This whole movie is quite different compared to first cars, but it's not a bad thing in my opinion The challenger being tortured as well, quite gruesome
Basicaly those who watched this movie know this is the most brutal of all since we see one captured agent got squished into scrap box and the other one exploded.
The anatomy of the cars is a bit strange. In fact, the American agent car even said that he could just replace his engine block, implying that it isn’t that important for their survival.
Yeah, but they could recover from that (albeit with great effort). If anything happens to our hears, we die. It would be more like losing the motor function in your legs after falling on an IED.
Chick Hicks: Was an asshole Miles Axlerod: Commited mass murder by blowing up several race cars so people would never use alternative fuels ever again, also planted a bomb in Mater Jackson Storm: Beat Mcqueen in a race
And then Axelrod did not realize that the reason Lightning McQueen did not explode during the race was because Fillmore when it was actually Sarge had switched out the alternative fuel with Fillmore’s Organic Bio Fuel due to that Fillmore and Sarge never trusted Axelrod especially regarding what he said about alternative fuel being safe.
Miles Axelrod's being a Land Rover who faked being converted to an electronic was supposed to be a way of saying that he was the bad guy the whole time as an electric version of a Land Rover doesn't exist
It's possible to convert any cars into electric theres a show called Gotham Garage where they converted a Ford Pinto into electric in S2E1. There are people converting certain cars into electric is a question of willing or not.
Exactly, it was a big surprise. All though the one thing I'll think that sucks about his character was about the fact we never saw him alone, like after his interview with Mcqueen, we never see him talking to himself. Kids won't usually get on the hint, but adults will also get on the hint fast.
@@USSFFRU that one thing I kind of hate about the criticism of twist villains. Many people complain that twist villains are easy to spot therefore their bad, but forget that the movie is meant for kids who would catch those s clues so quickly.
@@Kishanth.J yeah exactly, most movies that have been criticized for having bad twist villains are usually ones for kids (Hans for Frozen as an example)
@@USSFFRU why do adults like to criticize kids movies so much. I get it if the plot was bad for kids or their were inappropriate things and stuff like that, but saying stuff like “the plot was too simple” or “ the villain was so obvious” or “this movie is garbage cause I don’t like it” is just stupid. Like Cars 2. People say it was a bad movie cause it didn’t respect Cars. As an adult I understand but back when it came out and I was a kid, the movies targeted audience, I love the movie and didn’t see the flaws so many people complain about.
Modern gas engines actually run very quiet. In fact, many car makers actually factory install speakers in the car that produce engine sounds to make it sound louder and more powerful. I'm sure with a little sound-proofing there was no discernible difference.
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The fact that A) Axlerod made cars essentially have heart attacks/stomachs explode, and B) Planted a bomb in Mator's air filter (which is the equivalent to his **lungs**) makes this one frickin dark movie when disassembled
Car Anatomy: Oil filter = Kidneys (kidneys clean blood, oil filters clean oil.) Engine block = Heart Air filter = Lungs (Miles was gonna make Mater’s lungs burst) Engine and Transmission = organ system Fuel system = digestive. (Might also be blood system?) Windshield = eyes Passenger compartment/cabin = Head Grill = Mustache (like chick hicks) Tires = legs (and sometimes arms/hands)
Cars 2 is my favorite of the trilogy. It wasn’t just about racing which was interesting. They had murder, terrorists, showed discrimination, and showed weapons and the black market which was interesting for a kids movie.
You know, I used to wonder why Miles Axlerod was a bad guy... 🤔🤔 He already was a famous billionaire, so he couldn't really be disrespected/discriminated against. I already knew for quite a while Gremlins and Pacers were lemon cars and recently, I had found out Zastava "Yugo" Korals and ZAZ 968's were as well (and I think I already figured out why people thought Zundapps weren't that great, although I've forgotten the reason/reasons right now). However, I looked up what kind of car Miles Axlerod was (based on) and read that he was supposed to be a Land Rover, which I remember I thought was weird, since I see Range Rovers daily. That was until I randomly watched a video about the most UNRELIABLE car brands and the Land Rover had a reliability rate of only EIGHTEEN PERCENT (which was, by the way, also the lowest score of ALL car brands)... 😐😐
If i remember correctly it was because of the growing popularity of alternative fuel, and since he is a Oil Baron if was a threat to his business, so he decided to invent his own, sponsor a global event to everybody to see and purposely sabotage Allinol so people would go back to Oil again
Miles Axldrod as the twist villain completely took me by surprise when I first saw this as a kid because the fact that he was able to get away with getting people to use his oil until Matter exposed him has to make him a great villan in Pixar
Well, he ordered the deaths of two agents in the beginning; Leland Turbo (smashed into a cube) and Rod Torque Redline (had his engine blown up) to hide his real intentions from the public, though we didn't know that yet and presumed that Z was the real villain until the end.
OMG. I NEVER NOTICED. 😂😂😂😂 I see Mini Coopers literally ALL DAY and I was already VERY surprised none appeared in the Cars movies... GUESS I WAS WRONG ANYWAY! 😂😂😂😂
If a mini Cooper is a supporting character in a future cars film, it would be great if the car is to sport a lime green body and black hood in an homage to the mini Cooper in Mr bean and it would also be great to have Rowan Atkinson play the voice of that character
I still have one question: why create an alternative fuel where you could become very rich but instead destroy race cars telling its bad and insisting on using regular gas? Still it’s a great movie! The cars will remain in my heart!
From what i understand he never had a breakthrough with this "alternative fuel" and just researched fuel that explodes with emp. Maybe to keep cars away from using it? I mean, after all he still owns that large oil company he claims to have sold.
