The Reel Rejects - CARS 3 (2017) – BEST ONE IN THE FRANCHISE?! - MOVIE REVIEW! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

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Yeah, I'm grateful it's back to what one was able to make so special. I did enjoy myself thoroughly. I actually got a little more emotional than both movies combined. Yeah. The new car smells, low. Oh, there you go.

I like their bands in this world. Yeah. I would say this would, yeah, definitely the most emotional. Yeah, it had that Pixar kind of magic that, and I guess this would be a fair comparison. This reminded me of creed.

Sure. A little bit because of the passing of the torch, which I appreciated. I liked a lot of the visuals. It seemed like, A lot of the, the, the CGI was amped up. I mean, obviously with growing throughout the years, but there were like shots of like the moon and like some tracks.

And like certain, certain visuals that were extremely photorealistic. As opposed to like something like radiator springs, it's a little more animated, which again, the first one did. And even the second one almost felt like because it was so spy movie heavy, it didn't have that type of photorealistic kind of appreciation of like the, what's it called, the landscape. Yeah. It was more focused on the...

On the gatling guns. Yeah, definitely. So, otherwise, I enjoyed myself. This was probably... I don't know. I think I like it more than one. I'm debating myself. Yeah, there are some aspects of one

that I like because they are so cozy in the movies is largely about slowing down and finding your peace and finding something to fulfill you, beyond just the, you know, the rush of competition and being the best and all that shit. So, like, stuff. Sorry, kids. Yeah, but weirdly, like, I do, it's weird.

I feel like both cars one and three are familiar types of stories. Yes, definitely. You know, a hot shot rookie needs to slow down, needs to learn from his elders, needs to learn what's important in life, in order to get better at, you know, what he's doing. Right. Here, you know, I like that the character journey. is like, yeah, Lightning McQueen is more, you know, he's older, obviously, as they continually state. He's matured. He's had this growth of perspective. And now there's, yeah, a new kind of set of, you know, stakes to face in that, yeah, like the sport is changing. That's a real thing.

Right. And this whole idea of, yeah, this girl who, you know, is a trainer and who is, you know, helping all these state of the yard raisers, but who feels like they missed a shot at this dream. Like all that stuff, again, it's... My cup holder's happy, my tank is full. My engine's running like a brummer bull. I just got a date with ice cream trucks. Hey. Hey, McQueen, he's still there? McQueen?

Technology. What a post-credit scene. Oh, golly. That was very, that was very charming. Yeah, absolutely. I thought that was a call from like Finn McMissile that would have been a cool little like hey

yeah dude he gets his Gatlin guns yeah anyways I'm sorry you were saying no yeah I feel like the story in this one while also like you said Creed and Rock you know four especially yes yes you know it's a type of story too

but uh I thought they did a nice job new on seeing this and it felt like the script partly because this one is doing more stuff than the first movie just by design like it's just you know a busier movie uh i really liked what they came up with and yeah i thought that like in some way i'm like really debating it's like i really like the flavor and the sort of experiential quality of the first movie and just like you know the loveliness of like

oh yeah learning what the radiator springs way of life is and the root 66 love that pervades that movie is really nice but uh in terms of yeah just like character emotion in ways i found this i i could easily making it. Like, I've been sitting here this whole time going like, is this my favorite one? And like in some ways it might be. Yeah, yeah. So yeah. I think we could all agree, though, that two is definitely, we're just choosing which ones

go at number two and three in the ranking. When you say three might be the best, you mean that it's number two at best. Yeah, exactly. Behind Cars 2, which is the objective best cars. Absolutely. Of course. This really did feel like

they took like they took a lot of feedback on that it's so weird it really does feel like they blacked out and like went on a bender for cars too right and and and and then with this one we're like okay okay okay listen we're gonna we're gonna slow down yes we're sober now we're gonna really we're gonna really hammer the script out like it really feel like they put a lot of effort into making sure the script felt you know like it had some Pixar-ish level of nuance anyway. Even if it's not the most out there idea, it did feel

like, okay, they want this to feel like a Pixar movie, whereas the second movie, while it does have some of their charm, definitely is like a more madcap, bonkers, like toy, merchandise slash freaking action extravagance. There's just so many other things.

