This film about anthropomorphic vehicles tells the story of a handsome, narcissistic NASCAR-type rookie race car. Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) learns from former star racer Doc Hudson (a 1951 Hudson Hornet voiced by Paul Newman) that there’s more to life than winning and losing. Lightning-fast hotrod McQueen figures that he knows everything there is to know about racing.
Hudson teaches him the hard way that friendship, loyalty, honesty, generosity, caring for one’s craft, and hard work matter more than victory or defeat. Sometimes the slower, longer, bumpier road, taken with sincerity, is better than the breezy shortcut. Plot summary, cast, reviews, and ratings can be found at IMDb.
