Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Mater (voice): Larry the Cable Guy
• Lightning McQueen (voice): Owen Wilson
• Finn McMissile (voice): Michael Caine
• Holley Shiftwell (voice): Emily Mortimer
• Francesco Bernoulli (voice): John Turturro
• Sir Miles Axlerod (voice): Eddie Izzard
• Professor Z (voice): Thomas Kretschmann
• Guido (voice): Guido Quaroni
• Grem (voice): Joe Mantegna
• Acer (voice): Peter Jacobson
• Rod “Torque” Redline (voice): Bruce Campbell
• Luigi (voice): Tony Shalhoub
• Darrell Cartrip (voice): Darrell Waltrip
• Brent Mustangburger (voice): Brent Musburger
• Siddeley / Leland Turbo (voice): Jason Isaacs
• David Hobbscap (voice): David Hobbs
• Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice): Stanley Townsend
• Fillmore / Combat Ship (voice): Lloyd Sherr
• Sarge (voice): Paul Dooley
• Tomber (voice): Michel Michelis
• Crabby (voice): Sig Hansen
• Uncle Topolino (voice): Franco Nero
• The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice): Vanessa Redgrave
• Sally Carrera (voice): Bonnie Hunt
• Ramone (voice): Cheech Marin
• Flo (voice): Jenifer Lewis
• Sheriff (voice): Michael Wallis
• Lizzie (voice): Katherine Helmond
• Mack (voice): John Ratzenberger
• Otis (voice): Jeff Garlin
• Mel Dorado (voice): Patrick Walker
• Lewis Hamilton (voice): Lewis Hamilton
• Alexander Hugo (voice): Velibor Topic
• J. Curby Gremlin (voice): John Mainieri
• Tubbs Pacer (voice): Brad Lewis
• Van (voice): Richard Kind
• Minny (voice): Edie McClurg
• Mater’s Computer (voice): Teresa Gallagher
• Jeff Gorvette (voice): Jeff Gordon
• Additional Voices (voice): John Lasseter
• Frosty (voice): Mark Winterbottom
• Additional Voices (voice): Daisuke Tsutsumi
• Fernando Alonso (voice): Fernando Alonso
• Vitaly Petrov (voice): Vitaly Petrov
• Flash (voice): Jan Nilsson
• Memo Rojas (voice): Memo Rojas
• Jacques Villeneuve (voice): Jacques Villeneuve
• Sebastian Vettel (voice): Sebastian Vettel
• Additional Voices (voice): Catherine Bolt
• Additional Voices (voice): Jess Fulton
• Additional Voices (voice): Sonoko Konishi
• Additional Voices (voice): Gillian Bolt

Film Crew:

