The Autobots (simplified Chinese: 汽车人总动员; traditional Chinese: 汽車人總動員; pinyin: Qìchērén Zǒngdòngyuán) is a 2015 Chinese computer animated motorsports comedy film directed by Zhuo Jianrong. It was released on July 4, 2015. The film was heavily criticized for its plot, overall animation quality, characters and, most importantly, being a direct plagiary, knock-off and rip-off of Pixar’s 2011 film Cars 2.

The Autobots
Traditional	汽車人總動員
Simplified	汽车人总动员
Production company	Bluemtv
Distributed by	G-Point
Release date	July 4, 2015 (2015-07-04)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	China
Language	Chinese/Mandarin
Budget	¥3 million RMB[1]
Box office	¥6 million RMB

Production

The production company and filmmaker stated that it was an independently produced film, while several critics and people who watched the film accused it of being copied from Disney and Pixar's Cars franchise (with the characters looking like the characters from Cars). Shen Lu, Katie Hunt, and Anna Hsieh of CNN stated that Chinese title of the film was similar to the Mainland Chinese title of Cars (赛车总动员; Sàichē Zǒngdòngyuán).[2]

Copyright infringement lawsuit

In July 2016, The Walt Disney Company filed a copyright case through the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court and on December 29, 2016 the court ruled in favor of Disney, fining Bluemtv and G-Point $190,000 and ordering them to cease copyright infringement.[3]

Cancelled sequel

A sequel for the film, The Autobots 2 was scheduled for release in Summer 2017.[1] However, the sequel was ultimately canceled due to The Walt Disney Company winning a copyright case. The latest information about the sequel announcement is from 2016.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• The Autobots at IMDb

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