Axlerod's plan was to pretty much rule the economy and have the lemon cars along side him. Essentially, he "created" this new, unheard of energy source called Allinol, which was really just regular, every day gasoline. However, there was a twist to his Allinol fuel. When struck with the EMP in the camera, the fuel inside of the car would cause the motor to blow. How does this relate to Axlerod's plan? By claiming that Allinol is safe and letting the races continue on with other cars blowing their engines, civilian cars began to lose trust and interest within the concept of "alternative energy." Basically this is the formula: Low demand for alternative fuels = Higher demand for oil to make gasoline. Miles Axlerod secretly still owned his oil tycoon, so he'd be making a lot more money. According to the script Miles is one of the biggest oil barrons in the World of Cars, meaning he'd be one of the main go-to sources for oil. So, the more oil produced by Miles and the lemons, the more money, power, and influence they'd have over the economy, since cars would rely so much on gasoline.
Axelrod seems to be more of a mix of different classic land rovers, the headlights are inspired by the discovery 1 *after 1994, the grille also looks to be inspired by the classic range rover (note that it has vertical lines not horizontal like the discovery 1) and the roof, cargo door and hood is probably from the prototype land rover discovery
@@hello_alpine1693 i can kind of see a similarity in the headlights with the padro but axelrod isn't inspired by it at all, he's definitely a mix of different land rover parts
Dear god.. what a good and truly awful villain. I still can’t believe Pixar made of villain that committed attempted mass murder. I don’t think people gvie Pixar enough credit for how much of a well written villain Axelrod is.
@@Jackson-mb5ey yes it is, I think there was a scrapped storyline for cars 3 where sterling was related to Axelrod, which explains why he's so rich the real reason sterling wanted lightning to retire in that storyline was revenge for throwing Axelrod in jail, and also he would have been the one to sabatoge McQueen and cause him to crash instead of him crashing on his own.
People still seem to forget that disney traces older works/reuses stencils and backgrounds of previous movies and then get pissed and say they cheated and what not. Grow up people.
@@SilviaLikesCherries In the movie or real life? His personality and actions seem to, surprisingly, predict how money can cause corruption, evil, and other unacceptable conspiracies that overall are either pointless or in vain (or both). Many upper class citizens world wide have let their fame, greed, and selfishness take the best of their personalities, causing them to do irrational behaviors, manipulate others in controversial methods, refusing to listen to others or consider their advice, and just doing more harm than good in the end of the day. (Trump is a great example. When he could have just waited until 2024 and maybe changed his views and personality without any violence, he manipulated thousands of his voters to wreak havoc in the Capitol, plus betrayed his Vice President (Pence) and now is in a heap of legal trouble. And thanks to all the money he's being forced to pay for compensation, not even his 3 billion dollar net worth can afford all that, and I hope he eventually gets more punishment than he deserves thanks to how he has made this country of lies live up to its name). And in this case, Axlerod's quest to sell fuel and gain respect has caused him starting conspiracies, injuring celebrities, and murdering government agents in the worst ways imaginable, when he could have just made a commercial with the lemons to get all of his wishes without making alternative fuel look bad (not to mention the huge conspiracy that turned out in vain).
Honestly this was such a great premise for a sequel and it should’ve been executed differently. They didn’t need to introduce all of the spy stuff in a movie that’s supposed to be about racing.
@@THGMR-ox7sd they could have done it like how other racing type movies has done it, put the main character accidentaly get into the issue and let him/her expose it smartly
Yes, and all because he wanted to sell some fuel. Axlerod and the Lemons could have just made commercials to gain the respect and money they wanted, but instead, they caused a pointless conspiracy, along with killing government agents and injuring celebrities with intention of making the most potential threat against oil companies go away.
My favorite Pixar villain is Sir Miles Axlerod because is the most hidden antagonist and one of the darkest villains in Pixar, we thought in Cars 2 that Professor Zundapp was the main antagonist because he was promoted to be Leader of the Lemons but in the middle of this movie is revealed that the real mastermind was a mysterious British engine, making Zundapp the central or the secondary antagonist, and in climax of this movie is revealed that the unseen mastermind behind all the chaos all along was no other than Sir Miles Axlerod. And the other reason is that I loved the way how Axlerod was defeated, because while Mater confronts him about the sabotage during the race, he was ordering Mater to stay away, thus revealing his real nature, and also finally when see his bomb that attached on Mater was going to explode he was forced to deactivate it, thus exposing his crimes and confirming Mater's suspicions. And I also loved that Axlerod never revealed in all the movie his real nature, cuz Mater revealed for him.
@@JosephRailwayStudios2000 I think most of Cars antagonists are arrogant racers. But they didn't really much portrayed like a villain than Miles because this second movie is about Spy/Crime Fighting movie. I don't find the racers are evil but they just selfish for their own It's so sad that Cars 2 is quite underrated
Fun fact actually; the original plan was to introduce a Russian car to be the mastermind of it all, the writers went with Axelrod because they liked the twist villain idea.
I remember being so confused for a long time at why Miles was the antagonist, I never got why he wanted to ruin alinol but thanks for the explanation! I never really thought he was a sinister mastermind in the movie, I thought he was some rich billionaire wanting to fuck up some race, but visualizing it this way really makes the movie better, you never thought a character can be extremely evil until you start thinking about it.
And one little side note ( deffimetly not important at all tbh): even though miles is based on the Land Rover Discovery, his Cars fictional type is the Branford Axlerod.👍😁
I think he should have actually changed into an electric car if he wanted to succeed, what happens if someone catches him refueling or, as what happened in the movie, he leaked?
He's probably got backup plans for these sorts of things. Maybe he has assistants that follow him around. I mean, he needs assistants to replace his ever failing parts and never buys parts in person as Tomba explained "He's my best customer, but he always does his business over the phone." I think he got lucky when he leaked at the party, as Mater happened to be there so he had somebody to blame it on. Now you've got me curious as to how it would've went down had it happened under different circumstances.
