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AniMat Watches Cars 2 Audio Commentary (with John Lasseter & Brad Lewis) (Patreon)

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2026-03-25 19:00:08
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Cars 2 is regarded by many as Pixar’s worst movie. However, there is a way to make it feel like it’ much worse than you think. Yes, AniMat watches not just the movie, but it’s the audio commentary of Cars 2 with director John Lasseter and co-director Brad Lewis. And as they talk about their experience with making the movie, Lasseter reveals a side of himself that makes him, his self-insert Mater, and his movie that is more unappealing than what you’d expect from them.

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JF the LOLZOR

on behalf of Club Nimona …we tried to warn ya

Mat Brunet (AniMat)

As much as that watch was painful, it was still at least worth it to give you guys a shoutout.

JF the LOLZOR

Thanks so much for that, it’s amazing knowing someone this prolific is watching!

Hunter O'Laughlin

I’m really starting to regret donating my DVD of Cars 2 to Goodwill because now I can’t follow along with this video when you upload the commentary edition to YouTube. I’m just hoping you have the audio of the commentary on for the commentary edition of the film for those without the Cars 2 DVD to follow along otherwise, I’m going to have to order a new DVD of Cars 2 or try to find the audio commentary online. Such a shame as I was looking forward to this and I’m curious to hear John Lasseter’s side on the making of the film that shows the early signs of his now controversial behavior.

PDAF-18

You mention Mater being John Lasseter's self-insert... You are not the only one to bring up that point - I remember Nathan bringing up that point from when me and everyone else at Club Nimona watched it (I had to leave halfway through because it was late), and honestly, I can believe that Mater actually IS his self-insert. That probably explains his lesser presence in Cars 3. LMAOOO

Hunter O'Laughlin

Does it have the option to listen to the audio commentary?

Justin Grant

I rewatched Animat's review of Cars 2 in case this turns out to be the video of the week. And one line in it I would like to mention is "A Pixar movie directed by John Lasseter himself! It is very disappointing." I mention this because I think Animat would be cringing at that line nowadays. Sure, John did a great job directing the first two Toy Story films and A Bug's Life, but considering what he's been doing behind the scenes for I don't know how long, it would seem inevitable that that kind of behaviour would end up coming out eventually. But man, if this movie or even the allegations were not the beginning of his downfall in terms of his reputation, then it would most likely be this commentary. I don't hate Cars 2; it's not one of my favourite Pixar movies, but I don't hate it. However, that might be because I may be Pixar-biased, or that I had a phase in my childhood when I was obsessed with secret agents. But this commentary, hearing Animat's take on it, might make even me go "Yikes".

Hugo Segal

I honestly haven't seen 'Cars 2' since its initial release. What struck me, even at the time, was how the film was basically a "Mater's Tall Tales" short elongated to feature-length. Listening to Lasseter's commentary adds further hypocrisy.

Kenneth Stoddard

I don’t have the Blu-ray version of Car 2 with the audio commentary as I usually don’t buy Pixar sequels with the exception like Toy Story sequels for example but given I have now listened some parts of John Lasseter’s commentary, oh it makes this even worse to show Cars 2 is by far the worst Pixar film in general. I think it would also explain more about why Mater is the main protagonist of Cars 2 because how he represents John Lasseter in real life in terms of how ignorant he is and how it all about him being so special. I personally wasn’t a fan of Mater in the franchise but now he’s giving me a yikes now which would explain little the screen time of Mater in Cars 3. Still though, Cars 2 sucked with or without the bad commentary by Lasseter himself and if this were a re review by AniMat himself right now, I think he would likely give it first and only Seal of Garbage to a Pixar film because of Lasseter’s commentary. Best advice is to stick to Cars 1 and 3 and pretend Cars 2 doesn’t exist and that pretty much it.

Edward Baillargeon

Listening to this commentary was like a descent into madness. After watching Club Nimona's video, my morbid curiosity got the best of me as one of the victims who decided to listen to it after that video released. I still can't believe this piece of insanity was in my possession for almost 15 years because I have a complete Pixar collection, including Cars 2 on Blu-ray. I already lost my respect for John Lasseter after he was ousted for his misconducts, but I didn't think it could sink any lower, yet this commentary somehow managed to do it! I can't believe I used to look up to this guy. I dare anyone who thinks Pixar would be better with Lasseter back to listen to this commentary and try to defend it. Lasseter wasn't the guy responsible for Pixar's 2000s golden age. It was because of Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Brad Bird, Lee Unkrich, Joe Ranft, and everyone else at the studio, not John. This commentary explains so much about why Cars 2 is the way it is and John as a person because Mater is his self-insert. I had to pause for 5 minutes after hearing the Japanese toilet story! I took a ton of notes while listening to it to make for a "review" on Letterboxd and it somehow became my most liked review ever. It's a 10/10 commentary to riff on, especially with friends, but it's a deep dive into an ugly side of, as Caddicarus said it best, John Misconduct.

Hunter O'Laughlin

I understand you, bud. I’ve had my unfortunate experience of dealing with toxic John Lasseter defenders in the comments on YouTube who contribute Pixar’s “downfall” to John’s firing and attribute the studio’s success solely to him and ignore the involvement of those important people at Pixar you’ve mentioned. The worst comment I’ve seen is one that gives a false account of the lunch at the cafe where JL, Pete Doctor, Andrew Stanton and the late Joe Ranft came up with the ideas for the first few Pixar films where the writer of the comment mentions Brad Bird being a part of that lunch meeting and that he came up with The Incredibles and Ratatouille. The worst sin of that comment is that the writer completely neglects Joe Ranft. No mention of him anywhere in that comment. The writer retroactively erased Joe’s involvement to basically incorporate a more familiar name like Brad Bird to make it sound as if the latter was involved early on with the studio, which is of course, completely disrespectful to Joe. Not to mention, Brad didn’t join Pixar until 2000 due to leaving Warner Bros. after his first animated film The Iron Giant bombed at the box-office due to the studio’s lack of marketing the film, and that The Incredibles wasn’t even initially developed at Pixar, he first came up with the idea at Warner Bros., and took it with him when he went to Pixar, and that he didn’t come up with the idea for Ratatouille. The director of Geri’s Game Jan Pinkava was ACTUALLY the one who came up with the idea and Brad took over due to the production problems with the film’s original story. What’s even more frustrating is that I saw that comment had some likes, so there’s unfortunately some ignorant people who believe this falsehood. Can hardly believe there’s actual people stupid enough to actually believe that instead of researching the actual facts. Fortunately, both you and I know the ACTUAL truth. However, the sad truth from my experience is that no matter how much you try to tell those toxic JL defenders how wrong their comment is and how much of an actual misogynist John is, they won’t listen.