So yeah, like I really liked the way they handled the debate of, yeah, him trying to push to this level of being better than Jackson Storm and living up to the new generation and all that. But also then how it arrives at him passing off the torch and empowering this person who, yeah, like, feels like they lost their chance and just never had the right person to encourage them.

Right, right. When he comes around to be like, no, you know, like I can have all second life the way Doc did as a coach sharing my wisdom and, you know, building something beyond myself with my achievements. Like that was really beautiful. yeah no i i agree i think the emotionality like you said and the themes are much more of your traditional pixar uh greatness right it's it's it's it's it's it's a little more emotionally complex absolutely um and like with mentorship there's a what's it called like there's a parallel of fatherhood so like even with the familial kind of um that with that depth i again it

You can take it for service level of a mentor, mentee, and then you can kind of like, okay, Doc Hudson was this father figure to Lightning McQueen, and Lightning McQueen was this father figure to Cruz, right? So it being so kind of family-oriented, again, that's how I picked it up. That reminded me of more traditional Pixar, like, lore of family ties, right? like um what's uh cocoa or like um like a what's it called it uh not in concert because that's i don't know incontos not pixar but um like inside out very family based type of uh connecting however i don't

know how you feel about this this is this is something i was um contemplating the entire movie i mean well not the entire movie but majority of the movie okay so this is something this is going to be a little, lack of a better word, deep, right? Okay. I am, how do I put this? This is very personal. I am subscribed to the thought or the school of thought that, especially with athletes or especially with something like you love doing that has to do with athleticism. I'm a firm believer, and this is just me. I'm not asking one to buy my philosophy that... I'm very fascinated as to where this is going to end up.

And this is coming from my dancing background for those who know. Age doesn't have to define you because like you said throughout the movie it's a mindset thing

where, okay, okay so let's get a little more personal with me. Dancing and breaking is very physically demanding. Any athletic sport you can think of basketball, football,

etc. Soccer, yes. Can we take into account biology and like the physical changes you're going to go through when you're aging? Of course, that's, I'm not denying that. But I've subscribed to this thought very recently because I started dancing again at 30. That it doesn't have to define me. And like I'm getting better as I'm getting older.

And so when I was watching this movie, this personal kind of reflecting or contemplative experience was like as much as I can I can side with what they're saying which is very realistic with Lightning McQueen's decision of like I just need to be faster but like I'll be a trainer I almost wanted it to be like no Lightning McQueen still has a career to race and he doesn't have to pass the torch fully which kind of happened they kind of do that right yeah they do a little bit of both Right? They didn't like, yeah, he didn't like cancel the race and then, you know, obviously Cruz took the whole race. But because of that, I felt as much as I, again, I love the movie and I actually appreciated more than one and two for sure, to be honest, personally. Again, because of the emotionality.

You're dead to me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The two movies. Nothing will beat number two. Nothing is better than cars too. Nothing in this life is better than cars. I'm going to be honest. That's how I was, the whole experience.

was I was wrestling with that idea because I have older counterparts and colleagues within the dance community who are 40 plus and still able to battle and compete against some 20 year olds that and and come out victorious. Right or victorious. Like it's so so I. It's the nuance of your experience that you can yeah. Exactly. And do. Yeah, it's the nuance. It's the nuance. It's the nuance you picked up over so much time and over so many combinations. and learning from the people around you. Right, right. So it didn't ruin the experience, but I was like, wow, this is really striking a specific personal chord. Otherwise, objectively, the movie is beautiful.

I like the, I like the poetic kind of, you know, storytelling of, you know, he's going through the woods, and the rap is getting ripped. And I can appreciate that. And again, the themes were, again, a little more emotional than both one and two. One had it was still emotional, but like this had a little more depth.

Otherwise, I don't know how you feel about my, my rant. I know that was crazy. No, I think that's a really, like, that's a cool thing about this is that you can engage and have this conversation with the art in that like, yeah, part of me is like, oh, I see what you mean. Like, it would have been kind of cool and powerful in its own sense. If you could have Lightning McQueen himself rise to the occasion

