Airplane! (1980)
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Reviews Counted: 48 Fresh: 48 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.4/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Synopsis: The spoof comedy that set the gold standard for all that followed it, AIRPLANE takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that peppered cinemas in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot (who has a drinking problem and is afraid of... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen
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Is it the best comedy ever made? I don't know, but it surely is the funniest.I stand by that. And don't call me Shirley.
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07/20/08
Although the gags aren't entirely consistent, it's inspired stuff. And whatever you do don't switch off during the closing credits.
04/01/08
The gags aren't exactly clever, but there are a lot of them, and the cutting finds a fast, effective tempo.
04/01/08
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The fact that the movie doesn't work as well today as it did in 1980 in no way diminishes its importance in recent motion picture history.
04/01/08
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Loaded with slapstick silliness and schoolboy wordplay, featuring tongue-in-cheek performances by familiar television personalities, and mostly just plain goofy.
04/01/08
From the clever Jaws take-off opening to the final, irreverent title card, laughs come thick and fast.
04/01/08
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Brilliant, still funny airplane disaster movie parody. Started new comedy career for Nielsen.
02/23/08
Still the funniest and most inspired of the madcap genre spoofs. For every dumb or tasteless joke that doesn't fly, a dozen land directly at Laugh Central.
10/30/06
Some of the humor has become very politically incorrect 25-plus years later. And God love it for that.
02/20/06
Psycho ground controllers (Stack and Bridges), laff-a-second pace, and bludgeoning innuendo make this the acceptable face of the locker-room satire.
02/09/06
The definition of 'deadpan' starts and ends with Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker's Airplane!.
01/13/06
Unprecedented nonsense that--fashions aside--will remain timeless comedy cinema. [new DVD review]
12/19/05
It is sophomoric, obvious, predictable, corny, and quite often very funny. And the reason it's funny is frequently because it's sophomoric, predictable, corny, etc.
12/06/05
Top Critic
Sustains a single premise for its entire running time, and does so without lagging or going limp.
12/05/05
It may run 90 minutes, but it takes me 120 minutes to watch it after rewinding through the jokes I missed because I was laughing too hard at the joke prior to it.
10/28/05
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