Cars

These sequels weren’t so close to the original.

A “Piston Peak National Park” will open in the Magic Kingdom.

Just because a movie is a sequel doesn’t mean it will be exactly like the one that inspired it.

Films have inspired some terrific theme park attractions through the years — and a few notable flops.

Be careful what you wish for when you wish for a Disney sequel.

We ranked every single one of Pixar’s movies dating back decades. Which one came out on top?

How many of these jokes went right over your head?

For some Pixar fans, the Cars series represents a fork in the road; the moment when Pixar ended its “run of greatness” and “lost its way” after a decade-long string of critical and commercial hits. Writers hold up this franchise as evidence of a corruption in the beloved animation studio’s “soul”; many believe it’s responsible for Pixar’s “first bad movie.”

Children’s entertainment is full of anthropomorphized objects and animals. To kids, talking automobiles are no more or less strange than babies who are bosses or teenage turtles who get mutated into ninja warriors. But to the parents and adults who watch the Cars movies with these children, their internal logic and rules are a source of endless fascination.

While Cars would eventually come to be about hotshot racing car Lightning McQueen, Cars was originally titled “The Yellow Car” and was going to be about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world. This is just one of the facts packed into the latest episode of You Think You Know Movies, which speeds off with Cars!