Cars

Roger Ebert:
"The movie is great to look at and a lot of fun, but somehow lacks the extra push of the other Pixar films."

Lisa Kennedy (Denver Post):
"Cars is a little pedestrian by Pixar standards."

Chris Vognar (Dallas Morning News)
"Cars isn't quite up to the emissions standards of previous Pixar fare. The engine takes a little while to get warm, the action skews a little younger than most Pixar products and the "city slicker gets schooled by townsfolk" premise is about as fresh as your father's Oldsmobile."

Joe Morgenstern (Wall Street Journal):
"Cars is the first Pixar feature to feel familiar. ... That's a tactic often favored in DreamWorks features but avoided by Pixar until now. It doesn't make Cars a bad picture -- the visual inventions are worth the price of admission -- but it constitutes conduct unbecoming to a maker of magic."

Manohla Dargis (New York Times):
"A clunker. Both in its ingratiating vibe and bland execution, Cars is nothing if not totally, disappointingly new-age Disney."

Amy Biancolli (Houston Chronicle):
"[Cars] is as bumptious, spangly and cheerful a thing as Pixar has released in 20 years of computer animation."

Claudia Puig (USA Today):
"The wizards at Pixar ... never seem to take a wrong turn, and Cars is yet another example."