Airplane! (Wide Screen)

Advantages: Everything - perfect
Disadvantages: Nothing - perfect

Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it? Striker: Surely you can't be serious. Rumack: I am serious. And don't call me Shirley. In all my days I have never seen a film which has given me so many consistent asthma attacks. 'Airplane!' is, quite simply, the funniest film ever made, I honestly cannot think of a better film. Let me tell you a little story. The first time I saw this film it was on the recommendation of my mother, and me and mother ...
...prepared for the hysterical laughter, tears and coughing fits that were to come. My laughter while watching this film was intense, loud and demented, I am surprised the neighbours didn't come around to check up on me to make sure I was okay (which is precisely the kind of thing my neighbour would do, she has developed these razor-sharp knuckles that she uses to rap on the window so darn hard you think the world's about to end). Before I start to ... Read review

Advantages: Hilarious all the way through
Disadvantages: None

“Airplane!”: the original and best of all of the Zucker brothers spoof movies. Made in 1980, it spoofs the spate of “Airport” disaster movies made in the 1970s and is a laugh a minute, full of visual humour, one-liners and generally silly, nevertheless hilarious, jokes. The basis of the plot revolves around Ted Striker (Robert Hays), an veteran Air Force pilot who has been traumatised by an air crash during the war. He has been dumped by his girlfriend, ...
...he can try to win her back is to conquer his fear of flying and get on the flight that she is taking away to a new life in another part of the country. Unfortunately, disaster strikes the flight when the fish option from the in flight catering appears to make anyone who eats it violently ill, and even more unfortunately, all of the flight crew had the fish. It’s left to Elaine, with the assistance of passenger Dr. Rumach (Leslie Nielsen) (not to ... Read review

Advantages: funny, funny, funny
Disadvantages: none really, some people may not like it

Airplane! (1980) Characters Robert Hays - Theodore 'Ted' Striker Robert Hays plays an ex-aircraft pilot who flew in the war and caused a massive accident by telling his squadron to fly too low. He has been indecisive ever since and had trouble with his relationship with Elaine. Robert Hays plays this role with competence and is very good in making his character come alive. He has many minor roles since but never made it big-time. Julie Hagerty ...
...of Ted Striker, she left him because he has no self-confidence and was becoming obsessed about the war. She is a stewardess on the flight that Ted gets. Julie Hagerty plays the role well and blends into her character well. This was her first ever acting role and she did a good job for it to be her debut. Lloyd Bridges - Steven McCroskey, Chicago Air Control One of his 176 films, Lloyd Bridges is the Air Traffic Control person with an added twist; ... Read review

Advantages: Truly hilarious spoof in which nothing and no-one is sacred
Disadvantages: You'll be quoting lines for eternity

...Stack played Rex Kramer in Airplane! and basically took the p*** out of himself as Elliot Ness in the TV version of The Untouchables. Acting all hard on the exterior while plainly not having a clue, Stack is the perfect foil to Hays and Nielsen here. The film wouldn't be the same without him. Lloyd Bridges - Another serious actor roped into a comedy role here, Bridges plays the drug-addled controller McCroskey. No words I type can do justice to ...
...Hilarious all the way through, Airplane! made the career of Leslie Nielsen, changed the career of Lloyd Bridges, and carved out a whole new genre in Hollywood movies. Even though it's now 21 years old, it has withstood the test of time well, and stands up to contemporary comedies so well as to still positively outshine them. go hire it out and watch it again - you deserve to. ~~~~~~~~~ Airplane! DVD £18.99 from Amazon.co.uk Airplane! VHS video ... Read review

Advantages: Very Funny
Disadvantages: Too Short :)

I am writing a review on the unbelievable funny movie Airplane. The Story The actual story line without the comedy - It tells the story of how an man wants to win back his girl Elaine who is an air hostess of an airplane - so he buys a 1 way ticket to get on the plane to talk to her. He is an ex air pilot called Ted who used to fly in the war years ago but after causing a accident back then he hasn't recovered and now has a fear of flying. Any ...
...away to the lady beside him of how he wants his girl back and how he met her. Anyway - Elaine is going around taking food orders - on the menu is fish and steak. However after all the food is over, an outbreak of illnesses has taken place and it turns out that anyone who had the fish is taking really ill. So "Is there a doctor in the place" takes place… Dr. Rumack comes out - I am a doctor. So off he goes - going around all the sick patients when ... Read review