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Cars 3

Play trailer 1:00 Poster for Cars 3 G Released Jun 16, 2017 1h 49m Kids & Family Comedy Adventure Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast cars, the legendary Lighting McQueen finds himself pushed out of the sport that he loves. Hoping to get back in the game, he turns to Cruz Ramirez, an eager young technician who has her own plans for winning. With inspiration from the Fabulous Hudson Hornet and a few unexpected turns, No. 95 prepares to compete on Piston Cup Racing's biggest stage.
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Cars 3 has an unexpectedly poignant story to go with its dazzling animation, suggesting Pixar's most middle-of-the-road franchise may have a surprising amount of tread left.

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Kristen Lopez Culturess Cars 3 is a decent reconstituted Rocky with a bizarre faux feminist subplot and beautiful animation. Nov 20, 2017 Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times Cars 3, which picks up where the first, perfectly adequate, film left off, is by far the best instalment in the series. Rated: 3/5 Aug 11, 2017 Full Review Simran Hans Observer (UK) It's a colourful, spry enough ride, but it doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel. Rated: 2/5 Jul 16, 2017 Full Review Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson When that heart gear hits, all of the repetitiveness washes away to a satisfying series of smiles that you’re going to have a hard time wiping off of your face. Rated: 4/5 Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Fletcher Powell KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Cars 3 is every sports movie you’ve ever seen. May 12, 2023 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Cars 3 has a well-worn, delivers-what's-expected quality that lacks vitality. Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 23, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Julian informative but boring Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/21/24 Full Review Audience Member IT WAS PEAK CINEMA YEHAHAJSJDKKDK Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/08/25 Full Review Blu B A Classic of the franchise and a good way to end things. It's also undoes a lot of the bad taste and complete off the rails of 2. It's solidly made all around. Mater gets Jar Jar Binks treatment where he's basically an afterthought and gets less than 5 minutes of the runtime. It's back to McQueen and a friend this time. Cruz is likeable and seeing the two of them go at it is fun. There really is three problems here. None of them are terminal or broken though. First the core plot is really really simliar to the first one where McQueen just has to get faster. There is more underlying commentary on retirement though here and what dictateswhen you call it which I did like. Second this feels like it has a focus issue where McQueen is the main focus half the time but Cruz gets more focus at times and it just feels uneven throughout. Although it does come together in the end in a nice way. Finally, it is predictable or at least it was for me by the second half how it would go and it pretty much goes the exact way you think. It's almost like a road movie sort of but it osscillates between Cruz & McQueen but never the two together. I did like overall though. Maybe there could've been more growth of the returning characters but they aren't in this that much consistently. Anyone who is a fan of the franchise, voice actors in this, or want a family racing movie should check this out. Good way for the trilogy to wrap it up. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/02/25 Full Review Adxy F It's my least favourite Cars movie Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/28/25 Full Review Dan L Cars 3 is not seen as one of Pixar's greatests, but it absolutely should. This movie expands Lightning's character and mirrors it to Doc Hudsons from the first movie. Sure the intro may be too quick for some audiences, but I believe that was intentional to show how fast the racing world changed and puts you in the shoes (or wheels) or Lightning McQueen, making you think "where did they come from? who is that guy?" Its acting is incredible with the likes of Chris Cooper and Cristela Alonzo as Smokey and Cruz Ramirez respectively, Ramirez's character actually mirroring what Alonzo had to deal with being a female in a male domanent dream. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/23/25 Full Review Kelly M Terrible because it goes back to focusing on McQueen instead of Mater this movie is about McQueen getting weaker and more Next Gen racers are replacing Stock Cars and there is this evil Next Gen racer called Jackson Storm and he is way faster than McQueen and while McQueen is trying to pass Storm he crashes and so he goes to this new racing Centre and this Trainer called Cruz wants to train McQueen and there is this silver car called Sterling and is so mean to Cruz because he say that she will never be a racer she will only be a trainer but later on in the movie she becomes a racer terrible movie because the animation seems sooo dull and not as bright bad movie 4/10 Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/22/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast cars, the legendary Lighting McQueen finds himself pushed out of the sport that he loves. Hoping to get back in the game, he turns to Cruz Ramirez, an eager young technician who has her own plans for winning. With inspiration from the Fabulous Hudson Hornet and a few unexpected turns, No. 95 prepares to compete on Piston Cup Racing's biggest stage.
Director
Brian Fee
Producer
Kevin Reher
Screenwriter
Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson, Mike Rich
Distributor
Walt Disney
Production Co
Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
Rating
G
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 16, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$152.9M
Runtime
1h 49m
Sound Mix
Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, SDDS, Datasat
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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