@@piperjojostott7790 I don't see how assistants would help, his plan was pretty flawed and I'm pretty sure if he just changed into an electric car his disguise wouldn't have been blown
@@keldeo05 Eh, the assistants thing was just the first thing that popped into my head. I assumed that he would have cars working for him that would've been under oath to say nothing about his true self. After all, it's very apparent he has the means to silence anybody forever if they were to betray him.
Not sure why, but I am slowly starting to wish they kept the first plot even if it was long. Still. I think Axelrod was a good villain just a bit too predictable
Miles Axlerod has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. They only one is that Eddie Izzard did a wonderful job voicing him, but there's no excuse for the truth about him.
the jungle part (not where ned says he uses a custom fuel to get to safety, but the one at the end) is insane. i never knew it was the same jungle as the movie up
I love the Around-the-World story and I love the spy section too, but if you ask me, the one and only thing that Cars 2 couldn't succeed in was telling both stories at the same time
I do wonder how Axlerod managed to engineer his fuel to blow up an entire engine using an EMP device, Because as far as I know, EMPs only destroy a car's electronic's system, and with enough exposure, it can actually harm a person. Also, weird story, but last year I had a dream that I had to sabotage a formula 1 race using an EMP device, and my specific target was valterri bottas
I heard that it was initially supposed to be a Radiation device que that would make the engines burst, but was changed to a EMP due to a tragic event in that time that i can't remember
Honestly, before the fateful day of 12th December 2021, I had a dream where at some point on the final lap of Abu Dhabi GP, after Michael Masi made the controversial move to ONLY unlap the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen, I would be somewhere with a EMP and blow Verstappen's tyres, giving Hamilton his 8th Championship. When I saw Max overtake Hamilton on the final lap, my heart just dropped, and I wish I was there to stop Verstappen...
The fact that Miles Axelrod lied about allinol, that he was the mastermind of a criminal organization, and also put a bomb on mater drove me so bad JSJSJSJ That's more than 42 years of prision (fraud, organized crime, terrorism, murder, intended murder, etc)
Mater: "Yeah, but what if he found that huge oil field just when the world was searching for something else?! What if he created Allinol just to make alternative fuel look bad?!" Axelrod: "What if? You're basing this on what if?"
There seems to be an oversight in the movie. The mystery car in the video doesn't match axlerod when mater pops his hood. Axlerod is green while the mystery car is blue. Furthermore, this blue extends further into the engine bay, while this area on axlerod is black
It may sound controversial but I actually liked this movie. However, I think it would’ve been much better to market it as a spin-off rather than a true sequel.
I think, even after seeing your video, that the fact Axelrod is the villain still something I will never understand. When I saw the movie Mater's explanations why this car is the Lemon car boss who try to sabotage everything, let me with more interrogations... Edit: I can finally say I've understood why this is the villain ! Everything can be summed up by one word : Btitish Leyland ! It is the fact that he is a Rover and that, by the time of the 70's, the British automobile industry failed to propose good and reliable cars that the public started to do jokes about every British manufacturer brand. This lack of good cars comes from the giant consortium British Leyland which include also Rover. So this is why Axelrod has lost his oil during the show, because he is not a good and reliable car. Also, this is why Martin who knows the jokes about poorly manufactured British cars and because the plot of the movie is focusing on lemons cars, found ultimately the Lemon's boss is Axelrod
Tbh I liked Cars 2 as a Kid because I was very proud about owning all the toys for the world championship racers. Nowadays I like the movie for how non-sensical and chaotic it is.
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This movie could have been a movie about racing around the world and could've been about the competition of some racers using non-renewable oil based fuel and some using renewable energy and been a much more wholesome and racing centered movie like the other movies in the franchise. I bet it would've been much better received
Something important but while Mater was exposing Axlerod he said “when the whole world was trying to find something else” and in the news interview with Axlerod he said “pollution was getting worse” this means that the cars world wanted to move away from oil and move onto alternative fuel instead but Axlerod saw this a threat to his oil fortune. Now his plan makes somewhat sense I feel like that should’ve been mentioned earlier in the movie. I still think he’s not a good villain in my opinion
Man, if only they didn’t rely too much on the James Bond cliches, this could’ve been the best Cars ever, hands down. I feel like this is how it should’ve been: Lightning McQueen, returning from the Piston Cup, is challenged by one of his old rivals, Francesco Bernoulli to take on the racing world’s next big gig, the Tylenol World Grand Prix, hosted by the alternative fuel tycoon Sir Axlerod. Meanwhile a global conspiracy that threatens to put an end towards conventional oil is brewing, starting only with a handful of cars, and culminating in the destruction of many of Mcqueen’s fellow competitors. In the end, McQueen and Bernoulli had to work together to crack down the mastermind behind the whole mess. Axlerod brought to justice, and then the movie ends with them shaking wheels and racing off into the sunset in Radiator Springs. Cut all of the spy stuffs and you have a very good plot
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Can we talk about how dark the cars engines exploding would be? That’s like our hearts bursting.
This whole movie is quite different compared to first cars, but it's not a bad thing in my opinion
The challenger being tortured as well, quite gruesome
Basicaly those who watched this movie know this is the most brutal of all since we see one captured agent got squished into scrap box and the other one exploded.
Not really. Because the cars are still alive when it blows. If our hearts blew, we would be quire dead. So it's different
The anatomy of the cars is a bit strange. In fact, the American agent car even said that he could just replace his engine block, implying that it isn’t that important for their survival.
Yeah, but they could recover from that (albeit with great effort). If anything happens to our hears, we die. It would be more like losing the motor function in your legs after falling on an IED.
