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** Motor oil, chassis lube and antifreeze?
** Maybe gas stations are the car equivalent of a really cheap fast-food place? Except without the cheap part, judging by today's gas prices.
*** Eh. A real-life coupe (such as Sally) can go what, fifteen to twenty miles on three bucks of gasoline as of this writing? A larger vehicle (like Mater), eight to ten? How far do you think you can go on three bucks of American junk food? (okay, I'll do the math for you. [
** I'm guessing that Gas stations are a necessity, while Restaurants are more of a luxury (or for formal events, like a date).
** On the other hand, why is everyone freaked out of Fillmore naturist drinks? Is that gas without led, or drugs?
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** I haven't seen the movie yet but I know Mater causes Lighting to lose a stage in Grand Prix so I figure Mater tries to explain all the weird [[Espionage Tropes]] that are occurring to Lightning. Lightning, who's been told all of [[Pixar Shorts|Mater's tall tales]] before, doesn't believe him.
*** Thank you. Yes, now that's probably the closest one it gets. Still, eh... {{spoiler|1=Mater does not try to bring Espionage Tropes to light, as he does not yet even know that his new girlfriend is a spy. Because of that, his story does not sound implausible at all (heard the voice of my date, got out of the pit box, saw a martial arts festival, got into a fight...) - and McQueen doesn't seem too disbelieving, knowing Mater's previous antics - more like angry and annoyed at having lost the race. Not much of a tall tale, I think. But it's close, yeah.}}
* There already is a question regarding homologation rules in the original, but in the [[Squal Escalation|sequel]] . The World Grand Prix openly includes all types of racers, from open-wheel F1 (like [http://cars2movie.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/FrancescoBernoulli-300x168.jpg Bernoulli]{{Dead link}}) through sports (like [http://cars2movie.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shu-poster-300x168.jpg that]{{Dead link}} Japanese guy) to rally cars (like [http://cars2movie.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Raoul-poster-300x168.jpg that one]{{Dead link}} from France). They even make an attempt at justifying it, saying that the race tracks have various parts, like strips of dirt-track where rally cars would be able to gain an advantage. Not being a racing aficionado, I would like to know how much sense it makes to those who are. Or is the WGP officially a charity event, making the rules more relaxed?
** Repeat [[The MST 3 K Mantra]] a few times...there is no possible way you could fairly race F1 cars, NASCAR cars, rally cars, drifters, etc. against each other, ESPECIALLY not with different track sections--on a grand prix track the F1 cars would demolish the others, a rally-style stage would shred the other cars' bodies, which can't take dirt racing and aren't meant to, drifters are entirely different concept. [[Cars]] cars seem to be able to adapt themselves to conditions, real cars cannot.
* In the scene where McMissile and Holly are outfitting Mater with spy gadgets, they offer to repair him, as his, ahem, less-than-perfect paint job interferes with their state-of-the-art holographic camouflage. Mater, of course, proudly refuses (can't let minor nuisances such as this alter the image of our protagonist, all right). But the reason he gives is that all these dents and scratches were received during his adventures with Lightning. Only... he totally was looking exactly like that when Lightning first met him in the original film. Fine, I could've let that one fly... but from that moment onwards, the holographic camo works like a charm on top of his rust without ever shorting out like it did the first time.
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** Justifiably or not, this ''is'' the film that stopped Pixar's winning streak with critics, it has the stigma of not only being a sequel to Pixar's worst movie, but also a sequel made only made to sell toys, and the fact that after Brave is a [[Monsters, Inc.]] prequel, and it was made right after a [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] sequel. In short: Chalk it up to [[Fan Dumb]] that thinks that one slightly sub par movie means Pixar will be [[Merchandise-Driven]] [[Sequelitis|sequels]] [[Ruined FOREVER|FOREVER!!!]] What I want to know: Why is it that Pixar makes one slightly sub par movie and that's all everyone wants to talk about, but you're an automatic hater if you mention any of the lesser [[Dreamworks Animation]] films?
** This is just me and my sources could be wrong, but I heard Pixar's being controlled by Disney now. Look at how many Disney movies got sequels. Now look at how many Disney movie sequels didn't suck. That's enough to kind of make me worry about what's coming next.
*** What's coming next is an original film, a prequel, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110903215959/http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/37907/pixar-announces-november-27-2013-as-release-date-for-next-movie another original film.] Also, if Disney just wanted to play it safe and only make Pixar make sequels, why would they let them do any of the mature stuff they did in Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, and Toy Story 3?
*** I heard it was recent, like after those movies. And I never said they were going to play it safe and have them make sequels, but even if I did, when the heck did Ratatouille become serious?
**** The scene between Remy and his father outside the shop with all the hanging rat corpses, the scene where Linguini finds out that Remy let the other rats into the food stores, the scene where Ego writes his review despite the potential risk to his reputation...
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