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Cars (PG)
Nov 27 2006 By Graham Young, Birmingham Mail
TOY Story director John Lasseter returns with the most amazing-looking computer generated animation yet.
It's a road movie journey along Route 66 and some scenes are so complicated that more than 100 hours' work was required to produce a single second of material.
The cars move brilliantly and the scenery looks equally fabulous, but Cars doesn't achieve classic status because the 111-minute story is over-long and a touch wearisome. Owen Wilson is Lightning McQueen, a flashy red stock car character who discovers his true self in a sidelined town called Radiator Springs.
But the best performance comes from Hollywood legend Paul Newman as veteran race machine Doc Hudson.
The film is available to buy for £21.99 and as a Pixar DVD box set for £59.99 - also comprising Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.