Cars

Movie · 2006

Cars is a warm Pixar adventure about a hotshot race car who learns humility, friendship, and the value of slowing down, set in a charming animated world where every vehicle has a personality. The content is very gentle overall, with cartoon racing crashes, a handful of mild innuendos that sail over young heads, and one briefly intense chase scene.

Most comfortable for kids 4 and up, with a grown-up nearby for the few louder or darker moments.

Scary imageryPeril & tensionViolenceBig emotionsLanguageBehavior modeledLoud or startling soundsRomance & innuendoOld-school gender rolesConsumerism & toy hype

If you’d rather skip

Peril & tensionthe opening raceMild

A large multicar pile-up with cars flipping and smashing; exciting but not graphic.

Peril & tensionearly in the film, after the raceMild

Lightning gets separated from his truck at night and swerves wildly on a dark highway before crashing into Radiator Springs; brief but tense for little ones.

Scary imagerythe tractor-tipping sceneMild

Frank the combine roars out of the darkness and chases Lightning and Mater; nighttime setting and loud engine make this the most startling moment in the film, though it ends quickly.

5 more moments are in the full report. See all of them, checked against your own family’s settings, in Little Longer.