A Car's Life 2

A Car's Life 2 (or also known as just Car's Life 2 more commonly) is a 2011 animated movie by Spark Plug Entertainment. It is a direct sequel to the original 2006 film A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure.

Plot
Sparky is a spunky little sports car who can't wait to grow up, but first he needs to learn the rules of the road. Sparky snubs car washes, curfews, and speed limits, driving his poor dad to distraction.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It is a blatant rip-off of Cars 2 of the same sequel.
 * 2) There is still filler.
 * 3) Now major false advertising somewhat similar to Cars 2: The background of the poster is very identical to the original first film. It shows the "Flat Tire Customer" on the left, and an ambulance from the first film on the right. But in this film, they don't even appear at all. In addition, they also show duplicates of Sparky (before he got the modifications), Gracie with the modifications at the ending of the first film which didn't even appear at the Gas N' Go in the film, and Diesel in the old green paint before the design change. Strangely, Diesel on the background is seen lacking her mouth (or bumper). However, the background is also even shown on the main menu of the DVD as well too, and not actually only on the poster.
 * 4) Many plot holes still but much LESS, like:
 * 5) * Why did Sparky forget to slow down, if Fender did ask to?
 * 6) * If Fender asked that Sparky did see a turtle crossing sign, then why did he ask that there was no?
 * 7) ** Furthermore, on that topic, he even missed the left turn, which counts as a no too.
 * 8) * How did Sparky not see the dangerous red barrel of oil when Fender noticed at first?
 * 9) * Why did Sparky want to wear some weird-looking front bumper accessory something called a "Bump-Me-Knot"?
 * 10) * If Fender asked Sparky to take a right turn, then how come the arrow sign was pointing left, but Sparky took the left anyways?
 * 11) * Why does Sparky need a deep purple paint job with green and orange graffiti?
 * 12) * Why couldn't the robot cars use their hands to stop the wheel? Why did Norbert have to use the red barrel to stop it?
 * 13) Despite the improved animation, there are tire screeching/squealing sound effects programmed into the film, yet again, just exactly like from the first film, there are sadly still no tire smoke nor skid mark effects animated to them, and this makes it feels like that they are driving on ice!
 * 14) * There's also no smoke effect when Sparky drives on the desert surfaces either.
 * 15) The soundtracks are still reused a lot, still bad and actually carried over from the first film!
 * 16) In the ending, there is even an extremely dark and creepy animation error near the ending where Speedy and Zipper both clip through their basis while zooming in when Gracie is about to jump off a small ramp.
 * 17) * There are even still some other animation errors as well, like:
 * 18) ** When Sparky passes the Auto Swag, the wheel speed increases themselves.
 * 19) ** The film marks Walter's first-ever appearance, yet his face is upside down, and has his mouth above his nose, which is just lazy! But thankfully, it was corrected in the next sequel, Car's Life 3: The Royal Heist.
 * 20) ** At one point, Mr. Clinch can be seen also clipping through a construction sign.
 * 21) ** Mr. Clinch's front left tire somewhat bounces when he shouts "Zipper! Hurry up!", but this seems to be a bit funny.
 * 22) ** Diesel's gas pump was briefly missing a body at some point.
 * 23) ** Officer Clutch puts a boot on Fender, but the boot disappears in a few moments later.
 * 24) There was even dialogue that actually ripped off nor rehashed anything from the dialogue very similar to the first Cars film. For example, Sparky saying, "Your speed, maybe.", like how Lightning McQueen's famous line was "Speed. I am speed", and Fender saying "Gracie, stop driving like... your brother!".
 * 25) There's even ONE character with a hardly understandable name too, which is specifically the large green car, whose name is completely impossible to spell and/or make out except his last name "Camshaft". But it may be "Cameron Von Camshaft" apparently. Even in the fourth and final film, A Car's Life 4: Junkyard Blues, we still have no way to figure his actual name spelling of proper grammar out at all. However, this could be unintentional as a challenge for you to identify his name on purpose.
 * 26) The sound when Sparky revs his engine is apparently stolen from various sites online.
 * 27) Bumper's moaning is still irritating.
 * 28) Despite Gracie's tolerance at this time, you are still able to think that it would be a male, but it's actually still a female, much like how she and Diesel was in the first film (although Diesel has less confusion).
 * 29) More confusing logics: It is shown that the cars can hold things. However, the answer is yes since they use their wipers as their hands instead.
 * 30) Again, bland and uninspiring climax.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) One main success: Semi-decent, brighter, and more colorful animation, which is also a slight improvement too over the first film, and that's saying a lot.
 * 2) There are similar scenes that are a somewhat of a funny nod to the first film but better. e.g., Sparky jumping at the beginning (but this time it's a ramp instead of a pothole), etc.
 * 3) Fender is still a likable character.
 * 4) There are a few funny moments, like where Sparky talks like a GPS (Arguably the funniest scene out of all), Sparky sneezes on the stack of oil cans.
 * 5) The film is a slight improvement over the original, but not a lot much.
 * 6) Good new voice actors and performances, like from Jim Woods as Bankermann and Officer Clutch. Officer Clutch sounds like Mr. Mackey from South Park after he got dental surgery. And thankfully, it's so very surprising that Speedy got a much better voice actor, which didn't sound annoying as in the first film. Fender, Officer Clutch, Norbert, etc., are also decently voiced too.
 * 7) Better character designs (like from Gracie).
 * 8) Much better understanding of common sense, unlike the first film.
 * 9) Better lip-syncing.
 * 10) The "Gracie Springs Circus" scene with the "Jaws of Doom!" was pretty fun and enjoyable.
 * 11) As said before, Gracie is more tolerable in this film.

Reception
IMDB currently rates the film at only 1.4/10, while Letterboxd rates it at 1.1/5.

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Trivia

 * This is the only Car's Life film to be released a year after Cars 2 then released in the United States.
 * This is the first film in the series to remove the letter "A" in the title.
 * This is the only film in the series to not have its own title.
 * This is the first appearance of actual nighttime cycles since the drive-in movie theater scene in the first film.
 * Dash is the only hidden character to have a speaking role heard, but not being physically shown on-screen as an actual appearance, much like Harv from Cars.
 * Something that is also worth noting is that Fender and Sparky are the only characters who have not changed their design nor paint job in this film.