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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Simran Hans

Cars 3 review – whiz without the fizz

an action still from cars 3
Cars 3: ‘It doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel’ Photograph: Allstar/Walt Disney Pictures

A third zip around the racetrack for Pixar’s Cars franchise, this time tackling an older generation’s anxieties about irrelevance in the internet age, with racing veteran Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) almost edged out by Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer), a sleeker, faster, more efficient anthropomorphised automobile. A sly feminist subplot involving trainer Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo) is welcome, and it’s a colourful, spry enough ride, but it doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel.

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