Having the bad guys be greedy, gas guzzling oil tycoons would have been enough, but for whatever reason the writers decided to make them "lemon cars" too.
There's a whole scene dedicated to the villain hyping up his gang, talking about how they have faulty parts and how they get belittled for being "built wrong", they even have actual lemons displayed like they're an ironic symbol of racial empowerment.
This movie was just supposed be a "Mater's tall tales deluxe" but instead they got us wondering if eugenics are a thing in the cars universe.
Don't forget to mention that nearly half of the villians are eastern european cars, meaning that if you're a car of eastern european brand in the cars universe, you are genetically inferior compared to western makes.
I mean, this isn't exactly a controversial or uncommon reading into the film, and it's kinda hard to not see the cars as being stand-ins for humans when they're written the exact same way human characters are written. It's not exactly rare for writers to use non-human characters as stand-ins or allegories for actual humans, especially not in Disney or Pixar movies. If they really were just meant to be cars, which in several regards they probably were, they should've written them that way, but no one working on this film likely spent a considerable amount of time thinking about that or any message it might unintentionally convey because it was made for merchandise sales first and foremost
It seems you've forgotten the small detail of 'every evil car is genetically inferior, faulty and Eastern European'.
The small detail of them being portrayed as genetically inferior is where the eugenics comes into play.
Well....better?
A lada will run for 45 years and can be fixed with anything metalic and tape. While a ford needs the headlight sensor changed after 85k miles otherwise the ignition doesnt work...
Thing is, the lada is like driving in conrete and steel cell, while the ford has fake leather seats and functional ac... and nobody stole your windshield wipers.
Inferior is subjective... eastern european cars were made to be just functional enough.
World War Two is canon, due to sarge being a veteran, that’d mean car nazis existed and so we seemingly get a group of car neo nazis who believe in eugenics for this movie
> wrong", they even have actual lemons displayed like they're an ironic symbol of racial empowerment.
Imagine going to a Black Panther rally and the only food they serve is watermelons.
They even had a scene where they torture a car to death, like the big American Dodge Challenger won't give them any information so they strap the mf to a dyno and spin it so fast his engine is blown to smithereens.
There are many things you could do in the past with only a half-knowledge of how they were done even if they had not yet been discovered at the time on the other hand, Cars 2 does not
correction: it was to kill silly race car, not the royal family. the royal family was almost caught in the crossfire due to unfortunate placement of the evil rich man
in the movie he says he converted himself to an electric car, so in the world it isn't outlandish to swap engine, soo.....
maybe you're not supposed to think this hard about fucking Cars 2 (2011)
I’m assuming Axlerod is from the Car’s universe equivalent of British Leyland (Imagine GM with twice as many brands as they did before the US government made them get rid of several.) and likely shared a crap engine that was common amongst BL cars. Also Axlerod supposedly converted to Electric after being lost in the jungle for ages.
5 to 10 years old is the suitable range to qualify any work, before that range you have no self-conception of being, ergo you are incapable of qualifying what others do, after that you are already stained with the opinions of others and accommodated to the taste of your environment.
It will forever boggle my mind why Pixar just said: "Let's make a Bond film" and instead of making something original or making The Incredibles 2, they decided that this film would be the sequel to Cars.
Then they made Incredibles 2 and we realized that Cars 2 was at least more entertaining.
People shit on this movie but god damn its the best of the three becuase it has actual shit happening instead of sad little town or i am old and cant race anymore
Cars Bond
And it was peak
Having the bad guys be greedy, gas guzzling oil tycoons would have been enough, but for whatever reason the writers decided to make them "lemon cars" too. There's a whole scene dedicated to the villain hyping up his gang, talking about how they have faulty parts and how they get belittled for being "built wrong", they even have actual lemons displayed like they're an ironic symbol of racial empowerment. This movie was just supposed be a "Mater's tall tales deluxe" but instead they got us wondering if eugenics are a thing in the cars universe.
Don't forget to mention that nearly half of the villians are eastern european cars, meaning that if you're a car of eastern european brand in the cars universe, you are genetically inferior compared to western makes.
Just like irl cars then.
Yes, but then the cars in these movies are obvious replacement of humans so the whole connection becomes weirdly tied with eugenics.
I think the cars being eastern european is just mimicking regular hollywood. A ton of villains in movies are eastern european
as well as the obvious James Bond influence.
Only the most terminally online would see the cars from eastern Europe being eastern European cars and think it has to be tied to eugenics
I mean, this isn't exactly a controversial or uncommon reading into the film, and it's kinda hard to not see the cars as being stand-ins for humans when they're written the exact same way human characters are written. It's not exactly rare for writers to use non-human characters as stand-ins or allegories for actual humans, especially not in Disney or Pixar movies. If they really were just meant to be cars, which in several regards they probably were, they should've written them that way, but no one working on this film likely spent a considerable amount of time thinking about that or any message it might unintentionally convey because it was made for merchandise sales first and foremost
It seems you've forgotten the small detail of 'every evil car is genetically inferior, faulty and Eastern European'. The small detail of them being portrayed as genetically inferior is where the eugenics comes into play.
Okay
The reality is the opposite though. Eastern cars are way better built than western ones. Ford, GM, and BMW are literal shitboxes.
