The Final ‘Cars 3’ Trailer Reminds You That You Will Die One Day
The world of Pixar’sCarsmay raise a number of disturbing questionsthat the writers actively avoid answering, but kids love these movies. Seriously. Talk to any retail employee who has worked in a toy section around the time a new movie comes out. But the first movie is now 11 years old and the young’uns who have literally grown up with these films are now staring down the barrel of young adulthood. They will soon realize that they will grow old. And die.
Welcome toCars 3. And welcome to the finalCars 3trailer.
As if the imagery of Owen Wilson’s Lightning McQueen wrecking on the racetrack and the dialogue about him being forced to give up on his dreams because he’s just getting too old weren’t enough, the trailer also features a voice over from the legendary Paul Newman. Who starred in the originalCars. And died in 2008. We already knew that unused lines from the original movie allowed his character, Doc Hudson,to return in this film, but it only adds to genuine sense of eeriness and dread!
But it’s nottoodepressing. The treacly song choice helps take care of that.
There are certain aspects of this trailer that are heartening for Pixar fans who don’t care for theCarsmovies (including the lack of Larry the Cable Guy’s insufferable Mater). Our own Ethan Andertonsaw 50 minutes of the film a few months agoand while the new movie carries the same flaws as the first two, he was pleasantly surprised:
From the footage shown, it seems likeCars 3still suffers from some of the same problems that the entire franchise does. This world is a strange one that raises some very distracting questions that always race through my mind, and the comedy leaves plenty to be desired. Some jokes fell uncomfortably flat to a few dozen members of the press screening the footage. But if the second half of the film has as much heart as the turn at the end of this extended screening, thenCars 3could end up being a movie that has some of Pixar’s greatest qualities, even if it comes with some of the franchise’s overall shortcomings
Cars 3is set to open onJune 16, 2017. Here’s the official synopsis:
