Cars

**1/2 – If your idea of high humor is a talking hillbilly tow-truck with buck teeth that speaks in an incomprehensible southern drawl and spits and farts constantly, then you may think that Pixar’s “Cars” is the greatest movie of all time. Personally, I do not find such things humorous, and that being the case, I found “Cars” to be the first Pixar film that I’ve seen that has been more of a chore to sit through than a pleasure. Besides being loaded with redneck clichés such as the above-mentioned tow-truck, several country music songs given great prominence, and lots of automobiles driving around in circles, this movie was also just plain dull. All Pixar movies are a little hit and miss with their jokes due to the fact that are trying to appeal to a very large demographic, but this one seems to narrow its focus to the ‘southern moron kid’ set, which is about as opposite from me as you are likely to find. That all seems like a lot of negativity for a film that – while it certainly wasn’t all that enjoyable for me - is really pretty innocuous, has a decent message behind it and certainly looks nice. But unless you are really big into American ‘car culture’ I can’t recommend going out of your way to see “Cars”.