Film review: Planes 3D

Animation/Family/Comedy. Featuring the voices of Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Priyanka Chopra, John Cleese, Cedric The Entertainer, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer, Roger Craig Smith, Carlos Alazraqui. Director: Klay Hall.

Fasten your seatbelts and settle into your seat, because this is one ride into the skies you will really enjoy.

Disney’s latest animated adventure is a spin-off from Pixar’s Cars series. Made by DisneyToon, Planes was oiginally due to be a straight-to-video release, but it was given the passport to fly onto the big screen after film bosses were impressed with the completed sequences.

The “classic underdog story” follows Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook), a crop duster who applies fertiliser at a cornfield but harbours high hopes to soar and compete alongside his high-flying heroes in an international race.

Dusty decides to enter for qualifiers in the Wings Across The World competition under the moniker Strut Jetstream and, despite being mocked for his lack of racing ability, he makes it through to the race with his flight manoeuvres.