Disney/Pixar Animated Short Reviews: #13 Time Travel Mater 2012

Time Travel Mater  2012   6 out of 10

In this Cars Toon in the Mater's Tall Tales series of shorts Mater travels back in time and we get to see how Radiator Springs came to be.  It was a cute cartoon --but nothing special when compared to many other better Pixar shorts.  It features Mater having to make sure that Stanley (the founder of Radiator Springs actually starts it up in the first place, since Mater accidentally keeps that from happening at first.     It works best as an introduction to Carsland in Disney's California Adventure as it is a good back story for the things you see in Radiator Springs.  

This short can be found on the Pixar Animated Shorts Volume 2 DVD set.....This concludes all the featured shorts from that DVD. in future installments we will cover Pixar shorts Volume 1  which is a great set of animated shorts as well as starting to dig into older Disney cartoons after that.

Disney/Pixar Animated Short Reviews: #8 Air Mater 2011 6 out 10

Air Mater 2011   6 out of 10

Air Mater  is one of a series of Car Toons  or   Mater's Tall Tales in which Mater ends up in some fun action packed unbelievable situations.  This  Pixar animated short t features Mater learning how to fly. All of the Mater Tall Tales are good--but they usually aren't as great as the original short films that Pixar makes.  Each of the shorts in this series follow a similar formula, Mater tells Lightning McQueen about some wild story that happened to him.  In Air Mater we get a lot of high flying action --but it doesn't have as many funny moments as some of the other Mater stories.    If you are a big Mater fan you will love them.  For me they are enjoyable, but I prefer the more original Pixar shorts.

This short is featured on the Pixar animated shorts DVD Volume 2