Wheely

Ok, so all user reviews are in the extreme negative, & some lazy journalism has the description as a complete rip-off of Cars.

Actually, it's not. Yes, main character Wheely is a racing car, & a bit cocky, & his eventual sidekick, Putt Putt (who IS very annoying), is a tad Mater-esque, but the storyline is not the same in the slightest.

Wheely is a cocky racing car, but has his career ended by an accident. With no parts available to properly repair his damage, he becomes a taxi. Down on his luck, being targeted by a dumb cop car, he seems to finally catch a break when meets the car/girl of his dreams. However, she gets targeted by an evil truck who runs a luxury car-napping organisation, & some little element of fun ensues as he attempts to get her back.

The character design is not a rip-off of Cars, as some have stated. The faces/eye positions are different, & designs are more exaggerated than the realistic armory of Pixar automobiles. These actually reminded me more of the cars in the Roary The Racing Car series.

The main issues for me are the voices & some of the animation. Vocally, Wheely & Putt Putt & the cop are very annoying, & others are way over the top/over exaggerated.

Animation-wise some of the art is actually not bad in places, not quite Pixar/Dreamworks standard, but not as bad as described.

There are certainly some deficiencies, but not everyone has Disney level financial backing. The lack of background activity, once noticed, is where you notice that they have cut corners, & for some reason, makes scenes feel slow & labored(along with that voice acting again), & some scenes look unfinished.

Some characters & scenes are scarier than the G rating this has, & a few darker moments would take this to a mild PG for me.

I've seen this a few times more than I would've liked, as my lil boy is a car nut, & loves most movies/series with 4 wheeled vehicles, but I don't think this quite deserves the level of abuse it has.

Others should check out the 'Cars Life' series for the epitome of animation awfulness (or not).

It is the worst rip-off of Disney's Cars I've seen yet. I mean, the mouths are identical, the whole graphical style is extremely similar, and the animation the same but worse. Not only that but it's lazy, most of the cars look the same, the plot may swell be Cars 1, the characters are the same. The girlfriend is even still based on a Porsche, the sidekick has buck-teeth and is dumb like mater, the main character gets a new paint job and keeps it, Frank is sort of like Doc Hudson, it just gets worse the more you watch it. I wish there was at least 1 little joke in there to make me chuckle. Also there are literally 2 helicopters in the whole film, they appear twice, once at the start and once at the end. When they got to the end, they forgot which voice went to which helicopter! There are 2 choices and they got it wrong! 1/10, next time just donate the the "$20,000,000" budget. Seriously 20mil on that?! I can think of so many better things to waste that much money on.

As a car enthusiast I will pretty much watch anything related to cars, good or bad. This falls into the latter category. As a Cars fan, this was a cheap knock-off. If you don't take my advice and watch it, as the film proceeds you start feeling the familiarity. Even one of the main characters Put Put is very close to tow mater, buck teeth, gets the main character into trouble, and is a bit dumb. Sounds familiar right? They spent so much money on the animation and forgot to get a unique story. What a waste of time and money. Overall 2/10 I wouldn't recommend watching this film.

Pretty cool animation from Malaysia, and those who don't like this fairy tale and prefer Pixar, why did they watch it? Just watch the trailer. Cool fairy tale. RECOMMEND!

A young, overconfident race car loses his ability to race, befriends a buck-toothed simpleton with a strong sense of loyalty and gets caught up in trying to stop a master criminal's plans. Is this a budget version of Disney's Cars 1 & 2 rolled into one? Pretty much and that's why it gets the poor reviews. The animation will never be as rich as Disney and the voices aren't recognised A listers making characters lovable, but guess what? That doesn't mean its as bad as people claim. Both the animation and voice acting are very good. The story may be a bit of a shameless copy but my 3 year old loves it so much he has watched nothing but this on repeat for a few days and I'm not completely sick of it. So it must be doing something right!

My only question is: in a world where everyone is a vehicle, what does a taxi actually do?? I could understand if the taxis were flat bed trucks capable of carrying other cars but they are regular cars???? Its like hiring someone to walk with you.