Chick Hicks: Was an asshole
Miles Axlerod: Commited mass murder by blowing up several race cars so people would never use alternative fuels ever again, also planted a bomb in Mater
Jackson Storm: Beat Mcqueen in a race
The Duality of cars
@@Sejikan truly terrifying
We went from being stuck in a run down town to straight up terrorism
I love cars
Jackson Storm: literal zoomer
@@BurgerBoi2911 he zoomin' alrite
And then Axelrod did not realize that the reason Lightning McQueen did not explode during the race was because Fillmore when it was actually Sarge had switched out the alternative fuel with Fillmore’s Organic Bio Fuel due to that Fillmore and Sarge never trusted Axelrod especially regarding what he said about alternative fuel being safe.
As an alternative fuel seller himself, he knew that Allinol isnt legit
@@3takoyakis you gotta trust the hippy on this stuff, man, they know what they put in their mixes
“Once big oil, always big oil.” “Man.”
-Sarge, 2011
@@jamessmithandgarrettsmith3623
"Tree hugger."
That’s why he said that the fuel is “Safe” because he knew that his homemade fuel was safe.
Miles Axelrod's being a Land Rover who faked being converted to an electronic was supposed to be a way of saying that he was the bad guy the whole time as an electric version of a Land Rover doesn't exist
Lol. Hahaha. Guess car enthousiasts might have figured it out earlier then. 😜😜😜😜
It's possible to convert any cars into electric theres a show called Gotham Garage where they converted a Ford Pinto into electric in S2E1. There are people converting certain cars into electric is a question of willing or not.
@@woshtech4013 true I meant no electric Land Rovers built by the actual company themselves
@@williampulfer-melville8536 back then yes electrification isnt a huge thing but now is getting more and more common
@@woshtech4013 indeed have you seen the new Electric Mini Coopers
miles axlerod being the villian was such a good plot twist imo.
Exactly, it was a big surprise.
All though the one thing I'll think that sucks about his character was about the fact we never saw him alone, like after his interview with Mcqueen, we never see him talking to himself.
Kids won't usually get on the hint, but adults will also get on the hint fast.
@@USSFFRU that one thing I kind of hate about the criticism of twist villains. Many people complain that twist villains are easy to spot therefore their bad, but forget that the movie is meant for kids who would catch those s clues so quickly.
@@Kishanth.J yeah exactly, most movies that have been criticized for having bad twist villains are usually ones for kids (Hans for Frozen as an example)
@@USSFFRU why do adults like to criticize kids movies so much. I get it if the plot was bad for kids or their were inappropriate things and stuff like that, but saying stuff like “the plot was too simple” or “ the villain was so obvious” or “this movie is garbage cause I don’t like it” is just stupid. Like Cars 2. People say it was a bad movie cause it didn’t respect Cars. As an adult I understand but back when it came out and I was a kid, the movies targeted audience, I love the movie and didn’t see the flaws so many people complain about.
No it wasn't, It's just another sh!tty twist villian
it still bothers me how NO ONE heard his engine noises, y'all know how those suckers are loud, expecially old V8s
I think he might done something to reduce the sound of his engine to prove that he's actually an electric car.
Probably made the disks in his rims louder
maybe they used some sort of soundproof plating in his engine case to reduce all sounds from his engine.
Modern gas engines actually run very quiet. In fact, many car makers actually factory install speakers in the car that produce engine sounds to make it sound louder and more powerful. I'm sure with a little sound-proofing there was no discernible difference.
@@mistertwisty1693 The Rover V8 is anything but modern
0:25 I like how when Axelrod is in Australia they made the Red Centre look like a Holden as a nice little reference to how Holden's are Australian
Oh wow! Clever twist on Uluru/Ayers Rock!
the red centre is known as ayers rock/uluru
@@matheuswolters3448 correct and it is a very famous Australian landmark probably more famous than the Sydney Opera House
Mad little fj holden
Making it a Holden 48-215 was a stroke of pure genius too
It's easy to forget how crazy deep the car movies lore actually gets sometimes.
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Sir Miles was also knighted by Queen Elizabeth gaining the title of sir
W O W!
Oh Wow I Totally Didn't Know That 🤯
Edit: Also Nice Job Saying The Cars 2 Script From Mel in 1:33
Good theory 🙂
I didn't realize that ALSO WHY WAS AXEL ROD KNIGHTED ESPECIALLY CUZ HE'S A TERRORIST I DON'T THINK THE QUEEN IS THAT SMART IN THE CARS UNIVERSE
Send new discord link pls, old one in your “about” page expired.
People really dislike Cars2 but I personally find it my absolute favorite. It has the deepest story and detail
Why does anyone dislike Cars 2?
@@cojosox8211 It was too much of a deviation from the 1st movie. I like this movie the best too, but I can’t deny that criticism is true
Same
The fact that A) Axlerod made cars essentially have heart attacks/stomachs explode, and B) Planted a bomb in Mator's air filter (which is the equivalent to his **lungs**) makes this one frickin dark movie when disassembled
So putting a bomb on a car's hood is the equivalent to strapping a bomb to someone's chest, got it, didn't need to know that, but got it.
Car Anatomy:
Oil filter = Kidneys (kidneys clean blood, oil filters clean oil.)
Engine block = Heart
Air filter = Lungs (Miles was gonna make Mater’s lungs burst)
Engine and Transmission = organ system
Fuel system = digestive. (Might also be blood system?)
Windshield = eyes
Passenger compartment/cabin = Head
Grill = Mustache (like chick hicks)
Tires = legs (and sometimes arms/hands)
Awesome 👍😎
Thanks.
Fuel is essentially food. So yeah, fuel systems are basically digestion.
Not to mention, they "fart" through their exhaust pipe.
Then is the oil system the blood system
Exhaust:
Cars 2 is my favorite of the trilogy. It wasn’t just about racing which was interesting. They had murder, terrorists, showed discrimination, and showed weapons and the black market which was interesting for a kids movie.
