Super Wings: Maximum Speed (4 Stars)

Twice a month (usually the second and fourth Sunday of the month) my local cinema has a Cinemini event. It's a film specially picked for children from three to five years old. The lights in the cinema aren't completely turned off, they're just dimmed, so that young children aren't scared. Apart from suitable trailers, there are no adverts before the film. That's cool! Usually the films are shorter than usual, about an hour long, but today the film lasted 89 minutes.

Today was an important day for me. It was the first cinema visit of my granddaughter Evelyn, who was born in May 2021. It was a family visit for us. We were accompanied by her parents, my daughter and my son-in-law.

The film is a spin-off of a Korean television series about a group of intelligent airplanes. From the film alone I couldn't understand what the purpose of the planes is. The film concentrates on Jet (at the front in the picture), the world's fastest airplane. He does a job delivering parcels, but I'm not sure if that's his only job. It's a good job for him, because, as I said, he's the fastest.

Jet makes friends with a young YouTuber called Fay (or Pei in the original Korean) when he delivers her a parcel. This brings him into conflict with a villain called Billy Willy. Billy wants to stop people using YouTube, because he thinks they should play with toys, like in the old days. That doesn't sound so bad, does it? Unfortunately he also captures all the most successful YouTubers and shoots them to the Moon, where they can no longer work online.

Billy also wants to stop people visiting tourist attractions, so he covers them with goo. The Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the pyramids and other famous tourist attractions are covered with sticky stuff. Yuck! That should be enough to make people stay at home and play with toys.

Jet to the rescue! First he acts by himself, then his fellow planes arrive to help.

Evelyn enjoyed the film, but it was too long for her. After an hour she was running around. In retrospect, the usual one hour limit would have been better.

She didn't understand the story. When I asked her about the film she could remember the planes and a few other things, but not what they were doing. She's too young. But she said she wants to go again. I want to make a film fan out of her.