Not that I’m recommending you go and waste your time, or your hard earned money, on this movie which is the closest Pixar has ever come to cashing in on every molecule of the credibility. Rather, look at this week’s entry in the Double Feature Recommendation as films you might want to check out instead of spending the 3D ticket price for you and your entire family to go to the theatre and watching Cars 2.

What made Cars such a marketable franchise, was not just the stars that were attached – Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin and Paul Newman – but the fact that it appealed to NASCAR fans. NASCAR fans are some of the most die hard sports fans that you’ll meet just after talking to your 13 year old cousin who just finished reading the Twilight books for the fifteenth time and just replaced her My Little Pony poster with that of Robert Pattinson.

So with that in mind, I’m going to do my best to appeal to the NASCAR family with some fun NASCAR films to fill your time rather than Cars 2. Enjoy:

Days of Thunder

Did you say cars? Did you talk about charismatic leads driving in circles for hours on end with someone talking in his ear with pretty much advice that he barely needs? Do you want people who take a sport, that I laugh at on a constant basis, way too seriously being really intense? Then I recommend you check out Tom Cruise, Michael Rooker and Nicole Kidman in pretty much the NASCAR remake of Top Gun. The movie was released in 1990, but still has the heart of pretty much every 80s films you’ve ever seen. Nostalgia is really fun at times.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Honestly, how could you not expect me to bring up this movie? It is the NASCAR movie that reminded me the true spirit of NASCAR, i.e. people with two first names, going fast and making left turns. What’s even bigger than that, which you only get glimpses of through minor characters, is getting so drunk that you forget who’s actually in the lead since the race so damn boring. The story of Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) and Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly) having their accidental moment in the spotlight being disturbed by F1 extraordinaire, Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen). It’s a story of friendship, love and racing…. nevermind, it’s funny people being really stupid and making fun of a lot of stereotypes that makes me laugh. It’s honestly one of Ferrell and McKay‘s best films to date and I just can’t get enough of it.

What else do you recommend to go along with these films?