A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure (2006)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

An unexpected masterpiece

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

By far, the worst movie I have ever seen. The production team consisted of 8 people, voice actors and all. Let's start with the lazy CGI (you can count the faces in each prop), which makes Video Brinquedo look like Pixar. Animation is reused left and right. The story is stupid, cheesy, and could be told in 5 minutes. The writing gives the worst of B-movies a run for their money, and the voices are atrocious, particularly the voice of the pink car. Of course, you're probably wondering why I gave this film 8 out of 10. It falls into the beloved category of "so bad it's good" The CGI, voices, and script are all fun to make fun of. I recommend you check it out with a friend or two.

I just can't believe that one of my Favorite movies had a "Rip-off" like THIS! Now I must just think that these movies are worse than The Food Fight one. It just troubles my mind of how these Directors' minds work to make such bad animated films that the story makes no sense at ALL, has such terrible Voice Acting (How can I even call "THAT" voice acting?), and being just horrible, HORRIBLE at every damn Thing in these movies. I might as well kill my-self as I have time. In short, these movies suck, suck, SUCK! I just can't find a better way to describe this. OK, Rip-off Directors, you suck, you will never be successful (well, except the Food Fight Director that got 10.000.000 dollars). The End

This movie is just awful. I cringed so much, my face turned purple. Let's start with the obvious: the animation. The animation is atrocious. Our "protagonist", Sparky, barely moves his mouth, and the eyes are creepy. Good thing they were corrected later in the trilogy. And the voice acting. All of the voices in this thing either don't fit (ex. Diesel, Julia, etc.) or make your brains leak out of your ears (ex. Speedy, Sparky, etc.). And the personalities of the characters are either horribly unlikeable or really bland. Sparky's completely irresponsible and his dad is just generally strict, and writers? Here's a tip: If you want to have a younger character in a movie, don't have actual little kids voice them. Because Sparky's sister, Gracie, doesn't exactly have the best voice. She legitimately sounds like Michael Schelp, the creator of this thing, didn't feel like getting a good voice actress to voice Gracie and he decided to use his daughter because...? Potato. And I don't know if it's just my dirty mind being dirty, but every word out of Diesel's mouth sounds like sexual innuendo. Either way, her voice sounds sexual. And why does she look like a male...?There's barely any conflict in this thing. Hell, there's barely even a story. The background music isn't very cringe-inducing, but it's very generic and it doesn't often fit with the tone the writers fail to create. For example, when Diesel sets Norbert on fire, the music barely takes a turn into suspense. While visuals help to create a mood, music is key.DO NOT watch this movie. At all. You will cringe to death...

Maybe not quite the worst animated movie ever and it is marginally better than Spider's Web: A Pig's Tale(haven't seen Plan Bee yet, have heard it's worse). But that's saying little, because A Car's Life is a terrible movie and not in an awesome way either. The animation is badly-slapped-together quality, with colours the very opposite of rich, static backgrounds and choppy editing, and the music is forgettable at best and can be over-bearing. The story is predictable but that actually wasn't the real problem, to be honest a lot of movies animated or not are. The problem was that what there was of the story felt very rushed pacing-wise but had very little to it from a narrative perspective, there are a few overlong irrelevant scenes like a car spending a minute doing nothing but screaming and circling round, something that is far more appropriate when on a roller-coaster or theme park ride. The characters are unappealing in every sense.Their personalities are as flat as cardboard but they behave in a way that is irritating and in the case of the villain overly-creepy way, the main character is mistake-prone and never learns from them. The voice acting is even worse, most of the cast are wooden but Speedy's voice provided by Denise Finelli is like the sharpest nails on the squeakiest blackboard- in short incredibly annoying and grating. There are not many characters that you wish serious harm to, mainly because it is a notion you never ideally want to feel, but Speedy is certainly one of them and very high up on the list. The writing was the biggest failure, mainly because it doesn't seem to know at all who it's aiming at. The humour is even crasser and more juvenile than what you'd find in the output of Video Brinquedo(similar quality to what's seen here and Spider's Web but comparatively tamer), which indicates that providing that it doesn't go over their head only children would moderately enjoy.But much of A Car's Life is very adult in tone(initially there's nothing wrong with that, there are animated movies that do take a daring turn and succeed primarily Watership Down, Felidae and The Hunchback of Notre Dame) but even they don't make their violent content, characterisations and messaging(very forced, hardly any lessons to be learnt actually either) verging on sadistic and in a way that would traumatise anybody who's watching. There are exchanges between characters also that have degrees of inappropriateness, at one point child abuse is mentioned and people will be like how is being told to take a bath child abuse and since when has it? And before accusations start rolling in, as much as this sounds like an overly-sensitive parent I am a childless animation-loving music student who's all for taking risks providing they're done well, done well they're not here and come to think of it cigarette-smoking lead characters and characters talking about death doesn't really count as risk-taking.All in all, terrible and won't provide entertainment value in any way, you won't feel any thrills but you will be creeped out. Even the Little Cars movies were better than A Car's Life, and they're awful too. 1/10(would be 0 but despite the negative tone I'm feeling generous today after being blown away by the Met production of Rusalka last night). Bethany Cox