Planes: Fire & Rescue
Short description
Planes: Fire & Rescue follows Dusty Crophopper, a celebrated air racer whose career is threatened when he learns his engine is damaged and racing may no longer be possible. Looking for a new purpose, he joins a fire and rescue crew based near Piston Peak National Park, where he trains under Blade Ranger, a veteran firefighting helicopter. The unit also includes the lively Dipper, heavy-lift helicopter Windlifter, transport plane Cabbie and a group of all-terrain vehicles known as the Smokejumpers. Their work takes on new urgency when a large wildfire threatens the park.
The film is a sequel set in the world of Disney's Planes and continues Dusty's story. It was directed by Roberts Gannaway, his fifth feature after Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse, Mickey's House of Villains, Stitch! The Movie and Leroy & Stitch. Jeffrey M. Howard wrote the screenplay and Ferrell Barron produced. The voice cast is led by Dane Cook as Dusty and Ed Harris as Blade Ranger, with Julie Bowen, Curtis Armstrong, John Michael Higgins and Hal Holbrook among the credited performers.
Released in July 2014, the film had a budget of 50 million USD and took about 151 million USD worldwide, roughly three times its cost. On IMDb it holds 5.9/10 from around 22,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.2/10 from about 950 votes. A critics' score of 5.2/10 from 93 reviews is close to the audience ratings, indicating a similar, moderate response across groups.
What's left behind the scenes
- The two main characters in the film are helicopters, so the filmmakers turned to legendary pilot Chuck Aaron, who is a master of flying this type of vehicle, for help. He helped to depict the helicopters with maximum realism. In some scenes, Ranger Vinny performs complex maneuvers that were reviewed and approved by Aaron.
- The two characters in love, Harvey and Vinny, were voiced by Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who are married in real life.
- When creating the locations for the film, the animators drew inspiration from the beauty of US national parks, including Yosemite and Yellowstone: The Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park served as a prototype for the resort base; The Director of National Parks, Jonathan Jarvis, was invited to Disneytoon to view the film. He was impressed by the attention to detail, even noticing the rocking chairs by the fireplace at the base; The train station adjacent to the resort base was copied from a real building near the north entrance to Yellowstone Park. The structure was designed by Robert Reamer, the architect of the Old Faithful Inn.
- To pay tribute to their new friends from the CalFire team at the Hemet-Ryan rescue airbase, where the animators collected data for the film, Vinny’s fuselage is decorated with the number 301. This is the same number painted on the tail of real CalFire firefighting helicopters.
- The animators wanted to leave no doubt in the audience's minds that the national park director, Cade Spinner, was playing dirty, so they always placed a trash can next to the SUV whenever the character appeared in the frame.
- Some of the film's characters are based on real aviation and automotive prototypes: The image of Dusty Crophopper incorporates elements of agricultural aircraft produced by the American company Air Tractor (model 502), as well as Cessna and Air Dromader aircraft; The designers of Windlifter drew inspiration from the blueprints of the heavy transport helicopter S-64 Skycrane (manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft), the multi-purpose helicopter Ka-26 (JSC "Kamov", Lyubertsy), and the military transport helicopter Mi-10 ("Rostvertol", Rostov); The fire truck Zero-One, a permanent resident of Propwash Junction, is modeled after the 1943 Fordson Tender truck; Express was modeled after the American military transport Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, also known as the "Flying Boxcar"; The 1968 Ford Bronco inspired the animators working on the image of the Minister of Natural Resources.
- Erik Estrada paid tribute to the television series "California Highway Patrol" (1977-1983), in which he played patrolman Frank Poncherello. He voiced the role of police helicopter Nick "Blade" Lopez. According to the film's script, his character appeared in the TV series "CHoPs".
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