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22. Cars 3

Image: Disney/Pixar
Image: Disney/Pixar

Cars 3 just hasn’t endured. That, itself, is a mark against the film. But the sentiment of the film remains a bold one. Pixar took a hugely expensive animated franchise and turned it into a story about growing old and passing the torch through franchise protagonist Lightning McQueen. It’s a story older people can connect and relate to; kids, however, probably don’t have a fear of getting old and becoming irrelevant just yet. Exploring that in a Pixar movie was a surprising choice, and an admirable one. But beyond its subject matter, there’s little else to say about Cars 3.