Planes: Fire & Rescue

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Planes: Fire & Rescue

PG,

2014,

1h 23m,

Kids & Family/

Comedy/

Adventure/

Animation

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Dusty, the famous racing airplane, learns that his engine is damaged, so he must shift gears and find a new career. He joins an elite corps of firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic Piston Peak National Park. When a massive wildfire threatens the park, Dusty -- with the help of his fearless colleagues Blade Ranger, Lil' Dipper, Windlifter, Cabbie and the Smokejumpers -- learns what it takes to become a real hero.

Critics Consensus

Although it's too flat and formulaic to measure up against the best family-friendly fare, Planes: Fire and Rescue is a passable diversion for much younger viewers.

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Jonathan Romney

Observer (UK)

Aug 10, 2014

2/5

Like Cars, this is essentially funny-animal animation with chrome and aluminium instead of fur.

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

Aug 8, 2014

2/5

This Disney cartoon is running on empty.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

Aug 8, 2014

2/5

It's as if the Mouse House is providing bootlegs of its own material.

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Robert Sims

Lights Camera Austin

Jan 22, 2022

This slight but entertaining sequel benefits by tearing up the blueprint director John Lasseter used for both his Pixar racecar operas to become the animated disaster movie that Towering Inferno producer Irvin Allen never made.

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Feb 1, 2021

2/5

The conquering adversity messaging is worthy enough, but the direct-to-DVD story never takes flight.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 20, 2020

3.0/4.0

Amps up both the sincerity and the respect quite a bit and makes you feel like you're smack dab in the midst of its numerous action sequences.

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Apr 8, 2019

i haven't seen this movie but i saw an ad for it so i have seen the movie, and i got to say IT IS SUPER LAME, PLANES 2 WTF DISNEY MAKE GOOD MOVIES LIKE LION KING 4 I LOVE THE GODDAMN LION KING SEQUELS MASTAPEECES

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Jan 22, 2019

Not the best movie I have watched but the music was pretty good

Draco R

Dec 23, 2018

Not too bad, not too good. My main complaint for the film would be that everyone talks WAY too fast and almost never stop speaking--the film could use a lot more quiet moments to let character emotions sink in, but it feels like it's almost afraid to do so. I had to watch it two or three times before I even picked up on all the lines (some of those are REALLY crammed in there!) Second main complaint would be the protagonist: I kind of feel like he was bland and the film would have been stronger with some other random plane taking the wheel. The gearbox element was fine and drove the plot forward but there was no need to tangeantally tie this into the previous "planes" movie with the racing airplane... it was really unrelated and tacked on. As such the protagonist was easily the least interesting character in the film. Blazin' Bill and the rest of his crew (minus annoying yellow plane) were fine, though, it would have been interesting to see them developed further. But it's okay for a "kid's film." The fire visuals are pretty cool, and even if you know where the plot is going it's not handled awfully. If your kid likes airplanes or fire they'll probably have a good time and I think that's all the film was really trying to do anyway. I wouldn't deliberately turn it on but I'm not rolling my eyes through it wanting to turn it off when it does come on, either.

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Finn W

Sep 19, 2018

Kids liked it. Much better than the first. Not sure why it has so many poor ratings.

Jul 7, 2018

Well for me Planes Fire and Rescue is better than the previous planes, me and my family loved it. This film is very suitable for warm hearted person and also this film teach our child about friendship and courage to save people around us.

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George S

Mar 31, 2018

The first one is better but both are terrible.

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Bobs Gannaway

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Dusty Crophopper

Julie Bowen

Lil' Dipper

Ed Harris

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Synopsis

Dusty, the famous racing airplane, learns that his engine is damaged, so he must shift gears and find a new career. He joins an elite corps of firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic Piston Peak National Park. When a massive wildfire threatens the park, Dusty -- with the help of his fearless colleagues Blade Ranger, Lil' Dipper, Windlifter, Cabbie and the Smokejumpers -- learns what it takes to become a real hero.

Director: Bobs Gannaway
Producer: Ferrell Barron
Screenwriter: Bobs Gannaway, Jeffrey M. Howard
Distributor: Walt Disney
Production Co: Walt Disney Studios
Rating: PG (Some Peril|Action)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 18, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 4, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $59.2M
Runtime: 1h 23m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos

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