Metascore
33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 26
  2. Negative: 11 out of 26
  1. 38
    This one-joke comedy vehicle is flying through a laugh-free zone.
  2. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    With its excessive sleaze and gross-out gags, Soul Plane overshoots effective spoofery. Mostly it's a foul, eye-rolling experience.
  3. 38
    When it's funny it's uproarious. Otherwise, you're crestfallen to discover that the movie is a relentless sucker punch to black entrepreneurship.
  4. Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    30
    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.
  5. 30
    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.
  6. Reviewed by: Sara Gebhardt
    30
    An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up Soul Plane.
  7. 25
    Let's make this simple: If you spend money on Soul Plane, you've been played.
  8. Gross, nearly unwatchable comedy.
  9. 20
    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.
  10. Reviewed by: Joshua Land
    20
    Coming off a memorable supporting turn in Starsky & Hutch, Snoop Dogg is sadly underutilized as the stoner pilot.
  11. 0
    Excruciating in the extreme, this is the nadir of urban comedies thus far: a trashy, crass, and painfully unfunny airline disaster of a film.
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 8 out of 12
  1. This raucous comedy has fun for the whole family, as long as the whole family is 18 or older. It tells the tale of Nashawn Wayne and his brand new airline, NWA. Be ready to hold your sides while Snoop Dogg, Method Man, and the whole gang take you to new, unparalleled, comedic heights.
    But at heart, this film is a classic love story. Young Nashawn has been kicked down his whole life. When he finally gets a chance to have everything heâ
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