Film Review – Planes

Let’s not kid ourselves here, Disney’s “Planes” has arrived to
facilitate the creation of a new generation of toys. It’s classic
Hollywood marketing disguised as moviemaking, only here the groundwork
has been laid by “Cars” and “Cars 2,” the Pixar pair that didn’t exactly
win critical favor, but ran away with billions in merchandising. Billions.
Of course the Mouse House was going to test the limits of this fandom,
especially when the last “Cars” picture showed signs that audiences were
growing a little tired of the automobile flavor. Now we have airplanes,
but the story, the jokes, and the corporate manipulation remains the
same. However, “Planes” does possess the fluid animation “Cars” lacked,
taking to the sky with a slick presentation of aerial balletics and
cartoon antics.
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