![]() What it is: An awkward grafting of a spy action movie on the “Cars” franchise, “Cars 2” shifts focus away from Lightning McQueen and onto his best friend Mater, as he’s mistaken for a secret agent and roped into solving a (very silly, uninteresting) global conspiracy. “Cars 2” (2011) “Cars 2” ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Will it make you cry? Possibly from sadness that Pixar is seriously sinking this low. The breakout character: Not a character, but the quote from voice actor Chris Evans about how this is “the origin story of the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on,” which is this film’s single lasting contribution to the wider culture. The result is a character flattened of all that once made him fun, placed in a charmless action adventure movie that does nothing to justify its existence. Packaged as the film that the toy Buzz Lightyear from Pixar’s most famous franchise tied-in to, “Lightyear” takes the beloved character and refashions him as a badass space pilot. What it is: “Toy Story” without its soul. “Lightyear” (2022) “Lightyear” ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection
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