As bad as the first Wings film was, being a lazy film that played things too safely and lacked overall quality, its sequel fares worse. It makes all the mistakes its predecessor did and makes more on the way, including being a blatant rip-off of the Planes sequel (the first Wings film contained very lazy confused storytelling, but wasn't anywhere near as blatant), which actually was an improvement on the first Planes film.
The only halfway decent thing here about Wings: Sky Force Heroes is the soundtrack, it's pretty catchy and fits within the film far better than the one in the first Wings did, that film's soundtrack would be alright on its own but jarred and felt like a less-fitting alternate soundtrack. Nothing else here however works. The animation is even worse than the animation in the first Wings film, the first film did have some solid character designs but the sequel didn't even have that. The colours are flat, framing and movement is stiff, the backgrounds lack polish or detail and further ruined by choppy editing, synching is sloppy and the character designs are now creepy-looking (those eyes!) and robotic, for a rip-off it doesn't even try to stay consistent with or remotely resemble the Planes sequel's character designs.
Wings: Sky Force Heroes contains a poor script too, with some embarrassingly juvenile jokes, dialogue that is even more shallow and flatter than its predecessor and like the first Wings film it plays things too safely to the extent that it's lazy and simplistic. The story lacks any kind of appeal for children and adults alike (which is an animated film or family film's biggest failure), children are likely to find it too jumpy and too muddled and adults are guaranteed to find it tedious and simplistically lazy from again playing things too safe. Because like the previous Wings film parts are very dull and go on for too long (like the scene at the fair) and then there are other parts that feel rushed and incomplete. If one is familiar with the plot of the Planes sequel, there won't be any surprises here, and it generates no tension or emotion other than boredom and frustrated anger at seeing such a lazily constructed film.
The characters here are even blander and cookie-cutter than the first Wings film, with next to no engaging personalities or development, Fred is almost as obnoxious as Dodo and T-Bone is a lamer retread of Cyclone. The voice acting gets the job done, but again it's all very undistinguished and with not that much involvement.
All in all, a very poorly done sequel to an already bad predecessor. 1/10 Bethany Cox
