Cars on the Road

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.

The show itself is fine, it's a neat bunch of short episodes with different kinds of fun themes and messages.

However, what bothers me is the lack of creativity in this show as a whole. So little of the world of, well, sentient living cars is utilized. The characters are living cars, and the only episode which utilizes that in a way some other show featuring living objects is the Salt Fever. Pretty much with every other storyline they have come up with, the characters could be replaced with anything other than cars, and it would function in the exact same way.

The themes in the episodes are also pretty played out, when talking about kids programs, haunted house, clowns, some horrible monster that turns out to be good?

What I was, and still am looking for from this show is the level of fun and interesting themes as seen with the Cars Toons. All the crazy stories, wacky characters and funny plots. This show compared to that is just real life. It's mondaine, it's boring, you can always guess what comes next, all in all it's the regular life, and what kid want's to watch regular boring life next to a ton of wacky stories revolving around Monster car wrestle, Mater becoming a drift king or a Astronaut, or any of the other great ideas they poured into that show.

TLDR: It's a mediocre kids show, nothing new, great animation and a few good episodes and moment's here and there, but nothing to be remembered when comparing to the excellent Cars Toons.

I was expecting that the episodes should be at least 20-30mins each. But only 6-7 mins episodes after 5 years of waiting. That was the only thing i didn't like.

But apart from this. The story was awesome. The animation was awesome. The cameo of Cruz in the last episode was a great idea. Lightning and Mater most lovable characters. Short but to-the-point episodes. It could be longer. But next, we are expecting a full-length movie with a good story.

I wish I could join Disney Pixar's Animation Team. The best animation production house. I wish I can join any of them Pixar, Illumination, or Dreamworks.

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.

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!