Kids love cars, and kids love Cars -- that seems to be the calculation behind Pixar's latest animated offering, Cars 2. Abandoning the original film's theme that celebrated the romance of exploring off-the-beaten-superhighway U.S, director John Lasseter and crew have devised an espionage plotline for this sequel, with cocky race car Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and kids'-fave country-bumpkin tow-truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy, a.k.a.