Cars Director's Edition (Cars / Cars 2 / Mater’s Tall Tales) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)

One of the best thing about the Pixar movies is that they can watched over and over again without getting sick of them, which is a good thing when you have kids. Between this and the Toy Story box set, there are 5 really good movies to watch. Cars, Cars 2, and even Mater's Tall Tales are all very entertaining and will keep you and your kids watching for hours.This box set is a nice idea, but falls a little flat. Once you open it up, there is no easy way to make the lid stay on (compared to the toy box with the Toy Story set), it just kind of sits there. Also, the movies were not in the foam slots correct either, which could have caused scratching (luckily did not though). However, I love the set and it even comes with a diecast car that you can't get anywhere else.I gave this 5 stars because this is worth owning just for the movies alone, you can forgive some of the packaging problems and just watch Cars for the 15th time this week!!!

Movies are great, extras are great. As so many other reviewers say, the packaging is awful, awful, awful ... wish I had bought them individually instead. As another reviewer mentioned, I will need to get some blank cases to put them in. The case they shipped in is not safe for the disks, it is difficult to deal with and it does not fit on my shelf with my other DVD's. Right now it sits in my closet. The box is a pain in the neck everytime I want to get to the DVD's. Disney should admit their mistake and offer us all replacement cases to properly store the disks. Knowing that they won't, the only alternative we have is to continue to bash them about this, so maybe they will learn their lesson and not be so stupid in future DVD releases. The movies are 5 stars, the packaging is a negative 4 stars... so it averages out to 1 star. Avoid this release... or wait until the price continues to plummet (I see it's already tanked to about $50), buy it, throw out the box and get blank cases. Look at the reviews and beware ... we've all been burned.

Exactly what was described. I did not have a problem downloading the digital versions and transferring them to the iPad for our long road trip. It made life so much easier when I could turn Mater on and the car would go quiet! The regular DVDs are used at home in the playroom for when the kids are allowed to watch TV. And the blu rays are for the family room. Great package and looking forward to buying other movies the same way.

We're Disney fans, and already had Cars (1), but not the other two, so we opted for this set. It's a bit of overkill, but we have extras for all the different devices. Plus a couple of "oops, the kids scratched the heck out of this disc somehow" copies.The kids enjoyed the movies. Since they're the intended audience, I'm not going to review the scripts/movies. I'm going to specifically talk about the packaging.I'm all about reducing my plastic consumption. But I do NOT like the storage box these are in. I wish they had sleeves or something. The foam block inside the box holds all the discs (the silver box with the checkerboard "top" to it. The checkerboard thing is actuall a flap of fabric). Anyway, this foam cheapens it. And this was not a cheap set. The foam has slits cut in in to store the disc. I suppose they're supposed to be kept pristinely apart from each other, but when I opened the box, they were all rubbing against each other. Also, the notches are all deformed, so it's not as if I can somehow "fix" it. I can get every disc but one in the box without touching its neighboring discs.

I wanted to get both Cars and Cars 2 on Digital Copy, this was the only way at the time, unless I wanted to spend $20 a pop for them, this was the only Blu-ray package with Digital Copy.Having never seen Cars 2, it was a surprise to me how complicated the storyline was. It almost seem like Pixar introduced many more characters so they can sell more toys (I collect Cars diecast cars).The biggest surprise was Mater's Tall Tales. It's proven to be a short that's full of laughs. I must have had that movie playing in the background over 20 times while I do my work. Sure to make kids of all ages laugh.The packaging is somewhat disappointing. Not sure what the purpose was having this big, big box. I'm sure they can design an accordion folder that takes up half the space this thing takes up. While the exclusive diecast is nice, no one I know is going to take that out to play with. It's basically a nice gold record that looks good on the wall but you can't play.For movie lovers, I'm sure money is not a problem, but space is. Now instead of this filed away with my other Blu-rays, I now have to have this (along with the Lion King set, and other e-normous sets) put away in my closet.Bummer.

As a family we absolutely love the Cars movies and having waited for the combined edition this is a great deal. But it comes in a horrible horrible horrible packaging. I would really recommend one buys a DVD/Blu-ray case holding multiple DVDs (especially if you are more after the content than the packaging!). Content: 5 stars. Packaging: 0 stars. My personal overall stars is 5 stars (as I am valuing the content much more!)

Buyer beware. Read the entire description before adding this one to your cart. So looking forward to watching this with my two year old grandson on Christmas day and we talked about it for hours before trying to watch and then we couldn't get it to work as it only plays in region 2. Seller won't work with you and I tried to return it and stood in line for over an hour at the post office and it costs more to return it than it costs. Better to throw in the trash. So disappointed in this product.

Bought this as a gift for my grandson, and he loves having the whole set. The little car is fun for him to play with, and is packaged so that I can put it back in place when he's finished, thus saving the 'collector' aspect.