(From CS) The characters include Dusty, a crop-duster voiced by the previously announced Dane Cook, Bravo and Echo, two Top Gun-style fighter jets appropriately voiced by Anthony Edwards and Val Kilmer, Skipper (Stacy Keach), Leadbottom (Cedric the Entertainer), Dottie (Teri Hatcher), Chug (Brad Garrett), Ripslinger (Roger Craig Smith), Ned and Zed (Gabriel Iglesias), El Chupacabra (Carlos Alazraqui), Rochelle (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Bulldog (John Cleese), Ishani (Priyanka Chopra), Roper (Sinbad) and sports-announcing blimp Colin Cowling (ESPN sports pundit Colin Cowherd).
(From USA Today) The film originally was slated to be made for the straight-to-DVD market. But it became clear that the project held box-office promise and that a theater-size canvas was needed for the 3-D production.
(USA Today) Planes also features military might, notably the reunion of Top Gun's Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards voicing the F-18 fighter jets Bravo and Echo, who come to Dusty's rescue over the Pacific.
CS (character images):http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=101979
Source USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/03/25/planes-dane-cook/1998599/
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