in a way that's like, oh yeah, you know, you can do what the goal initially was, which was to go, experience can trump speed or can Trump... Yeah, yeah, yeah. State-of-the-art tools or whatever, you know, if you, yeah, if you've learned the things that they're teaching him, which is, you know, okay, you got to, you know, look at things that they're not looking at in order to, you know, get the edge. Right, right. And, yeah, it's like, it creates a crossroads that makes a movie like this feel more kind of like a living piece of art where you're like, oh, I can see how this could go either way. And I like the way that they go in partly because like I think for this type of movie it's I don't know. It's again, it's not that outlandish of a thing to do because obviously the Rocky franchise exists. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So having a situation where he doesn't like fully win but he still does, I thought was like a nice nuance. But I am like, yeah, I do see that and we live in a time where too, I feel like, I don't know, we're more aware of just the concept of age. and the fact that you, you know, shouldn't just, yeah, just push, you know, people who are a bit older and have a little more experience out, you know, and, and two, throughout this, there were a lot of times where I was like, you know, I get it, the piston cup is like the top of the mountain for this world. But I'm like, throughout the movie, we see all the different places you can still race. Yes, all the different ways you can still access this. That's true. And there are still places where people, you know, who are on your level or who are of your generation or doing this, you know, and it doesn't explicitly get in your face about that, but it does kind of embrace those things. So, yeah, it's weird.

It's like I could definitely see this ending up a different way that's, that, you know, speaks more to what you're talking about. Yeah. That would also be legitimate. I think what they chose to do is legitimate to. I agree. It speaks to, yeah, yeah. at least like it I like that it speaks to

the conversation of a living experience Yes definitely definitely And this one certainly does that I would argue the most Interestingly of the three Like that's the thing is like if you want to talk If it depends like my ranking Would depend on how

What you're looking for Yeah yeah yeah And I think this one Theoretically is the most like Complex or nuance It has a greater blend of emotional nuanced complexity Not that it's like the deepest

movie ever. But like, the first one is about getting simple. And that's beautiful in its own way. Absolutely. But, but yeah, this one is like putting in a lot of effort and I think a lot of that effort pays off. And, you know, then the second movie is putting in, is just throwing everything at you

with, you know, such with Gatling guns. Such enthusiasm. Yeah, they're shooting you with a Gatling gun of ideas. Exactly. And, uh, and so you know, if I want like the most jam-packed, mad, crazy outlandish cars. Yeah. Cars 2 is the best cars.

If I want to, like, throw this on and have a crazy time and be like, what is happening? Right, right, right. Then I'll throw on cars too. If I want to feel cozy, I'm like Cars 1 is the best of one. If I want, like, the most nuanced, like, impacting story, as much as like Paul Newman and him, that's the thing on watching these, you know, it's like I'd seen the original one way, way, way, way, way back when it came out. And I, in watching it this time with you kind of with fresh eyes, I was like, oh,

I thought Doc Hudson was like a more ingrained part of this story. I thought there was more stuff. Yeah. I felt like there was more stuff between them than there was when we watched it this time. Yeah, that is a trip. I picked that up too. So, yeah, like this one feels like, too, the way they lace him in is like a lovely tribute. Absolutely.

And it keeps his presence alive. And so, like, in a way, even though he's also not like the main point of. this movie. Like, there's a Doc Hudson, like, there's an emotional connection you feel to him in this movie. That, you know, also just adds, again, to the layers of things that, yeah, make it kind of unique

and interesting. Definitely. Yeah, and that make it, like, kind of, yeah, raise it above the pursuits of the first movie in some ways. Let's mix in this first question just because it's what we've been talking about. Let's do it. Lizzie J. Says, and thank you for chiming in, Lizzie.

I think this is a great, example of third times a charm. I absolutely agree. Personally, I think they knocked it out of the park with this one. I'm curious as to whether you think this is up to par with the first one or how it compares. A lot of the beats are very similar, but it does go on a

different road with lightning, not wanting to become like Doc, obviously, to ultimately fill that exact role for Cruz. Yeah, I mean, I like the ambiguous nature of, like, well, because of the way you started the race. Technically, still won, and you also, and I like that that

speaks in a less obvious way to like, and that was a strategic call that you made on the track. Right. And that's like a good, it shows that you can do both. You can do both, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. And that's the strength that she will obviously have. It's just that they are, again, meeting from two different sides of the experience, you know. Right.

But yeah, I would certainly, as we've said here, I would agree that this one is a third times a charm. I think this one is, it's like, I think my favorite thing that, again, Edge is the first movie out, is that it's so tactile and cozy. But this one, like you said, has, like, such beautiful animation and textures. What it wants to be intense on the racetrack, it is. Yes. When it wants to feel like you're in these different environments, the beach, the woods, this mud, you know, demolition derby.

