Pixar Playlist #18 - Cars 3

 Ladies and Gentlemen, whether you like it or not, the Pixar Playlist

And we’re back for one, probably final lap with the Cars series. It’s said that major franchise sequels are needed to pay for their more original projects but with Cars it’s always been less about the films and more about the sweet, sweet merchandise.

The end result is that Cars 3 was in production since Cars 2 came out, but evidently the feedback from the last film shaped their decision to do a story more akin to the original Cars. The team did their research on professional athletes and their stories.

In the animation end, the team was helped by some new rendering technology that allowed them to preview their animation. The film underperformed, earning $385m on a $175m budget, at best it broke even and managed a mere 69% with audiences and critics on Rotten Tomatoes. But Cars films have never been Box Office darling, their money is in the merch Where do I stand here? Well, let’s take a look

Pixar Playlist #12 - Cars 2

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And oh boy, we're at Cars 2

Pixar have had a long of run of financial and critically successful movies, their critical success would come to an end with this film, and it wouldn’t nearly strike the level of financial success of the last 2 films, despite the $200m budget. Let’s not be coy about it though, it probably still made a killing in merchandise sales, hence the existence of another sequel and various shorts and spin-offs.

So, why is this one so despised? Let’s take a look.