The above is the beginning of "Cars 2", British agent Mike Missile sneaks into an armed smuggling bed to investigate, engage in fire with the gangsters, and then escape. Of course, the gangsters are also cars, a group of outdated models. Mike's prototype car is a 1950 version of the Peerless sports car and Aston? Martin DB5 crossover model, and Aston Martin DB5 is James Bond's iconic car (only Bond's car does not have missiles) , the intention of imitation and tribute is very obvious.
The beginning of this hot film sets the tone for the entire film - exciting and good-looking pursuit of visual effects. Pixar loyalists can leave the theater first or simply skip the theaters, as its motto of "most care about the story" is absent in this film. Like the previous episode, the protagonist "Lightning" McQueen still has to participate in various racing competitions, but this time it is a world round robin, so it is appropriate to make the movie a world famous city scenery film. So the director took the audience around in Tokyo, Paris, and Porto Corsa, Italy, showing the famous city scenery in big scenes, making superficial jokes about the iconic objects of those cities, as boring as "Rio Adventure".
There are still some interesting things to watch. The main creative team has worked hard to mechanize everything in the human world: the Japanese Rainbow Bridge is composed of auto parts such as valves, rocker arms and clockwork. Cars buy tires in street vending machines and find them. The Lattice Hotel (Lattice Parking) rests; Porto Corsa's dinghy parking area is shaped like a car wheel, the casino built on top of the rock is shaped like a 1948 Fiat Toplino, and the plush dice on the gaming table are the back Plush toys hanging on the sight glass; in Paris, the flocks of pigeons in the square are small planes, the Eiffel Tower is topped with a 1937 spark plug and the bottom is an electric coil, and Notre Dame de Paris is decorated with sculptures of twenty-four racing cars; St. Paul's University in London The church dome emblem was shaped like a car gearbox, and Big Ben became a big Bentley bell.
Of course, all the characters are also in the shape of cars. The sumo wrestler is a car, and the geisha is a new generation of Fiat 500. The audience watched how the car flew, how to date, how to take children. The most amazing is the Pope of Rome, the British The motorization of the queen and the prince, the queen is a Bentley car, and the prince William is a Bentley Continental GT sports car, and the sense of nobility is in place. Interestingly, the British palace guard, the prototype car is the Land Rover Defender. Like the real guard, he wears a gun and a high hat. He was molested by the broken trailer die (McQueen's friend) and remained motionless.
In addition to the well-known players on the field, this villain will make the eyes of many rare car enthusiasts bright. For example, Dr. Z's prototype car Zündapp Janus is a strange front and rear door car, and the other two The prototype of the main villain Grem is AMC Gremlin, and the prototype of Acer is AMC Pacer, both of which have long been eliminated, and now it seems that the design is very strange.
The scenes of the spy battle are sparse and ordinary, but because of the addition of the die, there is a little fun, and the trouble is everywhere, and the task is completed by accident. Dian Ya's role in this episode is heavier than McQueen's, a relatively successful adjustment for Pixar.
This year is Pixar's 25th year. Pixar attaches great importance to "Cars 2", so it is extremely mysterious. Earlier, there was no trailer, and it did not participate in the important Comic-Con. The film was originally directed by Brad Lewis, the producer of Ratatouille, but because he had no directing experience, Pixar boss John Lasseter joined in person. Pixar's first three animated feature films "Toy Story", "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story 2" were all directed by John Lasseter himself, but he is now the chief creative officer of Disney Animation and the chief fantasy engineer of Disneyland. Waiting for an important position, while supervising new films from Pixar and Disney Animation, feels like a abandonment of Pixar's core value of storytelling. In promoting the film, Lasseter emphasized the film's 3D special effects technology. To be honest, except for the 3D effect of the racing scene, the other is just unsatisfactory, and it is sad that Pixar promotes technology as the biggest highlight of the new film.
But at the end of the film, it's worth staying for a while to watch the cast and crew, and there's a lot of animation in which McQueen and Banya travel around the world, including one stop in China. The Chinese part, the most interesting is Xi'an, where the audience can see - Terracotta Warriors. Yes, the terracotta warriors and horses designed in the shape of a car can really make people laugh, and help the audience to get back a little bit of fare.
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