The House Of Odd

Cars (2006)

Jenna: I wasn’t very excited about seeing this movie since it was about talking cars. Ethan has a lot of Hot Wheels cars and I sometimes hide his cars in his shoes. But it was a Disney Pixar movie and I like their stuff a lot.

The computer animation is very good. Not as good as real life, but a lot better than Jimmy Neutron. I thought the cars looked very realistic, well as real as a talking car can look.
The main character is a red racecar named Lightning McQueen. He thinks he is a good racer, but he’s not as good as he thinks he is. In the big race he tied with an old race car and a mean green car that always says ‘Ka-chigga’.
Since they tied, they had a special race to find out who would be the champion. On the way to the race Lightning McQueen falls out of his truck trailer and gets lost. He ends up in a small town with a lot of other crazy cars. They must have gone crazy from living in such a small place.

Lighting gets in trouble in the town and has to pay back his debt. The judge car makes him fix the road he destroyed. Last year I lost a school book and mama and daddy said that I have to repay them by doing chores. They made me change the cat litter box. I think we need to get outdoor cats.

Lightning McQueen meets a tow truck named Mater. Mater really likes Lightning even though he wasn’t very nice. Mater took Lightning out at night to scare the sleeping tractors. Daddy said in the human world that’s called ‘cow tipping’. He said he tried it once. They don’t tip over; they just walked away when he got close.

Ethan: This was a good movie. I have 5 of the cars from the McDonald’s Happy Meals. I tried to get them all but Daddy said he couldn’t eat there more than 3 times a week.

The red car, Lightning McQueen, is my favorite, he is really fast. I’d like the blue car too if it wasn’t a girl.

I asked Daddy what do the cars eat. He said “gasoline”. I asked him how do the cars go potty? He said he wasn’t sure but that maybe the exhaust from their tailpipes was their ‘poop’. Then I asked Daddy where did all the people go? He said in their world there were no people, the cars were the ‘people’. So I asked him how they could build the buildings with no hands. He just said “let it go”.

They have Cars cereal at the grocery store. I convinced Daddy to get it. Turns out it was just Lucky Charms with the pieces shaped like cars. Seems like all the movie cereals are that way.