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Cars The Movie - Cars Pixar
is a 2006 animated feature film produced by Pixar and directed by
John Lasseter and the late Joe Ranft. It was the seventh Disney/Pixar
feature film, and the final film by Pixar before it was bought by
Disney.
Set in a world populated
entirely by anthropomorphic cars and other vehicles,
Cars The Movie features the
voices of Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Cheech Marin,
Tony Shalhoub, John Ratzenberger, George Carlin, and Larry the
Cable Guy, as well as cameos by several celebrities.
Cars premiered on May 26, 2006 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in
Concord, North Carolina and was released on June 9, 2006 to
generally favorable reviews. It was nominated for two Academy
Awards, including Best Animated Feature, and won the Golden Globe
Award for Best Animated Feature Film. It was released on DVD in
late 2006 and on Blu-ray Disc in late 2007. Related merchandise,
including scale models of several of the cars, broke records for
retail sales of merchandise based on a Disney/Pixar film, with an
estimated $1 billion in sales.
Cars opens in the
final race of the 2005 Piston Cup stock car racing season and
championship in the Motor Speedway of the South, where a skilled
but arrogant rookie racecar, Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), has
overtaken his opponents, avoided a car accident, and built a large
lead over two other prominent figures; the cup's defending (and
soon retiring) nine-time champion, Strip "The King" Weathers
(Richard Petty), and perennial runner-up and cheater Chick Hicks
(Michael Keaton).
Because of his refusal to
make regular pit stops for new tires, opting only to refill his
gasoline tank, Lightning's worn rear tires burst on the final lap,
causing him to skid and ultimately crawl to the finish line,
barely managing to tie The King and Chick Hicks in a photo finish.
Race officials announce that, because the three racers are also
tied in overall season points, they will compete in one final
tiebreaker race to be held at the Los Angeles International
Speedway, and give them one week to prepare.
Unlike most anthropomorphic cars, the eyes of the cars in this
film were placed on the windshield (which resembles the Tonka
Talking Trucks, as well as the characters from Tex Avery's One
Cab's Family short and Disney's own Susie the Little Blue Coupe),
rather than within the headlights. According to production
designer Bob Pauley, "From the very beginning of this project,
John Lasseter had it in his mind to have the eyes be in the
windshield. For one thing, it separates our characters from the
more common approach where you have little cartoon eyes in the
headlights. For another, he thought that having the eyes down near
the mouth at the front end of the car made the character feel more
like a snake. With the eyes set in the windshield, the point of
view is more human-like, and made it feel like the whole car could
be involved in the animation of the character."[3] The characters
also use their tires as hands and feet, the exceptions being the
various tow truck characters who sometimes uses their tow hooks,
and the various forklift characters, who use their forks.
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