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Soul Plane
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation


4.0

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MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, language and some drug use

Starring Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, K.D. Aubert, Dwayne Adway, Angell Conwell, and D.L. Hughley

After a humiliating and horrific experience on a commercial flight, Nashawn Wade (Hart) sues and is awarded a $100 million settlement. Determined to make good with his newfound wealth he decides to create the airline of his dreams. With the help of his cousin Muggsy (Method Man), Nashawn creates NWA Airlines, the first full-service carrier designed to cater to the urban traveler. (MGM)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Bo Zenga Chuck Wilson
DIRECTED BY:	Jessy Terrero
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: September 7, 2004 Video: September 7, 2004 Theatrical: May 28, 2004
RUNNING TIME:	90 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

A third of the way into Soul Plane, maybe earlier if you're in the right mood or with the wrong company, you might actually start to enjoy disliking the movie. Like, say, Prince's "Purple Rain," certain Joan Crawford movies, and Leslie Nielsen at his best worst, the film inspires cathartic ridicule.

Film Threat Clint Morris

A lot better than one would expect. It's amusing, it's inspired and hey, it's a lot wittier than the last two "Scary Movies" combined. Though, like most lampoons, it runs out of steam about half way through.

Miami Herald Peter Debruge

An idea whose time is long overdue, a tricked-out jumbo jet custom fit to meet the needs of today's savvy black traveler.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

A raunchy spoof of the disaster-movie lampoon Airplane! - does everything to get the laugh. And in the way that a broken watch is right twice a day, a shotgun comedy like this one occasionally hits its target.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Has moments of inspiration, but the scattershot spoofing never achieves enough momentum to get this flight airborne.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

A better- than-average comedy that is raunchy and tasteless but ultimately funny from beginning to end.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This is dumb, raunchy, and obvious, but it's also pretty funny, and delivered with the gusto of a Redd Foxx monologue.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Only fitfully funny, and it makes up for what it lacks in genuine humor by overdosing viewers with outrageous sexuality and outsize stereotypes.

Premiere Otis Hart

Snoop's subtle performance in the captain's chair flips all the right switches, and Ryan Pinkston's timing as Arnold's "straight out of Malibu" son is perfect, but these two aren't enough to salvage the film.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Not everyone will be thrilled by the movie, which is one long dirty (and occasionally very funny) joke.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

A scattershot "urban" take on "Airplane!," Soul Plane misfires with its jokes at least as often as it hits (and less often than Snoop Dogg hits a joint), but when it works, laughs are generated.

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

If you're looking for comic insights beyond the well-documented ass differential between whites and blacks, well, golly, you ought to try another carrier.

Variety Brian Lowry

Begins as a high-spirited romp before running out of gas and ideas about halfway up the tarmac.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Flashy production design can't save Soul Plane from crashing and burning in a debris field strewn with stereotypes and raunch.

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

Starts out as an exuberant romp but soon gets trapped in a holding pattern of dumb sex and toilet jokes.

New York Post Megan Lehmann

This one-joke comedy vehicle is flying through a laugh-free zone.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

When it's funny it's uproarious. Otherwise, you're crestfallen to discover that the movie is a relentless sucker punch to black entrepreneurship.

USA Today Claudia Puig

With its excessive sleaze and gross-out gags, Soul Plane overshoots effective spoofery. Mostly it's a foul, eye-rolling experience.

TV Guide Angel Cohn

While this flight should have been permanently delayed due to extraordinarily offensive conditions, there are no signs instructing you to remain seated should you decide to discreetly exit before your tour of the unfriendly skies is over.

Washington Post Sara Gebhardt

An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up Soul Plane.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Director Jessy Terrero's spasmodically funny air-travel parody unfailingly counters every one of its genuinely uproarious gags with at least two or three others rooted in retrograde racial panic.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

Let's make this simple: If you spend money on Soul Plane, you've been played.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Gross, nearly unwatchable comedy.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

In the midst of this comic black hole, only Snoop Dogg and Method Man emerge unscathed, as even material this bad can't mask their languid, long-limbed charisma.

Village Voice Joshua Land

Coming off a memorable supporting turn in Starsky & Hutch, Snoop Dogg is sadly underutilized as the stoner pilot.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Excruciating in the extreme, this is the nadir of urban comedies thus far: a trashy, crass, and painfully unfunny airline disaster of a film.

The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Alfonso M. gave it a 0:
The people who acted, produce and release this piece of crap really must have been on something really bad to sign on to do this type of movie and they were trying to say is and updated or a hip hop version of airplane. Which it doesnt even come near to be as funny or any good to begin with.

Chad S. gave it a 1:
You don't categorically dismiss a film like "Soul Plane" because it's scatalogical and low-brow. What makes this film downright insidious and reprehensible is revealed in the presentation of the airline's low-class section. The film begins with an African-American being treated poorly by an airlines that seems biased towards whites. There's no meat left for Nashawn (Kevin Hart)'s stroganoff. It would've made more sense if Nashawn won his lawsuit against the airlines for discrimination, but the filmmakers wanted to kill a dog for laughs, so that's how he gets his hundred-million dollars. Nashawn launches his own airlines, and incredibly, proceeds to treat his passengers worse than they would've been on an airlines that didn't cater specifically to African-Americans. "Soul Plane" plays like an accidental satire. You have African-Americans in first-class (read: Republicans), and their counterparts huddled in an simulated ghetto, thirty-thousand feet in the air. Isn't it somewhat jaw-dropping to see a bucket of Popeye's chicken being passed around? The ghost of D.W. Griffith is chuckling to himself somewhere. Why is the reinforcement of an ugly stereotype funny? The creative team behind "Soul Plane" isn't aware, and the target demographics for this sort of film isn't aware, that this might be the sort of film a certain rapper might want to shout "Burn, Hollywood Burn!" at. Look closely, and you'll see an ugly ideology at work.

Adrian H. gave it a 7:
There was a couple of funny parts in the movie, it surely dosen't desevere a 0 rating, If you didn't laugh a least once in the movie you got issues.

Doesanyone Watchthese gave it a 0:
Just another usual peice of crap that some sucka made for suckas. Suckas can't make movies. Exception: Friday. Good sucka movie.

Fred W. gave it a 0:
My buddy bought my ticket to this movie and I still got up and walked out. This movie was b-a-d. (And I don't mean in a hip-hop way.)

Melissa M. gave it a 0:
I can sum up this movie in three (3) words: Stupid, Stupid.

Rose B. gave it a 10:
Monique and newcomer Loni Love made the movie. I would love to see these two in a sitcom or another movie.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation