In many ways,
Cars 3 feels like a companion piece to last summer's PIXAR movie,
Finding Dory. Not only are both sequels but they arrive in an era of PIXAR's filmography so heavily dominated by sequels it's become understandable to question whether the more bold storytelling instincts the studio was relying on for its first 15 years of existence have escaped them (though
Inside Out is the kind of masterpiece demonstrating how good this studio can be when it really swings for the fences).
Cars 3, even moreso than
Finding Dory (whose predecessor never really spawned much in the way of merchandise) is mostly a gamble to create toys and assorted paraphernalia that these
Cars movies have become most noteworthy for.
