THAT NAME SOUNDS LIKE ROYALTY!!!

He's a white-bread middle-class prick from Nebraska who went to private schools and uses a fake accent to mock poor Southern people who inexplicably idolize the turd and want to emulate his shitty behavior.

He is to rednecks what Andrew Dice Clay was to Italian-Americans. (He's a nerdy Jewish guy, by the way)

Golf ball, garden hose, etc.

I don't think Disney is about risks, guy.

Yeah, because a movie staring a septuagenarian and a fat Polynesian kid and an anti-consumerism polemic are totally risk free!

Pixar still functions separately from Disney.
Ratatuoille and Wall-E are also risks that Disney wouldn't have made outside their formula.

I think it's the fact that they put out decent scripts and characters that lets them try out new things. That said, a great many people dislike "Cars" because it doesn't make the same kind of sense that other Pixar offerings do. In nearly every other film, the story takes place in a world hidden from view (except for Wall-E, kind of) whereas "Cars" is harder to place in our world. I mean, cars watch other cars race? Who built the stands they sit in to watch? Are people extinct? Is this a kiddie version of a sequel to "Maximum Overdrive?"

I think the main problem with Cars is that it stars Larry the Fucking Cable Guy.

Also their eyes are in their windshields when everyone knows a cars eyes are its headlights.

Cars was Lasseter's dream baby. He made it because he figured since Disney might be dropping them he may as well make the movie he wanted on their dime, the fact that it ended up being profitable thanks to merchandising was just a happy coincidence for him.

Yeah, Lasseter is really, really, really insane about the "Cars" franchise. The first order he gave when he was put in charge of Disneyland Imagineering was to shoehorn a "Cars" themed land in California Adventure and rework Rockin' Rollercoaster to fit the characters.

YOU'RE IN FOR A REAL TREAT