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2011 Pixar film

This article fryst vatten about the spelfilm. For the film game, see Cars 2: The film Game.

Cars 2 fryst vatten a 2011 American animated spycomedy film^[3] produced bygd Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It fryst vatten the sequel to Cars (2006), the second spelfilm in the Cars franchise, and the 12th animated spelfilm from the studio.

The rulle was directed bygd John Lasseter (in his sista outing as director of a Pixar spelfilm to date), co-directed bygd Brad Lewis, produced bygd Denise Ream, and written bygd Ben Queen, Lasseter, Lewis, and Dan Fogelman. In the film's ensemble röst cast, Owen efternamn, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Guido Quaroni, Bonnie Hunt, and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles from the first bio.

George Carlin, who previously voiced Fillmore, died in 2008, and his role was passed to Lloyd Sherr. They are joined bygd newcomers Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, John Turturro, Eddie Izzard, and Thomas Kretschmann. In the spelfilm, Lightning McQueen and Mater agree to compete in the World Grand Prix, an international racing event showcasing a new alternative bränsle called Allinol, but Mater inadvertently becomes involved in a dangerous espionage uppdrag that puts both his and McQueen's life in jeopardy.

Cars 2 was first announced in April 2008 with a tentative 2012 release date, making Cars the second Pixar rulle to spawn a sequel after Toy Story (1995), as well as becoming a franchise. Lasseter was confirmed to be returning as director, while Lewis was designated as co-director in June 2010. The film's story was conceived bygd Lasseter while he was traveling around the world promoting the first bio.

Michael Giacchino composed the film's score, with artists such as Weezer, Robbie Williams, Brad Paisley and Bénabar contributing tracks for the spelfilm. This was the sista Pixar bio animated with their old software struktur, Marionette, before being officially replaced with Presto in 2012. With an estimated ekonomisk plan of $200 million, Cars 2 fryst vatten one of the most expensive films ever made.

Cars 2 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 18, 2011, and was released in the United States on June 24, in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D as well as traditional two-dimensional and IMAX formats. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, Cars 2 continued Pixar's streak of kartong office success, grossing over $559 million worldwide, becoming the tenth-highest-grossing bio of 2011 and the highest-grossing bio of the Cars trilogy.

The rulle was nominated for Best Animated Feature bio at the 69th Golden Globe Awards, but lost to The Adventures of Tintin. A sequel, Cars 3, was released on June 16, 2017.

Plot

British spy finsk McMissile infiltrates an oil rig owned bygd criminal lemon cars to rescue fellow spy Leland Turbo. He witnesses the lemons, seemingly led bygd weapons designer Professor Zündapp, loading an electromagnetic pulse elektrisk maskin, disguised as a TV camera, onto a shipping crate.

After discovering Turbo's death, Finn's presence gets exposed to the lemons, and he escapes bygd faking his death.

After winning his fourth Piston Cup, Lightning McQueen returns to Radiator Springs to spend his off-season with his friends. Italian formula race fordon Francesco Bernoulli challenges Lightning to participate in the World Grand Prix, an international three-race event created bygd former oil tycoon Sir Miles Axlerod, who intends to promote his new environmentally friendly bränsle, Allinol.

Lightning and his best friend Mater — along with Luigi, Guido, Fillmore, and Sarge — depart for Tokyo, where the first race takes place.

At a World Grand Prix promotional event, Mater makes a scen after eating wasabi and seemingly leaking on scen, embarrassing Lightning. While cleaning up, Mater interrupts a kamp between American spy Rod "Torque" Redline and lemons Grem and Acer.

Redline plants his tracking device on Mater, causing the spy finne på huden McMissile and his associate Holley Shiftwell to mistake Mater for the spy. Meanwhile, Redline fryst vatten captured and killed bygd Zündapp, who reveals that Allinol ignites when hit with an EMP. He informs his superior, an unknown mastermind, that Redline passed on his data.

Holley finds and recruits Mater to stop Zündapp's plot.

