2008 · animation · action · comedy
El Materdor
Directed by John Lasseter3m2008
Mater is a matador fighting a herd of bulldozers in Spain. When Lightning McQueen enters the story, the bulldozers begin to chase him due to his red paint.
Our read: El Materdor (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · action · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How El Materdor feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want three goofy minutes of Mater as a Spanish bulldozer-fighting matador.”
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