Cars on The Road/Disney+
Cars on the Road, the spin-off animated series of the Disney and Pixar saga, starring the anthropomorphic racing car Lightning MacQueen and the tow truck nicknamed "Ratchet", is available in exclusive preview on Disney + from 8 September 2022, on the occasion of Disney + Day 2022.
The Pixar Animation Studios television show that mixes animation, comedy, and adventure, brings to the small screen a journey of the characters on the road through the States - which proceeds between twists, unexpected events, and a thousand dangers -, real but also inner from which the two inseparable friends will learn a lot about each other.
Each of the nine episodes of about ten minutes corresponds to a city or a pit stop along the way. In the original version, the character of Lightning McQueen is voiced by American actor Owen Wilson, while Mater has the distinctive Southern voice of former radio personality, Larry, The Cable Guy.
Cars on the Road: MacQueen and Mater across the back roads of America together
From Radiator Springs (an imaginary city created as a composite of multiple real places on the historic US Route 66 from Kansas to Arizona) to the East; the two protagonists of Cars on the Road, best friends MacQueen and Mater, set off to join Mater's sister, with whom Carl Attensili does not even get along very well, who has finally decided to get married. Old and new characters meet; each stage will allow them to get to know each other better and learn new things, fully experiencing the whole adventure.
Each of the short episodes pays homage to a genre or a cult film
Each episode of the TV series pays homage to a specific genre or a certain cult film: from Jurassic Park to The Shining, from Fast and Furious to Mad Max: Fury Road and The X-Files, from B series films to films about aliens, from haunted houses to clowns. It is a choice shared by the production and the director, but also by the composer Jake Monaco (Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!). Everyone has worked hard to recreate in each short chapter a tribute to a genre or a cult film. The road trip allowed the creators to also play in creating a setting that reflected American popular culture from time to time.
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A self-deprecating and self-reflective first season: between friendship, cinephilia, and American folklore
Above all, the value of friendship triumphs, even of that relationship which is initially doubted, and which instead can give us great surprises and personal enrichment. The animators of Cars on the Road experiment with comic gimmicks but above all try to surprise the viewer with the structure of anthropomorphic cars that interpret the different characters, among which some new entries such as Monster Trucks or Trucks, represent clandestine races. and wandering.
The strong self-reflective / self-deprecating component (because Cars on the Road makes fun of itself and its franchise) and the anthropomorphic transposition are the most striking and appealing aspects of this product. Full of irony, the series also continually jokes about the characteristics of the characters, such as Saetta's self-exalting attitude or Mater's naive benevolence. The gags will surely entertain the very young audience, while the quotes, the "extra" elements, bizarre and harmless placed ad hoc, wink at the older ones.