Cars 2 is canon, the reason why it’s not mentioned in future cars projects is because 1) It doesn’t really fit in with the Cars timeline, it seems likely we’ll never see any (if not most) of the characters in Cars 2 make a return in any future Cars projects. 2) Pixar seems to be too embarrassed to acknowledge the fact that Cars 2 is a movie that actually exists
I think another point is that mcqueen didnt allow mater to go to races, but after the spy incident he did- and infact mater is always there at mcqueens races at Florida, holy moly the cars lore is messed up rn.
Cars 2 is slightly canon when you think about it Lightning McQueen kept his flaming 95 bolt on the side of him and his headlights actually worked in Cars 3, and Mater said something about him getting wedding flaps meaning he'll get married to Holly Shiftwell!
You got a pretty good point also when Mqueen is training at the very start of the movie we can see Guido having a banner like thing that says 95 and world grand prix in one of his let's say "hands"
I think Cars 2 should've been that World Cup that happened in the background and the Mater stuff should've been a spin-off movie. It could be a conspiracy taking place during the race and the spin-off goes deeper into the Mater stuff. Cars 2 could end with Axelrod on the news and some mysteries about his connection to the exploding racers. I think another thing that'd make it better is if Mater had connections to the spies before like he's retired and playing dumb. It'd be less jokey and more like they need a retired veteran's help to catch Axelrod, it could dive into Mater lore, maybe he lost a significant other in the spy force and chose to return to a simpler life? It'd make him similar to Hudson in the way that they both moved on from their younger more crazy years and just want to relax. Edit: Fixed small grammatical issues.
I honestly liked Cars 2 more than 1 & 3, just because as a kid, it was cool to see spy action. Even if it wasn’t technically a good story, it was just plain old cool for a young kid.
I believe that Cars 2 (along with Planes and Planes 2: Fire and Rescue) is canon in the cars universe cause Mater comes to all of Lightning's races, Lighting's has his headlights from Cars 2, Jeff Gorvette appears in the Florida Speedway, and for mater missing his dent from Cars 2 that could be a animation error that Disney and Pixar forgot to fix, and he and Holly could be dating online.
@@gunguy2715 no, he was in his prime in cars 2. Also, would’ve been against piston cup rules to get an upgrade, and we never saw a scene in cars 2 that shows him getting an upgraded engine
@@DavidN16792 he did seemingly get a makeover, which was shown briefly, but there was a scene of a mechanical arm being used(for the headlights), making it possible that mcqueen got an engine upgrade for cars 2 for the wgp, then removed it when he returned to the piston cup, thus the different sounds
I say it is canon as McQueen has his headlights, Mater is at all his races, McQueen has 5 (if I remember correctly) piston cups when in Cars 2 he had 4 so he definitely got more, Cruiz mentions that she saw McQueen flying and wanted to be confident like him (though this could be about the Cars 1 Sven when McQueen sticks his tongue out instead of flying with Mater in London) On the other hand Mater’s dent is gone so maybe the free “pistachio ice cream” messed with his mind and the only canon part is the World Grand Prix but that wouldn’t explain why McQueen knows the spies and well Mater got the dent before he went to Towkyo (yes that is the name of the place) so I don’t really understand if it’s TRULY CANON
Oh wow, you’re completely correct. I honestly don’t even know where I got four from, I did a quick scan of the Norwegian dub of the movie to see if they changed it in the adaptation, and it doesn’t look like it. The only thing I can think of is that I mixed it up when writing the script and I accidentally wrote down the number of piston cups McQueen has in the beginning of Cars 2, because I can see that it was in my notes.
Not many people know this but in the scene where Smokey shows McQueen the newspaper clippings, one of the clippings has an image of Acer falling into the sewer truck. That really confirms that Cars 2 is canon.
