10 Worst Animated Movies Of The 2010s
9. Cars 2 (2011)
The first Cars film was no classic, but it had good animation, a nice message, and it was a good way to flog toys. Inevitably a sequel had to happen, with the purpose of selling more toys and… not much else.
Bafflingly, the studio decided to focus on the comic relief of Mater the tow truck, away from the racing plot of the first film and instead we got a spy car film starring a particularly bored Michael Caine who is clearly there for the paycheque.
The story is very complicated for children to follow, most of the characters from the first film are side-lined, including the main character Lightning McQueen, in favour of the tow truck misunderstanding the spy thing, being an embarrassment and somehow saving the day. And all this while asking how the hell the biology and the nature of the film works, e.g. How do cars have children? What do you see if you open the car doors? Are they driving into a plane’s butthole or not?!
Thankfully the third film fixed a lot of the problems but none of these films are exactly among the legendary Pixar’s best work, and Cars 2 is definitely the bottom of the barrel.