Cars

On a wet day at the seaside, I took the kids to see the new Pixar film Cars.

I’d read some mixed reviews – consensus seemed to be ‘nice to look at but the script isn’t up to much’.

And to be fair, William, 4, did get a bit bored in the middle. But he is only 4 and he’d get bored in the middle of anything. I mean, he even messed around in La Belle Noiseuse.

But I loved Cars. It is so beautifully designed, animated and rendered almost every frame just made me want to weep. Whereas in Toy Story 2 it took Randy Newman to force me to get the old onion out.

Before it there was a trailer for the upcoming Dreamworks/Aardman film Flushed Away. This is Aardman dipping its to in the world of CGI animation – there was a ‘work in progress’ trailer for it on the Curse of the Were-Rabbit DVD, but if this trailer is anything to go by, the finished movie is actually worse. It looks cheap and flat – and not in a good, cartoony sort of way.

Seems like still no-one can compete with the mighty Pixar when it comes to utterly beautifully-wrought CGI animation.