Boats is a 2023 Walt Disney Animation Studios 3D animated comedy-sports racing theatrical film about a little boat named Jib Sailboat who races the ocean. Also, it is the sixth Cars universe film, after Cars Academy. The music is set to be composed by Danny Elfman. This film received a 31% on Rotten Tomatoes and rated PG for action, violence and innuendo. And it is from the creators of Frozen (2013), Zootopia (2016) and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021).
Voice cast[]
- Kevin Wu as Jib Sailboat, the film's protagonist, he is also home to his village "Anchor Bay Harbour"
- Jim O'Heir as Tom Tugboat, Jib's mentor, and film's deuteragonist.
- Tobey Maguire as Liverage Harrison, Jib's forklift best friend and film's supporting character.
- Julia Stiles as Haley Jibson, Jib's love interest.
- Keith Wickham as Charles Current, a British racing boat and Jib's racing best friend.
- Denvor Millord as Sammy Speedboat, Jib's 2nd racing friend.
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Turgolous, Jib's rival later friend and film's antihero. In the end, he befriends and thanks Motor for letting him win.
- Harry Connick Jr. as Smeg, a racer
- Ben Stiller as Thicket, a party boat
- Tom Kenny as Motor Chopsail, a Yellow motor racing boat who is one of Jib's friends
- Clancy McLain as Jenny Wavethrust, Charles' racing love interest.
- James Franco as Nixon Piers, Turgolous's friend and shown to be Jib's true rival and film's hidden true main antagonist. In the end, his engine bursts at sea during the last race due to karma and was also defeated by landing and crashing into the stadium. His antagonizing characteristics only come towards the end for 6 minutes.
- Nicolas Cage as Tyson Reynolds, boat race emcee, humorous character and the tritagonist of the film. Originally, he was set to be the film's main antagonist.
- Aleksey Frandetti as Dmitri, a Russian racing boat, in the international versions of the movie, he is called Jose in Brazil, Haitao (海涛) in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Bruce in Australia and Dong-geun (동근) in South Korea.
- Heidi Marnhout as Karen Knot, a racer.
- Taylor Miller as Barbell Fisherman, Jib's 3rd best friend
- Nick Kroll as Dr. Samuel Wellington, CEO, RSN boat race manager and strict of the Sails Around the World, he is also a Mercedes-Benz E-Class.
- Martin Lawrence as Battleship Leader, who stumbles along the boat race as Motor escapes and minor antagonist in the film.
- Bill Hader and others as Battleships, stumbles along the boat race as Motor escapes and minor antagonists in the film.