That's right. Yeah, yeah. All that stuff feels very tactile. And, you know, the way they handle the changing of the world and the continued cheekiness of all the little car isms is very fun. still so right so yeah like i i think there are more interesting conversations almost about like how and why it ends up where it is yes and so for that reason too i'm like this does seem like the most interesting cars movie yeah i agree most to talk about definitely yeah there's there there is

much much more like conversational deconstruction that could be had the first one is almost kind of like straightforward right like a lot of people were saying um that cars one was like not the simple to say the least, right? Like it's very... Yeah. Like, again, the theme was slow down so that way you can kind of... Don't forget where you come from, in a sense, right?

Slow down. Don't be so cocky. Learn to accept help and experience. And, yeah, learn some important things in... Like, find things that are actually important in your life because you base it all on, you know... Some vanity or superficial. some outside achievement and yeah and like you know praise and love from you know a bunch of people

who aren't in your direct life you know you're going to have sat and alone like yeah exactly yeah i think see the with this one it seems as if it's a little more um lack of a better phrase open ended like you can kind of take a lot from it right um just because like are you siding with cruise maybe you're a younger viewer and you're like i wow i feel seen right or you might be like lightning mcqueen where it's like yeah i'm i've been doing this and i don't like i'm being phased out but i can that doesn't mean i don't have a place right so it with that i would have to say that because it adds more um conversational deconstruction for sure that uh the third one is not not only on par but in my opinion again my opinion only um is better um you get a new you got a dual underdog story

oh yeah exactly two different flavors exactly and i like that i like that a lot so um yeah yeah yeah like this is definitely a fascinating trilogy man the trilogy itself yes i got to say like wow i really want to know the conversations that led from one to two to three yeah definitely because this feels like You could have just taken a break for many years and then come back and done this and it would have been fine. And, too, I mean, like, I, actually, let's jump into this next question because it'll be a good opportunity to talk about Cruz. I don't take this for Rudy Rogers. Rudy Rogers says, thank you for your contribution. I hope you guys enjoyed diving into these awesome films.

While the second is my personal favorite. Yes. Of course it is. Cars 2 gang for life. I adore Cruz Ramirez as the new star. At what point did you guys realize? she was the right one to race. And would you enjoy a spinoff slash sequel

with more of her story? Sending much love. Thank you. Sending love back. Good question. Well, okay. So in terms of Cruz, I'm not trying to like to my own horn,

but it was a little, kind of predictable at one point. I remember around the end of first act, beginning of the second act, I was like, remember I was like, is this a passing of a torch movie? Yeah. So I kind of saw it coming,

but I kind of, The reason why I was unsure is because I didn't want that to a certain degree. I still wanted to give lightning kind of like, all right. To prove that you still got it. Exactly, exactly. And in a new way you could discover that you got it. Exactly. Discovering that you've, yeah, you've grown your nuanced, your sage.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And again, that comes from personal experience, right? So, but how about you? Like, again, I'm assuming you picked it up too, right? Like, I remember we were kind of. Yeah. I mean, I think you were probably thinking of it before.

I was. Oh, sure, sure. Yeah. But especially the more they hammer that theme of like, you're just a trainer. Yes, it kept the,

you know. That's the one. And in fact, that's one of the rare times I felt like the movie really like, I was like, okay, I get it. I get it.

It's cool. It's cool Nathan Philly. And you don't have to say this like five times. Right, right, right. Right. And, you know, I like that he was a jerk, but just kind of a normal jerk and not like an evil jerk.

Right, right, right. But, yeah, like, I really liked Cruz as a character for sure. I thought she just had such lovely presence in the story and, you know, totally kind of unlikely personality type for what you would imagine, like, a trainer to be, and they use that in a way that's kind of nice. And, like, I like that, you know, they draw...

I like the way they draw the friction between her and McQueen because obviously he's going to have some level of pride and he's not going to be all about these newfangled machines. But it's not, like, like, directly disrespectful to... he's just like, you know, yeah, yeah, I know, I know what I'm doing and I want to get onto the big guns and I want to do this and like, I don't necessarily want to be on your program. But he's never like directly, I don't know, dismissive of her beyond just like I want to train how I want to train. Yeah. I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say because there are like, there's friction between them.