The whole race thing was for kids, the whole spy stuff was definitely for the adults so it's quite a unique difference
I actually agree with this.
And I guarantee that you watch Action packed films a lot.
Like suspence, thriller and spy.
Me Too
Yeah I really enjoyed the fact that they combined action and racing into one movei
You know, I used to wonder why Miles Axlerod was a bad guy... 🤔🤔 He already was a famous billionaire, so he couldn't really be disrespected/discriminated against. I already knew for quite a while Gremlins and Pacers were lemon cars and recently, I had found out Zastava "Yugo" Korals and ZAZ 968's were as well (and I think I already figured out why people thought Zundapps weren't that great, although I've forgotten the reason/reasons right now). However, I looked up what kind of car Miles Axlerod was (based on) and read that he was supposed to be a Land Rover, which I remember I thought was weird, since I see Range Rovers daily. That was until I randomly watched a video about the most UNRELIABLE car brands and the Land Rover had a reliability rate of only EIGHTEEN PERCENT (which was, by the way, also the lowest score of ALL car brands)... 😐😐
My uncle once owned a Land Rover, but sold it after a few years due to realizing its unreliability. This seems to make sense now.
@@cutercills9x9productions9 Hahaha! Yes, it does! 😂😂😆😆
If i remember correctly it was because of the growing popularity of alternative fuel, and since he is a Oil Baron if was a threat to his business, so he decided to invent his own, sponsor a global event to everybody to see and purposely sabotage Allinol so people would go back to Oil again
Not to mention that the unreliable V8 he mentioned was from British Leyland which was used on the Triumph Stag
Basically, a hint that Axlerod was *sus*
Miles Axldrod as the twist villain completely took me by surprise when I first saw this as a kid because the fact that he was able to get away with getting people to use his oil until Matter exposed him has to make him a great villan in Pixar
Axelrod was willing to murder McQueen?! How dare he!
Well, he ordered the deaths of two agents in the beginning; Leland Turbo (smashed into a cube) and Rod Torque Redline (had his engine blown up) to hide his real intentions from the public, though we didn't know that yet and presumed that Z was the real villain until the end.
You mean the queen in england 😂
@@jasonlowrey1096 wdym
@@2022HennesseyVenomF5Coupe watch the film
@@mranima748 but its not on youtube and its not on netflix rip
1:59 I like how the scientist on the left is a 2002 MINI Cooper
And the one on the right is a Peugeot
@@Redjintyman yep both European makes of cars which makes sense because Axelrod Industries is a British company
OMG. I NEVER NOTICED. 😂😂😂😂 I see Mini Coopers literally ALL DAY and I was already VERY surprised none appeared in the Cars movies... GUESS I WAS WRONG ANYWAY! 😂😂😂😂
If a mini Cooper is a supporting character in a future cars film, it would be great if the car is to sport a lime green body and black hood in an homage to the mini Cooper in Mr bean and it would also be great to have Rowan Atkinson play the voice of that character
I still have one question: why create an alternative fuel where you could become very rich but instead destroy race cars telling its bad and insisting on using regular gas?
Still it’s a great movie! The cars will remain in my heart!
From what i understand he never had a breakthrough with this "alternative fuel" and just researched fuel that explodes with emp. Maybe to keep cars away from using it? I mean, after all he still owns that large oil company he claims to have sold.
Because he was still in charge of the non alternative fuels market
He did not create any bio fuel It was all a lie.
Axlerod's plan was to pretty much rule the economy and have the lemon cars along side him. Essentially, he "created" this new, unheard of energy source called Allinol, which was really just regular, every day gasoline. However, there was a twist to his Allinol fuel. When struck with the EMP in the camera, the fuel inside of the car would cause the motor to blow. How does this relate to Axlerod's plan? By claiming that Allinol is safe and letting the races continue on with other cars blowing their engines, civilian cars began to lose trust and interest within the concept of "alternative energy." Basically this is the formula: Low demand for alternative fuels = Higher demand for oil to make gasoline. Miles Axlerod secretly still owned his oil tycoon, so he'd be making a lot more money. According to the script Miles is one of the biggest oil barrons in the World of Cars, meaning he'd be one of the main go-to sources for oil.
So, the more oil produced by Miles and the lemons, the more money, power, and influence they'd have over the economy, since cars would rely so much on gasoline.
Elon Musk
Fun fact: Miles was born in Aden, Yemen,🇾🇪 according to a Pixar website, so he's an asian naturalised british 🇬🇧
He probably born there when Yemen was British protectorate
Isnt land rover American tho?
@@MrOof-ob8uw Land rover is British but Miles isn't a land rover, he's modified and according to Pixar he is asian
@@cutyicecream So an American-Asian British Make and Model Car exists.
I literally cannot comprehend how that is a thing
@@MrOof-ob8uw I think he's a kind of British-Asian
Axelrod seems to be more of a mix of different classic land rovers, the headlights are inspired by the discovery 1 *after 1994, the grille also looks to be inspired by the classic range rover (note that it has vertical lines not horizontal like the discovery 1) and the roof, cargo door and hood is probably from the prototype land rover discovery
It almost makes sense that he's made up of a few different versions if he's the Lemon Kingpin. Lots of different parts on the inside, and the outside!
1992 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado
@@hello_alpine1693 i can kind of see a similarity in the headlights with the padro but axelrod isn't inspired by it at all, he's definitely a mix of different land rover parts
The grill is inspired by the English Mustache
Dear god.. what a good and truly awful villain. I still can’t believe Pixar made of villain that committed attempted mass murder. I don’t think people gvie Pixar enough credit for how much of a well written villain Axelrod is.
You forgot to mention his appearance in a picture frame in cars 3 in sterlings office
That's a thing? I never noticed. And is it a picture of him in his 'electric' form? Because if so, that means... Cars 2 is canon...
