{"id":3328,"date":"2011-07-05T01:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T01:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/cars-2-frankly-its-too-good-for-that"},"modified":"2011-07-05T01:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T01:15:59","slug":"cars-2-frankly-its-too-good-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/cars-2-frankly-its-too-good-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars 2: &quot;Frankly, it&#039;s too good for that.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1406.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"172\" height=\"266\" align=\"right\" style=\"width: 172px; height: 266px\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1406.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Just a brief note here of an article everyone should read by Michael Cavna, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/comic-riffs\/post\/pixar-pile-up-is-cars-2-crashing-into-overheated-expectations\/2011\/06\/24\/AGNo4AjH_blog.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Comic Riffs<\/a> over at the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Cavna ponders whether Pixar&#8217;s latest blockbuster&nbsp;<em>Cars 2,<\/em> has performed so poorly critically due to &quot;overheated expectations&quot;. I&#8217;m currently in a country where <em>Cars 2<\/em> hasn&#8217;t been released, so I am unable to comment precisely on how accurate Cavna is, however, the article does sum up my sentiments on how this could have happened.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to steal the punchline from the article, but please do read it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/comic-riffs\/post\/pixar-pile-up-is-cars-2-crashing-into-overheated-expectations\/2011\/06\/24\/AGNo4AjH_blog.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pixar Pile-Up: Is &#8216;Cars 2&#8217; crashing into overheated expectations?<\/a><em><\/p>\n<p>Cars 2<\/em> is still yet to open in the Netherlands, Spain, UK, France, Germany, Japan and a host of more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1216475\/releaseinfo\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all dates available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Just a brief note here of an article everyone should read by Michael Cavna, on Comic Riffs over at the Washington Post. Cavna ponders whether Pixar&#8217;s latest blockbuster&nbsp;Cars 2, has performed so poorly critically due to &quot;overheated expectations&quot;. I&#8217;m currently in a country where Cars 2 hasn&#8217;t been released, so I am unable to comment &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cars 2: &quot;Frankly, it&#039;s too good for that.&quot; - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/cars-2-frankly-its-too-good-for-that\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cars 2: &quot;Frankly, it&#039;s too good for that.&quot; - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just a brief note here of an article everyone should read by Michael Cavna, on Comic Riffs over at the Washington Post. 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