Cars 3 is the third part of the largely popular franchise from pixar. Its directed by Brian Fee and once again has our favourite Lightning McQueen voiced by Owen WIlson returning to the races. Going into this, I had lowered my expectations because of the failure of cars 2, which instead of focusing on cars and its plot went to explore unnecessary areas trying to turn it into a stupid spy movie.
Lightning McQueen is finally the main focus and Mater was sidelined for good, and it was really nice that the makers had realised their mistake. McQueen is racing along with his veteran buddies but out of nowhere comes this car, Jackson Storm, a rookie who steals every race he's in and who's also much faster, more advanced and superior to McQueen in every way. McQueen's veteran buddies are all retiring around him, leaving him the only 'old' car in town who still wants to race.
I really like how the series is adapting to time, showing all the advancements in technology. There's racing simulators, virtual reality, treadmills, electrical paints and other cool stuff like that. McQueen is wounded both physically and mentally because he's unable to keep up with these new comers and gets seriously damaged in the process. He takes time delving into what went wrong and what he must to in order to keep pace with the other racers and with the press constantly asking him when he's going to retire. McQueen wants to decide for himself when he retires but to do so, he must prove that he's still the racer the world thought he was.
McQueen's new sponsor assures him that he's going to be an amazing brand and that money is going to come flying to him once he's done. But McQueen is beyond all that and for him, racing matters more than anything else in the world. As he struggles to fix his problem, he meets a new trainer, Cruz Ramirez who aspired to be a racer but ended up as a trainer due to low confidence levels and bad bullies around her. McQueen meets some old friends of the Hudson Hornet, his mentor who is no more and seeks their advise and they all come together to train him much better than those stupid simulators and VR racing arenas ever could have done, teaching him to race smarter instead of faster.
The first part had an amazing, out of the box ending which no one saw coming and this part does the same. With intense unconventional training and execution, this movie was one heck of a ride and is much more than Lightning McQueen trying to beat Jackson Storm, but Lighning McQueen accepting the reality that he's old and can never go as fast as the other cars. It was great to catch a glimpse of how the Hudson Hornet dealt with a similar situation and the fact that this movie wasn't all how fast and awesome Lightning McQueen is was more than applaudable. Great CGI, nice background scores, seeing more of the radiator springs, Sally, anyone who saw the first part and loved it as much as I did can appreciate it instead of questioning the logic behind this and nitpick how these cars are running without a driver.
In the end, once again, Pixar manages to impress me and I can say that I loved this the most. The target audience is pretty wide, we think that this is a movie for children but I felt like this had a little for all ages and especially those people who can't run as fast as they want to but still try. It was a breath of fresh air, some really dark DC comic like themes coming into play instead of the all fun themes pixar usually chooses.
Verdict:
7.5/10
At the end of the movie, there's an important message I got, that true happiness doesn't always come when you're out there in your prime performing exceptionally, reaching for the skies and breaking all records, sometimes being a mentor can be awesome too, it just made me realise how important good teachers are and a great teacher once said 'Those who can, do and those who can't, teach'
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