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Cars 3 review

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago on 16 June 2023 05:54

Cars 3 deja bastante claro su tema del "legado", dejar lugar a las nuevas generaciones, etc. Premisa simple; sin embargo, la película juega con este mensaje de muchas formas.

La película abre con un recuerdo del Rayo McQueen con Hudson. Él le dice "Diste una vuelta, una carrera implica muchas". Creo que este diálogo tiene importancia, aunque en contexto no parezca ser más que un bonito recuerdo que McQueen tiene. El Rayo tiene cimentada su vida en ser un corredor, pero con la llegada de Storm, esta parece llegar a su fin. Como si hubiera dado una vuelta entera a la pista de carreras, el Rayo se ve como en la primera película con la necesidad de ganar, sea con métodos modernos o, tras ver que estos fracasaron, hacerlo de la manera en la que le enseñaron.

Hay una inquietud central que tiene el Rayo: No poder escoger. Teme que los eventos que sobrevienen en su vida sean los que la definan y no él mismo. "¿Cuándo saber que debes retirarte? Los jóvenes te lo dirán", esta línea, dicha por un compañero que abandona las carreras, resuena para el Rayo causándole temor. Siente necesitar a Hudson, necesita saber qué hacer ahora, porque, si no es un corredor, ¿qué queda más de él?

"Ser adelantado" es una escena que se repite de tres formas. La primera es con Storm. Pero luego, recordamos cómo Hudson vio a McQueen rebasarlo. Y la última vez que la vemos es cuando, después de liberarse de la necesidad de ganar (representada por el traje que se rasga en el bosque), Cruz lo supera.

El Rayo ahora sabe lo que significó para Hudson el conocerlo. Un veterano, amargado por haber perdido su vida como corredor, la recuperó de una nueva manera, guiando a un nuevo aspirante. Sterling le decía algo que él no quería aceptar "No podrás superar a Storm", esto porque el propio Rayo lo sabía en el fondo. Sin embargo, el verdadero cambio no es si puede contradecir esto, sino cómo lo enfrenta. McQueen no ganará esta vuelta, Cruz lo hará, pero al final ambos son "ganadores", literal y metafóricamente, porque él ahora vivirá en Cruz, así como Hudson siempre vivió en él. Por esto, al final decide homenajearlo usando sus colores. El Rayo McQueen sí decidió cuándo se retiraría, no de la forma que quería, pero sí de la que debía aprender a aceptar.


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Cars 3 review

Posted : 3 years ago on 5 April 2021 05:14

it’s the best closer to any trilogy I’ve ever watched because the ending is so realistic for a movie for kids. McQueen gets old and becomes the new Doc and Chase (the yellow car) is the McQueen from the first movie. It's a well-written loop which teaches a lot about the "what goes around comes around" saying.

During the climax, knowing it was kids movie I thought <spoiler>McQueen will win for sure somehow because he’s the fucking main character of the movie</spoiler> but nah bruh... What happens is such a great plot twist and such a well written ending for someone like McQueen. I never cared much about the 2nd part of this trilogy because it genuinely is a cash grab and does absolutely no justice to the trilogy by replacing McQueen with Mater as the main character. I hope they just end the trilogy here because I honestly think that Cars 3 ends on a very high note and beating it, hell, even getting close to it would be very hard in Cars 4 but time will tell.

This is a masterpiece of a movie with one of the best plots in the history of Pixar's storytelling. I'd rate it 10/10 and highly recommend it if you've watched the first cars part.


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An average movie

Posted : 6 years, 8 months ago on 5 August 2017 04:24

I was spending the week-end at my parents's house and since my little nephew wanted to check this movie, I thought I might as well check it out as well. Furthermore, since I heard it was the best installment in this franchise, I thought it might turn out to be a decent watch. Well, eventually, even though I think that my nephew did enjoy the damned thing, I really had a hard time to understand what was supposedly so good about this movie. I mean, sure, the animation was solid (it was nothing amazing though) but I  was rather suprised about how boring the story was after all. Before this movie was released, there was some interesting buzz about the fact that it was much darker than its predecessors but, eventually, its so-called darkness turned out to be vastly exaggerrated. I mean, sure, you get to see Lightning McQueen having a massive crash, something that was vastly exploited and displayed everywhere in the posters and in the trailers, but that was about it, everything else in the movie was seriously generic, predictable and rather tedious to behold and there was absolutely nothing dark at all about this tale. In fact, even though 'Cars 2' has a rather lame reputation, I actually enjoyed it slightly more than this borefest. Anyway, to conclude, even though the kids might love it (my 11 year old daughter actually clearly stated that she didn't care for it at all), it was nothing really amazing whatsoever and I hope Pixar will now finally drop this boring franchise.


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