A Cars' spin-off. The movie follows a vertically-challenged plane named Dusty Crophopper. Dusty is fear of heights but his biggest dream is becoming an air racer.
"Planes" is for the most part content to imitate rather than innovate, presumably hoping to reap a respectable fraction of the box office numbers of "Cars" and "Cars 2," which together made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Strictly by the numbers, from the believe-in-yourself moral to the purely predictable ending.
Seattle Times
August 08, 2013
Has the look and feel of Pixar's 2006 hit, "Cars," if not the latter's charm or strong story.
Cinemalogue.com
December 11, 2013
While kids might respond to the fast-paced airborne antics, the humor isn't clever enough or the story surprising enough to satisfy accompanying grown-ups.
Big showbiz trusts heartland America's love affair with all manner of vehicular machinery so much that it shamelessly copied 'Cars' and labeled it 'Planes.'