Cars (English, 2006)

It was said about Sergie Bubka, the legendary pole-vault champion, that the question is not whether he will win, the question is whether he will better his previous performance. That is exactly what we can say about the Disney Animation films. Pixar Studios has established a reputation of turning out one good animation movie after another. Cars is no exception.

Animation movies have experimented with animals and toys having human personalities. Now its the turn cars. Cars is based in a world where the main species is cars. Where there are cars, there's car racing. Lightning McQueen is the hotshot rookie car competing against two seasoned pros for the Piston Cup Campionship. McQueen is the typical young professional, wanting to quickly rise above his current circumstanced, aspiring for fame, money and bigger contracts, full of personal pride and considering pit-stop-crew as appendages rather than team. As he is travelling to California to attend the big race, he gets lost and ends up in a small sleepy Town called Radiator Springs. And it is here that he realises that life is not all about running and winning, but about enjoying it, making friends and helping them, paying and gaining respect, and love.

There are many people in this world (yours truly included) who consider thier cars as living beings - as things of beauty, as mean vast machines, as objects of desire. It is the magic of Pixar to expand on our feelings for cars to understanding thier emotions, and to start loving a rusty tow-truck for tis friendliness. The beauty of Cars is the perfection with which it connects us to all its characters, the smoothness with which it puts feelings into these metal objects we call cars and the flow of a story which reminds us of that which is beautiful in all of us.

In Cars, Disney and Pixar have a new winner.
Recommendation - ✔✔✔