Pixar's CARS 2 Villain is an EV. WTF? (spoiler alert)

[GCinDC]

these days kids own movies and watch them a million times until they memorize them.

the plot of the new CARS 2 is so complicated, i'm not sure most will get it even then.

but nevermind. how lame is it that the primary villan is EV??

i took my 6 year old son this weekend, and the plot is more complicated than most bond flicks. but still, for the next generation, i thought pixar could have done much better, perhaps that would have been too predictable, but so what. in the PR world, EV's are getting killed...

from: http://pixar.wikia.com/Miles_Axlerod

"Axlerod is a former oil baron who has sold off his fortune, converted himself into an electric vehicle (edit: we find out this is not even true - he runs gas and leaks oil...) and has devoted his life to finding the renewable, clean-burning energy source of the future....His supposed "alternative fuel" was actually gasoline engineered to expand if hit with an electro-magnetic pulse, and was part of a plot to turn the world against alternative energy and have them rely on gasoline, bringing profits to the lemons and himself due to the fact they owned the largest untapped oil reserves in the world.

 

[torker]

Damn, that is a lot of storyline for a five year old. Or an adult So the villain drives a supposed RangeRover ev.

 

[gogo]

I'll reserve judgement until I've seen it.

 

[vanilla ice]

(spoiler alert #2- PLS don't read this if you are going to see the movie)

But he's NOTan EV.. He owns a bunch of oil platforms and he's frontin like he's an EV as part of his evil plan to discredit alternative fuels. He's got an old ICE under the hood.. Hardly a pro-oil plot.

 

[REdiculous]

So the villain drives a supposed RangeRover ev.

The villain *is* a supposed RangeRover EV....there's no drivers. :wink:

 

[dbaker]

What did Lucas think about it?

 

[GCinDC]

just asked him:

dad: how'd you like the cars movie?
son: good
dad: what was your favorite part?
son: that mater can transform.

that was a funny scene.

look, i'm a HUGE pixar fan. every scene has incredible composition, lighting, and they're all vital to the captivating story line. cars 2 is amazing as well, but is soooo complicated that i'd be really curious to know what kids make of it. or what age it's geared for. a spy/espionage plot is really ambitious.

after all the action is over and the plot is really considered, anyone must agree that it's preposterous. that a villain, no matter who, would go to such lengths (to pretend to be an electric vehicle, and develop an alternative liquid fuel, and then sponsor races under it's name, only to prove the inadequacy of that new fuel, in order to protect his secret massively new discovered deep sea oil deposits... preposterous. and far too convoluted.

is there an underlying message? the film maker says no. but sure: big oil is bad. but also: alternative fuels are risky. and EV's? who knows, it's phony, and in any case, superficial...

anyway, i was disappointed. that's all. no big deal. it's just a bummer, cause kids grow up on this stuff, and so much more could have been gained from giving them a better message, as done in wall-e.

 

[GCinDC]

the press doesn't even know what to make of it. can be spun anyway. idiotic what some say, for example:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/aubrey-vaughan/2011/06/22/cars-2-takes-turn-hard-left-attacks-oil-companies

Debuting in theaters this Friday, the seemingly innocuous Disney-Pixar film 'Cars 2' has become a tool to wedge a fight against fossil fuels in favor of alternative forms of energy.
... and get this last line:
If you can't quell your kids' begging to see it this weekend, though, just remember to drive your SUV to the movies.

WTF?