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Summary: Awesome film, but a dissapointment of a dvd
Review: I gave this a 4 because this doesn't need everything fancy. My grandparents, who loved this as well, let me borrow theirs constantly. Together, it was probably circulated 50 times. Now, they don't have a dvd player, but I do. I thought the picture quality on the vhs was, well, dated. I bought the dvd at [a local store] This wasn't when dvd's were most expensive, this was 2002. I looked at it and I saw that it had 5.1 surround. Now, I don't have surround sound (I have a virtual surround sound 2-channel, though, which is awesome as a special feature on your dvd player, but it can only go so far), but I have friends who have it, and I commonly watch movies at their houses. Well, I saw that it had commentary. Well, I don't usually listen to commontery, other than on my favorite scenes, but this one [was bad].I like the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker group. They are very funny filmmakers. This was just the old laserdisk version. Now paromount old films usually are in widescreen with poor picture quality, lousy commentary, 5.1 sound that has an analog tendency, and as a special feature, a trailer. Buut, this dvd was made in a time when a trailer was your special feathre. Come oon Paromount, extend to deleted scnes and making of documentaries. It wouldn't exactly hurt your sales. This was a typical dvd a couple of years ago, when it was released. DVD was seen as just sligtly better than vhs, and they took up less space. DVD was at it's height, in terms of cost, but it was at it's low, in terms of special features, sound and picture quality. Some dvd's provoked that idea. This one should have. It's okay, they SHOULD re-release it. Guess where my copy is going if they re-release it? Ebay.
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Summary: The most delightful dumb move ever made
Review: This movie is so many things: unrepentantly dumb, excruciatingly silly, utterly without shame in doing absolutely anything to get a laugh. No movie ever made has as many jokes as this one, and even if half of them fail, the other half cannot fail but delight all but the dullest and most serious of souls. So many of the jokes in this film have become part of the odd vocabulary of my laugh. If I meet someone named Clarence, I have to repress the desire to ask, "Do we have clearance, Clarence?" And though I am about the most drug free person in America, at frustrating moments I have often said, "What a week to give up sniffing glue." And who can think of gladiator movies, blow up dolls, singing nuns, Hare Krishnas, sunglasses, red/white zones, anyone named Victor, war trauma, meters running on cabs, drinking problems, or, of course, anyone named Shirley in the same way after this movie?The movie isn't perfect, but who the [heck] cares? I have seen my fair share of "art" films and black and white films (my favs primarily tend to be 30s and 40s Hollywood comedies) and subtitled imports, but there is a lot to be said for a film that just wants to make us laugh like mad. I would never, ever put this on any list of the best movies ever made, but I would without hesitation put it on a short list of the most enjoyable.
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Summary: This is air travel?! gimme the Toonerville Trolley
Review: Jim Abrahams and the Brothers Zucker, a/k/a the Unholy Trio, are responsible for this belly-laugh-a-minute film that is one of the funniest movies ever to come out of Hollywood. It has the most fragile excuse for a plot and doesn't need much more. From the wacky opening sequence (the theater audience where I first saw this movie fell into the aisles when the theme from "Jaws" started playing and the plane's tail see-sawed ominously through the clouds), to the hilarious credits (be sure to stick around for these), the movie goes from one laugh to the next and never lets up. "Airplane!" spawned the spoof genre, and it's still the best of the pack. The movie lambastes airline disaster films, TV commercials, Hollywood blockbusters, airline food (wouldn't you know the fish would go bad?), Tupperware parties, religious nuts, and about everything else you can think of. The actors, most of them strangers to comedy, seem to be having the time of their lives. There are a couple of scenes that gave this movie a PG rating (a topless lady in the mass hysteria scene when Julie Hagerty asks the passengers via the PA system if anybody on board knows how to fly a plane, and a priceless scene when Hagerty has to give emergency service to Otto, the plane's automatic pilot), but actually this film is nothing a 6th grader couldn't watch. My son saw it when he was 11 and hit the floor laughing, along with everyone else in the theater. The movie doesn't even pretend to take itself seriously; it's an hour and a half of pure unadulterated fun. Grab the popcorn, sit back and enjoy the ride of your life. (And just be glad it's only a movie!)
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Summary: Every thing you ever wanted to know about air travel
Review: Leslie Nielsen has been around for a long time and in many leads before striking out on a road to comedy. This is but one story. However it was a turning point for him from leading man in "Forbidden Planet (1956)" ..., to serious doctor in " Airplane! (1980)", to Field Guide in "National Geographic's "The Savage Garden" with Leslie Nielsen (1997)" ...
