Planes
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.
27 October 1939, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
20 July 1962, Yonkers, New York, USA
16 July 1967, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
14 April 1960, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 July 1962, Santa Barbara, California, USA
13 January 1961, New York City, New York, USA
11 March 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
28 July 1951, Mobile, Alabama, USA
2 June 1941, Savannah, Georgia, USA
June 29, 2016
Disney should cut its losses and release the rest of the trilogy as originally intended.July 20, 2014
...rarely manages to achieve the heights achieved even by 2006's entertaining yet lackluster Cars...August 09, 2013
The plot is generic to a fault.December 15, 2013
A direct-to-video-quality spin-off that only exists to sell toys.August 08, 2013
Has the look and feel of Pixar's 2006 hit, "Cars," if not the latter's charm or strong story.August 09, 2013
A visually colorful but otherwise vanilla continuation of the series.August 08, 2013
"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.August 09, 2013
Strictly by the numbers, from the believe-in-yourself moral to the purely predictable ending.June 18, 2016
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.'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.August 13, 2013
An endearing enough David-and-Goliath tale, aimed squarely at younger kids.April 06, 2014
It's a shame that Disney and Pixar aren't in the 'classic-making' business anymore; just the 'distraction-making' business.