But yeah, I don't know. I really like the growing of their relationship. I liked her a lot as a character and it's one of those situations where, too, you know, it's like a passing of the torch. in the day and age that we live in. It's, it's, you can't not notice that he is passing the torch off to, uh, you know, a woman racer, essentially, a woman car. I don't know how to, how do you, how do we, yeah, get qualified, but, um, but yeah, like, I liked to, and they had the whole

Margo Martindale character. Like, there is that in like, one of the most graceful ways I've seen. Like, I wasn't even really thinking about it and it didn't feel like there was some mandate of like, oh, we got to make a car's movie for the girls. Right. Yeah, it didn't feel like that, you know. I was like, really. Yeah, I was engrossed in her character

And I was rooting for her journey And I never thought about You know The things that can become You know When movies of the now We all know when they try to be progressive And it's clunky and it's ill-conceived

I thought this was a really nice Version of that Because they just drew a character story Anyone could relate to Yeah, absolutely I got there out on the track And I was so excited And then it just

just felt like, oh, God, I don't belong here. Right. That's a human thing. Yes, absolutely. So, yeah, it's weird. It's like, again, I'm really fascinated by talking about this with you because I never expected to get us here. Yes, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, generally speaking, I really liked Cruz. I really like the voice performance. I'm not super familiar with Christella Alonzo. She had her own show for like 22 episodes. That's a sitcom called Cristella. I think she's a stand-up comic, no? Or is she?

Maybe. And has done a bunch of voice work. Oh, yeah, she is. Yeah, she's a comic. Wow. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, great performance, I thought. Sweet.

And, yeah, like, two, for somebody who, you know, star was probably more on the rise at the time, like, I, you know, it was nice to have somebody. It's always fun to be like, oh, who's that voice? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, I was kind of able to just slip into her character. Definitely. Let me get the other part of your question here. Yeah. Spinoff sequel?

Yeah. Once they really start training together, I'm like, oh, is there going to be some kind of way that she becomes a racer? But actually, I mean, weirdly, they were good at doing enough things that I wasn't sitting there going like, he's definitely going to throw her in. So by the time that happened in the race, I wasn't really thinking about the rules and I don't know the rules very well. Yeah, yeah. So it was able to take me by surprise. Right. As far as the spinoff or a sequel goes, like, sure.

You know, it depends. It's like if they can write a script that's, you know, trying as hard. succeeding as often as this is, then sure, why not? Right, right. I'm also happy with the sort of like letting it trail off into the sunset. I'm like, cool, McQueen can race again, where and how he please. She's on the rise now. Yes.

You know, I don't need it, but I'd be happy to see it if they had some good idea for it. I agree. I agree. And, like, I know we compared this to Rocky. So in Rocky 3, Apollo Creed becomes Rocky's trainer because Mick dies. Okay, yeah, yeah. Spoiler alert for Rocky 3. Wow.

Ruin the Rocky Rewind. So, yeah. So you see his opponent become like his coach or whatever. And a beautiful relationship. And then the Rocky Four comes along. And then Apollo Creed dies in four. And so, and then you have Creed. And then Creed happens where the, our star became the coach.

And became this like story of like he's battling cancer with Michael B. Jordan's Adonis Creed. So with all that said, I would. The spin-off sequel, this is, this sounds like intense. It better be as good as creed. I'm like, sure. To really. We need the creed of cars movies. Yes, yeah.

We need Cruz. Yes. Oh my God. It's coming. Yes. Ryan Coogler where you at. Yeah, I know. Ryan Coogler in the building at Pixar.

Yeah. So yeah. Use that Disney connection, man. Yeah, right. But yeah, that's so funny. I know that that it has to be that good for me to be. be interested. Otherwise, I am in the same page as you where they kind of ended in a beautiful fashion, third kind of movie. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. Do we lose Isaiah Whitlock Jr.? That was who the other

one of the other cars was. Yes. He passed away, I think a couple years ago. I forgot when. 25. It says here. Dang. Oh, yeah. Actually, yeah. You know your actors, man. Yeah, he was a fun addition. There was a lot of cocaine bear. I remember from cocaine. but yeah yeah man i liked her a lot and i just generally like the whole i guess that that's part of it is i kind of got just lost in the whole like oh they're both learning like yes they can both learn from each other and they're both learning from smoky so at a certain point i yeah this movie got i think a good sign often not always but often is like if they can get you to a point where you're not really thinking about predicting stuff that's a good one right right and oftentimes i wasn't

really thinking about predicting stuff. And, you know, at a certain point, you can sort of tell, like, I know that the message will become, you're not just a trainer. You're just as capable. I didn't know how exactly that would get there. Yeah, that would get there. And having CEDA, I'm like, oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, definitely.

