Planes 2: Fire & Rescue

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Planes Fire & Rescue is 2014 Disney Movie

## Plot

Since winning the Wings Around the Globe Rally in the previous film, 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, that type of gearbox is out of production, and none can be found anywhere, 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 because Mayday's hose is severly damaged and worn and are forced to topple a water tower to smother the flames, but the accident leads to a government inspector named Ryker 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.

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 finding 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 is also damaged, from protecting Dusty in the fire, and is temporarily grounded for repairs. While Blade is recuperating, Dusty learns from Maru in discreet, that Blade's co-star from *CHoPs* was wrecked during a stunt gone wrong on set that Blade was helpless to stop, so he quitted the show and became a firefighter to save lives 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 fly too low and make air eddies which blow embers about, creating a larger fire. The national park's superintendent Cad Spinner selfishly diverts all the water supply to his lodge's roof sprinklers to prevent the 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, named Harvey and Winnie, 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, as the only other surface water near is a river too shallow and twisty and rocky for him to scoop from. Meanwhile, Blade shows up and assists the campers by holding the bridge with his winch. Dusty successfully drops water and extinguishes the fire, allowing the campers to escape, but his overstressed gearbox fails completely, and he crashes.

Unconscious, Dusty is airlifted back to base, where he wakes up five 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, and Mayday, the resident firetruck (who was already seen in the first film) getting a new paint job, windshield (so he no longer wears glasses) and siren, and 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, and his position was replaced by Ranger Jammer.

## Voice Cast

* Dane Cook as Dusty Crophopper
* Stacy Keach as Skipper Riley
* Danny Mann as Sparky
* Julie Bowen as Lil' Dipper
* Brad Garrett as Chug
* Teri Hatcher as Dottie
* Curtis Armstrong as Maru
* Ed Harris as Blade Ranger
* Wes Studi as Windlifter
* Dale Dye as Cabbie
* Regina King as Dynamite
* Corri English as Pinecone
* Bryan Callen as Avalanche
* Danny Pardo as Blackout
* Matt Jones as Drip
* Fred Willard as Secretary of the Interior
* Jerry Stiller as Harvey
* Cedric the Entertainer as Leadbottom
* Anne Meara as Winnie
* Erik Estrada as Nick Loopin' Lopez
* John Michael Higgins as Cad Spinner
* Barry Corbin as Ol' Jammer
* Hal Holbrook as Mayday
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Ryker
* Patrick Warburton as Pulaski
* Brad Paisley as Flap
* Kari Wahlgren as Patch
* René Auberjonois as André
* Steve Schirripa as Steve
* Brent Musburger as Brent Mustangburger
* John Ratzenberger as Brody
* Jamie Theakston as Pick-up Truck (UK version)
* Emma Bunton as Lady Car (UK version)
* Bear Grylls as Avalanche (UK theatrical version)

## Trivia

* Dinoco cans are seen in the Honkers bar.
* Aside from the new title, the Planes logo appears to have a few small changes. For example:
	+ The silver metal has been changed to bronze.
	+ The small star below the title "*Planes*" has been changed to a sort of firehouse symbol, or the number "2" for countries where the film is titled *Planes 2*.
* *Planes: Fire & Rescue* is the overall fourth entry in the *Cars* franchise. A fifth entry, *Cars 3*, was released on June 16, 2017.
* In addition to car-ification and plane-ification, some aspects of Piston Peak National Park appear to be train-ified.
* Known as a SEAT (Single Engine Air Tanker), crop dusters were among the first wildfire air attack aircraft. The first operational air tanker was a repurposed crop duster, which made the first air drop on the Mendocino National Forest in 1955.
* Blade Ranger and Windlifter are both helicopters, so filmmakers turned to world-renowned aerobatic helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron to ensure they captured the helicopter flight authentically. Blade Ranger pulls some tricky maneuvers in the film that were reviewed and validated by Aaron.
* The film’s setting is inspired by elements from a host of national parks, including Yosemite and Yellowstone.
	+ National Parks Director Jonathan Jarvis was invited to DisneyToon Studios to view the film. He was thrilled with the attention to detail like the inclusion of rocking chairs in front of the fireplace.
	+ Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Inn served as inspiration for the film’s Grand Fusel Lodge.
	+ The railway station attached to the Grand Fusel Lodge was inspired by an actual station that once existed near Yellowstone’s north entrance and was designed by Robert Reamer, the architect of the Old Faithful Inn.
* Playing upon the theme of second chances and based on filmmakers’ real-life observations during research trips to aerial firefighting stations, much of the Piston Peak Air Attack Base set is made up of repurposed structures. Filmmakers learned that budgets are traditionally stretched by reusing items, so they incorporated the practice in *Planes: Fire & Rescue*. Maru is the ringleader when it comes to repurposing, repeating the mantra, ‘It’s better than new.’
* A picture of Lightning McQueen is seen on a racing newspaper that Sparky was reading, while Sarge was seen on a photo in Mayday's garage.
* Mayday states that he uses Rust-eze Medicated Bumper Ointment.
* The "red stuff" being dropped from the airplanes is Long Term Fire Retardant called Phos-Chek. It has been used by the US Forest Service for 50 years, and is used to create a containment line around a wildfire. It is dropped as a liquid, and will remain effective until it is washed off by heavy rain. The red color is used so pilots can see where to drop the next load to tie in with the line of previous drops.
* *CHoPs,* the television series Blade Ranger starred in, is a parody of *CHiPs*.
	+ Nick Lopez is voiced by Erik Estrada, who starred in the real-world TV series.
	+ Both *CHiPs* and the fictional *CHoPs* ran for 139 episodes (which Dipper describes as "139 episodes of law-breaking love").
	+ Animator Piero Piluso watched every episode of *CHiPs* to ensure the accuracy of *CHoPs.*
* *Howard the Truck* is a car-ified parody of *Howard the Duck*, a 1986 film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
* Animators created more than 2.5 million trees.
* Of the 1,224 shots featured in the movie, half involved visual effects.
* The film is dedicated to the courageous firefighters who risk their lives every day.
* The fourth animated sequel to be produced in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, unlike the previous installments which were produced at 1.85:1, after *Rugrats Go Wild*, *Shrek Forever After* and *Ice Age: Continental Drift*.
* The Honkers bar is a parody of the real-life Hooters.
* While the gang is watching *CHoPs*, Blade pulls out his hoist and everyone except Dusty shouts "Hoist!" and drinks oil, implying that they are playing a drinking game.
* To date, this is Disneytoon Studios' only film to be produced in a 2.39:1 widescreen aspect ratio rather than either of the three different widescreen ratios (1.66:1, 1.78:1, or 1.85:1).
* The DisneyToons logo at the start of the movie has several planes flying over it after it is completed.
* This is the first and only *Planes* film that is not directed by Klay Hall.
* This is the first Disney animated sequel to be rated PG by the MPAA.
* This is the last DisneyToon Studios film to be rated PG by the MPAA and to be released in theaters.