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Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
2011 · Directed by John Lasseter · 106 min · Animation · Family · Adventure · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 17 frames
Tagline
The mission begins.
Plot
British spy Finn McMissile infiltrates an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean owned by criminal lemon cars to rescue fellow spy Leland Turbo. He witnesses the lemons, seemingly led by Professor Zündapp, loading an emitter disguised as a television camera onto a shipping crate. Upon discovering Turbo's death, Finn is exposed and he escapes by faking his death.
After winning his fourth Piston Cup honoring his late mentor Doc Hudson, Lightning McQueen returns to Radiator Springs to spend the off-season with his friends. Italian formula race car Francesco Bernoulli challenges Lightning to participate in the World Grand Prix, an international three-race event created by former oil tycoon Sir Miles Axlerod, who intends to promote his new environmentally friendly fuel, Allinol. Lightning and his best friend Mater, along with Luigi, Guido, Fillmore, and Sarge, depart for Tokyo, where the first race takes place.
At a World Grand Prix promotional event, Mater makes a scene after eating wasabi and seemingly leaking oil on stage, embarrassing Lightning. Forced to head for a bathroom, Mater accidentally interrupts a fight between American spy Rod "Torque" Redline, who is tasked with handing Finn intel, and lemons Grem and Acer. Redline plants a device on Mater, causing Finn and his associate Holley Shiftwell to believe Mater is their contact. Meanwhile, Redline is captured and killed by Zündapp, who reveals that Allinol ignites when hit with an electromagnetic pulse. He informs his superior, an unknown mastermind, that Redline passed on his information. Holley recruits Mater to stop Zündapp's plot, believing him to be an undercover agent.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Ben Queen
- Cinematography: Jeremy Lasky, Sharon Calahan
- Edited by: Stephen Schaffer
- Music: Michael Giacchino
- Production design: Harley Jessup
- Produced by: Denise Ream
Cast
- Larry the Cable Guy as Mater (voice)
- Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen (voice)
- Michael Caine as Finn McMissile (voice)
- Emily Mortimer as Holley Shiftwell (voice)
- Suzy Eddie Izzard as Sir Miles Axlerod (voice)
- John Turturro as Francesco Bernoulli (voice)
- Brent Musburger as Brent Mustangburger (voice)
- Joe Mantegna as Grem (voice)
- Thomas Kretschmann as Professor Z (voice)
- Peter Jacobson as Acer (voice)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese
- Studios: Pixar, Walt Disney Pictures
- Budget: $200,000,000
- Box office: $559,852,396
- Themes: car race, sports, spy, villain, sequel, anthropomorphism, best friend, british spy, duringcreditsstinger, angry
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