But, yeah, you know, I think there are probably some supplementary materials featuring Cruz there have to be. There's got to be a CD-ROM game or something. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Anyway, shout out to Cruz. We love Cruz in this house. There you go. Alyssa Martinez, howdy, John and John.

Thank you for chiming in. I've loved getting to watch Cars with you guys. Thank you. This has been a real joy. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't expecting how fun this would be as a journey. I'm sad there's not a Cars 4 right now. It's a fun Disney trilogy in my experience.

I was curious what you guys thought about the jump from the simple plot line of Cars 1, the chaotic fun that was Cars 2 and the reminiscent storyline from Cars 3 that happens. Love y'all. Obviously, if you've been here in this review, we have touched on this. I like that they're all, it's weird. I like that they're all very different. Yes, of course, of course. In a way, as much as Cars 2 is inexplicable to me, like, is like a Coke-fueled fever

dream blacked out over the weekend. What do we do? Right. Like, I imagine just everyone who made that movie waking up hangover style on a Monday morning with like the DCP and they're like, I guess it's done. What did we do last night? yeah it's weird i really like all three of the flavors though yes i like it yeah it's weird it's a very odd trilogy to behold in tandem

but each one has its charms each one's pretty fun and i like that i appreciate something different about them also that depending on how you look at them i would rank them all three quite differently yeah and there are honest versions where i would rank cars two first if i am looking for a certain kind of movie yes yes so i think that cars won in three three feel like actual companions to each other. Yes, exactly. Feels like a marketing choice. Right.

A thousand percent. Definitely. And then they overcorrected slightly here. Not that I'm like, I need more mater. But I was like, there's very little mater in the food. They got the notes. They really got it out of their system last time. Yeah.

It seems like, yeah, number two was like this spinoff. It should have been called like mater or something. You know, like somebody commented. Yeah, this should have been like Cars presents. Exactly. Made her and Finn McMissle. Exactly. It's like a Hobbs and Shaw to Fast and a Furious.

Yeah. Vader and McMissle. There we go. No, yeah. I enjoy, like, I am on the same page with you, man. One, two, and three, being so different, depending on my mood, depending on my flavor profile, I'll enjoy. I would lean towards three the most because of the depth and the nuance for sure.

He's doing the most. Yes, absolutely. Pulling it off pretty well. But yeah, honestly, what I got from this question is that you enjoyed watching with us. Like, that's the coolest part. It's just able to. I didn't expect this journey. Like, to go with the way it did.

Like, two was a surprise and three, I'm like, I'm getting emotional for a car's movie. Wow. So. I cried during this movie. Yeah, yeah. I got a little choked up. But otherwise, yeah, I mean, I think we're on the same page, right? Like, it seems as if.

Yeah. Yeah, I would say so. I did not expect this to be one of the more interesting Pixar franchise Yes It is strange in various contexts Right right right right It's been a while since I've done a watch of any of the toy stories I should do a rewatch of the toy stories

There you go yeah yeah yeah I feel like There have what four or five of those up till now Pixar 5 is coming out this year Toy Story 5 okay so yeah Or yeah Pixar 5 I'm like how many we got two Incredibles We have four toy stories

We have three cars We have two inside outs. I got to see Inside Out too. I got to go to, I got to visit. The only time I've ever been to San Francisco. Wow. That's cool. Anyway, let's do a quickie from Jay Rushden.

Take it away. Jay Rushden, where do cars, like, come from? This is hilarious. Do the cars grow up and one of the different genders of cars there? Yeah, this universe, man, this is a fat, like, this is, this is, this is, this. universe is a perfect, I think, example of the conversation to be had about the suspension of disbelief. Yes.

