Mater's Tall Tales (TV Series) Time Travel Mater (2012) User Reviews

Never Completely Bought into the Anthropomorphic Car Concept

[gpeevers · 6/10 · 25 April 2019]

Familiar time travel story, Mater has to go back in time to make sure Radiator Springs develops into the town it is supposed to after he accidentally makes a change to the timeline. The time travel power is developed when a clock falls off a billboard he is installing and onto his engine.

In addition to a cute time travel effect it does use some interesting techniques to illustrate the different time periods. The earliest scenes in the timeline use a silent film title card and a flickering sepia tone look, while the next ones use a sharp black and white and the last time period uses a technicolor look.

Nostalgia for the old cars

[AleksandrBelenko · 6/10 · 12 February 2017]

I love Pixar movies and planned to watch shorts by this studio for a long time. Some of the short cartoons that I happened to watch was an episode of series about the dumbest character of ¨Cars¨ movies – Mater. Cars' stories in themselves are not the best work of Pixar, nevertheless I gave a try to some episodes of TV series. Why do I like this story, that it takes simple idea turning a car to a time machine to show the viewer the history of Radiator Springs and revealing the secret of who Stanley was. When Mater travels to the past he founds Stanley – The Radiator Cap Salesman which is just about to live this place because there are no broken cars in the area. Understanding, that the city might never be created, Mater returns to the future to take McQueen him to the past. Stanley can get him repaired and stays. Although this cartoon seemingly has some goofs the overall sensation of nostalgia for the old cars yet novelty of characters gives 6/10 in return.