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Cars
File:Cars High-Rez Final Poster.jpg
Promotional Poster For Cars
Directed byJohn Lasseter
Written byJohn Lasseter
Produced byDarla Anderson
StarringOwen Wilson
Paul Newman
Larry The Cable Guy
Bonnie Hunt
Richard Petty
Jenifer Lewis
Cheech Marin
George Carlin
Paul Dooley
John Ratzenberger
Michael Keaton
Tony Shalhoub
Tom Magliozzi
Ray Magliozzi
Joe Ranft
Michael Wallis
Guido Qiaroni
Music byRandy Newman
Distributed byWalt Disney Pictures
Release dates
June 9,2006
LanguageEnglish

Cars is an animated feature film. It is produced by Pixar Animation Studios and will be released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 9, 2006.

Directed by John Lasseter (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2), the film will feature the voices of Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Cheech Marin, John Ratzenberger, Larry the Cable Guy, Richard Petty, and Darrell Waltrip. The film has been rated G by the MPAA.

The soundtrack is available on Walt Disney Records, the CD-ROM and video games are available from Buena Vista Games, the merchandise is available at the Disney Store, Radio Disney and books available at stores everywhere Disney Publishing Worldwide. The short animated film One Man Band will be released along with Cars.

The film will premiere on May 26 at Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Taglines:

    • The all-new 2006, Cars.
    • Our cars speak for themselves.
    • Life's a journey. Enjoy the ride.
    • Coming June 9th
    • Ahhh...it's got that new movie smell. ("12 weeks to go" countdown poster)
    • Coming to theaters Cars 11 Weeks ("11 weeks to go" countdown poster)
    • Gear up... ("10 weeks to go" countdown poster)
    • June 9th, Reserved for Cars. ("9 weeks to go" countdown poster)
    • Rev up... ("8 weeks to go" countdown poster)
    • Get ready to roll. ("7 weeks to go" countdown poster)
    • ...Almost time. ("6 weeks to go" countdown poster)
    • 5WKSLFT ("5 weeks to go" countdown poster)

Plot

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Chick Hicks, Lightning McQueen, and The King racing in the film.

Template:Spoiler En route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California, Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, finds himself unexpectedly detoured. He ends up in the sleepy town of Radiator Springs on Route 66. McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters, who help him realize that there are more important things than trophies, fame, and sponsorship. McQueen discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line. Template:Endspoiler

Voice cast

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Lightning McQueen and Mater in a screenshot from the original teaser trailer

The voice actors who portray the main characters are:

Crew

Soundtrack

Eleven cuts on the twenty track set are scores by Randy Newman. The soundtrack will be released June 6, 2006, but is available for pre-order from various vendors.

Track listing

  1. "Real Gone - Sheryl Crow
  2. "Route 66 - Chuck Berry
  3. "Life Is a Highway - Rascal Flatts
  4. "Behind the Clouds - Brad Paisley
  5. "Our Town - James Taylor
  6. "Sh-Boom - The Chords
  7. "Route 66 - John Mayer
  8. "Find Yourself - Brad Paisley
  9. "Opening Race" - (score)
  10. "McQueen`s Lost" - (score)
  11. "My Heart Would Know - Hank Williams
  12. "Bessie" - (score)
  13. "Dirt Is Different" - (score)
  14. "New Road" - (score)
  15. "Tractor Tipping" - (score)
  16. "McQueen and Sally" - (score)
  17. "Goodbye" - (score)
  18. "Pre-Race Pageantry" - (score)
  19. "The Piston Cup" - (score)
  20. "The Big Race" - (score)

Video games

Main article: Cars (video game)

Trivia

  • The movie's working title in 2001 was Route 66 (after U.S. Route 66), but in 2002, the title was changed to prevent people from thinking it was related to the 1960 television show with the same name. Another working title was The Cars.
  • The film was originally going to be released on November 4, 2005, but soon after the trailer's release in late 2004, the movie's release date was changed to June 9, 2006, so it could receive a summer release, and so the DVD would be sold just in time for the holidays of 2006. Chicken Little was instead released on November 4.
  • Lightning McQueen is equipped with Lightyear Buzzard tires, a parody of Goodyear Eagle Tires, and a reference to Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story.
  • Some of the sponsors on the sides of the cars seen in the trailer are references to past Pixar films, for example, "2319" is visible on a car. "23-19" was the code of the Child Detection Agency in Monsters, Inc. when a monster came into physical contact with a human child. Lightning McQueen's own number (95) is a reference to 1995, the year that Toy Story was released.
  • Lightning McQueen is sponsored by Rust-Eze Medicated Bumper Ointment.
  • In the second teaser, the Hudson Hornet logo on Doc Hudson's driver's (left) side fender is backwards.
  • The King's sponsor is Dinoco, the gas station from Toy Story.
  • The King is an obvious metaphor for Richard Petty, his voice actor. Richard Petty was called the King on the NASCAR Winston Cup Circuit, and drove the #43 Plymouth Superbird. The King is a #43 Plymouth Superbird.
  • Cars is the last film made by the late Joe Ranft.
  • The number on the character Chick Hicks is 86, a reference to Luxo Jr., the first Pixar short, released in 1986.
  • Disneyland is currently theming the queue of the Autopia attraction to fit in with the movie.


See also

Posters

Countdown Posters

Template:Pixar films

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