Cars (2006)

Lightning McQueen, the hot shot rookie on the Piston Cup curcuit, has just entered a three way tie for the Piston Cup lead going into the final race in California. Now he just has to make it there. On the way, he runs afoul of the law and gets stopped in Radiator Springs, the cutest little town in Carburator County. While serving his comunity service he meets a rag tag bunch of residents in this out of the way town, including Mater, the tow truck, Ramone, the low rider owner of the paint shop, Luigi and Guido at the tire shop, Filmore. a hippy volkswagon van, Sarge, a jeep, Doc Hudson, the local judge, and Sally Carrera, a big city Porche that feel in love with the small town and moved in. Hilarity ensues as Lightning tries to make it to the big race.

Trivia: The tires of Lightning McQueen are manufactured by Lightyear, a reference both to the real tires manufacturer Goodyear and character Buzz Lightyear from John Lasseter's previous 'Toy Story' films. Filmore, the VW Minibus voiced by George Carlin, has license plate '51237'. This is Carlin's birth date - May 12, 1937. The film's animators drew up over 43,000 sketches for designs of the cars.

Well, I feel proud of myself and my self control. I waited a full day before going to this movie. Now that is Will Power! This one of those movies you probably need to see multiple times to see everything, as all the Pixar flicks. I especially liked the touch were the "villian" stock car Chick Hicks is covered from bumper to bumper with sponsor stickers and then he acts like the type who would sell out to anybody who would pay. Another nice touch is during the credits at the end when they show a drive-in theater where they are showing...Toy Car Story, A Bug's life, and Monster Trucks, Inc. (complete with scenes from the movie featuring cars as the stars)