Why Disney Planes won´t be as good as Cars

There´s a lot of fuzz about the new movie Planes from Disney right now.

It opened several weeks ago in the US but here in Sweden we still have to wait until the 27th of september to get to see the movie.
And of course I will see it. Me and A have already made up the plan. But will I like it? Probably just a bit.
Disney is a solid film making machinery and this movie won´t be an exception in the entertaining way. Action, cool characters, an impressive art work - I will get it all.

But it won´t be a new Cars. Or even close.

In one of the documentarys I´ve seen about the making of Cars (Yes I have seen several) one of the central things John Lassetere say about the reasons to the success of Cars is the strong connection between man and car.

In the very first frames of the film the first glances of Lightning McQueen is shiny. Sharp. Curves. Colors. Great music. Love to the machine.

And it´s not any machine. It´s the CAR. The symbol of freedom. And where the plane could be an even greater to escapism, flight and away awaya away - it is not. Because one does not simply have a plane.

Imagine Bruce Springsteen writing songs about escaping dullness of life in a Cessna on Born to Run...

Everybody could easily picture themselves owning a car. Even a shiny or a fast and powerful one.

But for us humans - the planes are still something untrusty, something we travel in and something we marvel upon. But it is no such thing as an item we own.

And this bond that do not exists between me and the airplane will affect me, and thousands of cinema visitors all over the world. We won´t get as excited this time.

And we won´t buy the diecast models.