Line #16 Trivia/Cars2


1	* ActorSharedBackground:
2	** Crabby the Boat, voiced by Sig Hansen of ''Series/DeadliestCatch'' fame, is based on Hansen's boat, the [=F/V=] ''Northwestern''.
3	** Much like Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gorvette moved from Vallejo, UsefulNotes/{{California}} to Indiana to be closer to the racing world—a move that Gordon's family made when he was in his teens.
4	** Lewis Hamilton is described as British and Grenadian. His father was the son of Grenadian immigrants to England, while his mother is white British.
5	* ActingForTwo:
6	** Fillmore and Tony Trihull are both played by Lloyd Sherr.
7	** Creator/JasonIsaacs voices Siddeley and Leland Turbo.
8	** Vladimir Trunkov, Ivan and Victor Hugo are voiced by Stanley Townsend.
9	** Mama Topolino and the Queen are voiced by Creator/VanessaRedgrave.
10	* CelebrityVoiceActor: The Italian dub features actor and comedian Alessandro Siani as Francesco Bernoulli.
11	* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: The film indicates early on that Doc Hudson has passed away between films, reflecting the real-life passing of his actor, Creator/PaulNewman, in 2008.
12	* CharacterOutlivesActor: Because of the death of [[Creator/PixarRegulars Joe Ranft]], Red the firetruck actually lost his voice permanently and does not speak in the sequel. [[TheQuietOne Not that he spoke much in the previous film anyway.]]
13	* CreatorCouple: The European Spanish version featured a track, "Mucha gente", performed by El Sueño de Morfeo, whose singer was involved to Fernando Alonso, who makes a cameo in the version.
14	* CreatorKiller: The film's critical failure more-or-less caused John Lasseter [[KickedUpstairs to step down from the director's chair]], giving the director positions in ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'' to Brian Fee and Josh Cooley, respectively (it might have been a blessing in disguise considering Lasseter immediately went on to help build what would become the "Revival" over at Franchise/{{Disney\|Animated Canon}}). With the news of Lasseter's sexual misconduct allegations in 2017 resulting in his resignation from Disney and Pixar, this will likely end up being the last film Lasseter ever directed.
15	* CulturalTranslation: As in the previous installment, Spanish Formula On champion Fernando Alonso has a cameo in the film on a re-designed character, in this case replacing Jeff Gorvette.
16	* DevelopmentGag: In Paris, Mater encounters a car whose eyes are placed where her headlights should be, and drives off in horror. In the first ''Cars'' film's early development, the characters were originally designed with their eyes placed on their headlights, but the creators found these designs [[UnintentionalUncannyValley unintentionally scary]] and decided that putting the eyes on their windshields looked more expressive and visually appealing.
17	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: For most of the film's development, Allinol's weakness that caused it to explode was planned to be nuclear radiation. Following the nuclear power plant meltdown in Fukushima during production, the weakness was changed to electromagnetic radio waves instead (as shown in John Lasseter's "Day in the Life" documentary).
18	* DuelingMovies: In a way with ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''. While both were very successful, DWA was able to clearly K.O. Pixar on this one when ''Cars 2'' was critically-panned and hit hard by {{Sequelitis}}, starting Pixar's first AudienceAlienatingEra, while ''Kung Fu Panda 2'' became a major hit for [=DreamWorks=]... though that studio would end up in their own more severe Audience-Alienating Era shortly thereafter.
19	* EarlyDraftTieIn: Petrov Trunkov is a a lemon thug who is very prominent in the toyline, but makes no identifiable appearance in the movie. This is because going off of concept art, he would have been one of the prominent lemons chasing after Mater. One piece of art even shows him in place of Grem in the airport chase.
20	* ExecutiveMeddling:
21	** It's generally assumed that Disney forced Pixar to make this sequel for merchandising purposes. Not so; the ''Cars'' universe is John Lasseter's pet project. It's also noteworthy that the executives at Disney really couldn't have forced John Lasseter to do anything, since, at the time, John Lasseter ''was'' the executive at Disney. So ultimately it's more AuteurLicense than ExecutiveMeddling, with TheMerch being more of the reason nobody at Disney ''objected'' to making it.