There is one more thing. In cars 2 we can see that flo's v8 cafe has an expansion and her building is bigger. However in cars 3 and cars on the road, the cafe doesn't have the expansion. It is the way it was in the 1st movie
perhaps Mcqueen did go to world grand prix, from time to time popular racers do go into other racing series for various reasons (see Dale Earnhardt sr & jr, Danica patrick, jeff gordon and many more), specially for WGP since it is more a publicity stunt than anything else, it would make sense to have the piston cup hotshot to make starts there to me, cars 2 happened, the spy thing? prolly and i hope not, and it would be just another tall tale as usual, everything racing wise happened, i just wish we got to see more of it
I have 2 theories Theory 1: Cars 2 is actually a movie set in the Cars universe. This explains why there’s the whole spy conspiracy Theory 2: Cars 2 did happen but only the World Grand Prix. The reason there are spies is because Mater watched a lot of spy movies and tried turning it into one of his tall tales
In a car’s short, Mater has a dream he went to Japan. But it was all a dream, and it was as if he had never been there before, proving that Cars 2 is Maters dream and is therefor canon, but just in Maters head. Edit: this is before watching the video maybe he says this
These videos about whether Cars 2 really happened are pretty hilarious. You don't see people questioning if Incredibles 2, Toy Story 2/3/4, or Finding Dory are canon to their respective series. You don't even see these kinds of video essays with Cars 3. It's only Cars 2. That really demonstrates just how much people hated that movie. It's been over 10 years since its release, and it's STILL treated like the black sheep of the Pixar movie lineup, so much so that even the folks at Pixar pretend that movie doesn't exist. I agree with the general consensus that Cars 2 was horrible by Pixar and general movie standards, but these videos are pretty hysterical. 🤣🤣
Toy Story 2, 3 and Cars 3 are definitely canon though, we know this because the entries that followed them continued on with the lore the previous installment introduced, and with Toy Story 5 coming up, we can assume that’s the case for Toy Story 4 as well (unless they pull a Cars 2 or just straight up retcons the entire story of course). Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory are harder to get any sort of solid evidence for, as they’re both currently the last installments of their respective series. Sure we can still theorize, but without much to back it up there isn’t much point in making a whole video on it imo.
Cars 2 is so complicated How can McQueen beat Francesco, who can go at 354 kph (220 MPH) while McQueen can't beat Storm, who is canonically slower than Francesco, going at a good 344 kph (214 mph) Edit: grammar error
Here is the funny thing, when Francesco is talking on Sarge’s program he “assumes/guesses” he goes 300 kph which in mph its only 186 but lightning is way faster than that by at least 12 mph
I think it would be cannon As theres bit in cars 3 towards end where a car Greets Mcqueen we never really got a close up of him but i swear it was the Jeff guy from cars 2 from in tokyo im unsure but i swear it was him but he didnt have his 24 On his side just the yellow and something else
its canon bc jeff gorvette and mcqueen still having head lights also in the rusteze racing center on mcqueens hall of fame area u see the sign for “radiator springs 500 1/2” hanging on the wall which takes place roughly within the same year (after cars 2) because u see mcqueen still rocking the bolt with flames and a spoiler the reason why it’s never mentioned is bc it has no reason to be bc it didn’t fit the current situation or story cars 2 did indeed happen it is indeed canon but think of it like its js another tuesday for them (the characters)
I think that the entire thing of Cars 2 isnt canon at all and the Cars 2 design in Maters Tall Tales is just to cover up the non canon stuff when in reality he actually had the opening Cars 2 design and although Axelrod appears in Cars 2 he is still a famous car that owns a giant oil company and same with Jeff Corvette which, yes, is canon in the Cars universe since in he is seen before the Florida 500 getting an interview and then notices lighting and has a tiny chat with him but its just a theory A FILM THE- nah im kidding
The ranking is not based on the overall quality of the movies, but rather how much enjoyment I get from watching them, which in Up’s case, after the married life bit, is very little, especially compared to the rest of Pixar’s catalogue. It might be a bit against the grain I suppose, but it is what it is, and I have already promised to rewatch it to see if I end up changing my mind, so there’s still hope for me.
lmao disregarding someone’s opinion on a movie because they don’t like a completely different movie as much as you do is quite the take. I didn’t even say it wasn’t good, only that it’s not one of my favorites. But because of this comment, I’ll watch Up again, and if I end up changing my opinion on it at all, I’ll even make a video on it.
@@timmyy24 yeah I’ll agree with you there, the opening sequence is one of the best in cinema history, I’ve sadly just never thought the rest of the movie held up to the beginning.
Cars 2 is canon, the reason why it’s not mentioned in future cars projects is because 1) It doesn’t really fit in with the Cars timeline, it seems likely we’ll never see any (if not most) of the characters in Cars 2 make a return in any future Cars projects. 2) Pixar seems to be too embarrassed to acknowledge the fact that Cars 2 is a movie that actually exists
Well thos are two reasons why it can be NOT canon, however it's still weird because the cars channel itself treats it like it's canon
I feel like something not fitting into the main timeline is a reason for why something would NOT be canon
They do have a video about how they make their scenes in the movie and has it on Disney + but that is the only mention Disney is giving that movie. 💀
It has now been six months, and I still do not understand this comment.
