Quick Overview

With the slimmest extras package for a Pixar film debuting on DVD, Cars still shines for home viewing. As with earlier digital-to-digital transfers, the film sounds and looks stunning. There is only one behind-the-scenes feature, a 16-minute cursory but entertaining glance at director John Lasseter’s influences (his dad was a car-parts manager), including some of the real-life inspiration for the film such as Michael Wallis’s influential book on Route 66 (he also voiced the sheriff). There’s a new cartoon for the DVD, “Mater and Ghost Light,” which is smile-inducing at best. Four deleted scenes (in storybook format with voices) also show a darker tone the movie may have taken at one point. Best is the adorable short “One Man Band” that showed theatrically with the film, and the film’s credit sequence can be seen full screen without the credits (and find the Easter egg for an extended version). Not a tricked-out DVD, but still worth a spin.

Main Features:

Actors: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Rodger Bumpass, George Carlin
Directors: John Lasseter
Format: Multiple Formats, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Disney-Pixar
DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006
Run Time: 116 minutes