Just got back with Lorcan from watching this in 3D, it's loud, it's visually great but it has none of the charm of Cars. You'd be forgiven for thinking Michael Bay directed it. A little bit of Mater in Cars was fun , a lot of Mater in Cars 2 is annoying and I thought a terrible idea to make him basically the lead. The movie opens up all James Bond like with Michael Cain as a British spy on the tail of an international crime gang.....Mater and McQueen accept an invite to Japan to compete in the first leg of the World Grand Prix, Mater gets mistaken as an american spy and shenanigans ensue, but by being his not so smart good ole boy self he has them all fooled into thinking he's this great spy....Mater of course is not in on the game though, cos see, he really is dumb...nice stereotypes here. Lots of explosions and car chases , goes form Tokyo to Paris to London , in a nearly full theater I didn't hear a lot of laughing , not a good sign. Didn't care for it at all.