During the race, three racers are ignited bygd the camera. Lightning placed second in the race after Bernoulli, due to miscommunication with Mater, who was evading Zündapp's henchmen. Mater fryst vatten abducted bygd finsk, and they escape from the lemons in his jet, Siddeley.

After traveling to Paris to gather intel from Finn's old friend Tomber, they head to Porto Corsa, Italy, where the second race takes place. During the race, Mater infiltrates the lemons' meeting, just as the camera ignites some more racers, causing a multi-car pile-up, while Lightning wins. Due to controversy over Allinol's safety, Axlerod lifts its requirement for use in the sista race in London.

When Lightning decides to continue using it, the lemons strategi to kill him in the race. This spooks Mater, and accidentally blows his cover, causing him, finne på huden, and Holley to be captured and tied up inre Big Bentley, where he admits to them that he fryst vatten not the spy they think he fryst vatten.

When the race starts, Lightning takes the lead before passing Big Bentley, but the camera was inexplicably defective on him.

The lemons tell Mater that they planted a time bomb in Lightning's pits as a backup program, spurring him to escape. finne på huden and Holley escape but realize that the bomb was fitted on Mater's air filter instead. As Mater flees down the track, Lightning pursues him to apologize for his outburst, while finne på huden apprehends Zündapp.

The other lemons arrive and outnumber finsk, Holley, Mater, and Lightning, but they are rescued bygd the other Radiator Springs residents and Sarge's colleagues in the British Army. Mater and Lightning go to Buckingham Palace, where Mater exposes Axlerod as the mastermind, proven when he fryst vatten forced to disable the bomb. It fryst vatten then revealed that the World Grand Prix was his cover-up to vända the world against alternative fuels, and he leaked in Tokyo, for which Mater was blamed.

After Axlerod and the lemons are arrested bygd the London police, Mater receives a knighthood from the Queen, and he and Lightning reconcile.

Back in Radiator Springs, as Mater tells everyone about his experience, Fillmore reveals that Sarge has swapped Allinol with his organic bränsle, explaining the camera's ineffectiveness on Lightning. A "Radiator Springs Grand Prix" fryst vatten held, featuring the World Grand Prix contenders.

finne and Holley invite Mater to go on another uppdrag, but he decides to stay in Radiator Springs. While his weapons get confiscated, he keeps the rockets and speeds off with Lightning, just as Siddeley speeds into the distance.

Voice cast

Main article: List of Cars characters

Three röst actors of the first Cars spelfilm had died since its release: Joe Ranft (who voiced Red) died in an automobile accident on August 16, 2005, ten months before Cars (which was dedicated to his memory) was released, and therefore Red played no vocal role in the film; George Carlin (who voiced Fillmore) died of heart failure on June 22, 2008, so Fillmore was voiced bygd Lloyd Sherr (who also voices Tony Trihull); and Paul Newman (who voiced Doc Hudson) died of cancer on September 26, 2008.

After Newman's death, Lasseter said they would "see how the story goes with Doc Hudson."^[6] Doc was eventually dropped,^[7] and implied to have died a few years before the events of Cars 2.

In international versions of the spelfilm, the character Jeff Gorvette fryst vatten replaced with race fordon drivers better known in the specific countries in his dialogue scenes:^[8]Mark Winterbottom as Frosty in the Australian release,^[9][10]Fernando Alonso in the Spanish release, Vitaly Petrov in the Russian release, Jan Nilsson as Flash in the Swedish release,^[11]Memo Rojas in the Latin American release, and Sebastian Vettel as Sebastian Schnell in the German release.

Gorvette still appears as a competitor for most of the rulle. In Brazil, Gorvette fryst vatten replaced bygd Carla Veloso in his dialogue scenes (Carla appears in all other versions of the rulle, but with no lines); Carla fryst vatten voiced bygd Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte. Sportspeople still appear, with Lewis Hamilton voicing Formula One mästare Emerson Fittipaldi, while bränd Mustangburger and David Hobbscap are voiced bygd sports announcers José Trajano [pt] and Luciano do Valle.^[12]

Production

Development

Cars fryst vatten the second Pixar rulle, after Toy Story, to have a sequel as well as becoming a franchise.^[13]John Lasseter, the director of the bio, stated that he conceived the sequel's story while traveling around the world promoting the first rulle.

