Stoutor
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
Melanie Bouvet
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Billie Morin
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
mrjoejoe
First thing you should know about planes: it's a spin off to the cars movies. I will split this review into sections to give you a better overview of how I ended up with this rating.Visuals: This is by far the best part of the movie. The world of planes feels very colorful and alive and there are a lot of changes in location. The flight scenes are well done too. 8/10Story: This is where the movie fails to deliver. Sure it is a spin off to cars but there are just too many similar scenes/characters. The movie has barely anything that makes it stand out. You always know whats coming next and how the movie will end and it will be even worse if you watched cars before. The story is still okay and I can imagine you will have fun watching it with your kids and if you have not watched cars before. 4/10Sound: Not much to say here. It was good but nothing spectacular. 6/10
Writer_Commentary
I saw this movie on an airplane once since I figured it would be appropriate. I know that it has some connections to Cars, even if it isn't Pixar. While I heard good things about Cars and bad things about Cars 2, I was wondering how a movie like this would fare. Well, I think that the film was good in the end. It may not be entirely realistic, but it's a cartoon so it really isn't supposed to be. I admit that the whole plot of the movie can be a bit obvious and predictable, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. Planes was a good use of time on that long flight. The subplots may not be what you expect, but that makes them all the more better. I hope that you enjoyed the film like I did.
Johan Dondokambey
The story is quite an average one, especially in animations. It's about one character's struggle and rise from mediocrity to success, from zero to hero. But as it turns out in development and execution, it's nothing new. That may well be understood considering the primary target of animation is to educate little children, in a fun and soft way, on the lessons of life. What makes this quite bad is that despite it puts the big sign "World of Cars" in front of the movie's opening logo, there's nothing else that connects "Planes" to it's parent world. At the least they can do is showing Lightning McQueen passing along on the road or some kind of that, but no, there's nothing connecting them.
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From the skull on the side of the plane, to the "RIP" SLINGER to the "HE's GOING TO DIE" as the first thing you hear in the trailer.. there is some serious "death subliminal messages in this movie" that is suppose to be for children... Am i the only one that noticed it, I seriously had to turn off the trailer alone because It bothered me so much about how much "death" subliminal messages were in it alone. Pretty sad reflection on the mindset of American society. I also watched the introduction about the flight with the Dad and his two sons, and how they praised that they were proud of their father for making this movie, and how he mentioned it was a moment he would remember for the rest of his life...and all the talk about "Death" almost expected me to hear at the end of it that he died in a plane crash or something.. Like they were setting it up for that.. So bizarre.. Please tell me I'm not the only one that picked up on what the movie was actually saying, suggesting.
