Ladies and
Gentlemen, whether you like it or not, the Pixar playlist.
We come to
the 7th entry of the list and the final film to be produced under
the original Disney/Pixar arrangements, Cars. Cars was not as successful as you
might think at the box office, making $462m on it’s $120m budget, the first
9-figure Pixar budget, but it more than made up for in another lucrative area,
merchandise.
There’s a
reason Cars and Toy Story got their sequels first; their concepts make them
exceptionally marketable and the toys sold. It’s the only Pixar movie that got
Disneytoon spin-offs, that’s how marketable it was.
But let’s
take a look at the film on its own, and see how it holds up.
