Mike's New Car - Coby Solms

Mike’s New Car is a 2002 Academy Award Nominee and a Pixar Short, directed by Pete Docter and Roger L. Gould. It released on the Monsters, Inc. DVD and VHS in 2002. This Pixar short did two things the studio had never done before with a short. It was the first to feature dialogue and the first to take characters and situations from a previously established effort. Mike is obsessed with his new six-wheel drive car and insists on showing it off to Sulley. Unfortunately for Mike, we see a standard representation of Murphy’s Law come into play. For those of you who haven’t seen Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Murphy’s Law states that “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”

Therefore, when all the gadgets on the amusingly oversized dashboard start making noises, chaos ensues, leaving Mike smoldering literally and physically. So often we think we have our lives together and that we can do things our way without God. Then, when “dashboard of life” starts beeping and the alarms go off, we try to fix it by pushing more buttons and making matters worse for ourselves. After Mike finally gets to drive the car, he barely makes it down the street where he crashes, and the airbags propel him back towards Sulley, and he states, “I miss my old car.” We have the same reaction as Mike does when all of it is done. Luckily for us, God comes back to clean up the mess.