‘Cars 3’ Is The Perfect Comeback Story To Teach Loyalty, Selflessness, and Paying Homage For All Ages

Listen, I saw the trailer for Cars 3 and I was already hyped. Lightning McQueen back in his element, back on the race track doing what he does, then we see McQueen taking a supersized “L” (in the words of Eminem) worse than a convertible, flippin’ vertical, nose-first with the top off landing upside down. I was hooked from there; I needed to see this movie. Especially when the Johnny Cash “Hurt” cover was put over this trailer. If you haven’t seen the Hurt trailer for Cars 3, look at that shit first, right here then read the rest of this review. Do it. Doooooooo it. Did you do it? Cool. Cars 3 put us back on the racetrack with Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his team, racing as business per usual. This time around Lightning is a part of a trifecta of racers his age continuously exchanging wins between each other. It isn’t until upstart Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer) takes McQueen by surprise that the narrative of the story changes. McQueen and his compatriots’ age get put at the forefront of the story. Storm is the All-Star of a generation of racers that are younger, stronger, and faster by using stats and data analysis to improve their overall performance as explained to us by racing analyst Natalie Certain (Kerry Washington).

This is an entire role reversal from the first Cars movie where McQueen was an arrogant rookie that learned to respect the game (racing) and those that came before him from his mentor Doc Hudson (Paul Newman). McQueen pushes himself past his limit a…