@@capone6716that’s because it is canon. i said what i said 🤷♂️
I think another point is that mcqueen didnt allow mater to go to races, but after the spy incident he did- and infact mater is always there at mcqueens races at Florida, holy moly the cars lore is messed up rn.
yeah but he was in the last race in Cars 1, same thing
Yea true
@@dynamo-l3mBut most of the citizens of Radiator Springs are there to support Mecqueen.
Cars 2 is slightly canon when you think about it Lightning McQueen kept his flaming 95 bolt on the side of him and his headlights actually worked in Cars 3, and Mater said something about him getting wedding flaps meaning he'll get married to Holly Shiftwell!
interesting i didn't think he would get married
You got a pretty good point also when Mqueen is training at the very start of the movie we can see Guido having a banner like thing that says 95 and world grand prix in one of his let's say "hands"
I think Cars 2 should've been that World Cup that happened in the background and the Mater stuff should've been a spin-off movie. It could be a conspiracy taking place during the race and the spin-off goes deeper into the Mater stuff. Cars 2 could end with Axelrod on the news and some mysteries about his connection to the exploding racers. I think another thing that'd make it better is if Mater had connections to the spies before like he's retired and playing dumb. It'd be less jokey and more like they need a retired veteran's help to catch Axelrod, it could dive into Mater lore, maybe he lost a significant other in the spy force and chose to return to a simpler life? It'd make him similar to Hudson in the way that they both moved on from their younger more crazy years and just want to relax.
Edit: Fixed small grammatical issues.
You need a raise
@@damn1658 nah, I don't need to be paid bro, it's my passion
Or maybe a spin-off tv show about World Grand Prix racers, their backstories, etc.
I honestly liked Cars 2 more than 1 & 3, just because as a kid, it was cool to see spy action. Even if it wasn’t technically a good story, it was just plain old cool for a young kid.
same
Same here
Yeah, it was definitely the coolest movie, but in terms of plot and character development, 1 & 3 are better
Same
Same
Also Cruz's assistant in cars 3 is Lewis Hamilton from cars 2 and a and when matter says he kept the turbines he might mean temporarily
I believe that Cars 2 (along with Planes and Planes 2: Fire and Rescue) is canon in the cars universe cause Mater comes to all of Lightning's races, Lighting's has his headlights from Cars 2, Jeff Gorvette appears in the Florida Speedway, and for mater missing his dent from Cars 2 that could be a animation error that Disney and Pixar forgot to fix, and he and Holly could be dating online.
I don't know if it is just me but did anyone realise Lightning Mcqueen sounded different in Cars 2 compared to his car sounds in Cars 1 and Cars 3.
Because he got an engine upgrade 💀💀💀
@@gunguy2715 no, he was in his prime in cars 2. Also, would’ve been against piston cup rules to get an upgrade, and we never saw a scene in cars 2 that shows him getting an upgraded engine
He sounds so much better in Cars 2 legit
@@DavidN16792 he did seemingly get a makeover, which was shown briefly, but there was a scene of a mechanical arm being used(for the headlights), making it possible that mcqueen got an engine upgrade for cars 2 for the wgp, then removed it when he returned to the piston cup, thus the different sounds
@@ISAK.Mprobably because the first movie was released in 2006 and the second in 2011 so the mics probably got upgraded
I say it is canon as McQueen has his headlights, Mater is at all his races, McQueen has 5 (if I remember correctly) piston cups when in Cars 2 he had 4 so he definitely got more, Cruiz mentions that she saw McQueen flying and wanted to be confident like him (though this could be about the Cars 1 Sven when McQueen sticks his tongue out instead of flying with Mater in London)
On the other hand Mater’s dent is gone so maybe the free “pistachio ice cream” messed with his mind and the only canon part is the World Grand Prix but that wouldn’t explain why McQueen knows the spies and well Mater got the dent before he went to Towkyo (yes that is the name of the place) so I don’t really understand if it’s TRULY CANON
It’s definitely mentioning his cars 1 seen where he flies in the sky
11:35: Correction: Strip Weathers won 7 championships, same as Richard Petty.
Oh wow, you’re completely correct. I honestly don’t even know where I got four from, I did a quick scan of the Norwegian dub of the movie to see if they changed it in the adaptation, and it doesn’t look like it. The only thing I can think of is that I mixed it up when writing the script and I accidentally wrote down the number of piston cups McQueen has in the beginning of Cars 2, because I can see that it was in my notes.
