Planes (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Klay Hall
	Actors (voices): Carlos Alazraqui, Dane Cook, Stacy Keach
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation, Comedy, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 13.04.2014, SD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: A young crop-duster dreams of racing around the world with champions.
Review: Even if it is not my favorite Pixar movie, I liked Cars because it was more than a cartoon for kids, as often with Pixar productions: there is always something for adult to watch in their films. Cars 2 didn't have the novelty effect, but was going even further thanks to a clever spy story. Planes is nothing like that. It was clearly built to cash money from the parents of the kids who loved Cars. It recycles elements of the movie with four wheels (the races, the mentor) while adding the underdog story which can only please the kids. But there is no depth to any character or plot elements. It is all very linear and predictable in spite of the third dimension offered to the action (note that the hero is actually afraid of heights and thus flies only in two dimensions). The movie even seem to turn the kids more stupid by neglecting any kind of logic in geography: the distances and location visited don't make sense, the Canadian contestant wears a German flag and speaks with a strong improbable French accent! This thing of filling the movie with strong accents also starts to annoy me: it just reinforces clichés under the pretense of internationalization. I thought I wrote the same critic about another recent Disney movie but actually it was for the 60-years old Lady and the Tramp. There are still a few good flight scenes in the movie, the nice idea of the aircraft-carrier, and an impressive but unfortunately too short 10-seconds World War II scene.
Rating: 3 /10