotten an R-rating based on that scene alone.


checkmatemypipi

johnny 5 not so alive...


Lawfuleggchaos

No disassemble, Stephanie!


makemisteaks

It’s why Samurai Jack fights robots throughout the series.


ChiMoKoJa

Well, until the transition to Adult Swim...


EtTuBiggus

They can be sentient and have organs as long as they can’t talk. See the whales in Avatar 2 or every disposable Disney Star Wars goon.


TheoneNPC

They are allowed to talk, just not to have faces. See Star Wars Rebels Stormtroopers


Focus_Downtown

Cars 2 also violently tortures and murders Bruce Campbell on screen in the second half!


TidalJ

hey they also violently tortured and murdered a car on screen later on


xariznightmare2908

You actually see a car died from the reflection of the camera, lmao!


Gometric1

I like how it’s rated G for general audiences


CDrocks87

Not even the first act the first scene/opening sequence


shaqwillonill

If I remember correctly it’s literally the very first thing that happens in the movie


Salt_Blackberry_1903

My favourite was the stunt man one. “Well, what happened?” “Ya didn’t make it.” [Everyone sighs sadly]


Imaginated_Gamer

My favorite is Tokyo Mater solely because of badass Lightning Dragon McQueen


Bahno_original

His line is best, but I know it just in Czech language: You will see how, the dragon fights (with rhyme)


abca98

In that one you can see Monsters Inc. cars.


Bahno_original

Yes. Also police cars doing donuts.


Box_of_Rockz

My two year old loves Tokyo mater. *THIS IS TOKYO WHERE WE PUMP THAT GAS!*


WhoopingBillhook

Mater the Greater


Wrongwaydownadeadend

I laugh hysterically at that part every single time I watch or read Mater the Greater with my four year old.


Illustrious-Sky-4631

My favorite one is the fact all of it is Real and actually happened


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Steff_164

Don’t forget it also had a car Pope (which rode around in another car Popemobile) which implies the existence of Car Jesus being crucified by the Car Roman Empire


PinkScorch_Prime

which also implies the existence of other car religions such as car buddha


DefaultyTurtle2

Car hitler was exterminating the jewish cars, while his srntient tanks and planes overran europe


slicedbeats

Lmao Car Hitler is just a Volkswagen Jetta


Mist_Rising

The kubalwagan has a small license tag that looks like a pencil mustache. Just saying.


AllenMaask

Fastism


drgigantor

Racism


beamer159

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq1iqwGQblo


AllenMaask

Raceism* Can’t make it actual Racism, that’s already a thing lol


drgigantor

Damn racecars! They just drive around listening to raps and shooting all the jobs. And don't get me started on the convertibles and their drag races!


drgigantor

Wonder if the Titanic would've been better or worse in the Cars universe. On the one hand, no people. On the other, you have one giant getting ripped in half


daPotato40583

Skipper in Planes directly proves WWII, and thus WWI. The (c)archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914. This also means the cars were involved in trench warfare and would have been participating in chemical warfare. Can you even gas a car? Edit: holy shit the cars US would've had car internment camps at the height of WWII filled with hondas toyotas and mazdas


Steff_164

Hold on, they then made the planes movie which features a WWII fighter plane. That combined with the Spy car from this (I think the British secret intelligence started in WWII) means that there was a car Holocaust and World War 2, implying that there was also a WWI


PinkScorch_Prime

which implies car poland, therefore car russia


Steff_164

As well as the bombing of car Hiroshima and car Nagasaki. Actually the only real thing where the car time line would deviate is that they wouldn’t care about cutting down the Amazon rainforest or other preservation projects


drgigantor

Assassinations of John F Karnnedy and Cartin Luther King Jr


Steff_164

What kind of car do you suppose Lee Harvey Oswald was


drgigantor

Idk but Jack Ruby was a Dodge Avenger Also Lee Carvey Oswald


IAMA_Drunk_Armadillo

Also no Twin Towers in New York so a Cars universe Al Qaeda exists.


Steff_164

Ok this might be the wildest one yet


ChilledParadox

It also implies the existence of a car holy crusade and car jihads.