• Original Story: John Lasseter
• Thanks: Gary Rydstrom
• Thanks: Darla K. Anderson
• Production Design: Harley Jessup
• Lead Set Dresser: Sophie Vincelette
• Script Supervisor: Nathan Stanton
• Art Direction: Nathaniel McLaughlin
• Sculptor: Jerome Ranft
• Director of Photography: Jeremy Lasky
• Graphic Designer: Ellen Moon Lee
• Supervising Animator: Shawn Krause
• Animation: Brett Coderre
• Animation: Doug Dooley
• Animation: Wendell Lee
• Animation: Daniel Mason
• Animation Director: Victor Navone
• Animation: Andrew L. Schmidt
• Supervising Animator: Dave Mullins
• Second Film Editor: Katherine Ringgold
• Associate Producer: Mark Nielsen
• Thanks: Tricia Andres
• Post Production Supervisor: Paul Cichocki
• Supervising Sound Editor: Michael Silvers
• Foley Artist: Dennie Thorpe
• Foley Artist: Jana Vance
• Thanks: Steve Jobs
• Director of Photography: Sharon Calahan
• Original Story: Dan Fogelman
• Sound Effects Editor: Teresa Eckton
• Sound Designer: Tom Myers
• Original Music Composer: Michael Giacchino
• Music Editor: Stephen M. Davis
• Co-Director: Brad Lewis
• Orchestrator: Ira Hearshen
• Conductor: Tim Simonec
• ADR Voice Casting: Brendan Donnison
• Casting: Kevin Reher
• VFX Artist: Andrew Jimenez
• Editor: Stephen Schaffer
• Scoring Mixer: Dan Wallin
• Additional Script Supervisor: Josh Cooley
• Sound Recordist: Ronald G. Roumas
• Screenplay: Ben Queen
• Storyboard Artist: Alexander Woo
• Storyboard Artist: Derek Thompson
• Thanks: Connor Funk
• Executive Music Producer: Chris Montan
• Animation: Bob Scott
• Casting: Natalie Lyon
• Producer: Denise Ream
• Art Direction: Jay Shuster
• Musician: George Doering
• Musician: Cameron Patrick
• Storyboard Artist: Scott Morse
• Storyboard Artist: Erik Benson
• Storyboard Artist: Kevin O’Brien
• Story Manager: Kyle Ranson-Walsh
• Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall
• Sound Editor: David Pringle
• Animation: Carlo Vogele
• Foley Recordist: Sean England
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Semanick
• Sound Effects Editor: David C. Hughes
• Publicist: Chris Wiggum
• Foley Supervisor: Pascal Garneau
• Animation: Simon Allen
• Sound Effects Editor: Al Nelson
• First Assistant Editor: Kevin Rose-Williams
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jim McKee
• Storyboard Artist: Brian Fee
• Storyboard: Nick Sung
• Colorist: Mark Dinicola
• Title Designer: Susan Bradley
• Orchestrator: Peter Boyer
• Musician: Norman Ludwin
• Music Editor: Justin Pearson
• Animation: Royce Wesley
• Storyboard Artist: Daniel Chong
• Fix Animator: Erick Oh
• Art Direction: Bert Berry
• Orchestrator: Brad Dechter
• Assistant Sound Designer: Frank Clary
• ADR Editor: Steve Slanec
• Music Coordinator: Andrea Datzman
• Animation: Ramiro Lopez Dau
• Thanks: Cassandra Barbour
• Software Engineer: Ryan Kautzman
• Supervising Technical Director: Apurva Shah
• Production Manager: Jake Martin
• Characters: Sajan Skaria
• Characters: Robert Moyer
• Script Supervisor: Victoria R. Manley
• Editorial Manager: Colin Bohrer
• Additional Editing: Serena Warner
• Animation Manager: Shannon Ryan
• Animation Director: Michal Makarewicz
• Animation Fix Coordinator: Lucy Laliberte
• ADR Recordist: Simon Diggins
• Animation: Vladimir Kooperman
• Set Dressing Artist: Christina Garcia Weiland
• Animation: Andrew Coats
• VFX Artist: Bill Watral
• Animation: Aaron Hartline
• Animation: Robb Denovan
• Craft Service: Luigi Passalacqua
• Master Lighting Artist: Sungyeon Joh
• 3D Director: Joshua Hollander
• Musician: James Thatcher
• Animation: Doug Sheppeck
• Animation: Kevin Chesnos
• Animation: Don Crum
• Animation: Steve Mason
• Animation: Jean-Claude Tran
• Animation: Austin Madison
• Systems Administrators & Support: Fatima Mojaddidy
• VFX Artist: Jason Johnston
• Production Coordinator: Susan Frank
• Foley Recordist: Corey Tyler
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Amit Baadkar
• VFX Artist: Eric Froemling
• VFX Artist: Dave Hale
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Jim Cody Harrington
• Software Engineer: Laurie Kim
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Konstantin Promokhov
• Set Dressing Artist: Eric Andraos
• Animation: Lindsay Andrus
• Lighting Artist: Jeremy Birn
• Animation: Jude Brownbill
• Master Lighting Artist: Airton Dittz Jr.
• Graphic Designer: Craig Foster
• Animation: Neil Helm
• Lighting Artist: Katherine Ipjian
• Master Lighting Artist: Mitch Kopelman
• Animation: Aaron Koressel
• Animation: Bruce Kuei
• Animation: Holger Leihe
