All Three Cars Films RANKED!
Cars is an absurd and fun trilogy, and I am hoping for some more bizarre Cars 2-like sequels in the future! You never really know what you are going to get with this epic franchise, and I am hoping for Cars 4 to be the masterpiece Pixar needs right now. Before I go on a stupid rant, let's start this article. Without further ado, I, Brighton Nelson of The Reel Ranker present to you: All Three Cars Films RANKED!
3: Cars 2 - B Tier
The Reel Ranker Score: 51%
Release Date: 2011
Rotten Tomatoes: 40%
Metacritic Score: 57
This movie is so bad that it's good, and simultaneously, so good that it's bad. Sleep on that one tonight. Honestly, I can't choose my favorite of the Cars trilogy...
2: Cars 3 - B Tier
The Reel Ranker Score: 51%
Release Date: 2017
Rotten Tomatoes: 69%
Metacritic Score: 59
You really expected that I'd be able to choose? Nope, I still can't.
1: Cars - B Tier
The Reel Ranker Score: 51%
Release Date: 2006
Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
Metacritic Score: 73
I ranked these based off of the average consensus of critic and audience scores, not my own personal opinion. Why? Because I genuinely enjoy all three of the Cars films equally. The original Cars? It's a slightly above-average coming-of-age film. Cars II? A slightly above-average spy thriller. Cars III? A slightly above-average typical sports film. They aimed to be very different movies with the same characters, and I thought that was very cool. I get the criticism of why people who wanted a film similar to the original dislike the sequels, but as a whole, they are fun movies with characters tackling conflict in different genres...
Now Cars 4 needs to be a rom-com where Mater and Lightning McQueen meet the love of their lives. Cars 5 needs to be a detective buddy-cop film (à la Psych) where Lightning McQueen and Mater and their partners travel the world to discover the root of a gasoline pandemic that is being caused by corporate greed and killing tons of cars across the world. Cars 6 needs to be a psychological B-movie horror film where the motley crew of four discover the origin of the cars in a grotesque, PG-13 animated film. The possibilities of this franchise are endless. The Cars franchise may be dumb and silly, but I find the three films to be equally good in different ways, and I hope they don't just keep making racing movies over and over again because us Cars 2 fans want some more absurd shenanigans with our main characters!
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