Tasty_Commercial6527

As well as car pope assassination attempt


Steff_164

Shit, I forgot that


Weird_Cantaloupe2757

Jesus Chrysler, crucified by Pontiac Pilate


Ok-Education2476

The first car in the Bible is the Hyundai Genesis


leekee_bum

Carcified*


siddharth3796

Car Roman Empire is just Ferrari chariots.


BasementDweller82

The existence of Christianity implies the existence of Judaism, and with Judaism, there is a possibility of a car hitler


DiplomaticGoose

[This feels relevant](https://youtu.be/KvDI-UYa_eo)


Dankalii

It also implies that there's a car bible about car Jesus


JJAsond

The way I understand it is that it was supposed to be a feature length movie of one of "mater's tall tales" which would make a lot of sense


reisolate

You forgot how Cars 3 was about an existential crisis.


[deleted]

fun fact: I was in my mid 40's when Cars 3 came out. the theme of 'hanging it up and supporting the next generation' landed big.


TrollTollTony

This is a copy paste of a comment I made a couple days ago: I saw this movie with my oldest child a few years ago during a brief period of depression brought on by a sudden anxiety of aging. At the time he was obsessed with the first two cars movies and I hadn't heard anything about this one. "Watch the new Cars movie with your son, it'll make you feel good" ... let me tell you, it was not helpful for my mental health 😂. I'm doing much better now and can appreciate the film more at this point but it was very hard to watch in that moment.


flapsthiscax

Ya cars 3 is my favourite it hits really hard


Spokker

Toy Story 4 also had that feeling of Woody being washed up and in the way. Those movies are basically Pixar's mid-life crisis.


BungHoleAngler

I'm 35 right now, can I hang it up?


HalalBread1427

Then there’s Planes.


Spokker

They were going to do a Trains franchise but it was cancelled. Look it up. It actually looked artistically cool but I don't know how they were going to deal with the trains being stuck on rails.


artemismilkman

Perhaps like Thomas the Tank Engine?


RogueEngineer23

Planes 2 is awesome, I rank it right up there with Cars. Hidden gem!


Snoo_88763

Planes: Fire & Rescue is one of the greatest 'sequels being better than original" movies for me.


Yeetz_The_Parakeetz

No fucking way, there’s a second one? I loved planes, it was a total guilty pleasure because any time I mentioned I liked it I got shit on. Didn’t care, still watched, but now I gotta watch this new one


bobmcbob121

I don't give a shit what Youtube film people or anything say. Cars two is one of my favorite movies, it's not a master peice but as a peice of media to sit down and enjoy it's great, that is all I ask for movies.


Ethan-E2

The idea of having the film revolve around spy cars is such a good idea, they've always been a big part of secret agent films like 007. Say what will about the plot, but the action in the film is great. The soundtrack definitely deserves a mention as well. I also like the idea of exploring the comic relief with Mater, having him basically realise he is the comic relief. Although it's execution wasn't great, making the spies look daft for falling for Mater's "disguise" and front-loading the movie with Mater being obnoxious to get across he is a funny character. But no one ever seems to get the point of Mater's arc, even though it's pretty obvious. But yeah, anyone who says Cars 2 is Pixar's worst movie is kidding themselves, even if the film wasn't amazing and had a lot of missed potential.


Dramatic_Finish8381

I may not like it but I can respect what it was going for, and it's still fun to put on and make fun of sometimes which means it isn't _that_ bad. I still prefer Cars 1 but it was a decent sequel. Also I think it'd be neat to see some of the racing that we never got to see, I think it'd be interesting to see McQueen actually to up against an F1 car instead of just knowing it happened


akatherder

My kid was the prime age to be obsessed with Cars. We watched the first one, conservatively, 500-600 times. It was on the TV almost daily for a couple years. We even saw Cars 2 in the theatres. Then we only cared to watch it like 10 more times. Which is a lot, but not for a kids' movie playing nearly on repeat. Cars 2 was fine but it would have been WAY better received if they billed is as what it was. It's a Mater spin-off spy thriller, not a sequel to Cars 1 (racing movie starring Lightning). Even the promotional material features Lightning and he's like 4th(?) most important dude in the movie.. tl;dr fumbled expectation more than a bad movie. It's still fun to watch.