• Animation: Javier Moya Alonso
• Production Coordinator: Allison W. Nelson
• Animation: Jayson Price
• Animation: Andreas Procopiou
• Master Lighting Artist: Jordan Rempel
• Production Coordinator: Eric Rosales
• Fix Animator: Michael Sauls
• Master Lighting Artist: Julien Schreyer
• Animation: Brett Schulz
• Fix Animator: Stefan Schumacher
• Master Lighting Artist: David Shavers
• Animation: Matthew Strangio
• Animation: Raphael Suter
• Fix Animator: Ricky Wight
• Animation: Anthony Ho Wong
• Music Director: Andrew Page
• Software Engineer: Hayley Iben
• Software Team Lead: Dirk Van Gelder
• Project Manager: Tamsen Mitchell
• Publicist: Briana Gardner
• Systems Administrators & Support: Terry Lee Moseley
• Systems Administrators & Support: Peter Plackowski
• Systems Administrators & Support: Ian Westcott
• Master Lighting Artist: Brian Boyd
• Lighting Artist: Steven James
• Master Lighting Artist: Ken Lao
• Associate Editor: Jason Hudak
• VFX Artist: Chris King
• Systems Administrators & Support: Andy Thomas
• In Memory Of: Andy Witkin
• Musician: Karl Vincent
• Musician: Mark LeVang
• Musician: Jeff Bunnell
• Orchestrator: Mark Gasbarro
• Musician: Anna Noakes
• Animation Coordinator: Courtney Casper Kent
• Animation: Jae Hyung Kim
• Animation: Benjamin Su
• Art Department Manager: Becky Neiman
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Gary Bruins
• Production Coordinator: Piper Freeman
• Lighting Artist: Andy Lin
• Post Production Coordinator: Erick Ziegler
• Set Dressing Artist: Michael Rutter
• Systems Administrators & Support: Mike Sundy
• Systems Administrators & Support: Shawn Hovis
• Lighting Artist: Charu Clark
• Set Designer: Tim Evatt
• Animation: Catherine Hang-Hicks
• Animation Coordinator: Max Sachar
• Lighting Artist: Farhez Rayani
• Lighting Artist: Afonso Salcedo
• Animation: Adam Burke
• Animation: Ken Kim
• Animation: Rob Duquette Thompson
• Animation: Stephen L. Wong
• Fix Animator: Chiwook Han
• Story Coordinator: Katelin C. Holloway
• Software Engineer: Jason Kim
• Systems Administrators & Support: Ross Dickinson
• Systems Administrators & Support: Marty Lew
• Systems Administrators & Support: Auburn C. ‘Aubie’ Schmidt
• Animation: Curran W. Giddens
• Animation: Rich McKain
• Animation: Kristoff Vergne
• Animation: Michelle Ohana
• Post Production Assistant: Jose Rosa
• Software Engineer: Malcolm Blanchard
• Software Engineer: Alden Chew
• Software Engineer: Mark Hessler
• Software Engineer: Shiqi Yang
• Systems Administrators & Support: Catherine Obuhoff
• Fix Animator: Neth Nom
• VFX Artist: Tolga Goktekin
• Title Designer: Catherine Kelly
• Fix Animator: Louaye Moulayess
• Fix Animator: Tingting Liu
• Lighting Artist: Nicholas Naugle
• In Memory Of: Japeth Pieper
• Matte Painter: Ernesto Nemesio
• Storyboard Artist: Bill Presing
• Lighting Manager: Sally Garbarini
• Software Engineer: Davide Pesare
• Color Grading: Susan Brunig
• Human Resources: Rebecca Pigg
• Production Assistant: Daniella Muller
• Production Assistant: Liz Seibert
• Production Coordinator: Courtney Lockwood
• Production Coordinator: Lauren Montuori
• Production Coordinator: Rachel Kate Miller
• Project Manager: Jodi S. Miller
• Software Engineer: Edward Luong
• Software Engineer: Jeremy Cowles

Movie Reviews:

• Andres Gomez: Lasseter is smart enough to tell us a completely different story than in the first movie. However, it is far from other titles like “Toy Story” or “The Incredibles”.
• r96sk: I like ‘Cars 2’.

  It doesn’t deserve to be held in the same bracket as 2006’s ‘Cars’, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a good time to be had with it. The premise mixes motorsport with espionage, admittedly they don’t execute it incredibly but it’s still satisfactory to see unfold.

  One slight negative is that they give Mater more screen time than Lightning McQueen, which is a mistake. Larry the Cable Guy as Mater is enjoyable, just not front and center as the lead. They could’ve done a similar plot that has Owen Wilson and McQueen at the forefront. Elsewhere, Michael Caine (Finn) is always a joy to listen to; even if his character isn’t anything special.

  The racing stuff is cool, with the World Grand Prix. The parts of the story involving strictly that are definitely more entertaining than the spy stuff, especially as we get to see a few different countries via animation – which come out nicely.

  All in all, a weaker film than the first for sure but it’s still pretty solid for a Disney animated sequel.