This evening, along with my wife and our four children, I saw the much anticipated sequel to the wildly successful computer animated movie Cars. The original film, released by Pixar in 2006, was an inspiring story of self redemption -- the main character a young rookie race car named "Lightning McQueen" (played by Owen Wilson) who, while talented, is narcissistic, careless, and highly self centered. Upon being stranded in fly-over country with ordinary people (well, cars), Lightning changes his ways and learns to do unto others. The original Cars was interesting, funny, family friendly, and had a decidedly Christian message. Leave it to Hollywood to screw a formula like this up -- Cars 2 fell short on all counts. The sequel was rife with violence (cars being murdered), toilet humor (Mater soils the floor with motor oil and gets stuck in a Japanese toilet stall with an automated bidet), environmentalism, and anti-Americanism. The antagonists in the film consist of big oil (who are engaged in a deliberate conspiracy to kill....
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