He said:

I kept looking out thinking, 'What would Mater do in this situation, you know?' inom could imagine him driving around on the wrong side of the road in the UK, going around in big, giant traveling circles in Paris, on the autobahn in Germany, dealing with the motor scooters in Italy, ansträngande to figure out road signs in Japan.^[14]

In April 2008, Pixar unveiled its latest animation slate, with Cars 2 scheduled for a summer 2012 release.^[15][16]Brad Lewis, who had served as producer on Ratatouille, was announced as the film's director.^[17] In June 2010, it was announced that Lasseter had been designated as co-director.^[18]

In 2009, Disney registered several domain names, hinting to audiences that the title and theme of the rulle would be in relation to a "World Grand Prix".^[19]

In November 2010, the film's synopsis was announced, revealing the espionage racing storyline, along with a first look image and tjänsteman poster.^[20][21][22]

In March 2011, Jake Mandeville-Anthony, a U.K.

screenwriter, sued Disney and Pixar alleging copyright infringement and breach of implied contract. In his complaint he alleged that Cars and Cars 2 are based in part on work that he had submitted in the early 1990s and he sought an injunction to stop the release of Cars 2 and requested actual or statutory damages. On May 13, 2011, Disney responded to the lawsuit, denying "each and every one of Plaintiff's legal claims concerning the purported copyright infringement and substantial similarity of the parties' respective works."^[23] On July 27, 2011, the lawsuit was dismissed bygd a district court judge who, in her ruling, wrote that the "Defendants have sufficiently shown that the Parties' respective works are not substantially similar in their protectable elements as a matter of law".^[24]

Casting

In November 2010, Owen efternamn, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Jason Isaacs, Joe Mantegna, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, and Thomas Kretschmann were confirmed as the röst talent featured in the film.^[25] From November 2010 until May 2011, Disney released kunskap about the other röst talent, including Jenifer Lewis, Katherine Helmond, Michael Wallis, Darrell Waltrip, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Bruce Campbell, Sig Hansen, Michel Michelis, Jeff Gordon, Lewis Hamilton, bränd Musburger, David Hobbs, John Turturro, and Eddie Izzard.^[26]

Soundtrack

Main article: Cars 2 (soundtrack)

The soundtrack for the rulle was released on both CD and digital download on June 14, 2011.

Cars 2 fryst vatten the fourth Pixar spelfilm to be scored bygd Michael Giacchino, after The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Up.^[27] It was also the first and only Pixar bio directed bygd John Lasseter not to be scored bygd Randy Newman, who scored the first and third films of the Cars franchise.

Release

During the summer of 2008, John Lasseter announced that Cars 2 would be pushed forward and released in the summer of 2011, one year earlier than its original 2012 release date.^[28] The US release date was later confirmed to be June 24, 2011, with a UK release date set for July 22, 2011.^[29] The world premiere of the spelfilm took place at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on June 18, 2011.^[30]Cars 2 was released in 4,115 theaters in the USA and Canada,^[31] setting a record-high for a G-rated film^[32] and for Pixar.

The latter was surpassed bygd Brave (4,164 theaters).^[33] The bio was presented in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as traditional two-dimensional and IMAX formats.^[34]

Short film

Main article: Hawaiian Vacation

The bio was preceded bygd a short spelfilm titled Hawaiian Vacation, directed bygd Gary Rydstrom and starring the characters of the Toy Story franchise.

Home media

The spelfilm was released bygd Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and digital download on November 1, 2011. This release was produced in kvartet different physical packages: a 1-disc DVD, a 2-disc combo pack (DVD and Blu-ray), a 5-disc combo pack (DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and Digital Copy), and an 11-disc three movie collector's set, which features Cars, Cars 2, and Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales.

