Cars 2: A Pixar Fantasy That Runs Out of Gas
In the first Cars film, the biggest rube in Radiator Springs hitched himself to famous race car Lightning McQueen and never let go. The rusty tow truck Mater (voiced by professional rube Larry the Cable Guy) was desperate to be friends in a semistalkery way. I always assumed that, on his return to civilization, McQueen (Owen Wilson) would gently detach from needy, dopey Mater. Just because the former braggart learned humility on Route 66 didn't mean he had to be a martyr.
小編小注：?let go即“釋懷”，“放下”“算了吧”的意思
例：Let go and let God.放開你的手，讓神來做工。
Somehow, that's what Pixar's high-gloss, thinly premised Cars 2 wants. This globetrotting spy adventure treats the race?car–rube match as a love affair to be nurtured and cherished. After taking Mater to the World Grand Prix in Tokyo, McQueen loses his first heat to a flashy Italian (John Turturro) because of one of Mater's innocent flights of idiocy. There's a scolding ("Maybe you should just act a little different," McQueen says), and a chastened Mater rolls away.?
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But no one pauses long to pout. Mistaken for an undercover agent by British spy cars Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) and Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer), Mater is whisked off on a mission. An alternative-fuel conspiracy is afoot, and an amusing crew of mobsters is out to promote Big Oil.
A Pixar movie is always lively, and this might be the studio's liveliest (and loudest) yet — but its leanest in terms of warmth and heart. The movie coasts on endless puns and visual gags. Its delight in an alternate reality in which cars go to discos and aim blowtorches at one another is as golly gee whiz as Mater himself. ?
小編小注：golly gee whiz相當(dāng)于中文中的“絮絮叨叨”，“嘰嘰喳喳”
例：He said every official in the league has been asked if he ever fixed a game, and gee-whiz, golly-gee, you know what -- none of them said they have ever cheated.他說，聯(lián)盟里的所有官員都被問到是否參與賭球，受賄，所有官員都說他們沒操縱過比賽。
Fitting, since this is Mater's movie. It's a Materthon. I would call it Materific if he didn't leave me longing for WALL?E's robot to crush him into a silent cube. Such is the sincerity of the Pixar vision and the marvel of its visual execution that I feel guilty about this urge. Such is my child's devotion to the franchise that I can hear him saying, "Mommy, that's mean. Mater's nice." Well, yes, he is nice. But friendships must include give and take, and the premise of Cars 2 — that it is a cardinal sin to ask a friend to alter his behavior — is a lemon.?
小編小注：be longing for的意思是“期待”“渴望”
例：I‘m longing for a break.我希望能有一個(gè)假期。
