# Pixar's Cars - new trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750 "2006-03-09T21:48:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/1 "2006-03-09T21:48:08Z")
For those of you who weren’t so sure if Pixar would hit another one out of the park, making their judgement on the teaser trailers seen so far, there’s [a new trailer out at Moviefone](http://movies.aol.com/movie_exclusive_cars_trailer) that showcases the actual storyline and character beats a bit better. Maybe this will change your mind. Or maybe not. It at least looks pretty. Personally I have been confident it will be a great movie like all their others, and this trailer just reconfirms it. Can’t wait to see it! ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/2 "2006-03-09T22:08:30Z")
After i watched the first trailer I was convinced it would suck. After this trailer, I’m starting to come around…there appears to be some assemblance of a plot which is nice. They also seemed to make some pretty good choices as far as voices are concerned. I’m hit and miss with Pixar so we’ll see how it goes. It’s looking up though. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/3 "2006-03-09T22:17:40Z")
Looks formulaic to me. Of course, so is every big budget animated movie these days so that doesn’t say much. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/4 "2006-03-09T22:31:11Z")
This looks terrible. Just terrible. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/5 "2006-03-09T23:06:52Z")
I like it. I also trust John Lasseter, so that may have something to do with it. What do you people want in an animated film, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/6 "2006-03-09T23:26:15Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] What do you people want in an animated film, anyway? [/QUOTE] Tits? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/7 "2006-03-09T23:45:48Z")
OK, I’d go for that, too. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/8 "2006-03-09T23:58:21Z")
There was a good article in _USA Today_ today about the movie. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but seeing all the characters, it seems like an interesting premise. The film’s [official website](http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/cars/index.html) is shaping up nicely, too- over the course of the next few months, a new car will be introduced each week. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/9 "2006-03-10T00:01:36Z")
My take on seeing the first trailers was that this would be a Chevron commercial made into a full-length movie. This new trailer looks like it may not be that bad. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/10 "2006-03-10T00:09:24Z")
[QUOTE=FatBaldGuy] My take on seeing the first trailers was that this would be a Chevron commercial made into a full-length movie. [/QUOTE] I wonder what an Aardman car-related feature would be like? ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/11 "2006-03-10T00:22:36Z")
Dunno. It may have been a mistake to render the cars as realistically as they have, as they don’t seem to have as much personality as characters in other Pixar flicks. But that’s just judging from the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/12 "2006-03-10T01:30:34Z")
There were these old WB cartoons. One of them was about a Taxi that wanted to be a hotrod. This reminds me of those cartoons. I loved those cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/13 "2006-03-10T01:30:59Z")
I recall seeing an animated talking car on Disney Channel, circa 1982. That Jaguar E-Type (IIRC) was realistic as possible for the time. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/14 "2006-03-10T01:33:07Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I like it. I also trust John Lasseter, so that may have something to do with it. [/QUOTE] The idea that John Lasseter will produce a flop is right down there with the idea that Britney Spears will discover the secret of Cold Fusion. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/15 "2006-03-10T01:38:09Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I like it. I also trust John Lasseter, so that may have something to do with it. What do you people want in an animated film, anyway? [/QUOTE] A bunch of snarky, irreverant gags and visual puns, delivered by stylized art and funny voice-over work all at a frenetic, whip-lash pace. I’m a _Madagascar_ fan. Hey, this trailer just made me notice something about _Madagascar_ - no tacked on romantic plot! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/16 "2006-03-10T01:38:12Z")
[QUOTE=JonScribe] Dunno. It may have been a mistake to render the cars as realistically as they have, as they don’t seem to have as much personality as characters in other Pixar flicks. But that’s just judging from the trailer. [/QUOTE] Go to cgtalk or any other 3D site that has people’s 3D-modeled cars, like [this one](http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=326485). That’s realistic. Cars is just shiny. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/17 "2006-03-10T01:41:26Z")
Oh, I know those cars. They’ll have personality. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/18 "2006-03-10T01:43:05Z")
[QUOTE=pizzabrat] Hey, this trailer just made me notice something about _Madagascar_ - no tacked on romantic plot! [/QUOTE] It didn’t have a plot of any kind, either. 😛 Actually, the character design for Madagascar was superb. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/19 "2006-03-10T01:43:37Z")
[QUOTE=Menocchio] There were these old WB cartoons. One of them was about a Taxi that wanted to be a hotrod. This reminds me of those cartoons. I loved those cartoons. [/QUOTE] I think that was Disney. They did a series of shorts about anthropomorphasized vehicles, including one about a blue coupe that I can remember off the top of my head (and I don’t recall _any_ WB short about talking cars. MGM did one about planes, and there was an “Animaniacs” short about trailers). Anyway, Pixar’s characters look _exactly_ like the characters in those old Disney cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750/20 "2006-03-10T01:49:45Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] It didn’t have a plot of any kind, either. 😛 Actually, the character design for Madagascar was superb. [/QUOTE] Before that movie, I would have never even known that stylized animation in 3D would have been possible. I guess CGI IS ready to overtake cell animation entirely. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pixars-cars-new-trailer/347750.md?page=2)