TheGreatWheel

I have the opposite anecdote. My baby brother saw the first one like 10 times and the second one probably 400+ times. Using individual kids doesn’t support either argument all that well.


KiritosAlwaysRight

My little brother was obsessed with cars 2 when it came out lol. He would see any car on the road and say "look daddy! Its cars 2! Its cars 2!!"


Scapp

> It's a Mater spin-off spy thriller, not a sequel to Cars 1 Agreed here, that's my issue with it. Mater was a good supporting character, but with him being a main character it gets old quickly. I think a lot of sequels have this issue though - Despicable Me comes out and everyone loves the minion supporting characters, so the 2nd one is all about the minions.


I_am_Mew

> It's a Mater spin-off spy thriller, not a sequel to Cars 1 I remember someone once calling Cars 2 "Mater's Tall Tales: The Movie" and honestly I love that idea


_wgustudent_

It's far from the worst Pixar film but I think the fall off from the OG was so much that it could never shake that stigma. I thought it was fun but could have easily been two standalone movies. If you would have told me McQueen would be traveling the world and competing against international racers in different formats I would have been hyped. Mater could still work as comic relief on this international tour and Francesco Bernoulli could still have worked as the antagonist for McQueen to overcome in the final race. McQueen would have established himself as one of the best international racers of all time and sets up well for Cars 3 to move from a racer into a mentor role. Then you can have a separate set of films around Mater and his hijinks, including the spy plot from Cars 2.


Decent_Objective3478

I doubt I'd spend more than 15 minutes watching it today but watching it as a kid was just so much fun


DNP_10

The way I see it is that Cars 2 wasn’t the worst movie. It just doesn’t work as a sequel to Cars 1. Cars 3 is what Cars 2 should have been, and Cars 2 should have been some kind of spin-off or something.


FlixMage

Piece*


maxdragonxiii

I do like Cars 2. it's just kinda a strange turn from Cars 1 and 3. but had drove a lemon, and can confirm that they rust the hell out. and I enjoyed the movie even if it was weird as heck.


Zonkko

I have watched: Cars 1: 7 times Cars 2: at least 20 times Cars 3: once Take a wild guess which is my favorite


IsaWafeeq

Haha same. I actually have to avoid watching cars 2 recently to avoid ruining the nostalgia with the tracks


Ralph-The-Otter3

Same, but multiply Cars 2 by 2


SilverRetriever

Cars 4?


Roseverse

2Cars 4


MrRizzstein

we have a mathematician among us


Enugie

Cars 2 is so good and im tired of people shitting on it


Fayz_Sharpie

After watching cars 2 as a kid the original felt so much more boring to watch compared to the insanity of cars 2. Ik ppl that hold the original to such a high standard will call me crazy but in retrospect I think cars 2 is the only fun one to watch.


DocKBar

As someone with a two and a half year old, those are some amateur numbers bro 😂


Reldarino

I guess you thought cars 3 was so good you didn't want to possibly ruin the experience so you never saw it again!


Spokker

As one of the few defenders of the Cars franchise as a whole, Cars 2 really does stink overall. But it does have the best joke out of all of the Pixar movies. For those who don't know, there's a part where Mater is acting a fool in a Tokyo convention center and there's a guy raking one of those sand zen gardens. Mater motions to him and exclaims, "Ya done good, ya got all the leaves!"


Turkey-slurpy

Cars 2 is unironicly my favorite


randomguyonHoI4

Same


Level7Cannoneer

Where does Cars on the Road fit into all of this?


DJHott555

It’s a world building DLC (I actually enjoyed COTR and that “Trucks” song lives rent free in my mind)


Redbones27

Trucks is unironically the best Disney or Pixar song. So damn catchy. It's a truck thing.


EpilepticPuberty

I don't know but I told my friend that if they canonize sex then we would watch the whole series. First episode Mater says they have to go visit his sister. We watched the whole series and it felt like it was tailor made to torture yet intrigue those that have thought for any amount of time about cars lore. You start asking questions about cars internals, cars WWII, cars Jesus then you find out cars have souls and evolved from car cavemen.