Not many people know this but in the scene where Smokey shows McQueen the newspaper clippings, one of the clippings has an image of Acer falling into the sewer truck. That really confirms that Cars 2 is canon.
There is one more thing. In cars 2 we can see that flo's v8 cafe has an expansion and her building is bigger. However in cars 3 and cars on the road, the cafe doesn't have the expansion. It is the way it was in the 1st movie
Holy smokes you’re right!
I’ve never noticed that before, this is huge!
8:54 FILM THEO-
Also I like to think the races are cannon and that mater went home
perhaps Mcqueen did go to world grand prix, from time to time popular racers do go into other racing series for various reasons (see Dale Earnhardt sr & jr, Danica patrick, jeff gordon and many more), specially for WGP since it is more a publicity stunt than anything else, it would make sense to have the piston cup hotshot to make starts there
to me, cars 2 happened, the spy thing? prolly and i hope not, and it would be just another tall tale as usual, everything racing wise happened, i just wish we got to see more of it
I have 2 theories
Theory 1: Cars 2 is actually a movie set in the Cars universe. This explains why there’s the whole spy conspiracy
Theory 2: Cars 2 did happen but only the World Grand Prix. The reason there are spies is because Mater watched a lot of spy movies and tried turning it into one of his tall tales
Cars 2 is basically a mater tall tale. He recaps the story, and the person from the story shows up at the end.
Maybe the events of Cars 2 was just a dream that Mater had.
No, Cars 2 happened in real
3:12 Up in D tier and Ratatoullie in C tier
those are some opinions for sure
Those are indeed opinions. I mean, personally, I loved Cars 2. Opinions.
that sure is a hot take
Idc if it’s not canon it was PEAK
It is canon, and i can proof it
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In a car’s short, Mater has a dream he went to Japan. But it was all a dream, and it was as if he had never been there before, proving that Cars 2 is Maters dream and is therefor canon, but just in Maters head.
Edit: this is before watching the video maybe he says this
Imagine Mater just is schizophrenic and thought all this stuff happened but in reality he just went with McQueen to watch him race lol
Cars 2 is canon
Because there was jeff in cars 3 before florida 500
These videos about whether Cars 2 really happened are pretty hilarious. You don't see people questioning if Incredibles 2, Toy Story 2/3/4, or Finding Dory are canon to their respective series. You don't even see these kinds of video essays with Cars 3.
It's only Cars 2.
That really demonstrates just how much people hated that movie. It's been over 10 years since its release, and it's STILL treated like the black sheep of the Pixar movie lineup, so much so that even the folks at Pixar pretend that movie doesn't exist. I agree with the general consensus that Cars 2 was horrible by Pixar and general movie standards, but these videos are pretty hysterical. 🤣🤣
Toy Story 2, 3 and Cars 3 are definitely canon though, we know this because the entries that followed them continued on with the lore the previous installment introduced, and with Toy Story 5 coming up, we can assume that’s the case for Toy Story 4 as well (unless they pull a Cars 2 or just straight up retcons the entire story of course).
Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory are harder to get any sort of solid evidence for, as they’re both currently the last installments of their respective series. Sure we can still theorize, but without much to back it up there isn’t much point in making a whole video on it imo.
If Cars 2 can't happen than we might as well wipe out Brave and The Good Dinosaur from the Pixar timeline.
If Pixar didn't want it to be canon than they wouldn't have called the third movie Cars 3.
Nice to see The Good Dinosaur is rated so highly it's just not on your tier list ;)
very well made video. truly surprising that you have below 10k subs let alone 100.
Cars 2 is so complicated
How can McQueen beat Francesco, who can go at 354 kph (220 MPH) while McQueen can't beat Storm, who is canonically slower than Francesco, going at a good 344 kph (214 mph)
Edit: grammar error
How I wish tagging worked in comments, cause I would’ve loved to see @FatDuck420 have a crack at this one
@@MTRM What do you think about it? I think it's ridiculous that they overlooked this before making the movie 💀
Here is the funny thing, when Francesco is talking on Sarge’s program he “assumes/guesses” he goes 300 kph which in mph its only 186 but lightning is way faster than that by at least 12 mph
@@Foodiefe2 He said "over 300" which implies he CAN go faster, and it specified somewhere about his speed being 354 kph
I think it would be cannon As theres bit in cars 3 towards end where a car Greets Mcqueen we never really got a close up of him but i swear it was the Jeff guy from cars 2 from in tokyo im unsure but i swear it was him but he didnt have his 24 On his side just the yellow and something else
Isn't there a small newspaper clipping of Acer (or Grem) falling in a sewer truck in Smokey's garage in Cars 3?
