Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Benjamin Dubovecky This film reminds me of its predecessor, Cars, in many ways. First, they both share the same world where vehicles have human values. But more importantly, it's the story where the main hero tries to reach a great success in the field he loves - racing. But this time, the main hero has perfectly normal values, isn't conceited, and doesn't act like a jerk. But to give him a handicap, the authors decided to make him unsuitable for what he wants, so that being a racer would be very unlikely for him. The film has a very simple logic, it is very predictable, but that doesn't make it lose its charm of an individual fighting against everyone and eventually winning. I was glad to see him win, even though I knew it would end up like that. The humour in the story is rather funny (although sometimes terribly wrong), but I laughed several times anyway, and I'm not a young kid.The characters are all right (some of them seem to have their counterparts in Cars), although there is very strongly distinguished who the good ones are, and who the bad ones are making this story too idealistic. What I personally minded was a full song appearing in a film. To me, it's a complete waste of time, and the film would work without it just as well.To sum it up, you won't get many surprises when watching this, no profound thoughts are included, but if you're looking for simplicity and some fun, or consider watching a film with your kids, Planes is a good choice. I enjoyed it.

ofpsmith I didn't go into the theater expecting a whole lot. It looked to me as if it was jut going to be a Cars spin off. And guess what? I was totally right. All Disney did here was put the face on another machine and make a kids film out of it. Notice I said Disney instead of Pixar. Pixar was not behind this film, it was Disney by themselves. Also keep in mind that I love cars and it's sequel. This was just a knock off of Cars. Well how is the film itself? Not great. It's not really a bad film, but to be fair I can't really call it a good film either. It's just kind of bland. A crop duster named Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook) is an ordinary Joe Schmoe who dreams of being the best. So he settles on plane racing. Dusty finds a mentor in Skipper Riley (Stacy Keach) an old F4U Corsair to get him ready for the race. And then the big race comes, and it's the underdog story with a greedy co-competitor as our antagonist and all that. That's pretty much the film for you. Overall this was just really bland. The story never really had much interest in it for me and parts of it were just kind of long and drawn out. The most forgettable character was the villain which is that greedy race plane I mentioned earlier. When the villain is the least memorable character, that's a bad sign. I don't know if people like this guy or not, but I don't remember much of anything about him. I don't even remember his name or anything that he did. Keep in mind I haven't seen it in a long time, but still. I should be able to remember at least something about a film's villain, and with this guy I just really don't. I can't really recommend it a whole lot so I'll just end by saying, see Cars instead.

policy134 It is not easy to find faults with animated films these days because there are so many being made these days. Let's remember that it takes a ton of work to make a good one, and you almost feel double disappointed when the film does not live up to its intended effort.Like I said, I admire the effort it must have taken to put this out. The problem is that it lacks a truly original story. This is such a formula script that I almost felt sorry for the actors who intended to elevate it and they do, but only slightly.The animation is very high standard but let's not forget that it's style have been tried out two times before, starting when we first saw Cars. There is little difference here but as I said, it's very well done.The script is so formulaic however, that it brings the whole enterprise down. There is also a problem with the lead character. He is just too goody two shoes for us to care much about his struggles and without colorful supporting characters to back him up, I am sorry to say that you feel completely let down about two thirds into the whole thing.So, what to do. Shall I recommend this movie just because of the effort that was put into it? Sorry, I can't. There are too many outlets for entertainment these days that it would be a terrible waste to see something so inferior for that kind of money a movie ticket will cost you today. Save it for a rainy day on Blu-ray, which I am thankful that I did.

classicsoncall Reading other viewer comments sometimes really amazes me. This flick has quite it's share of negative reviews for one reason or another, and I scratch my head wondering why all the bad press for what's nominally a kid's movie. I can't see where the idea of pushing one's self to excel at something and get better at it is such a bad idea, but in the current culture that seems to reward mediocrity I guess that's what happens. Personally I thought the film made clever use of it's characters and situations, and I got a kick out of a scene in a crowded airport where a large, inconsiderate airplane bumped into a smaller one who exclaimed "I'm working here!" - a Midnight Cowboy/Dustin Hoffman reference if I ever saw one. Thanks to this picture, at least now I'll know what a three pylon chicane and a half-Cuban eight are supposed to be; you just don't get that kind of education in movies any more. For all you naysayers out there, it ain't how fast you fly, it's how you fly fast that really matters.