What makes it different from others?

What a waste of my time!!!

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Blistering performances.

Even though 'Planes' has the same style and animation as Pixar's 'Cars' and claims to take place in the same world, the Pixar name doesn't appear anywhere on-screen in it. This little animated film was produced by DisneyToon Studios (Disney's direct- to-video division), but the powers-that-be decided that they could make more money in toy sales if the movie got a theatrical run first. That seems to be the only driving force in this sub-par kid's flick. I expect a decent box office gross, but its blandness might hurt its lasting appeal when it's actually released on home video, like it was originally supposed to be all along.Almost everything in 'Planes' is ripped off from 'Cars', from the characters to the colors and the locations. The movie starts out in a small rural town very similar to Radiator Springs. A crop-duster named Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook) wants to enter an annual race against the fastest planes in the world. An elderly, crabby war plane named Skipper (Stacy Keach) teaches Dusty how to fly with the help of Dottie (Teri Hatcher), a mechanic forklift, and Dusty's simple-minded fuel truck Chug (Brad Garrett). Sounds a little too familiar, huh?Due to a technicality, Dusty is accepted into the big race and begins his worldwide trek to the finish line. He's opposed by some bad planes who would rather see him crash and burn than finish the race. However, he also meets some other nice racers along the way that help him conquer his biggest fear. You guessed it – Dusty the plane is afraid of heights.Director Klay Hall is primarily known for many episodes of 'King of the Hill'. He does the best he can with the script he's given. The characters don't have a lot of depth and story points are predictable. Voice acting is sub-par as well, with Julia Louis- Dreyfus, Sinbad and Carlos Alazraqui giving the better of the vocal performances. The movie just lacks the Pixar flair for good storytelling. Sure, it has some aviation references and some cute moments here and there, but overall, 'Planes' is just for little kids and is a barely-disguised attempt to get you to buy toys.

This was worthy of being a spin off movie? Not The Incredibles?1. The movie has a terrible story. This movie is like every other clique sports movie about the underdog that no one believes in rises to the challenge and wins. If you want to do a story like that fine but if you don't add anything new or creative to it than your wasting my time. 2. The characters are some of the most annoying and insufferable vehicles ever. Dusty's friends are irritating to listen and watch. Plus they are all just stereotypes that have no personal identity or purpose. The bad guy is just like The Turbo bad guy. Which coincidentally came out not to long after this movie. 3. This movie has terrible pacing. Dusty isn't good at racing but gets better with every race, bad guy hatches a plan to stop Dusty, it backfires and Dusty is adored by fans Later rinse and repeat this goes on for fifty percent of the movie.4. The animation isn't as good as other Disney and Pixar movies but it's decent.This movie just feel like a movie they should have played on Disney Channel for little kids to watch. Not a theatrical release which bombed at the box office. Plus it doesn't help there is a sequel and there was an announcement that there would be another sequel to this movie. The only reason this was made was to make money like with Cars and sadly when you think about the money more than the effort of a movie you failed your job.

Besides a totally predictable film and all the characters are totally forgettable, without any of the brilliant moments of it's inspiration movie (cars), this movie also have a huge geographical mistake: The part of the race between Yucatan, Mexico and New York, we can see the planes flying through a big canyon (colorado canyon?) in their way to new york. Unless fly all the way west to Arizona and then go back north east to NY, which makes as many sense as going from LA to Denver but going to Hawaii first. Of course we can understand the idea of action scenes of planes making hard maneuvers in a canyon, but children should at least be entertained with true facts.

From the skull on the side of the plane, to the "RIP" SLINGER to the "HE's GOING TO DIE" as the first thing you hear in the trailer.. there is some serious "death subliminal messages in this movie" that is suppose to be for children... Am i the only one that noticed it, I seriously had to turn off the trailer alone because It bothered me so much about how much "death" subliminal messages were in it alone. Pretty sad reflection on the mindset of American society. I also watched the introduction about the flight with the Dad and his two sons, and how they praised that they were proud of their father for making this movie, and how he mentioned it was a moment he would remember for the rest of his life...and all the talk about "Death" almost expected me to hear at the end of it that he died in a plane crash or something.. Like they were setting it up for that.. So bizarre.. Please tell me I'm not the only one that picked up on what the movie was actually saying, suggesting.