Production Year: 1980 - Comedy - Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance more
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Airplane! has surely got to be considered as one of the all time greats of satirical comedy today. Spoofing disaster movies, Airplane! will manages to have 95% of any audience in hysterics throughout the film.
Brought to you by the same guys who directed Leslie Nielsen's similarly hilarious series Police Squad, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker, this film uses all sorts of jokes - crude, intelligent, slapstick - to extract as many laughs as possible.
The film starts with ex-fighter-jet pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) boarding a plane for the first time since a fiasco with the service that left him with a strong aerophobia. On board, he finds his ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julie Hagerty) as a stewardess.
When the plane starts to go down as bad food causes the illnesses of the drivers and many crew members, it is up to Ted to save the day, as he is the only one with flying experience.
Looking at that, you might think, sounds like an average-to-poor plot. Well you'd be right, it is an average-to-poor plot, but this is intentional and adds to the spoofing value. Airplane! was made in 1980, and in the 1970s there were many disaster movies made, and Airplane! takes full advantage of the comic potential just waiting to be turned into a film.
Leslie Nielsen steals the performance as Dr. Rumack, who similarly to Nielsen's character in Naked Gun and Police Squad, Frank Drebin, plays a confident, assured character on the outside, is really a bit of an idiot on the outside.
The film's comic timing and general jokes are spectacular, some of the funniest jokes being visual as well as the audio humor. It's one of those films where you see more jokes every time you watch it.
One of the funniest films of the millennium if you're into this kind of humor, a definite must-have.
For a list of humorous Airplane! quotations, visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes
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Outstanding
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Airplane! [1980]
The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original
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Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the 1980s, not to mention of cinema itself (it often tops polls of the funniest movies ever made)...
Production Year: 1980 - Comedy - Director: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Ken Finkleman - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over
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