22	** Lasseter ''did'' note there were some objections when it came time to create the lemons; "What was interesting is that a lot of car companies didn't want us to use their cars as bad guys, so we were kind of limited." Notice more famous lemons like the Ford Pinto and Chevy Vega are entirely absent, yet cars from long-defunct companies like AMC are prevalent.
23	* FakeNationality: Brooklyn-born Creator/JohnTurturro voices the Italian Francesco Bernoulli. Though Turturro himself does have Italian ancestry.
24	* FakeRussian: Dublin native Stanley Townsend as Vladimir Trunkov and Ivan.
25	* InspirationForTheWork: John Lasseter said that he was convinced of the sequel's story while traveling around the world promoting the first film. He said:
26	-->I kept looking out thinking, 'What would Mater do in this situation, you know?' I could imagine him driving around on the wrong side of the road in the UK, going around in big, giant traveling circles in Paris, on the autobahn in Germany, dealing with the motor scooters in Italy, trying to figure out road signs in Japan.
27	* MoneyDearBoy: Many questioned why Pixar would make a sequel to its worst-rated (though not exactly panned) movie. Put simply: the original had merchandising success on the level of '''[[Franchise/StarWars STAR WARS]]'''. Making a sequel not only helped Pixar's bottom line, it likely helped other movies get produced. To put this into perspective, the first film grossed $462 million on a $120 million budget, not bad right? The merchandise made $10 ''billion'' dollars in the five years between the first and second film in the series. Additionally, ''Cars'' is John Lasseter's pet franchise, with the film itself having been initially conceived on the press tour of the first film.
28	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor:
29	** Creator/FrancoNero and Creator/VanessaRedgrave voice Uncle Topolino and the Queen, respectively, in the English and Italian releases.
30	** Creator/ThomasKretschmann voices Professor Zündapp in the German dub, as he usually does with his original English-language roles.
31	* TheOtherDarrin:
32	** Lloyd Sherr replaced George Carlin as Fillmore following the latter's death from heart failure.
33	** While most of the cast [[RoleReprise reprised their roles]] for the tie-in game, four did not:
34	*** Creator/MartinJarvis replaced Creator/MichaelCaine as Finn [=McMissile=], and would later go on to voice the character in every other piece of media he appears in.
35	*** Creator/KeithFerguson replaced Creator/OwenWilson as Lightning [=McQueen=].
36	*** Creator/DaveWittenberg replaced Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard as Miles Axelrod.
37	*** Creator/EricStitt replaced Creator/MichaelKeaton as Chick Hicks.
38	** The Latin dub has at least four changes from this sequel onwards.
39	*** Rosalba Sotelo replaces Creator/KateDelCastillo as Sally after dubbing her in both the first film and the short film ''Mater and the Ghostlight''.
40	*** Simone Brook takes the reins from Roxana Castellanos in the part of Flo.
41	*** Creator/CarlosSegundo does not reprise his role of Darrell Cartrip and is replaced by Idzi Dutkiewicz.
42	*** For unknown reasons, Yadira Aedo and Creator/RominaMarroquinPayro did not return to dub Mia and Tia, as they had no problem whatsoever reprising the roles in the ''Mater's Tall Tales'' shorts. Instead, they were replaced by Angélica Villa.
43	* RealTimeTimeskip: It's mentioned that Lightning won 4 Piston Cups after having lost one in the first movie. If one cup is given out per year, that covers the five year gap after the original.
44	* RefittedForSequel: Finn [=McMissile=] was originally intended to appear in the first movie as the main character of an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe spy film]] Lightning and Sally would watch. For ''Cars 2'', the character was reworked into being a real spy in-universe, and having a substantial role in the film's plot.
45	* SequelInAnotherMedium: The ''VideoGame/Cars2'' game takes place at some point after the movie, featuring Mater and the rest of the cast competing various spy missions at C.H.R.O.M.E, the spy organization Finn and Holley worked for in the movie.
46	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Cars}} Has its own page]].
47	* YouSoundFamiliar: In the Canadian French dub, Miles Axlerod is voiced by Creator/AlainZouvi, who previously reprised his roles as [[Franchise/ToyStory Woody]] and [[Franchise/MonstersInc Mike Wazowski]] in the first movie's end credits scene.

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