YMMV / A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure

• Accidental Innuendo: There's a scene where the purple hummer comes up for gas, and the build-up is... very interesting, especially in the way she groans.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Are Sparky's useage of terms like "goulag" and "child abuse" simply him over-exaggerating, or is it because he's young and doesn't fully understand what they mean?
• Anvilicious: The first movie covers kids listening to their parents.
• Director Displacement: Many assume this to have been made by fellow mockbuster company Vídeo Brinquedo, not helped by how said company has a Cars mockbuster. In truth, it is made by the separate and unrelated Spark Plug Entertainment.
• Fridge Logic:
  • In the sequel, Fender called the police, but there was no one there to answer. Instead, they had a recording that said, "Leave a message." What kind of police station doesn't have anyone to answer the phone?
  • In reality, everything Diesel had done was all sorts of illegal. She would be spending several years, if not the rest of her life, in jail for attempted and successful murder, deliberately poisoning her customers, and creating debts for her employee and customers. Why she was only arrested for driving with a revoked licence and having an expired registration is a mystery.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Fender tells Sparky that if he lived in a town without cops, he'd wish there were. This sentiment may come off as ridiculous after the NYPD's January 2015 work stoppage wound up decreasing arrests by 66% at no expense of public safety.
• Padding: The "blinded hummer" scene is about a minute longer than it needs to be.
• Rooting for the Empire: A lot of YouTube commenters wanted Diesel to win. Understandable, considering how annoying the protagonists are.
• So Bad, It's Good: It's infamously hilarious for being absolutely rancid, to the point it's managed to develop an ironic fanbase.
• Strangled by the Red String: Zipper and Speedy’s relationship. Zipper automatically develops a crush on Speedy during their first encounter and instantly wonders to himself who Dash is. He spends the second movie trying to ask her out and proposes to her in the end. The third movie gives them their own side-story about their marriage.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: And how. Only a little kid would fall for this movie, because they think it's Cars, and yet, the Accidental Innuendos and Nightmare Fuel say otherwise. Also, Diesel holds a cigarette at all times. Pretty inappropriate for a bargain-bin mockbuster.

---