He’s still active on the racing circuit, but even the terms his fans use to describe him- veteran, legend, elder statesman-underline the fact that he’s nearing the end of his career. Lightning is drifting into middle age, whatever that is in automobile years, and a new generation of younger, faster cars are nipping at his fenders.
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(That’s true behind the camera as well: Pixar head John Lasseter cedes the director’s chair to storyboard artist Brian Fee.) Animation knows no such restraints-cartoons can go on living long after the actors who created their voices-but the specter of mortality haunts the movie all the same. Cars 3 is a pass-the-torch sequel, of the kind that’s usually designed to let franchises continue after their leads have aged out of the role. The retread at least has some thematic heft. Cars 3 is the Cars sequel for people who hate Cars 2. Opening with Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) reciting his pre-race mantra over a black screen, the new movie re-creates the beginning of the first one beat for beat, as if to reassure its audience that we’re not going to spend the succeeding two hours watching rusted-out hick Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) foil another international conspiracy. But Cars 2’s place at the bottom of virtually every Pixar ranking ( except those put together by children) nonetheless seems to have made an impression. From a merchandising standpoint alone, another Cars movie was probably inevitable rare is the playground visit that does not involve a glimpse of Lightning McQueen’s yellow-on-red color scheme. Cars 3 likewise begins with a promise to be nothing like its predecessor, but in this case, it’s a retreat to familiar territory rather than a step onto virgin soil. Cars was the first movie to show that Pixar had feet of clay, so when it came time to announce a follow-up, the studio promised it would be different from the first, and it made good on that promise by opening Cars 2 with a spy-movie sequence featuring none of the first movie’s familiar characters.
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