Movie · Disney+ · 2011

Cars 2

A friendship, buried under a cartoon spy movie. The first film was the one with a town.

How this number was made

Industry
4/10
Household
5/10
Piety
1/10
Courage
4/10
Republic
3/10
Temperance
4/10
Truth
6/10
Stewardship
4/10

4 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 3 + 4 + 6 + 4 = 31. 31 ÷ 8 × 10 = 39.

Not a Tomatometer. A 39 there would mean about 39 percent of critics were positive.
Not an IMDb average. Their figure runs from 1 to 10, and the weights are not published.
Not an age. Another guide can tell you what a child will see. This number says whether to press play.

The eight questions

Would you still put it on?

A famous racer and a tow truck go overseas, and a spy plot mistakes the fool for the agent.

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Cars 2

A famous racer and a tow truck go overseas, and a spy plot mistakes the fool for the agent.

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Cars 2

Save to the commonplace

A friendship, buried under a cartoon spy movie. The first film was the one with a town.

Lightning McQueen brings Mater to a world tour and is ashamed of him, then has to repent of the shame. That repentance is the only scene the desk needs. Around it is a weapons conspiracy and a spy farce that does not care about Radiator Springs at all. The first film asked a celebrity to stay. This one asks him to be loyal on vacation, and then spends the runtime on gadgets.

A child can watch it and will mostly get noise. If you put it on, pause at the apology and say that being embarrassed by your own people is the vice. Then you can let the rest be silly.

Live historically

Do not skip the quiet friend for the loud invitation. Take the friend.

From the desk of Living Historic.

The eight

Industry
4/10
Racing as a product tour.
Household
5/10
Friendship. The shame and the apology are the household, such as it is.
Piety
1/10
None.
Courage
4/10
Set-piece bravery.
Republic
3/10
Countries as backdrops for a grand prix.
Temperance
4/10
Mater's excess is the joke. McQueen's snobbery is the real one.
Truth
6/10
He admits he was ashamed. That admission saves the film from being only a toy commercial.
Stewardship
4/10
Little to hand on but 'don't ditch your friend.'

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Living Historic · 39 / 100

What it really is

Industry

A child can watch it and will mostly get noise. If you put it on, pause at the apology and say that being embarrassed by your own people is the vice. Then you can let the rest be silly.

Industry 4

Racing as a product tour.

Household 5

Friendship. The shame and the apology are the household, such as it is.

Piety 1

None.

Courage 4

Set-piece bravery.

Republic 3

Countries as backdrops for a grand prix.

Temperance 4

Mater's excess is the joke. McQueen's snobbery is the real one.

Truth 6

He admits he was ashamed. That admission saves the film from being only a toy commercial.

Stewardship 4

Little to hand on but 'don't ditch your friend.'

The verdict

39 of 100

A friendship, buried under a cartoon spy movie. The first film was the one with a town.

Cars 2 is on Disney+. 2011.

Movie · 2011 · Disney+ · Animation, Comedy, Adventure

Live historically

Do not skip the quiet friend for the loud invitation. Take the friend.

From the desk of Living Historic.

Founders Notes

Living historically

This is not a settled myth about better people. It is a way of standing in their weather. People understand a thing by fitting it into a story that is still going, so the desk puts you in the middle of it: ordinary lives, the pressure on them, the choice they actually had.

The present is continuous with the past. Crowds, mass moods, a town thinning out, a politics that talks to everyone at once: these are not only chapters. They are forces you can still feel. History here is not a morality play about the dead. It is a way of seeing what is still operating.

You are a link, not the chain. A life runs seventy or eighty years. In that span you are a steward. You inherited a language, a house, a standard. You do not own them. You keep them long enough to hand them on.

The house that keeps this desk landed in Boston in 1630, a hundred and fifty years before the country had this name. They did not arrive into a finished story. They arrived into weather, work, and a place that had to be kept for people they would never meet.

Cars 2 is marked Leave it. A high mark is a story you can hand on. A low mark spends the link on itself.

The eight

Industry
4/10
Racing as a product tour.
Household
5/10
Friendship. The shame and the apology are the household, such as it is.
Piety
1/10
None.
Courage
4/10
Set-piece bravery.
Republic
3/10
Countries as backdrops for a grand prix.
Temperance
4/10
Mater's excess is the joke. McQueen's snobbery is the real one.
Truth
6/10
He admits he was ashamed. That admission saves the film from being only a toy commercial.
Stewardship
4/10
Little to hand on but 'don't ditch your friend.'

Cars 2

The eight

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