Airplane has a great cast including Robert Stack (playing himself), Lloyd Bridges (glub glub), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (just as defensive as ever).
This movie is unique. It is the first; I have seen displaying one liners with serious intent. It was not just slapstick or Abbot and Costello. It worked well enough for sequels and other films to be made in the new genre. I keep it with the Leslie Nielsen Collection.
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Summary: Best comedy EVER!!!
Review: What is there to say about "Airplane!" that hasn't already been said? This is, in my book, the best comedy ever made. A good comedy you'll enjoy at least once. A great comedy will stand up to repeated viewings and still maintain its freshness. I've seen this movie so many times I probably know every single line, but damn it, it's still funny as hell! The basic concept of this film is pure genius. It's not that it's a spoof of disaster movies that makes "Airplane!" unique, but rather the choice to have almost all the major roles played by "serious" actors. Hearing "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?" or "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" from someone like Bill Murray would have been good, but having it come from Peter Graves and Lloyd Bridges is what makes it great. It's about hilarious dialogue and ludicrous scenes all being played with a perfectly straight face. And add to that a terrific soundtrack, with corny sounding "disaster movie" music playing at all the appropriate moments and a host of "minor" characters ("Excuse me stewardess, but I speak jive" coming from former "Leave it to Beaver" Mom, Barbara Billingsley) and Stephen Stucker as the gloriously goofy and clueless air traffic controller and what you have is comedy heaven.
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Summary: slapstick comedy at its best!
Review: i've always loved watching this movie. a true classic comedy that leaves your sides hurting. while at just a glance, it may look like they are contriving the comedic scenes, that is what is actually funny about them, such as the pinnochio nose scene. i recommend this film for everyone. one thing though....was anyone else bothered by the lady jumping in front of the screen with bare breasts and letting them shake around like that? that just seemed a bit inappropriate for me. it may be funny to some sex crazed fools out there, but it seemed out of touch with the rest of the comedy. but that's just my own view.
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Summary: Enjoy Your Flight
Review: The American FIlm Intitute is correct in placing AIRPLANE, among the top 10, funniest films of all time. It is worthy of the honor for its rapid-fir use of clever one liners and uproarous sight gags. In fact, there are so many funny moments in the movie, that if you've never seen it before, repeat viewings are needed to catch it all. The film is a spoof on all of those disaster films of the 70s. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty star along with Robert Stack, Leslie Nielson, and Lloyd Bridges, among others. Directed by Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, the film is just great. I should also say that you have to be a "willing" viewer, in order for it to work. By that I mean, you should free your mind, and just have fun. It still amazes how many laughs are in the film, given that it's only 87 minutes long. I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed by the (lack of) extras on the DVD. While the commentary track is enjoyable, it is lifted right from the Laserdisc release, I don't have a problem with that per se`. However, that same track talks about deleted scences and other footage, that is nowhere to be found on this release. As one of the funniest comedies of all time, I would have thought that some of it would have been included here. If some of it had been on the DVD, I would have given it a 5 star rating, instead of only 4. The only other "extra" is a theatrical trailer. As disappointed with the extras as I am, as long as you can buy it at a good price, it still comes highly recommended.
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Summary: Watch it Twice...
Review: When you get the DVD, first watch the movie and laugh out loud; then, watch it again, this time with the commentary track on. It is very enlightening and funny in itself... My only quibble is that, in the comments, either Zucker or Abrahams says that the non-US version of the film had an extra 10 minutes of footage (in fact, I remember a very funny scene from that version when it was screened in my Venezuelan hometown 20 years ago.) Why weren't those 10 extra minutes not added here? That's what DVDs are for... This minor complaint aside, "Airplane" is one for the ages.
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Summary: Funny Movie
Review: I have seen this movie at least 20 times and each time it gets better and better! The jokes are hilarious and non- stopping. The sound is great on the DVD formant. The picture is even better. The only flaw is that there are only 2 special features: a theatrical trailer and a commentary feature. But if you like the movie, you will like the DVD!!!
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Summary: What's an Airplane?
Review: It's a machine that flies in the air, but that's not important now.
One of the funniest movies ever made! Airplane! is a comedy classic pure and simple! The laughs come fast in this movie! There's no more to say if you watched the movie. If you haven't watched the moive, then watch it!
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