Because I know that these cars movies for like animation people too are somewhat clowned upon Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And general audiences too. But like this is a universe where I feel like, yes, I, like, it behooves us all to go, yes, it's a high concept. Yes, it's not going to make a one-to-one sense with reality. just go with the charming nature of the world

because it is very charming. But, I mean, I would be lying if I said, part of the fun of these to me is these types of questions. Yes, yes. Because I'm like, there is a child car in this movie. Yes. And so you're like, do somebody just swap out all your panels and keep growing you?

Or do you, yeah, and how do cars procreate? They thank the manufacturer at one point. Right. That just seems like a vague godlike deed. Yes, yes. And like, yeah, cars bond. We have couples. you know, and things like that.

And there are different genders. I don't know how any of this works. The fact that we can ask these questions. I think Forky is probably the Rosetta Stone. Yes. Yeah. Of this universe. So I don't know.

Maybe cars get gendered by what accoutrements you put on their paint and accessories. I really would love to figure all this out, though. They have religion. They have an economy. They have Apple. Yes. They have billionaires. They have billionaires.

SAA have money. So they have economic kind of, you know. The freaking Rusty's guys had to sell their business and somebody else bought the business. Yes, right. What? Yeah. Yeah. There's spies and espionage.

You can apparently die. Right. Doc Hudson died, but then there's like the Model T lady in town who's like a million years old. And that's another one of those things where I'm like, I like kind of that we don't have to be like, here's how Doc Hudson died. Same time, I know cars die. like, what happened here?

Did his engine go out? Yes. Was it a battery? You can probably swap battery in this world. Right. So, like, what? Yeah, what happens? You know, we've seen gas

doesn't necessarily in the second movie. There was that whole thing about like, I survived without gas for weeks. Right, right. Which is like lugging along on like, not, like the wheels wouldn't turn, but you can still like pull yourself.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot about the rules I don't quite understand. Apparently oil leaks is might be like, from the second one, it might be you going to the restroom? It's like an incontentantant. thing. Yeah.

I can't tell. And then she hangs them upside down. She's like, oh, you know, drip pan, you might leak oil. And I'm like, well, I don't know. This doesn't seem like it's necessarily the same thing. Right. Yeah. I can't tell.

What are the rules? Yeah. No, I like having this conversation between two adults like us. I'm scared if my niece were to ask these questions. Because I don't know how to answer it. It's good because there's no, just no, some of these things have no proxy. Right. Exactly.

I don't know how cars would reproduce because, like, what would even be the equivalent systems that would be involved in that? I don't know. Yeah. I don't want to answer those questions yet. Like, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm interested to find out. Is there a ship of Theseus debate in this universe? How many of your parts can you have updated and swapped out?

Right. I know you must be out to have some because clearly that's what was happening in cars too with all the bond villains stuff. Yes, exactly. Suffice it to say, I think this is a feature, not a bunch of. bug. I think it's very fun and charming to imagine how this universe works. Yep. And what we see of it on screen that's actually

depicted, I think is quite charming and it makes me want to suspend my disbelief because, hey, it's neat and fun. Definitely. And it asks that of you, but not like forcing it, right? It's high concept. Like, we've seen a lot of high concept worlds and some of them have tighter rules than

others. And I feel like for what these movies are trying to do, the rules aren't that big of a hindrance. True. But it is fun. Like, I'll never not have fun being like, how that? They have a Pope mobile. But the Popemobile's not the Pope. The Pope's car is in the Pope mobile car. Yes.

What the hell? Yeah, yeah. Like, what? So, has there been a car war, you know? Right. Was there a Civil War? What do tanks do in this world? You know, are there, have we seen a tank?

We've seen like military-looking boats and stuff. Yes, we have. Yeah. It's like time travel. Don't think about it too hard. It'll cook your brain. For real. But leave us all your theories.

For real. Alyssa Martinez closing us out. Also, what kind of car would you be in this universe the most amount of detail possible? It wouldn't be a car video if we didn't...

We didn't get this question. We didn't get this question. Oh, man. Oh, man. What can we say now? What can we say this time? I'm trying to think of, yeah, a clever, more clever,

more interesting way to answer this question. Let's see. What kind of car? Okay. Let's see. How did we not? How do we not answer the same way we did in the past two videos?

All right. How about? The weirdest cars. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I want to be like... Oh, this Brickland SV1. Cool.

