Instead of just movie reviews about the film "Cars," I looked for bloggers who provided a different perspective about the film.
Billy Belk of The Sacred in the Secular talks about the film (caution: it gives away the ending) and came away with this moral:
Unlike the Nascar world for which it is based, Cars has a redemptive theme in that it teaches that there are those among us who are neglected, and like McQueen, we should get off the superhighway sometimes, slow down, and reach out to those who are neglected in our lightening fast culture. And we would do well to learn what McQueen learned: Those who are first will be last, and those who are last will be first. Without such understanding, life is just an empty cup!
Jerseycajun thinks many movie critics who knock the film for its predictability are missing the point:
You know note for note how things are going to play out. But if you take the movie's message to heart, then it won't matter because like most trips, you know where you're going, but it's the getting there that's often makes it worthwhile. I think a lot of the critics can't see the forest for the trees on this one as they're all harping on it's predictability and forgetting that a lot of genre movies are, but what separates the cream from the no-fat milk is in how well they get made.
Many have praised "Cars" for its technical achievements. But Ignorant Critics saw something else that appealed to him:
Still, what redeems Cars from being a better-than-average formula movie is its heart. This is not a soulless animated film like Ice Age or even Over the Hedge. The attention to detail is everywhere; one can almost sense the love that went into making every single gorgeous frame. And the strongest recommendation I can give is that halfway through the movie, I stopped thinking that this was a movie about cars and started thinking that this was a movie about characters.