Once again Pixar comes out on top with a great movie. This one is even slicker than The Incredibles, which I thought would be hard to top. Even with a farm of computers that ran four times faster than the ones on The Incredibles each frame of “Cars” took an average of 17 processor hours to render.

The storyline is typical for Pixar (toy, fish, etc. gets lost and has to find their way home.) Pixar movies always have a lesson. The biggest moral lesson in Cars is “winning isn’t everything.” Even though the storyline followed a formula, I didn’t get bored.

One of the best things about this movie is the characters and the actors they got to voice them. Owen Wilson was a good choice for Lightning. I never realized that Paul Newman was Doc Hudson (aka the Hudson Hornet.) Larry the Cable Guy was a great choice for Mater because both of them are dumb as dirt. Cheech Marin was perfectly cast as Ramone. Tony Shalhoub voiced Luigi and this was a completely different role for him. (He plays the defective detective, Monk, on TV.) Once again, John Ratzenberger voices a character in a Pixar movie. (I believe he’s been in every Pixar movie made.) One big name who makes a breif appearance is Arnold Schwarzenegger as “The Governator”, a Hummer.

The soundtrack is excellent. Songs like Route 66 and Life Is A Highway are definitely chart toppers. Randy Newman wrote another excellent score for Pixar.