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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 2, 1980 |
Starring:
Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Hays
Summary:
A straight-faced yet absurdist comedy about a burned out lovelorn ex-pilot is pressed into service when an airliner's crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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The really great thing about Airplane! is that the jokes undercut your expectations so deftly, right down to the sour air traffic controller called Stack. When it's suggested that he turns on the landing lights on the runway, he snaps back: "That's just what they're expecting us to do."
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The humor is an ingenious concoction of satire, spoof, burlesque, slapstick, raunchy dialogue and low-comedy sight gags. The jokes are directed at sex, politics, religion and almost everything else. The level of humor is not always consistent, but the filmmakers have thrown almost everything in with a shotgun approach and the routines work more often than not.
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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. Example: Airplane Captain (Peter Graves): Surely you can't be serious. Doctor (Leslie Nielsen): I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley. This sort of humor went out with Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis, and knock-knock jokes. That's why it's so funny.
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Airplane loses its buoyancy. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who share both writing and directorial credits, become so desperate for laughs that the jokes descend to a much cruder level. And Airplane does an abrupt nosedive, turning a hopelessly flat movie, sparked only by the occasional appearances of Lloyd Bridges as an easily rattled air traffic controller whose nerves are such he depends on booze and pills to keep himself going on the job.
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Nov 15, 2017
There needs to be a scientific study into how this film stays so consistently funny for so long. It's actually baffling that a film like this can even exist.
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Jan 22, 2021
A classic and a go to for all spoof movies till this day.
Laugh out loud jokes, memorable characters and sound bites that are still quoted today.
Laugh out loud jokes, memorable characters and sound bites that are still quoted today.
1 of 1 users found this helpful10
Jan 26, 2020
One Of The Best Parody Films
Airplane! is clever, funny, excellently written, and very memorable.
Airplane! is clever, funny, excellently written, and very memorable.
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Oct 8, 2019
One of THE funniest movies I have ever seen. The perfect marriage of comedy and suspense. Oh, by the way, stop calling me Shirley!
1 of 1 users found this helpful10
Nov 13, 2019
Great humour with a lot of hints to so many things. Classic movie, that never gets old.
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Dec 4, 2021
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Feb 11, 2020
Very funny, sometimes hilarious film that runs out of ideas towards the end.
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