My Thoughts On The New Cars 3 Trailer

Like all summers since 2006 (sans 2014), the hot months of this years bring forth a new PIXAR movie, with this year's newest movie being Cars 3, the newest entry in the animated saga that aggravates adults and sells billions of dollars in merchandise to children. I'm a big fan of the first Cars movie myself despite some major flaws in it (Lightning McQueen may be the worst protagonist in a PIXAR movie, save for Mater in Cars 2) but that second Cars movie really was the pits. Can Cars 3 turn things around for the franchise? I've got no clue but that first teaser trailer brought an ominous atmosphere that was unexpected at least.

After months of promotional radio silence, today brings forth a new trailer that I assume Disney will attach to 2D screenings of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (just as they attached a Zootopia trailer to 2D showings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens) next week. Check out the new trailer and my thoughts on it below!
....Ok, the more dramatic atmosphere of the first teaser trailer kinda worked as a "WHAT IS HAPPENING???" but for this full-length trailer, it really didn't work for me. This trailer tries to sell Cars 3 as a Logan/Creed type of experience, a final ride for a big screen legend that emphasizes his age and the large amount of time we, the audience, have spent with this character. But we've only had one whole film dedicated to Lightning McQueen and that makes it harder to feel like we've spent enough time with this guy to have solemnly intoned monologues about "legacies" and all that, even if they are delivered by Nathan Fillion (who I guess is required to play an antagonistic figure in all PIXAR follow-ups from now on?). Maybe it'll work better in the feature film proper, but in this trailer, the more introspective tone just feels weird above all else.

Something else I just wanna point out from this trailer is how utterly odd the characters look from an animation perspective. They've made the metallic surfaces of the various cars more reflective and it's actually odd to look at and distracts from the dialogue to an extremely notable degree. The jokes don't really work here either and feel more forced than anything else, so, yeah, I guess you could say this trailer didn't do much of anything for me. Honestly, it just made me all the more eager for PIXAR's other 2017 movie, the far more promising looking Coco. How about we all watch that trailer again??