Lightning McQueen is now a four-time Piston Cup champion, renamed the Hudson Hornet Piston Cup, after the recent death of his mentor Doc Hudson, and returns to Radiator Springs to spend his off season with his friends. After discovering Leland's death, a burst of flames reveals his presence to the criminals, and he escapes by faking his death. He witnesses the lemons, seemingly led by Professor Zündapp, load an electromagnetic pulse emitter, disguised as a camera onto a shipping crate. A sequel, Cars 3, was released on June 16, 2017.īritish spy Finn McMissile infiltrates an oil rig owned by a group of lemon cars to rescue fellow spy Leland Turbo, who has blown his own cover. Despite this, it continued the studio's streak of box office success, grossed $562 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 2011. Cars 2 received mixed reviews from critics with praise for its voice acting and animation, but criticism for its G-rating, focus on Mater, plot, and felt the film lacked warmth and charm of Pixar movies. The film was first announced in 2008 alongside Up and Brave and is the 12th animated film from the studio.
The film was presented in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as traditional two-dimensional and IMAX formats. Ĭars 2 was released in the United States on June 24, 2011. It was directed by John Lasseter, written by Ben Queen, and produced by Denise Ream. The film centers on race car Lightning McQueen (Wilson) and tow truck Mater (Cable Guy), who head to Japan, Italy and Europe to compete in the World Grand Prix, but Mater accidentally becomes sidetracked with international espionage, who attempts to uncover a secret plan led by a mysterious mastermind and his criminal gang, which threatens the lives of all competitors in the World Grand Prix, with the help of British master spy Finn McMissile (Caine) and stunning spy-in-training Holley Shiftwell (Mortimer). The returning cast is joined by Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, John Turturro, Eddie Izzard, and Thomas Kretschmann, who voice the new characters introduced in this film. Paul Newman, who voiced Doc Hudson in the previous film, died in September 2008, so his character was written out of the film George Carlin, who previously voiced Fillmore, died during the same year, and his role was passed to Lloyd Sherr. In the film's ensemble voice cast, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Guido Quaroni, Bonnie Hunt, and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles from the first film.
This was the final Pixar film animated with their old software system, Marionette, before officially replaced with Presto in 2012. It is a sequel to 2006's Cars and the second film in the Cars franchise.
Cars 2 is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated spy action- adventure comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.