re: in retrospect, Cars is not the shitshow the MTV Board argues

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Toy Story was about toys. Not toys acting like humans. Just Toys. How they relate to humanity, to growing up. Etc. Toy Story is way more thoughtful than Cars.

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Toy Story is so great because the universe is incredibly layered and incredibly terrifying when you think about it. Toy Story 1 didn't even crack surface, with only going after a kid who loves blowing up his toys. These toys Gods are children, Gods that will certainly abandon them at some point, and that creates quite a fricked up little world about a group that is doomed to be left for dead in a landfill.

Cars is just that: Cars acting like humans. It's ridiculous and requires almost no creativity besides car puns. That's all these movies can be boiled down to. It is not important at all in the Cars franchise that they are cars. You wouldn't change the plot at all just by making them humans. Can't say the same with Toy Story, Inside Out, Wall-e, or Ratatouille when it comes to their respected universes. These movies tell us about the light and dark sides of nature that we take for granted, and everyone can relate to them. Not so much with Cars.