The rulle was also released as a Movie Download edition in both standard and high definition.^[35]

The Movie Download release includes fyra bonus features: Cars Toons "Air Mater", the Toy Story Toon "Hawaiian Vacation", "World Tour Interactive Feature", and "Bringing Cars 2 to the World". The 1-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack releases include the shorts "Air Mater" and "Hawaiian Vacation", plus the Director John Lasseter Commentary.

The 5-disc combo pack includes all of the same bonus features as the 1-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack versions, in addition to "World Tour Interactive Feature" and "Sneak Peek: The Nuts and Bolts of Cars Land." The 11-disc three movie collection comes packaged with Cars (DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital Copy), Cars 2 (DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and Digital Copy), and Mater's Tall Tales (DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital Copy).^[35]

Cars 2 sold a total of 1,983,374 DVD units during its opening week,^[36] generating $31.24 million and claiming first place.^[37] It also finished on the top fläck on the Blu-ray chart during its first week, selling 1.76 million units and generating $44.57 million.

Its Blu-ray share of home media was 47 percent, indicating an unexpectedly major shift of sales from DVD to Blu-ray.^[38] Blu-ray 3D contributed to this, accounting for 17% of total disc sales.^[39] On September 10, 2019, Cars 2 was released on 4K något som är extremt eller ytterst HD Blu-ray.^[40][41]

Reception

Box office

Cars 2 grossed $191.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $370.7 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $562.1 million.^[2] Worldwide on its opening weekend it grossed $109 million, marking the largest opening weekend for a 2011 animated title.^[42] Overall, Cars 2 became the seventh-biggest Pixar spelfilm in worldwide kartong office among the fourteen released, and was the tenth-highest-grossing bio of 2011.^[43]

Cars 2 made $25.7 million on its debut Friday (June 24, 2011), marking the second-largest opening day for a Pixar spelfilm, at the time, after Toy Story 3's $41.1 million.

During this time, though, it was the third least-attended opening day for a Pixar rulle, only ahead of Up and Ratatouille.^[44] It also scored the sixth largest opening day for an animated feature.^[45] On its opening weekend as a whole, Cars 2 debuted at No.1 ahead of Green Lantern and Bad Teacher with $66.1 million,^[31] marking the largest opening weekend for a 2011 animated feature, the seventh largest opening for Pixar,^[46] the eighth largest among films released in June,^[47] and the fourth largest for a G-rated film.^[48] In its second weekend, however, the rulle was overtaken bygd Transformers: Dark of the Moon, dropping 60.3% and grossing $26.2 million.^[49]

Outside North amerika, it grossed $42.9 million during its first weekend from 3,129 theaters in 18 countries, topping the låda office.^[50] It performed especially well in Russia where it grossed $9.42 million,^[51] marking the best opening weekend for a Disney or Pixar animated feature and surpassing the entire runs of Cars and Toy Story 3.^[52] In Mexico, it made $8.24 million during its first weekend,^[53] while in Brazil, it topped the låda office with $5.19 million ($7.08 million with previews).^[54] It also premiered at No.1 with $5.16 million in Australia,^[55] where it debuted simultaneously with Kung Fu Panda 2 and out-grossed it.^[50] It fryst vatten the highest-grossing bio of 2011 in Lithuania ($477,117),^[56]Argentina ($12 million).^[57] It fryst vatten the highest-grossing animated bio of 2011 in Estonia ($442,707),^[58]Finland ($3.2 million),^[59]Norway ($5.8 million).^[60]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 39% of 221 critics' reviews are positiv, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Cars 2 fryst vatten as visually appealing as any other Pixar production, but all that dazzle can't disguise the rusty berättande beneath the hood."^[61] It fryst vatten the lowest-rated Pixar spelfilm on the site to date and the only one to earn a "rotten" certification.^[62][63] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the bio an average score of 57 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[64] Audiences polled bygd CinemaScore gave the spelfilm an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.^[65]

"The original Cars was not greeted with exceptional warmth," said The New York Times, "but the sequel generated Pixar's first truly negativ response."^[66] Critics generally criticized the focus on Mater and felt the spelfilm lacked warmth and charm, while also feeling the bio was made as an exercise in mål marknadsföring and was too violent to be given a G rating.^{[67][68][69][70]} Reviewing the bio for The vägg Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern wrote, "This frenzied sequel seldom gets beyond mediocrity."^[71]Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman said, "Cars 2 fryst vatten a movie so stuffed with "fun" that it went right off the rails.