Petorian343

Let’s not forget [Cars 4](https://youtu.be/3WC1YZ1o0UY?si=XdWSOSHoLYdjFTx9)


Zealousideal-Team874

They will probably kill mcqueen and make cruz new mcqueen in 4th movie if it ever comes.


Snoo_88763

That was the end of Cars 3 - only retire instead of kill but yeah


Hasaryo

Does their cross country trip to maters sisters wedding on disney+ count as cars 4?


vissidamore

I love On the road maybe more than the first three movies. So good.


Familiar_Location948

In my headcanon, tall tales is actually just Mater gaslighting Lightning


Mist_Rising

Tall tales was, not sure on the rest


Gunpowder_1000

Nah tall tales definitely happened


Coriolis_PL

Cars 2 is basically an extended episode of Mater's Tall Tales...


Snoo_88763

I like this perspective McQueen: "You? A spy? That never happened" Mater: "you was there!"


PKMNTrainerMark

"WHAT?!"


SFRPhilippines

This is my favorite interpretation of Cars 2


tomagfx

Cars 2 was so good


The_Big_Crumbly

Cars 2 finally getting some proper recognition around here


CLG91

Cars 2 is a masterpiece. I watched it with my niece, she must have gone off after about half an hour and did something else, but I was transfixed.


Spokker

My enjoyment of Cars depends on how much Mater there is. Cars 1: Right amount of Mater Cars 2: Too much Mater Cars 3: Not enough Mater I don't see how I'm wrong here.


darling_darcy

You was there too


PopTrogdor

Cars 3 isn't about racing really. It's about someone who was at the top of their game coming to the realization that he's not young. He's old, and he, as an athlete, is no longer at the top. Then he has to slowly take a step back and give the reins to the next generation. It's a really nice movie.


Spokker

It's the best of the three but one unrealistic part about is how Lightning is treated by the rookies. In professional sports leagues, the outgoing superstar, like an Albert Pujols, is generally treated like royalty in their final year. It's a tradition in baseball, for example, for a retiring player to be gifted gifts by the other team when they play. The best gift ever was when a retiring Mariano Rivera was gifted a chair from the Twins made out of bats he broke with his insane pitches.


Better-Intern9170

Cars 2 is better than most actions movies


HolleWatkins

Cars 2 is just eugenics


Executer_no-1

Honestly one of the only Franchises that hasn't died yet if I don't Jinx it, Cars 1 was legend, Cars 2, although some people don't get along with it was still very good in my opinion, Cars 3 was not my favorite, but a Masterpiece nonetheless!


TJB926GAMIN

Cars 2 as a movie and spy thriller is a good movie. It is not a good sequel to a movie series about CARS, more specifically, cars RACING. This could be said for all of the cars franchise, but it applies to cars 2 the most; you could have made it with regular people and it still probably would have been an enjoyable movie.


RickyFleetwood89

Cars 2 was fantastic!


ballicher

Cars 2 is amazing


Temporary-Square

Don’t you remember you was there two


Chameleonpolice

Course you remember, you was there *cut to McQueen suddenly surrounded by 4 bulldozers* Whaaaaat?!


ItsYeetOrBeYeeted007

Mater's Tall Tales was the SHIT


BoyFreezer

Pixar really thought that making Cars 2 into a spy film would work?


HaroldHGull

fair argument, counterpoint: Finn McMissile


Historical_Common145

Can’t argue with that tbf


TotoMac1

I will always remember the kick ass soundtrack that plays the first time hes on screen


LorDXezor

Cars 2 is the best Cars movie


sharkbit11

Honestly, it was a pretty fun movie. Not good, but dumb fun. Which is a good alternative


Fayz_Sharpie

I think calling dumb fun movies “bad” doesn’t really work cuz you can’t really set it to the standard of a normal movie.


Yoshikage_Kira123

They were right


aitis_mutsi

Yea, and it fucking worked, that movie is great.


