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Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part II
Cars 2
In Cars, Pixar used the standard big city boy gets trapped in a small town formula to create a loving, nostalgic homage to the good old days of Route 66 and the vanishing mystique of the American road. In Cars 2 Pixar basically just makes The Pink Panther with cars. At times it’s a lot of fun, but there’s nothing here that’ll stick with you, the way Pixar’s other films so often do.
What’s both good and bad about this film is its wider gaze. The previous movie was set primarily in one, small, remote town where Lightning McQueen encountered a handful of aging automobiles. That more limited setting allowed for greater detail and both the script and the animators who brought the script to life were able to spend time really thinking through the process of what a world inhabited only by cars would be like. The sequel leaves that small town setting and takes the Cars concept out into the big, wide world with Lightning McQueen and Mater traveling around the globe, zooming through posh parties, idling through crowded international city streets. This often turn into something pretty stunning, one of Pixar’s most impressive feats of animation so far, but in the process they’ve sacrificed some of that detail-oriented magic of the first film. There’s just too much going on to think through every little detail of this now suddenly massive world, and sometimes this results in less emphasis on imagining what a place truly inhabited only by living cars might be like, in the interests of just throwing a bunch of cars down on the ground in familiar international settings.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
When you look back on your life, you’ll remember the big moments. Yet, life isn’t really big moments. It isn’t weddings and birthdays or that time you got drunk and attacked a cop. Life is the long stretches in between all of that. It’s the hours you spent driving to the wedding, or the beers you drank with your friends before throwing the punch. If life is what happens between big moments, then Transformers: Dark of the Moon is lifeless. It contains only big moments and none of the in between. It’s no way to tell a story. For the big moments to make any sense, you have to know how you got there. You’ll walk out of Dark of the Moon with a firm idea of who won in the end, but no real idea of the journey the film’s characters took to make their victory happen. Maybe you won’t care.
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