@@Jackson-mb5ey yes it is, I think there was a scrapped storyline for cars 3 where sterling was related to Axelrod, which explains why he's so rich the real reason sterling wanted lightning to retire in that storyline was revenge for throwing Axelrod in jail, and also he would have been the one to sabatoge McQueen and cause him to crash instead of him crashing on his own.
@@thespeedchannel9571 which one is Sterling? Is it the one who bought Rusteze? I've totally forgot
@@bonjourdy yes sterling bought rusteze
@@thespeedchannel9571 It's not Sterling's fault Mcqueen is incapable of racing against Next Gen, who are much younger and faster than him...
Cars 2 was so fast paced and unclear that I literally struggled to understand the plot. Thanks for making this, it explained a lot!
People still seem to forget that disney traces older works/reuses stencils and backgrounds of previous movies and then get pissed and say they cheated and what not. Grow up people.
Nobody said this?
I don't understand
@@sergiolaurencio7534 Don’t understand what
Cars 2 is truly the smartest movie ever made
Indeed
Jackson Storm: Lawful Evil Reason: Cannot accept that he lost.
Chick Hicks: Neutral Evil Reason: Bullies slow racecars.
Miles Axlerod: Chaotic Evil Reason: Literally killed dozens of cars.
Jackson was just a cockier mcqueen
What Chick Hicks did to King is literally the car equivalent of pushing someone off a roof.
i prefer chick hicks..
Don't forget that Miles might have also affected politics.
@@SilviaLikesCherries In the movie or real life? His personality and actions seem to, surprisingly, predict how money can cause corruption, evil, and other unacceptable conspiracies that overall are either pointless or in vain (or both). Many upper class citizens world wide have let their fame, greed, and selfishness take the best of their personalities, causing them to do irrational behaviors, manipulate others in controversial methods, refusing to listen to others or consider their advice, and just doing more harm than good in the end of the day. (Trump is a great example. When he could have just waited until 2024 and maybe changed his views and personality without any violence, he manipulated thousands of his voters to wreak havoc in the Capitol, plus betrayed his Vice President (Pence) and now is in a heap of legal trouble. And thanks to all the money he's being forced to pay for compensation, not even his 3 billion dollar net worth can afford all that, and I hope he eventually gets more punishment than he deserves thanks to how he has made this country of lies live up to its name).
And in this case, Axlerod's quest to sell fuel and gain respect has caused him starting conspiracies, injuring celebrities, and murdering government agents in the worst ways imaginable, when he could have just made a commercial with the lemons to get all of his wishes without making alternative fuel look bad (not to mention the huge conspiracy that turned out in vain).
1:29 This newspaper is so freaking detailed for something that's on screen for only a second and a half or so
Honestly this was such a great premise for a sequel and it should’ve been executed differently. They didn’t need to introduce all of the spy stuff in a movie that’s supposed to be about racing.
True but how would they do it?
@@THGMR-ox7sd maybe shortening maters screen time and turning it into a detective oriented couldve helped
@@midsquash1613 The only way I think that could work was to mix the movie, make half of it focused on Mater, the other on McQueen.
@@THGMR-ox7sd they could have done it like how other racing type movies has done it, put the main character accidentaly get into the issue and let him/her expose it smartly
If anything it should've been about a couple spies on a mission to protect lightning McQueen and his friends from the dangers ahead.
These videos are making me wonder how many car enthusiasts caught onto the foreshadowing way earlier due to just knowing a thing or two about cars.
Idc if these videos are uploaded late at night, I'm watchin' em!
in my country he uploads at 10:50 in the morning lol
THIS MAN WAS WILLING TO KILL LIGHTNING!?!?!?!
Yes, he was trying to kill you and Mater but thankfully your friend was able to expose him
@@Chonkyfurry Indeed he was a much better villain in my opinion
Yes, and all because he wanted to sell some fuel. Axlerod and the Lemons could have just made commercials to gain the respect and money they wanted, but instead, they caused a pointless conspiracy, along with killing government agents and injuring celebrities with intention of making the most potential threat against oil companies go away.
He was a good villain when Matter exposes him he makes good points and it all made sense for him
My favorite Pixar villain is Sir Miles Axlerod because is the most hidden antagonist and one of the darkest villains in Pixar, we thought in Cars 2 that Professor Zundapp was the main antagonist because he was promoted to be Leader of the Lemons but in the middle of this movie is revealed that the real mastermind was a mysterious British engine, making Zundapp the central or the secondary antagonist, and in climax of this movie is revealed that the unseen mastermind behind all the chaos all along was no other than Sir Miles Axlerod. And the other reason is that I loved the way how Axlerod was defeated, because while Mater confronts him about the sabotage during the race, he was ordering Mater to stay away, thus revealing his real nature, and also finally when see his bomb that attached on Mater was going to explode he was forced to deactivate it, thus exposing his crimes and confirming Mater's suspicions. And I also loved that Axlerod never revealed in all the movie his real nature, cuz Mater revealed for him.
This makes me love Cars 2 even more
Me too because he was a much better villain than Chicks and Jackson
@@JosephRailwayStudios2000 I think most of Cars antagonists are arrogant racers. But they didn't really much portrayed like a villain than Miles because this second movie is about Spy/Crime Fighting movie. I don't find the racers are evil but they just selfish for their own
It's so sad that Cars 2 is quite underrated
@@mrs.dollkiller indeed
Miles Axlerod : Allinol Is Safe Allinol Is Completely Safe
Anakin Skywalker : LIAR!
I have a theory,the villain isn’t axyrod,for one he didn’t have a plate when he left,but when he came out he did
You mean someone disguised as him?
Yes.
