The Little Cars in the Great Race

The Little Cars in the Great Race (Os Carrinhos em: A Grande Corrida in Portuguese) is a mockbuster film released on June 20th, 2006, by Vídeo Brinquedo, which was made to cash-in on the popularity of Cars, which is a similar film released earlier that year.

Plot
A taxi named Tony Tunado ("Tunado" being a Brazilian slang for a modified car; Cruise in the US) has a dream of being a race car. His chance may come soon when the big race comes to town.

Why It's Not Racing So Great

 * 1) This film of course is a rip-off/mockbuster of Cars, which was released 11 days after that film. Another similar film however, released in November by 5 months later is A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventur e, another rip-off/mockbuster which is a lot even closer to Cars  ' similarities.
 * 2) The lip-syncing is awful. Whenever the characters speak, their mouths move in a really weird manner, the most noticeable example being when Kombo talks.
 * 3) Extremely awful special effects, such as in one scene where Victor deploys an oil launcher, causing an oil spill, it is just a freeze-frame.
 * 4) The voice acting ranges from being decent just to plain terrible (in the first English dub of the film).
 * 5) Very dull and bad CGI animation that looks like something out of a 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, PlayStation (PS One) or a Nintendo 64 cutscene, even for 2006 standards.
 * 6) Repetitive, annoying and monotonous background music.
 * 7) Awful car puns like "You're the wheel-deal!", with "real" being "wheel" of similar pronunciations.
 * 8) The programmers were too lazy to make CGI models for the secondary characters, so they RECYCLED the same car model for each citizen, the pit stop team members of Victor and Cruise, and the policemen. The same case goes with the rest of the racers; they recycled the same model of Cruise for each one, they almost look like clones!
 * 9) The scene when Cruise drinks the altered gasoline and passes out is very pathetic.
 * 10) Unexplained plot holes: For example, why were there nails in the middle of the racetrack in the final lap and why they only affected Victor and not Tony?
 * 11) *Because of this, Victor is actually the evil guy antagonist who hates to win.
 * 12) The "Great Race" is extremely anti-climactic: despite never have training for a race before, Tony somehow surpasses all the racers and arrives where Victor is, and, in the final lap, some nails appear in the middle of the racetrack, Victor passes over them, his tires are deflated, leaving him unable to move, Tony surpasses Victor, he wins the "Great Race", Victor gets arrested for trying to poison Cruise (despite the fact that he returns in the sequels), Cris kisses Tony and the movie ends.
 * 13) The ending credits song is a rip-off of Back to the Future 's main theme.
 * 14) There was a scene that ripped off a scene from Cars, where Tony and Kombo drive, and then Kombo sings "Cruise (Tony) has a crush on Coupe (Cris)", like how Mater was singing to Lightning McQueen, "You're in love with Miss Sally".
 * 15) Some elements were a preview to Cars 3 despite the film being released later in 2017 (See trivia below).
 * 16) The car models look like they were cheap plastic toys made in China you'd see at common well-known stores like CVS, Walgreens, Dollar Tree, etc.
 * 17) False advertising: They show the number "1" on the cover, meaning this is the first film, which makes no sense for a film that hasn't spawned a sequel yet.
 * 18) There are even parodies of real-life brands like Mobili (Mobil in real-life), etc. However, this does make a lot sense as it is to avoid copyright issues and product placement.
 * 19) And to top it all off, it spawned completely over SEVEN SEQUELS! (Yes, seven sequels), that they are nothing more than a bunch of random stories stitched together, which almost look like episodes of a badly animated TV series rather than actual sequels.
 * 20) *It could've easily spawned only two by their same years, like Cars currently has.
 * 21) *In addition, worse yet, it even spawned more "special" content and some merchandise in the following: a toy line, a musical, and a PC game, which is very unacceptable and not allowed for extremely low standards!

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite its sequels still being low budget, they begin improving on the voice acting in the English dub using the 4Kids cast. This is very similar to the improvements made to Spark Plug Entertainment's Car's Life sequels.
 * 2) There are some funny moments in the film, even if they were unintended.
 * 3) The CGI models seem to be passable, although they were recycled.

Reception
The Little Cars in the Great Race got negative reviews from audiences.

The Movie
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Trivia

 * Some elements of the film have strange parallels in Pixar's Cars 3: despite that film not being released until 11 years after this one, these parallels are: A yellow car who becomes a racer (with a similar name "Cruz", despite Cruise being the main character and is a male), the villain being painted black who also has a supercar-inspired design as well, and the big race where the champion is unable to attend. (See WISAR #13)
 * Kombo, despite him actually being a Tow Mater rip-off, his design is very similar to Fillmore from Pixar's Cars with a different appearance, Kombo is also a reference to the VW Kombi. which is both their exact model (However, Fillmore is modeled as a "Type 2" instead).
 * However, it is possible that he is actually a mix between Fillmore and Mater.

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