Planes: Fire & Rescue
Planes: Fire & Rescue is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film. It is a sequel to the 2013 film Planes, a spin-off of Pixar's Cars franchise. Produced by DisneyToon Studios, it was theatrically released by Walt Disney Pictures on July 18, 2014. Dane Cook reprised his role of plane Dusty Crophopper. New cast members included Hal Holbrook, Julie Bowen, Ed Harris, Wes Studi, and Dale Dye. Stacy Keach, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Danny Mann, and Cedric the Entertainer reprised their roles of Skipper, Chug, Dottie, Sparky, and Leadbottom, respectively.
Movie Details:
Directed by: Roberts "Bobs" Gannaway
Produced by: Ferrell Barron[1]
Screenplay by: Jeffrey M. Howard
Story by: John Lasseter, Bobs Gannaway, Jeffery M. Howard, Peggy Holmes
Starring: Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Brad Garrett, Danny Mann, Teri Hatcher, Julie Bowen, Ed Harris, Wes Studi, Dale Dye
Music by: Mark Mancina
Edited by: Jeremy Milton
Production company: Walt Disney Pictures, DisneyToon Studios, Prana Studios
Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures
Release date(s): July 15, 2014 (Los Angeles premiere), July 18, 2014 (United States)
Running time: 84 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $50 million
Box office: $92,195,759
Source: Wikipedia n IMDB
Plot: Since winning the Wings Around the Globe race, Dusty Crophopper has a successful career as a racer. Unfortunately, his engine's gearbox becomes damaged due to too much over-revving. To make things worse, it is out of production and a replacement cannot be had, so he may never race again. Frustrated with mechanic Dottie's newly installed warning light to keep his engine performance low to prevent further damage, Dusty goes on a defiant flight testing his limits. Unfortunately in doing so, he has a hard landing with engine trouble at Propwash Junction's airport, causing a fire.The residents put out the fire with some difficulty, but the accident leads to a government inspector closing the airport due to inadequate firefighting personnel. Aggrieved at his carelessness, Dusty offers to undergo training to be certified as a firefighter to meet the necessary regulations to reopen the airport. To that end, Dusty travels to Piston Peak National Park where he meets a fire and rescue crew under the command of a helicopter named Blade Ranger. The leader of an efficient unit, Blade is initially unimpressed by the small newcomer and Dusty's training proves to be a difficult challenge. One character repeats a local legend: When the one they call Lakōt Koliōka makes wind, there is thunder, and that makes lightning, which starts fires. Dusty's original undercarriage is replaced by two big scooping water tanks with retractable undercarriage wheels on their undersides. During training, Dusty learns that Blade was formerly an actor who played a police helicopter on the TV series CHoPs. Later, Dusty is devastated by a call from his friends at Propwash Junction noting that all attempts at a replacement gearbox have failed and his racing career is over. Depressed, Dusty's education falters to Blade's frustration and things come to a head when Dusty makes a forced landing in a river during a fire dispatch and is swept through the rapids with Blade trying to extract him. Eventually, the pair make it to land, and Dusty confesses his physical disability, to which Blade advises Dusty not to give up. They shelter in an abandoned mine while a fire passes. The situation is complicated in that Blade also is damaged, from protecting Dusty in the fire, and is temporarily grounded for repairs. While Blade is recuperating, Dusty learns that Blade's co-star from CHoPs was killed during a stunt gone wrong on set filming a firefighting scene, and Blade was helpless to stop the crash, so he decided to become a firefighter for real. Lightning in a thunderstorm over a forest near Piston Peak starts several spot fires which unite into a serious forest fire, and the team fight it and seem to have extinguished it. But during the grand reopening of a local lodge, visiting VIPs looking at the damage fly too low and make air eddies which blow embers about and the fire restarts and becomes big. The national park's manager, Cad Spinner, selfishly diverts all the water supply to prevent his lodge from burning and so prevents the firefighters from making fire retardant for their own duties. With only their pre-existing tank loads, the firefighters manage to help the evacuees escape the fire while Dusty is alerted that two elderly campers are trapped on a burning bridge deep in the fire zone. He races to the scene and is forced to push his engine to the maximum to climb vertically up a waterfall to refill his water tanks to drop water to save the campers. Meanwhile, Blade shows up and catches the campers on hooks on the ends of ropes and lifts them away. Dusty successfully drops water and extinguishes the fire, but his overstressed gearbox fails completely and he crashes. Unconscious, Dusty is airlifted back to base where he wakes up days later to learn that not only has his structure been fully repaired, but the base mechanic has built a superior custom refurbished gearbox for his engine to allow full performance again. Impressed at Dusty's skill and heroism, Blade certifies him a firefighter. Propwash Junction is reopened with Dusty assuming his duty as a firefighter, celebrated with an aerial show with his new colleagues from Piston Peak. During the end credits, it is shown that Cad's misconduct resulted in him being demoted and reassigned as a park ranger in Death Valley.