Fun fact actually; the original plan was to introduce a Russian car to be the mastermind of it all, the writers went with Axelrod because they liked the twist villain idea.
Among Cars
@@chenyeanmingtakumi9033 or the guy who had a deep voice and said "the world belongs the lemons!" That guy had the same engine as axlerod
I remember being so confused for a long time at why Miles was the antagonist, I never got why he wanted to ruin alinol but thanks for the explanation!
I never really thought he was a sinister mastermind in the movie, I thought he was some rich billionaire wanting to fuck up some race, but visualizing it this way really makes the movie better, you never thought a character can be extremely evil until you start thinking about it.
And one little side note ( deffimetly not important at all tbh): even though miles is based on the Land Rover Discovery, his Cars fictional type is the Branford Axlerod.👍😁
Very nice lowdown for one of Pixar's vilest villains and by vile I mean Lotso, Syndrome and Hopper standards
Which are DreamWorks most vile and Darkest villains
@@PrincessMavenKittyDarkholme er I'm guessing Grimmel and Shen
@@thelordpizzaman3461 yea
@@thelordpizzaman3461 mandible
I think he should have actually changed into an electric car if he wanted to succeed, what happens if someone catches him refueling or, as what happened in the movie, he leaked?
He's probably got backup plans for these sorts of things. Maybe he has assistants that follow him around. I mean, he needs assistants to replace his ever failing parts and never buys parts in person as Tomba explained "He's my best customer, but he always does his business over the phone."
I think he got lucky when he leaked at the party, as Mater happened to be there so he had somebody to blame it on. Now you've got me curious as to how it would've went down had it happened under different circumstances.
@@piperjojostott7790 I don't see how assistants would help, his plan was pretty flawed and I'm pretty sure if he just changed into an electric car his disguise wouldn't have been blown
@@keldeo05 Eh, the assistants thing was just the first thing that popped into my head. I assumed that he would have cars working for him that would've been under oath to say nothing about his true self. After all, it's very apparent he has the means to silence anybody forever if they were to betray him.
@@keldeo05 is it even possible for cars to switch engines ?
@@majdavlk649 they didn't question it so it's probably doable
This Pixar villain is a psychopath because he created the fuel to execute the races and cars
That is crazy that the place where Miles Axlerod as a lost car is the same place where Carl tries to ditch Dug and Kevin
But, how did he start driving in Africa and somehow got to South America without being spotted?
6:22 because Pixar learns from it's mistakes.
Not sure why, but I am slowly starting to wish they kept the first plot even if it was long.
Still. I think Axelrod was a good villain just a bit too predictable
What i never understand is why people don't like cars 2 so much
Super cool information! Miles is low key one of my favorite villains from the Cars franchise. 😆
Ned these vids are awesome love it keep it up
I remember watching cars 2 and when I saw miles was the real secret villain I was mind blown and my sister said I knew it he was the villain
Main Protagonist: Lighting Mcqueen
Main Villain: Sir Miles Axlerold
Miles Axlerod has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. They only one is that Eddie Izzard did a wonderful job voicing him, but there's no excuse for the truth about him.
Miles Axlerod's disguised voice sounds a little like Zurg from Toy Story 2. Is that true?
I guess, but Zurg was voiced by Andrew Stanton who directed Finding Nemo and Wall-E while Miles Axelrod was voiced by Eddie Izzard. 🙂🙂 🙂
Great video as always Ned!
5:00
Nigel Gearsley: You sure about that axelrod?? If your sure... THEN WHY DID MY ENGINE BLOW UP AT PORTA CORSA?
This is one of the darkest cars movies cars exploding,vehicles getting squshed,a boat exploding,and guns
Axlerod is a really well written Villain ngl, and Cars 2 Itself had a good plot. I Love it
No he isn't
@@xxxmcnuggwtsxxx9859 Why? Because he's too similar to mr. Waternoose?
the jungle part (not where ned says he uses a custom fuel to get to safety, but the one at the end) is insane. i never knew it was the same jungle as the movie up
I love the Around-the-World story and I love the spy section too, but if you ask me, the one and only thing that Cars 2 couldn't succeed in was telling both stories at the same time
I do wonder how Axlerod managed to engineer his fuel to blow up an entire engine using an EMP device, Because as far as I know, EMPs only destroy a car's electronic's system, and with enough exposure, it can actually harm a person. Also, weird story, but last year I had a dream that I had to sabotage a formula 1 race using an EMP device, and my specific target was valterri bottas
I heard that it was initially supposed to be a Radiation device que that would make the engines burst, but was changed to a EMP due to a tragic event in that time that i can't remember
2011 Fukushima Daiichi earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdown maybe the case
Honestly, before the fateful day of 12th December 2021, I had a dream where at some point on the final lap of Abu Dhabi GP, after Michael Masi made the controversial move to ONLY unlap the cars between Hamilton and Verstappen, I would be somewhere with a EMP and blow Verstappen's tyres, giving Hamilton his 8th Championship.
When I saw Max overtake Hamilton on the final lap, my heart just dropped, and I wish I was there to stop Verstappen...
Because of this video, you made me appreciate Cars 2 way more than I thought
In Sterling's office you can find the photo of Miles Axelrod.
Makes me laugh. The Buick V8 (Rover) had its issues but ultimately proved to be an astoundingly reliable, strong unit.
Props to sarge and fillmore for saving McQueens life. Idc what anyone says cars 2 is a good and deep fil when you get into it.
Miles Axlerod is basically like Elon Musk.
I’m don’t think Elon Musk has tried to blow anyone up, though.
Great vid! I NEVER KNEW THAT WAS THE JUNGLE FROM UP! GOOD EDITING! THAT TRANSITION-
That music in the background is awesome! Love it and these videos!
Glad you enjoy it!
