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Cars 3

Cars 3 is about Lightning McQueen. This time the hotshot is a faded champion who yearns to win one more race. He's an intriguing hero for young audiences, a living legend and incipient geezer struggling to compete against a new breed of race cars.

By Joe Morgenstern • Jun 17, 2017 • 3m Listen

Cars wasn't bad, though it had its lapses. Cars 2 was easily forgotten. Cars 3 feels like the end of the road for a series that's running on fumes of nostalgia for its earliest self.

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Cars 3

Cars 3 is about Lightning McQueen. This time the hotshot is a faded champion who yearns to win one more race. He's an intriguing hero for young audiences, a living legend and incipient geezer struggling to compete against a new breed of race cars.

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Weekend Film Reviews

Cars 3

Cars 3 is about Lightning McQueen. This time the hotshot is a faded champion who yearns to win one more race. He's an intriguing hero for young audiences, a living legend and incipient geezer struggling to compete against a new breed of race cars.

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