Planes

2013 "From above the world of Cars"
5.7| 1h31m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 09 August 2013 Released
Producted By: Walt Disney Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true.

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Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Mihai Toma Dusty is an ordinary utility plane, every day accomplishing his routine flight, but as expected, he has a big dream up his sleeve, to race in the Wings Around the Globe rally. With the help of Skipper, a retired war veteran, and some enthusiastic friends, he's willing to give his best shot at making a good impression in the competition.Although it's a used-up idea of someone/something (in this case a plane) who's trying to overcome his/its condition, it manages to be a bit distinct from the rest. Inspired by the masterpiece "Cars", this movie features Dusty, a crop duster who's going to learn that it takes a lot more than courage to be a world-class racer. His good soul and his underdog position will prove to be most helpful in the upcoming challenge, although disappointment and betrayal will show up as well.It looks gorgeous (although this is becoming common) and with its reality-show presentation it brings additional thrill into the picture. It has a bit of comedy (although I hoped for more) and some drama (again could have been more) keeping you alert all the time, dead moments not being present (or insignificant). Although at the beginning I had the impression that I'm seeing "Turbo" for the second time, it slowly veered off into something equally delightful. It might not deserve its rating but I really liked it!
Sean Lamberger As straightforward as spinoffs can get, really. Kids love talking cars, and kids love toy airplanes, so kids will love talking airplanes too, right? And they do, or at least mine do, even if none of this cast has half the sparkle or charisma of a Lightning McQueen or a Tow Mater. Which should speak volumes, since both are pretty much the bottom of the barrel in Pixar's repertoire. As competition-focused racing movies go, it's middle of the pack - energetic and often lovely, but flat as a board and thoroughly predictable. Younger audiences will thrill to the frequent chase scenes, with a good mix of terrain thrown in as appreciable spice, but their chaperones won't find much material hiding beneath the surface. Cars had a timely message about the loss of the great American highway lurking under there, and at least Cars 2 had some buck to its script, but there's really nothing more to this one than a simple played-out underdog sporting saga. And hey, that's perfectly okay. There's plenty of room on the screen for bright, shiny, cookie-cutter kids' fare, and it certainly doesn't offend. It's just no comparison to the Pixar-branded forerunners that paved these lanes. Good enough for a quiet evening, no more, no less, and it gave my three-year-old boys a good dose of imagination fuel.
rking-19 Summer Disney animation features, such a dream for parents who want to give their antsy kids something different to do while protecting them from bad influences, what could be wrong with them? Plenty, if you don't want them to be messed up for life. Consider the attempted retread (re- wing?) movie Planes.Some have compared this movie to the Pixar movie from which it is derived. What makes this movie completely different from progenitor Cars is that the former movie demonstrated the fulfillment of a heart turned towards home, community and the fulfillment of one's designed purpose, and Planes is a siren song for pursuing the fake shallow validation of glamorous fame even if in the process one destroys the good and beautiful things designed into him/her.You probably already know the basics of the movie: small-town guy with goofy best friend dreams of something not in the normal realm of possibility for him, and with help from a broken, dysfunctional mentor and supportive friends (even supportive opponents), goes on to do the impossible.With everyone harping on the animation and character quality -- not without reason -- it is surprising that the underlying philosophy of Planes has not been more readily identified. Perhaps we should take more care to examine the genetically-modified processed-box-food viewpoints being fed to our kids with these movies. In Planes alone there are several ranging from nuisance to ones guaranteed to groom your children for misery in adulthood.For instance, the mentor deceives the main character about his past, and his lying is literally justified later in the movie. Basically the teaching is: it is okay to lie, otherwise the outcome might not have been what I or you want. (If I had not said X, would you have done Y? ... I guess not, so all is well.) Is that really the moral outlook you wish to impart to your loved ones? The movie had an opportunity to show how one (or both characters in this case) can misinterpret the past, and it is a lesson they should have learned rather than covering it over by justifying deception.Another small issue is the presentation that females are either ambitiously unethical players or frivolous romantics without depth. I do not want my son seeing women that way, do you? There's the "war on women" right there.In the prior generation of Disney movies, parents were portrayed as the bad guys, and needed to be "put right" by the children. As that has gotten old, especially since some watching those movies now have kids of their own and realize how ridiculous that perspective is, Disney has now turned to making the mentors always emotionally messed up and who need healing and teaching from their "youngers". Wellllll, I guess that could be considered an improvement since the young ones learn something too. But better would be that the mentors sometimes are just good mentors!The most prominent and damaging, though, is the ultimate lesson of the movie: be unhappy with who you are and prefer glamor, fame, and "flights of fancy" to wholesomeness. The even-worse corollary is that you are somehow defective -- something is wrong with the essence of who you were made to be -- and must be "corrected" to be good. (You might not have noticed the support for trans-gender surgery; notice the symbolic castration of the main character when he is "modified" and how that makes him better at being something he was not designed to be.) All children (even unwanted ones) were originally built for unique and important purposes. What is going to happen to the young kids of today who grow up and learn to eschew their own wonderful essence for some foolish or meaningless quest? Those empty pursuits will end up substituting for deep and important real quests for truth and meaning that should be part of their journey.Parents, please beware that movie-makers can be more like drop-out moralizers than world-class philosophers, and you cannot trust movies to give your children a world-view they will be successful and fulfilled with. If you let your kids go to this movie, discuss with them the killer flaws hidden within the contrails of the story.
Bharanidaran ramani One-liner: Underdog wins a raceLets agree to the fact an animation movie will never have grotesque endings or ill-fated showdown. But surely can do better than this movie. Every move in the movie is predictable and it clearly gives away the peeking factor. Surely it is a fun for the kids, but such movies are mass-acclaimed and is watched by almost everyone, so it should better have the moves to cling to such audiences.The visuals, character rendering and story are similar or should i say exactly the same to its predecessor (cars). Coming from such a animation factory surely i'd expected a lot more.Set aside these factors the movie is a one-time watch (even for kids). Next time creators, please add a WOW factor to your movies like pixar or dreamworks