It’s all about Cook and Keach, whose relationship and characters are the main focus here.

| Original Score: B | Aug 16, 2024

Planes is sweet. It’s also insubstantial and feels incomplete; a film I think I might have liked better if I’d never seen Pixar’s Cars.

| Original Score: 2.75/5 | Jan 15, 2023

One film that should find itself grounded from the box-office airways rather quickly.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

'Forgettable.' That's the keyword here.

| Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2020

You know it's really hard to defend this film because it's so average. It's boringly average for a feature film release but it's not completely terrible.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 11, 2020

Although not the most original film in the Disney vault, Planes is nevertheless entertaining, engaging, high-flying fun and adventure that will put your head in the clouds and wind beneath your wings!

| Nov 27, 2019

With its fun characters and simple story, Planes will entertain young kids and parents. But don't expect rocket science.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2019

Much of the animation looks very ordinary and at times cheap, with the dull scenery another missed opportunity in a film chocked full of them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2019

Essentially, it's Cars retold with planes. Small, undiscerning kiddies will probably love it and demand the DVD on repeat; adults will be nosediving into their popcorn with boredom.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Disney should cut its losses and release the rest of the trilogy as originally intended.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 29, 2016

Big showbiz trusts heartland America's love affair with all manner of vehicular machinery so much that it shamelessly copied 'Cars' and labeled it 'Planes.'

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 18, 2016

...rarely manages to achieve the heights achieved even by 2006's entertaining yet lackluster Cars...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 20, 2014

It's a shame that Disney and Pixar aren't in the 'classic-making' business anymore; just the 'distraction-making' business.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2014

A direct-to-video-quality spin-off that only exists to sell toys.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 15, 2013

While kids might respond to the fast-paced airborne antics, the humor isn't clever enough or the story surprising enough to satisfy accompanying grown-ups.

| Dec 11, 2013

It lacks the passion and depth of their earlier work, replacing meaningful storylines and deeply-felt emotions with clichés and maudlin moral lessons.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 20, 2013

I didn't care, my kids didn't care, and if I had invited the neighbors over to witness this dull flight, they wouldn't have cared either.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 17, 2013

Planes is nothing more than Disney cashing in on a successful franchise while the market is hot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2013

Beautifully (duh!) and expensively (duh squared!) animated, this has its charms, but ultimately gets a little yawn-worthy, with too many characters, too much going on and too many unanswered questions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2013

Think Cars, but with planes. Passable, pleasant, mildly fun and apparently written by computer.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 29, 2013