Planes Reviews
We Got This Covered
Planes isn't just tolerable - it's downright bad. It has redeeming moments and is visually pleasing, but overall there's no one target audience that will truly enjoy what Disney has to offer here.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Total Film
Little ones will love the bright action scenes, but the lack of wit and humanity that makes exec producer John Lasseter's best work so special will leave grown-ups feeling frustratingly grounded.
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| Original Score: 2/5
National Post
It's less a movie than a 92-minute bet that children will be amused by/willing to purchase anything with googly eyes slapped on it.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Austin American-Statesman
It often looks cheap and dull, lacking the reflectivity and realism of the vehicles in the Cars series. As always, the 3-D doesn't help. It makes those often bright, sunny skies seem dull and dingy.
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| Original Score: C
Patheos
Planes would be a fine DVD to have in your arsenal to keep your toddler boy occupied while you take a shower, if they'd grown tired of Thomas the Tank Engine or Cars itself. It's that level. Nothing more.
ScreenRant
Young moviegoers will enjoy large segments of Planes but it's difficult to ignore that the film is little more than an (often) dull and nearly-soulless cash grab.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This is London
For "international", read "packed with wince-worthy ethnic stereotyping" - it's the only way the writers know how to define character in a universe this soulless.
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| Original Score: 2/5
American Profile
Disney's new yarn about a little underdog airplane with big dreams feels like the studio just strapped some wings on another movie---'Cars.'
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
The film feels second-rate in every sense, from the quality of its animation to its C-list voice cast.
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| Original Score: 1/4
AV Club
It's the cinematic equivalent of those Chinese knockoff luxury sedans.
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| Original Score: D+
Screen It!
The clichés just pile up and there is little attempt made to deviate from formula. (Full Parental Review also available)
Las Vegas Weekly
Dull, lifeless and predictable, with a cast full of forgettable characters distinguished mostly by their exuberant embrace of ethnic stereotypes.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Basically a toy commercial with barely a laugh in it.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Film School Rejects
This is the laziest brand of kid's film: the kind created by a bunch of marketing executives in a 90th floor boardroom. For shame, John Lasseter.
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| Original Score: D
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Planes is not terrible, it is just not much of anything at all.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Birmingham Mail
Many youngsters in a packed charity screening I attended were fidgeting and talking.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The List
Disney Studios have found yet another way to rake in audience members' cash without needing to trouble their own creative muscles, let alone reach far into their substantial pockets.
Top Critic"Cars," with planes. And some cars. And a truck or two.
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| Original Score: 2/4
A visually colorful but otherwise vanilla continuation of the series.
The jokes in "Planes" are runway flat, and parents will likely reach for the air-sickness bag.
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| Original Score: 1/5
