This bizarre franchise trundles on, fuelled by stellar merchandise sales and mystifying everyone but the very young, who must be sorely tested by this third outing. The first film was all about the concept, the second a chaotic genre-pastiching mess, but this third one is unexpectedly stripped back in terms of story and fully focused on character and dialogue, leading to some very heavy and wordy scenes Taking some story beats from the middle Rocky films, the big themes of ageing and new technology are rather adult-targeted, even if delivered by cute animated talking cars. The ridiculously high budget for Cars 3 is gloriously evident on screen: some of the photorealism in exterior scenes is outstanding, a couple of set-pieces are stunningly realised - the animation in the Crazy-8 demolition derby sequence in particular is hugely impressive - and the lighting job in this film is a technical triumph. As a dramatic piece, Cars 3 does work to a large extent and may well be the best of the three, but it seems curiously at odds with its target audience.
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