Cars 4. (Probably a 9 if you're into Nascar. And in honor of you folks, I dedicate the first line of this review.) Them Pixar folks sure makes them some purdy movin' pictures. There's not doubt they've got amazing animation skillz, but Cars smells subtly of a SciFi channel movie.... You can have all the production values you want, but if the story is weak, the movie is weak. That's not to say Cars is as bad as a SciFi Channel movie, but it is a little like comparing apples and stinky rotten apples. There's really nothing terribly wrong with Cars that a stricter post-production editor couldn't have fixed. This is really much more of a children's movie than The Incredibles was and so really can't afford the luxury of running a full 2 hours. If they'd tightened up the scenes, particularly the plotlines that were intended to appeal to the adult audience, they could have brought this in at a much more satisfying 1.5 hours.... Much more friendly to today's ADD-afflicted kids.

I was reminded of an old old Warner Bros. (?) cartoon about living cars and how one tried to outrun a train (unsuccessfully). Tragically-violent cartoon accidents... aaah, those were the days. Cars brings a nicely moral little story that is only subtly shoe-horned between racing sequences. So go ahead and fill yourself for anticipation of Cars coming to a premium cable channel near you ..... or if you're of the Nascar persuasion, get out there and see it in the theater.  ¶ 4:45 AM