Planes
The short of it: Planes: Fire & Rescue is a better made film than its predecessor on a technical level, but otherwise just as generic (in some ways, more so) on a storytelling level.
In thePlanessequelPlanes : Fire & Rescue , we catch up with crop duster - turned spherical racing superstar plane Dusty Crophopper ( voiced by Dane Cook ) , who ’s now one of the more famous ( if notthemost famous ) aeronautical racer in the human race . However , all that high-pitched - speed action has taken its bell on Dusty ’s gears - and when it turns out that his damaged gearbox is a model that has long been out of output , Dusty finds himself face the possible action that he may never hasten again .
A new career opportunity for Dusty presents itself when it turns out that , for pass safety regulation standard , Propwash Junction Airport is in need of a 2d firefighting vehicle , to attend to the older flak and rescue hand truck Mayday ( Hal Holbrook ) . First , though , Dusty postulate to get the proper certification from Blade Ranger ( Ed Harris ) , a seasoned whirlybird who guide an elite fire and delivery squad at the Piston Peak national common - but does Dusty have what it takes to fight wildfires alongside the best of the good ?
Directed by Roberts ' Bob ' Gannaway ( Stitch ! The Movie),Planes : Fire & Rescuerepresents an improvement on its predecessor in the technical department - meaning , unlike the firstPlanesinstallment , the sequel ’s ocular storytelling qualities are more on the point suit a theatrical release . DisneyToon Studios ' figurer spiritedness is still nowhere near to connect with the level of tangible and/or expressive detail offer by Walt Disney Animation or Pixar Animation , but the film ’s overall cinematic language ( use of collage , transitions , etc . ) is more advanced than its harbinger ’s - and the handful of action sequences even volunteer some really striking imagery . That said : 3-D is not a necessary to get the full wake experience .
Unfortunately , those gains in animation proficiency caliber come at the disbursement of the plot and character exploitation inPlanes : Fires & Rescue . ThePlanessequel moves forth from the sports underdog rule of its predecessor into action poor boy territory , but winds up with a story that has less direction and focus as a solvent ( whichissaying something ) . Similarly , it seems that the relationship between Dusty and Blade Ranger is mean to anchor the floor emotionally - much as Dusty and Skipper ’s ( Stacey Keach ) student / instructor moral force did in the first installment - but as Dusty is the only character with any sorting of arc , the payoff to their subplot rings quite hollow .
ThePlanes : Fire & Rescuestory and script ( co - write by Gannaway ) do , in fact , have element that might ’ve been expanded upon in gild to weave a deep narrative tapis , but either the movie maker did n’t realise that or there was additional key plot material that never made it past the former stages of development . Regardless , while the movie props itself up as being a heartfelt salute to the braveness of real - life firefighters and smokejumpers , it really experience more like a figure embodied ware - one interested in cramming in as many fomite characters ( which are ripe to be sell as toy ) and kid - favorable cable car / plane / geartrain / etc . wordplay as possible .
As with the firstPlanesmovie , inFire & RescueDusty is an everyman ( everyplane ? ) personality who lack any real deepness . Similarly , most of the supporting players from the previous celluloid get thrust aside to make way for new characters , who range from being rather questionable - see : the operose - lift helicopter Windlifter , who talks like a aboriginal American stereotype ( vocalize by Cherokee worker Wes Studi ) - to just flat , such as the rescue aeroplane Dipper ( Julie Bowen ) , who ’s also materialise to be a Dusty fangirl , and the photographic film ’s " villain " Cad Spinner ( John Michael Higgins ) , the profit - minded SUV and superintendent at Piston Peak . You ’re likely to recognize other voice ( Fred Willard , Patrick Warburton , Regina King , Curtis Armstrong , and so on ) , but chance are you will be hard - entreat to remember their characters ' names ( or anything else about them ) , afterwards .
The shortstop of it : Planes : Fire & Rescueis a better made film than its predecessor on a expert storey , but otherwise just as generic ( in some elbow room , more so ) on a storytelling level . Again , there ’s nothing here that ’s really worth getting work on up about - even the obvious marketability of the character reference and outdated archetypes just come off as lazy , not offensive . Kids who revel the firstPlanesmovie should also find much to care about the subsequence , though they ’ll in all probability have all but forget that they ever visit these films when they ’re older ( just like their parent did when the end credits started rolling ) .
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Planes : Fire & Rescueis now playing in 2D and 3D theatre . It is 84 minutes long and is Rated PG for activity and some peril .
airplane : Fire & Rescue is the 2014 sequel to the Disney movie Planes , a spinoff of the Cars movies . The plastic film follows Dusty , a plane who becomes a firefighter and joins a team to protect a home park from a wildfire .
Blade Ranger (Ed Harris) in ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’
Blade Ranger (Ed Harris) in ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’
Dipper (Julie Bowen) and Maru (Curtis Armstrong) in ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’
Planes: Fire & Rescue is the 2014 sequel to the Disney movie Planes, a spinoff of the Cars movies. The film follows Dusty, a plane who becomes a firefighter and joins a team to protect a national park from a wildfire.
