Talk:Cars/@comment-32248383-20181031024935

I can honestly say that Cars is one of my favorite Pixar movies (my second favorite after Toy Story to be exact), though I still don't understand why this movie and the Cars franchise in general isn't quite as universally beloved as most of the other Pixar favorites such as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and so forth. I came into this movie back when I was 15 going on 16 in June of 2006 with high expectations and they were met. I loved the story, the characters, the Cars universe, and the whole moral lesson of the story. I know there was some criticism of the movie's storyline being like a rip-off of Doc Hollywood, which I had never seen or even heard about until then and that for the later sequels Cars 2 (which in my opinion, not quite as good as Cars 1 but I did find it to be a fun, solid, if somewhat problematic sequel) and Cars 3 (which, although not perfect, seemed to me like a great, solid conclusion to the trilogy) were criticized as merchandise cash-grabs. And I just think to myself, "no, that's not true," and they never said anything about any of those things being the motivating factors.