Short for safety vehicle. I want to be one of those cars that you see on Instagram where it's like just the top of a car. This Chrysler Atlantic looks crazy. That does look crazy. Have you seen those things where they take the top of a car and they put it on wheels? Oh, yes. Like you're driving and a glitch. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's a pretty fun car to be. You know, maybe an old geo or something. Maybe one of those cars that has... A geometro. Yeah, three wheels. Oh, yeah, that's cool. One of the...

I want to be like one of those crazy concept cars. Yeah. It looks like a spaceship or something. Right. I feel like the kind you go to the LA Auto Show to see there and then never again. The concept cars that never happened. Yeah, yeah.

It's like, what's that one movie? Spielberg Minority Report Remember they were like Kind of on tracks and stuff I remember that being a big deal Yeah yeah Maybe like an air stream

They made a joke about air streams But like you know Right right they did travel That Chrysler Atlantic boy That's a beautiful looking car Yeah Some kind of Mustang man Some kind of boss mock

Something or other Mustang Right There's so many good options There are a lot of cars out there You know Definitely among Okay let me ask this I guess I can add

Some dimension to this question Pinewood Derby car among the cars that you've driven from the moment you started driving to now, what car would you actually be as an... Pomorphic like the ones that just have been my cars

any car I've ever driven ever. No, any of your cars that you've owned and driven. Maybe the current one. I like the current one a lot. I mean, I've only had three cars to myself in this life so I mean, they've all served me well, but I love the current one. Nice. And it's super well designed. It's got a couple different engine types. Oh, there are real.

Yeah, I think I'm good with it. I miss having a CD player, but, you know. That's, oh my gosh. It's fine. It's not a huge deal. I actually was get my, one of my best friends in the world, Mallory, gifted me a CD player last year. So I can plug it into the ox. That's cool.

So I'm not even hurting now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, uh, but yeah, leave us your cars, peeps. Leave us what cars you want to be. Yeah. And, uh, you know, how much gas mileage you would get. Uh, goodness. Let's see.

Real quick. reported during the recording process for cars director John Lassner spent a lot of time in the recording booth of Paul Newman, who regaled him with stories about his life for many years as a race car driver. Wow. Oh, that's interesting. Lassner said in a way he mentored me in racing because car racing was his true life's passion, and I made sure that whenever he came into the recording booth, we were recording everything. In between takes, he would tell me stories about great races and you can hear the passion in his voice.

Those recordings made it possible for Doc Hudson to reappear in this movie. I was wondering that. Released over eight years after Newman's death. Lasseter explained as we started Cars 3 We went back to every recording we did on Cars 1 And cataloged and listened to it all And ended up with a lot of material that we could use Lines that were cut from the original film and never use

As well as some of those pieces from in between takes That's cool That's really, really cool And yes, there is a car Reference to Coco in the simulator room That makes sense Yeah, goodness Oh my God, one of the Tom Maliozzi

One of the Car Talk brothers who are the Rusties Oh, died, who played Rusty. They had to get like a voice match, I guess. Damn. Goodness. Wow. That's crazy. Damn. That's a review old transcripts. Oh, instead

of hiring a sound of like, filmmakers reviewed old transcripts and Car Talks to find lines that would serve Rusty. That's cool. Oh, wow. So they like ripped lines from the show. That's crazy. That's a trick. Yeah. Oh, my God. Well, goodness, gracious gang. Oh, Philmore's license played is 51, 23, 7. It's the birth date of George Carl and the original

voice actor. That's beautiful. That's cool. It's May 12, 1937. Yeah. Well, gang, this was fascinating. You got anything else to tell the people about your favorite movie? I don't know about my favorite. This was a fun little ride. It was a

fun little ride. It's been a pleasure having you in the passenger seat and in the driver's seat. I wonder of my favorite cars movie about time. Favorite movie, period. Anyway, thank you guys. This was a really nice surprise. And this trilogy was another really nice surprise here at the channel.

Yeah. Leave us your thoughts on cars, one, two, three, any and all spinoffs. Yeah. And yeah, we'll catch you here for whatever's next. But for right now, life's a highway. And thanks for riding it with us. Here you go. All trilogy long.

Yes, absolutely. And, you know, polish your Gatling guns, take your Rusties, and we'll see you down the road. Down the road. Pieces. Thank you.