The film received heavy criticism for its plot, animation quality, characters, and being a direct plagiarism and ripoff of Pixar’s Cars 2.
One movie cover even has the exact character models of Francesco Bernoulli and Lightning McQueen.
Shen Lu, Katie Hunt, and Anna Hsieh of CNN stated that the Chinese title of the film was similar to the mainland Chinese title of Cars (赛车总动员; Sàichē Zǒngdòngyuán).
[2] 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.
[1] However, the sequel was canceled due to The Walt Disney Company winning a copyright case.