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Mark Nielsen. Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs.
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In a world populated by anthropomorphic vehicles during the last race of the 2006 Piston Cup Season and championship at the Motor Speedway of the South, a skilled but arrogant rookie race car, Lightning McQueen, has overtaken his opponents, avoided a huge wreck, and built up a huge lead over the cup's defending reigning (but soon retiring) seven-time "golden boy" champion, Strip "The King" Weathers, and perennial runner-up Chick Hicks. However, because of his refusal to make regular pit stops and get new tires, his rear worn tires blow out on the final lap, forcing him to skid and ultimately crawl to the finish line, barely managing to tie the King and Chick in a photo finish by sticking his tongue out at the finish line. Race officials announced that because the three racers are also tied in overall season points, they will compete in one final tiebreaker race to be held in California at the Los Angeles International Speedway in one week to determine the champion.
While traveling west on Interstate 40, Lightning becomes separated from Mack, his transport truck, and while trying to catch up becomes lost on U.S. Route 66, catching the attention of the local Radiator Springs Sheriff in the process. A chase ensues, during which Lightning crashes through a barbed wire fence and gets tangled, damaging part of the town's main street using the statue of the town's founder in the process.
Lightning is taken to traffic court, where the town's attorney, Sally Carrera, pleads and defends against Lightning. He is sentenced to repave the road using "Bessie", an asphalt-laying machine. Only interested in leaving and extremely furious, he makes an escape attempt before being hooked up, only to discover that his gas was siphoned. Lightning rushes through his first day of paving after hearing that Chick Hicks arrived first to practice for the tiebreaker, and the new road surface is so bumpy, unusable, uneven, and poorly splattered. Instead of apologizing, Lightning only knows that the job is done and he can leave. The town is in shock at how bad the road looks and becomes offended when Lightning only states the road fits the town. When Sally demands to know what happened, Lightning says that he was told that when he was done he could leave but Doc says he was supposed to fix the road instead of worsen it and he is ordered to scrape it off and start over again.
When Doc Hudson offers Lightning a deal ― beat Doc in a race around Willy's Butte and he is free to go and let the former take his place ― Lightning eagerly accepts. He leaves Doc in the dust at the starting line, but loses control on the loose dirt turn and crashes into a cactus patch. While the town's tow truck, Mater, hauls Lightning out of the cactus patch in which he landed, Doc effortlessly cruises to the finish line after taunting Lightning by saying that he races like he fixes roads, in a lousy way. Lightning is forced to scrape off the botched pavement and start over again.
As the ensuing days pass, Lightning is disturbed by visions of Chick Hicks winning the Piston Cup and earning the Dinoco sponsorship. In time, he starts to befriend the town's residents and learn more about the town's history in the process: how Radiator Springs was once a thriving town until completion of the nearby interstate bypassed the little town, depriving it of its business traffic and visitors (and ironically, depriving those passing visitors of the natural beauty found in the scenery along the old highway); how Sally left behind her wealthy yet unhappy life as an urban lawyer; being taught on how to do "tractor tipping" (a parody of cow tipping); and how Doc Hudson was once a famous race car himself (the "Fabulous Hudson Hornet") ― and three-time Piston Cup champion ― until a horrible crash in 1954 ended his racing career.
Doc bitterly refuses to reveal much more about his past (despite Lightning witnessing him expertly drifting through the loose dirt of Willy's Butte where Lightning crashed), labeling his old trophies as "a bunch of empty cups".
is the last film worked on by Joe Ranft, who died in a car accident in 2005. The film was the second to be dedicated to his memory, after Corpse Bride. This is also the last (non-documentary) movie for Paul Newman before his retirement in 2007 and his death in 2008. It turned out to be the highest-grossing film of his career.
The original script (called The Yellow Car, about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world), some of the original drawings and characters were produced in 1998 and the producers agreed that Cars could be the next movie after A Bug's Life and would be released in early 1999, particularly around June 4. However, the movie was eventually scrapped in favor of Toy Story 2. Later, production resumed with major script changes, like giving Mater, Doc, and a few other characters a bigger part.
John Lasseter has said that the idea for Cars was born after he took a cross-country road trip with his wife and five sons in 2000. When he returned to the studio after vacation, he contacted Michael Wallis, a Route 66 historian. Wallis then led eleven Pixar animators in rented white Cadillacs on two different road trips across the route to research the film.
In 2001, the movie's working title was Route 66 (after U.S. Route 66), but in 2002, the title was changed to prevent people from thinking it was related to the 1960 television show with the same name. In addition, Lightning McQueen's number was originally going to be 57 (Lasseter's birth year) but was changed to 95 (the year Toy Story was released).
The Cars soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on June 6, 2006. Nine tracks on the soundtrack are by popular artists, while the remaining eleven are score cues by Randy Newman. It has two versions of the classic Bobby Troup jazz standard "Route 66" (popularized by Nat King Cole), one by Chuck Berry and a new version recorded specifically f...
was originally going to be released on November 4, 2005, but on December 7, 2004, the movie's release date was changed to June 9, 2006, with Chicken Little taking over its original release date. Analysts looked at the release date change as a sign from Pixar that they were preparing for the pending end of the Disney distribution contract by either ...
A sequel to the film, titled Cars 2, was released on June 24, 2011. It was directed again by John Lasseter, who was inspired for the film while traveling around the world promoting the first film. In the sequel, Lightning McQueen and Mater head to Japan and Europe to compete in the World Grand Prix, but Mater becomes sidetracked with international espionage.
Another sequel titled Cars 3 was released on June 16, 2017.
Although this movie was rated G in the United States, it was rated PG in the United Kingdom. The reason for this change is because of some frightening scenes, reckless behavior, and two uses of mild bad language.
Jun 9, 2006 · 50 side by side images of the Cars cast (Movie). Gallery view of the voice actors and their characters.
Cars is a feature film released by The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation Studios on June 9, 2006. It is the first film in the Cars series , as well as the first installment of the overall series, being released only three days after Cars: The Videogame and Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures .
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