@@nedwheeler8114 me 2
The fact that Miles Axelrod lied about allinol, that he was the mastermind of a criminal organization, and also put a bomb on mater drove me so bad JSJSJSJ
That's more than 42 years of prision (fraud, organized crime, terrorism, murder, intended murder, etc)
Mater: "Yeah, but what if he found that huge oil field just when the world was searching for something else?! What if he created Allinol just to make alternative fuel look bad?!"
Axelrod: "What if? You're basing this on what if?"
There seems to be an oversight in the movie. The mystery car in the video doesn't match axlerod when mater pops his hood. Axlerod is green while the mystery car is blue. Furthermore, this blue extends further into the engine bay, while this area on axlerod is black
I feel like axlerod was basically a reference to elon musk lol
sir miles Axelrod is my absolute favorite character from cars!!!!
mine too 💚💚💚💚😊😊😊
My favourite is Finn Mcmissle.
@@RosieBunny7376 cool
@@shiningstone6771 british intelligence
All my life I thought I was the only one whose favorite character he was😳
5:06 miles axelrod is so evil and cowardly
Sir Miles Axelrod is my favourite villain out of the every movie made by Pixar and favourite car character
You will always get a 👍from me just for the sheer effort you put in researching all this! Congrats!
It may sound controversial but I actually liked this movie. However, I think it would’ve been much better to market it as a spin-off rather than a true sequel.
I thought mater caused the oil leak. Damn Axlerod is one subtly but amazing villain
Also right before the London race started where Axlerod was next to the Queen and some other unknown car, he is shown with an evil grin.
One of the greatest and most in depth villan in all of Disney and Pixar
Bill cipher is #1
@@thedragonthatlovesskittles7132 bill chipper!?
@@SirMonty_ oh,
More like the worst
@@xxxmcnuggwtsxxx9859 no, simply no.
Video about old movie: exists on my recommended
My brain: w a t c h
Miles Axlerod is one of my favorite Pixar villains of all time.
i really dont understand why ppl hate on cars 2, i get it has a killcount but its cartoonish so it doesnt really matter
I think, even after seeing your video, that the fact Axelrod is the villain still something I will never understand. When I saw the movie Mater's explanations why this car is the Lemon car boss who try to sabotage everything, let me with more interrogations...
Edit: I can finally say I've understood why this is the villain ! Everything can be summed up by one word : Btitish Leyland !
It is the fact that he is a Rover and that, by the time of the 70's, the British automobile industry failed to propose good and reliable cars that the public started to do jokes about every British manufacturer brand. This lack of good cars comes from the giant consortium British Leyland which include also Rover.
So this is why Axelrod has lost his oil during the show, because he is not a good and reliable car. Also, this is why Martin who knows the jokes about poorly manufactured British cars and because the plot of the movie is focusing on lemons cars, found ultimately the Lemon's boss is Axelrod
Tbh I liked Cars 2 as a Kid because I was very proud about owning all the toys for the world championship racers.
Nowadays I like the movie for how non-sensical and chaotic it is.
6:29 I knew it.
Me too and I really know is the jungle from up
FYI axlerod’s in universe make and model is a 1978 Branford axlerod
Miles Axelrod is an “electric Land Rover”
but there’s actual electric Land Rover today :)
All for one...
I agree can we talk about how dark cars engine exploding would be? That's like other heart bursting.
AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!! 😄✌😍🖑 MILEY... err, I mean... 💖💖 MILES AXLEROD 💖💖 IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS 😉😊😎🙃 (following pretty much directly after GREM and ACER - my most favorites - perhaps along with some other characters too, but perhaps not... I find it hard to rank them all precisely). Thank you VERY MUCH for making a video about him! 😃🖒😆👌❤💙💚💜
Oh wow! Nice video ♡
I love your channel 🥰💖
Btw he's my favourite villain 😅😊
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Dang this is a classic! I forgot they have easter eggs in these movies.
This movie could have been a movie about racing around the world and could've been about the competition of some racers using non-renewable oil based fuel and some using renewable energy and been a much more wholesome and racing centered movie like the other movies in the franchise. I bet it would've been much better received
My dad once looked into a land rover, but found they are very hard to keep going.
6:23 free advertising. That's the spirit.
Yeah, amazing facts!❤
New subscriber btw
Your channel is amazing! Love it. 💖
Thanks so much!
@@nedwheeler8114 😉
Something important but while Mater was exposing Axlerod he said “when the whole world was trying to find something else” and in the news interview with Axlerod he said “pollution was getting worse” this means that the cars world wanted to move away from oil and move onto alternative fuel instead but Axlerod saw this a threat to his oil fortune. Now his plan makes somewhat sense
I feel like that should’ve been mentioned earlier in the movie. I still think he’s not a good villain in my opinion
What muffler has axerlod for anybody not to notice Is running on gas
Man, if only they didn’t rely too much on the James Bond cliches, this could’ve been the best Cars ever, hands down. I feel like this is how it should’ve been:
Lightning McQueen, returning from the Piston Cup, is challenged by one of his old rivals, Francesco Bernoulli to take on the racing world’s next big gig, the Tylenol World Grand Prix, hosted by the alternative fuel tycoon Sir Axlerod. Meanwhile a global conspiracy that threatens to put an end towards conventional oil is brewing, starting only with a handful of cars, and culminating in the destruction of many of Mcqueen’s fellow competitors. In the end, McQueen and Bernoulli had to work together to crack down the mastermind behind the whole mess. Axlerod brought to justice, and then the movie ends with them shaking wheels and racing off into the sunset in Radiator Springs. Cut all of the spy stuffs and you have a very good plot
another great video by ned wheeler
Glad you enjoyed it!
When you realize sergeant saved McQueen’s life by changing oil.
I didnt know that axelrod was a villian but thanks for explaining this
How is the criminal underworld of the Cars universe more intricate than real life