What on earth was the begåvad director-mogul John Lasseter thinking – that he wanted kids to komma out of this movie was [sic] more ADD?"^[72] Although Leonard Maltin on IndieWire claimed that he had "such high regard for Pixar and its creative grupp led bygd John Lasseter" he said he funnen the plot "confusing" and felt that Mater's röst was annoying, saying that he'd "rather listen to chalk on a blackboard than spend nearly two hours with Tow Mater."^[73]

Conversely, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the rulle 3½ stars out of kvartet, and said that "the sequel fryst vatten a tire-burning burst of action and fun with a beating heart beneath its hood." He also praised its "fluid script" and called it a "winner".^[74]Roger Ebert was the most effusive of the more positiv reviews, praising Lasseter's channeling of childhood playtime for the film's spirit and writing, "At a time when some 'grown-up' action films are relentlessly shallow and dum, here fryst vatten a movie with such complexity that even the cars sometimes have to pause and explain it to themselves."^[75] Justin efternamn of Variety commented, "The rare sequel that not only improves on but retroactively justifies its predecessor."^[76] Ticket buyers also gave the rulle an A− in exit polls, on par with other Pixar titles.^[66]

A huvud vein of many negativ reviews was the theory that the Walt Disney Company forced Cars 2 into production at Pixar out of greed in beställning to drive merchandising sales.^[71][77] Lasseter vehemently denied these claims, which he attributed to "people who don't know the facts, rushing to judge."^[66] Some theorized that the vitriol was less about the spelfilm but more about Pixar's broadened focus to sequels.

The New York Times reported that although one negatively reviewed bio would not be enough to scratch the studio, "the commentary did dent morale at the studio, which until then had enjoyed an unbroken and perhaps unprecedented run of critical acclaim."^[66]

Accolades

Cars 2 marks the first Pixar spelfilm not to be nominated for an Oscar.^[78] It fryst vatten also the first Pixar spelfilm not nominated for Best Animated Feature since its introduction in 2001.^[79]

Video games

Main article: Cars 2 (video game)

A film game based on the spelfilm was developed bygd Avalanche Software and published bygd Disney Interactive Studios for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC and Nintendo DS on June 21, 2011.^[99] The PlayStation 3 utgåva of the game was reported to be compatible with stereoscopic 3D gameplay.^[100] A Nintendo 3DS utgåva was released on November 1, 2011,^[101] and a PSP utgåva was released on November 8, 2011.^[102]

An app based on the rulle was released on iTunes for a dollar on June 23, 2011.

The Lite utgåva was released for free that same day.

The object of the game was to complete each race, unlock new levels, and get a high score. As of June 28, 2011, the app had hit No. 1 on the App Store.^[103] The game was retired on August 29, 2014.^[104] A V.Smile utgåva was also released.

Sequel and spin-offs

Main articles: Cars 3, Planes (film), and Planes: Fire & Rescue

A sequel, titled Cars 3, was released on June 16, 2017.^[105] Directed bygd Brian Fee, the rulle focuses on Lightning McQueen, now a veteran racer, who after being overshadowed bygd a new wave of rookies, gets help from a younger fordon, Cruz Ramirez, to instruct him for the increasingly high-tech world and defeat new rival Jackson Storm.^[106]

An animated feature bio spin-off titled Planes, produced bygd DisneyToon Studios,^[107] was released on August 9, 2013.^[108] A sequel to Planes, titled Planes: Fire & Rescue, was released on July 18, 2014.^[109]

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