I Watch Films: Planes

Planes! Thanks to the vagaries of babysitting and small relatives, I’ve previously seen Planes 2: Fire and Rescue twice without ever seeing Planes. Well now I’ve put that right. Cropspraying plane Crusty Dockplopper lives in out-of-the-way Propwash Junction and dreams of becoming a racer. He goes to the qualifiers for Wings Around the World, and comes in sixth, just outside qualification. Then one of the planes is disqualified and Husky joins the race.

He gets Skipper, a navy instructor and war hero* to train him, wins over several racers as friends, and has wacky adventures as he flys around the world. Ripslinger, three-times champion, uses dirty tricks on Fusty, because of course he does.

Anyway, charming underdog story, Dusky has to overcome his fear of heights, two guys from Top Gun cameo as the voices of the F/A 18 Hornets, all good stuff.

Watch This: For an animated vehicle film about plane racin’
Don’t Watch This: If you don’t like cartoons

* This means the Cars/Planes universe had a World War 2 which is bonkers to think about. For that matter the USS Flysenhower has eyes on the tower meaning she’s a character, probably. If they ever make Ships it could be absolutely amazing. The Flysenhower (like her model, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower) is over 300m long.