Cars on the Road

After 5 years of waiting from the last Cars film, and 2 years since this TV show was announced, we get just 5 minute episodes. After that are the credits, so it's not 10 minutes.

The story of each episode is odd. Scary-packed characters that has NO connection to the world that was introduced in the first Cars movie. What we saw before was beautiful area of Radiator Springs country - now it's all ruined. Like every new character's behavior was crazy. Odd.

If you're doing something like this, make a proper, long-term TV show, not shorts again. Stay true to the world that you introduced in the first movie. We fell in love with Radiator Springs and the world around it. Now, it's all almost ruined.

At least, episode 9 was decent. Characters and story.

I was sceptical of this show at first but was enjoyable but not as good as the movies there are 9 episodes and all of them are enjoyable in their own way. But some are weak like episode 6 is the weakest because not much happens. But the animation looks better than I thought, characters are nice and I like the new characters as well. But not every new character is great because some are not some are not developed well,and some episodes are boring and I don't care for them and some episodes are too chaotic to the point where they're not fun to watch. Overall it's just a nice fun adventure series with chaos fun and interesting characters overall if you're interested in it watch it.

It was a great way to continue the Cars franchise just like their three movies and their show Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales, some characters of their previous movies make cameos and we meet some new characters like Ivy, the animation is great, the theme song is catchy and perfect and the entire show is just plain perfect, it premeired on the Disney+ day just like the Pinocchio (2022) live action remake and they have nine episodes and way better than Blaze And The Monster Machines, the Cars franchise is so awesome and great just like the movie itself which is so many times better than Mars Needs Moms, Strange Magic, Underdog (2007), The Wild (2006) and every Disney direct to video sequels.

Cars on the Road is an okay enough miniseries, but I was rather underwhelmed too. Not only are the episodes surprisingly short, but I feel like they don't utilise their fullest potential (The Legend and B-Movie both come close though). The first two episodes are mostly dream sequences and one episode is mostly just about trucks singing. It's 6-minutes, so I didn't mind it too much, but it's probably the most pointless episode of the show.

I thought this miniseries would've been more to be honest. I feel like you can just edit all the episodes together as a movie, which is funny because the entire show overall is 74-minutes in length.

Overall, it's okay, but nothing groundbreaking.

Really just popped up on my Disney+ and had no idea this was being made nor has released, but it came as a pleasant surprise. I love the cars universe, so any more of that and I'm game. This really short show, which might otherwise be seen as Cars shorts, is really enjoyable.

The animation is right on par with the movies, here with some great scenes, loved the carnival scenes and the directing and editing during the haunted house episode. But generally it had this lovely look to it we all know and love from Pixar. Mater and McQueen are the main characters here and I think they are balanced well, some people might dislike Mater but I think he's totally fine. He's even a bit more toned down here versus something like Cars 2.

Now most of the show is just fun, though everyone of them tries to tell a small story, or life lesson of sorts. Only really the last one has some emotional value to it. But it's kept very simple and obviously adults aren't the target audience for this, that said I still liked it. It was over in a flash, every episode is around 5 minutes or so, you could watch the whole season in an hour.

It's literally just a fun small road trip with every episode having a little theme, some more original than others. Other taking heaving inspiration on parodying movies like Mad Max. I thought those were okay, less memorable though. The final episode, the haunted hotel, and salt fever are my favorites by a small margin.

I could imagine if you did know about this coming and got yourself excited for it that it could be a letdown due to how short it is. I didn't have that though and really enjoyed it, could do for more though!