Firefighting certainly isn't child's play, but San Diego's Fire-Rescue Department hopes to stoke the imaginations of young and old through a new licensing agreement with Mattel. The City Council ...

To be fair, "Planes: Fire and Rescue" is kids’ fare exclusively, but as Pixar and many others have proven – most recently, "How to Train Your Dragon 2" – kids deserve better than mere ...

“Planes: Fire & Rescue” appears to be a cartoon that’s designed for kids, and designed to sell anthropomorphized helicopter toys to kids. To be clear, it is both of those things. But this ...

It's not a patch of Walt Disney animated classics, but Planes: Fire and Rescue is a beautifully animated and mostly entertaining action drama that pitches itself explicitely to kids without ...

This Disney sequel to 2013’s “Planes” is a lot like flying coach: serviceable, but not trying that hard. In “Planes: Fire & Rescue,” crop-duster turned racing star Dusty (Dane Cook ...

“Planes: Fire & Rescue” is roughly twice as good as its predecessor, “Planes,” which was so story-and-laugh starved it would have given “direct-to-video” a bad name. Yes, there was ...

"We are celebrating the brave men and women that fight fires day in and day out, with a really heartwarming story to it," Cook told THR of Disney's animated sequel.

The animated world of vehicles and vessels in Planes: Fire & Rescue lacks vibrancy and strands audiences in a creative wilderness. While Disney's latest film (* * out of four; rated PG; opens ...

As perfunctory animated family entertainment goes, Planes: Fire and Rescue is a well-made if by-the-numbers adventure about second chances and the value of heroes over celebrities.

“Planes: Fire and Rescue” is pretty simple, but it’s never simplistic; things work out great for Dusty, but that’s all part of the kid-movie experience.