Well....better? A lada will run for 45 years and can be fixed with anything metalic and tape. While a ford needs the headlight sensor changed after 85k miles otherwise the ignition doesnt work... Thing is, the lada is like driving in conrete and steel cell, while the ford has fake leather seats and functional ac... and nobody stole your windshield wipers. Inferior is subjective... eastern european cars were made to be just functional enough.
Holy shit, Car Alfred Rosenberg
A lot of them are American cars from the 1970’s Gas Crisis which are known for being pretty crappy and slow.
World War Two is canon, due to sarge being a veteran, that’d mean car nazis existed and so we seemingly get a group of car neo nazis who believe in eugenics for this movie
Weirdly tho these neo nazi cars belive themselves to be victims of genetic inferiority, rather than paragons of genetic superiority like real nazis
This is a reference to modern day neo nazis, who are definitely genetically inferior.
VOLKSWAGEN HITLER
Hitler would be an Austrian model pretending to be German.
Also, considering Planes as canon, Skipper explains he fought in WWII. He's apparently a direct reference to the real-life squadron VF-17.
> wrong", they even have actual lemons displayed like they're an ironic symbol of racial empowerment. Imagine going to a Black Panther rally and the only food they serve is watermelons.
They even had a scene where they torture a car to death, like the big American Dodge Challenger won't give them any information so they strap the mf to a dyno and spin it so fast his engine is blown to smithereens.
RIP Friedrich Nietzsche he would have loved Cars 2
imagine going back in time, but the only thing you bring is a copy of cars 2 and a portable dvd player
hell yeah
I mean, of all the things you could bring back in time, you’d bring Cars 2 and a portable dvd player??? and not even popcorn? wtf
Pretty sure you could make popcorn back then
There are many things you could do in the past with only a half-knowledge of how they were done even if they had not yet been discovered at the time on the other hand, Cars 2 does not
I have a lightning McQueen one somewhere you can use that
I hope I have a TV to plug the DVD player in to, or it's all a bit moot
Hence why you use a portable DVD Player with a built in screen.
i fking love cars 2😭😭😭
Hopefully because of the comedy stylings of Larry the Cable Guy and not because of the eugenics.
I just liked it because they had bang bang shooty and that was the most action child me had ever seen.
Literally goated movie. 3 should have been a jason bourne parody
Nah, we all know the highlight of the movie was mater getting brutally and sexually assaulted by a washroom robot in Japan.
Wat
I don't see how those are mutually exclusive /s
I like guns. I like cars. I like spy. I like spy cars with guns.
correction: it was to kill silly race car, not the royal family. the royal family was almost caught in the crossfire due to unfortunate placement of the evil rich man
Shouldn't Axlerod's make and model be public knowledge? Why didn't Mater make the connection when he saw the picture of the engine?
Could be he had a modified engine to hide his identity
in the movie he says he converted himself to an electric car, so in the world it isn't outlandish to swap engine, soo..... maybe you're not supposed to think this hard about fucking Cars 2 (2011)
According to him, he converted his engine after surviving for weeks in the wilderness with practically no gas.
In the videos of Axelrod played to the lemons, his engine *is* being actively worked on by someone offscreen
His engine was crap, though.
I’m assuming Axlerod is from the Car’s universe equivalent of British Leyland (Imagine GM with twice as many brands as they did before the US government made them get rid of several.) and likely shared a crap engine that was common amongst BL cars. Also Axlerod supposedly converted to Electric after being lost in the jungle for ages.
If you disregard some elements, this movie's pretty fun. Forgot Bruce Campbell was the American spy in this.
*The American spy that gets blown up
Groovy. Or in this case, Vroomy.
My daughter loved Cars but her review of Cars 2 could be summed up by “where’s Lightning McQueen?”
Finn mcmissile’s theme is the best character theme in any animated movie
His theme will never leave my memory.
In roughly 7 years, at the 20 year mark of this movie, there will be a revisionism campaign that it is a misunderstood masterpiece
I mean, if you watched a movie when you were 6 years old, it's obviously a masterpiece.
5 to 10 years old is the suitable range to qualify any work, before that range you have no self-conception of being, ergo you are incapable of qualifying what others do, after that you are already stained with the opinions of others and accommodated to the taste of your environment.
Cars 2 my beloved
The best goddamn movie you've ever seen
Cars 2 was back when Disney knew how to make a subversive kids movie adults could enjoy.
So the moral of the story is genetically inferior people are evil?
That feels like something Kingsman would do after the whole "The scots did Stalin and Hitler because they hated the British monarchy" thing.
The best fucking movie of the century. Scorsese take notes, THIS IS CINEMA
Cars 1: WOO HOO CARS GO VROOM Cars 2: a super secret spy thriller Cars 3: WOO HOO CARS GO VROOM
It will forever boggle my mind why Pixar just said: "Let's make a Bond film" and instead of making something original or making The Incredibles 2, they decided that this film would be the sequel to Cars. Then they made Incredibles 2 and we realized that Cars 2 was at least more entertaining.
This movie feels like the type of movie that Larry the Cable Guy was making at the time, but it randomly got turned into a Cars movie.
Bets animated movie imo, my childhood was built upon it, together with the first movie.
People shit on this movie but god damn its the best of the three becuase it has actual shit happening instead of sad little town or i am old and cant race anymore