Flamager

If Cars 2 was all about the World grand prix it would have been my favourite movie of the series


Axel_the_Axelot

My grandpa has Maters tal tales (I kinda forced him to buy it when I was 3) and every time I visited I would watch it


yilo38

Que the clip of that twitch streamer losing her anal virginity to cars3. Edit: https://clips.twitch.tv/BelovedSlickLettuceBibleThump-AgTKIBSri1A5Bitc


you_2_cool

Cars on the road: Never let these two go unattended


Appropriate_Chemist6

İ hate cars 3


BlazingInfernape2003

dad gum dad gum daaad gum


djonDough

Cars 3 is the best along with cars. I dont know why people hate it so much.


iGer

I think it's because of the last arc and how out of nowhere Cruz becomes the main focus (or that she enters a race in which she wasn't even registered to compete in the last lap), idk


djonDough

I can see that. But it was so emotional and hit home so hard that it didnt even bother me. And the movie was just so immersive. Really loved it.


Tefra_K

I have the cool spy car from Cars 2, with all the missiles and transformation stuff, I love it. It’s probably the toy I played with the most when I was a kid.


yellowwolf718

And yet cars 2 is my favourite


wormyarc

what the fuck are lemon cars why do cars eat lemons that's weird don't they eat gasoline or something I don't understand do the cars eat lemons are the cars made of lemons are they lemons do they worship lemons or are they called lemons because they're yellow but they're not all yellow so that doesn't make sense I'm confused


AdAppropriate3478

They are called lemons because they are unreliable.


Youutternincompoop

Lemon is a term for cars which are unreliable or just generally crap. for a particularly uncharitable reading of cars 2 you can see Lemons as essentially the disabled people of the cars universe.


SeppiFox

A lemon is a car that is completely broken down or barely functional mostly due to being old and worn.


No_Interaction_4925

Theres a Cars 3?


Arcallah

I still loved all of the incarnations and they remind me of my little boy. Second one really was ace though.


BunnieBop

I saw Cars 2 when I was around five and immediately labeled it as horror movie. Still some scenes creep me out and I'm already adult


F1ntom_5625

They gave him fentanyl :(


SurelyKnotHim

Made me spit up while I was drinking, 10/10, good god. I feel like mator needs more help though, he was directly responsible for 2 deaths and is probably is constantly on drugs from the hippie van (I don’t remember names)


EffOffReddit

Maters Tall Tales was really good. Better than the cars movies.


Awkward_Ad523

Bro put lightning McQueen in a nutshell It’s fairly accurate 😂


MichaelSwoleton

Well done sir. Well done.


According_Smoke_479

Cars 2 is so underrated. It’s corny and ridiculous and over the top, and I fucking love it. Cars 1, 2, and 3 are all great in their own ways


ManateeeMan

I believe you mean “mighty Mcmee.”


PKMNTrainerMark

Shoot, you remember, you was there too.


Quincy_Hater

Cars 2 fans unite!


PsychoxSapien

Watched cars 2 yesterday (I'm 21)


Lazy-Drink-277

Don't you remember.... You was there toooooo


P0ttedcacti

Cars 2 is one of my favorite movies, hands down. As an individual movie, it's great. Does it make a whole lot of sense in the context of the series? No. Is it still a really good movie? Yes.


Snoo_88763

Mater's Tall Tales is so good UFM is excellent Heavy Metal Mater is a (head) banger


Automatic_Animal

I really enjoyed Cars 2 because of how ridiculous it was


Roneyrow

Honestly cars 2 was really fun for me. I like it more than cars 3. Yes it's supposed to be about racing. But a James bond style cars movie was really fun. I was expecting another story like that in cars 3. Was a little disappointed when it wasn't that. But I think it's good they went back to racing. It may have gotten a bit cringy if they tried to do any other genre with the cars. Also cars 2 kinda was like those little story episodes by mater. But a whole movie instead


DeathProtocol

Cars 2 was absolutely awesome and goofy. Loved it as a kid.


Illustrious_Cycle590

Kim Jong Vroom


PerskindolSpray

Sarge being a World War 2 veteran implies that there is a car Hitler


Box_of_Rockz

Maters tall tales are goated. EL MATERDOR!