Sir miles axlerod is 100% canon
You can see a framed photograph of him in sterling's office
Cars 2 was probably just a dream that mater had
4:22 by that time jeff has retired
Cars 2 is canon of course
its canon bc jeff gorvette and mcqueen still having head lights also in the rusteze racing center on mcqueens hall of fame area u see the sign for “radiator springs 500 1/2” hanging on the wall which takes place roughly within the same year (after cars 2) because u see mcqueen still rocking the bolt with flames and a spoiler the reason why it’s never mentioned is bc it has no reason to be bc it didn’t fit the current situation or story cars 2 did indeed happen it is indeed canon but think of it like its js another tuesday for them (the characters)
i beileve that the grand prix did happen but whithout the mumpo jumpo of spies and all that shit
and lighting maqueen just wins end of the story
I also Like to think that Holly and Finn are just 2 people Mater met on the way, or something like that. (Why did I say this? I don’t know)
the 2 in the credits could also be a z, for zundap ha
Bionicle reference based.
uuhhhhhhh....
I don't know.. yeah, you're right it's tough. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Apparently even Mater’s voice actor believes that Cars 2 is basically just another one of Mater’s tall tales.
I don’t know y but cars 2 is my favorite cars movie
Underrated channel
Cars 3 had Lewis, the black car with the gap in his teeth.
I think that the entire thing of Cars 2 isnt canon at all and the Cars 2 design in Maters Tall Tales is just to cover up the non canon stuff when in reality he actually had the opening Cars 2 design and although Axelrod appears in Cars 2 he is still a famous car that owns a giant oil company and same with Jeff Corvette which, yes, is canon in the Cars universe since in he is seen before the Florida 500 getting an interview and then notices lighting and has a tiny chat with him but its just a theory A FILM THE- nah im kidding
there's no way you put Up in D
The ranking is not based on the overall quality of the movies, but rather how much enjoyment I get from watching them, which in Up’s case, after the married life bit, is very little, especially compared to the rest of Pixar’s catalogue.
It might be a bit against the grain I suppose, but it is what it is, and I have already promised to rewatch it to see if I end up changing my mind, so there’s still hope for me.
But why does mcqueen has real headlights
Yes cars 2 is canon because lightning has headlights in the third movie which he got to race I’m world Grand Prix
I dont like this movie as much as cars 1 and 3, but this definitely deserves to be canon. Why would disney release something that aint canon?
Still better than Happy Feet, Brave and the Good Dinosaur. Cars should have won the Oscars in 2006 and 2011 instead of Happy Feet IMO.
ppl who think this channel is underrated as heck
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Cars 2 is canon, and i can proof it, remember when Mcqueen got real headlights in Cars 2, and in Cars 3 he still had the headlights, sooo??
Does that even matter? Mater doesn't do anything in Cars 3.
@@not_a_shroom7190 have you not read what i said?
@@not_a_shroom7190he encourages McQueen to meet Smokey
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He just had his own movie so of course they put him to the side in Cars 3.
Yeah but dude come on be for real cars 2 is just a longer maters adventure short thingy
come on guys, this movie was genius. But it should have been a Mater movie not a cars movie tho
why the hell is this movie genius??
Is The Queen Of England Dead On The Cars Canon?
Is there a car Biden and is he always breaking down?
It is and it’s an enjoyable story, stop hating
opinions
You scored up as a D, your opinion no longer matters.
lmao disregarding someone’s opinion on a movie because they don’t like a completely different movie as much as you do is quite the take. I didn’t even say it wasn’t good, only that it’s not one of my favorites.
But because of this comment, I’ll watch Up again, and if I end up changing my opinion on it at all, I’ll even make a video on it.
@@MTRMAwesome. I think the first 30 minutes of up are A++++ and the last bit is like a B-.
@@timmyy24 yeah I’ll agree with you there, the opening sequence is one of the best in cinema history, I’ve sadly just never thought the rest of the movie held up to the beginning.
Mater Tell Tales aren’t canon
cars 2 will always be 🔛🔝 idc what anyone says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
cars 3 end shows jeff
Exactly
yes Cars 2 is canon you guys have no taste
Like I’m just saying there is a reason why cars 3 completely ignores cars 2 existence