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Summary: Non-stop comedy
Review: It's about this guy who flew in the war.He use to love this girl about 30 yrs. ago.Come to kind out; he still LOVES her, but she doesn't.He already had a change with her, and he blew it! Now he is crazy!(kinda) He is now trapped in an airplane that has no one to land it!(Because of some odd reason, you will find out! Can he do it?? Will him and his long lost girlfriend ever come together??Or will he go crazy like he use too?? If you like joke after joke,you will LOVE it! I have watched it 24 times, and I still keep finding new jokes.Pick it up.
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Summary: Naturally funny. Can be watched over and over.
Review: Every time I see this movie I find something funny which I missed the times before. Shouldn't we call this one a classic?
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Summary: Airplane!
Review: Airplane is a really, really funny movie, filled with sight gags and puns it's fun! Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is a nervous former airplane pilot who follows his stewardess girlfriend (Julie Hagerty) onto a flight headed for disaster, the pilot, most of the crew, and almost all of the passengers have eaten poisonous fish and are certain to die, if they don't land soon everyone will die! If you like spoof movies this is definately for you.
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Summary: Outrageously funny!
Review: God this movie is so incredibly hilarious! Few movies have such witty and original jokes as 1980's Airplane! does. This is one of the best comedy movies of all time and is strongly recommended for those struggling with depression or just want a good laugh. A jetliner is bound for Chicago but when contaminated fish spreads illnesses on most of it's passengers and incapacitates both of it's pilots, it's up to a war veteran to fly and land the airliner and save the passengers before the illness claims their lives. This movie is so incredibly funny and is highly recommended for comedy audiences. They sure don't make comedy movies like they used to.
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Summary: An Epic Comedy
Review: Airplane! is the funniest of them all. What it has that other comedies don't have is consistent, non stop humour, as it just keeps coming, each laugh as strong as the next. There are numerous classic moments in this film. Instead of remembering one specific joke that was funny, you'll be able to remember 50. It's that funny.
To briefly describe the fairly simple plot, a group of people are on a plane, in which a man named Ted Striker(the lead actor) has also boarded. The majority of the passengers, including the entire flying crew fall violently ill from eating fish for dinner and it becomes up to Ted Striker to land the plane, something he hasn't done since the war where he had terrible memories of doing so.
What makes this movie so funny is the small jokes they put in it, seemingly stupid, but filled with hilarity. An enormous highlight to this film is Leslie Nielson's character as he plays the doctor. This performance led him to become a huge success in the field of comedy films, especially his thrilling Naked Gun series.
The only flaw I will make note of is the lack of extras. There is only one special feature outside of the Theatrical Trailer which is Commentary by 3 men involved in the film. Unfortunately, to hear this commentary, you have to watch the movie along with it as they talk over it and it can be distracting.
Despite that minor flaw, overall, this movie is a must for any comedy lover. In fact, Entertainment voted it as the Number 1 all time comedy on a list of 20 movies.
The laughs are non stop and the characters are precious. If you love comedies, or movies in general, Airplane! will not disappoint, I guarentee it.
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Summary: For what it is, it couldn't be better
Review: After a series of very serious (and sometimes well-made) "Airport" movies, "Airplane" came along and made fun of absolutely everything. It featured sight gags (Robert Hays had a shameful "drinking problem" in that he always missed his mouth when drinking a glass of water), puns ("Surely, you jest!" "Stop calling me 'Shirley'!"), caricatures (a pilot who is so cool that he wears shades under his shades), and skits (Barbara Billingsley as an older lady who can speak "jive" and translates another passenger's statements for everyone). The movie pretends to be serious, in the situations that arise, but absolutely everything is tongue-in-cheek. There is nothing serious about this movie, or in this movie, except its ability to make you laugh. If you're looking for absurd, light comedy, this would be a great choice.
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Summary: a hilarious classic
Review: airplane is a classic comedy with leslie nielson in it before his naked gun fame basically the movies making fun of all those disaster movies and a crew on a plane has to figure out how to land after the captain passes out if you havent seen it( shame on u) i wont spoil it but i will say my favorite scene is after the planes been crashing around and turning upside down some little nerdy guy comes out of the bathroom all cut up cause he was trying to shave while the plane was crashing
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Summary: "Is There Anyone On Board Who Knows How To Fly A Plane?"
Review: Written, produced and directed by the zany team of brothers David and Jerry Zucker and their buddy Jim Abrahams (in 34 days' time, no less), their inspiration for "Airplane!" came after filming "The Kentucky Fried Movie." Ideas for that earlier movie came from late night television broadcasts the team would set their VCR to record in the middle of the night, when they knew the worst commercials and old movies would air on local channels. On one of those fateful nights, they discovered a presentation of the 1957 film "Zero Hour!", starring Dana Andrews. The disaster flick was filled with unintentionally funny lines, which were perfect for the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style of filmmaking.
Whereas most comedies use jokes to pad the plot, "Airplane!" uses the plot to pad the jokes. Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker wanted "Airplane!" to be a short film surrounded by dozens of fake commercial parodies, but Paramount wanted an actual full-length film. The basic plot from "Zero Hour!", that of an entire plane succumbing to food poisoning during its flight, was kept, but they added the love story of ex-war pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) and stewardess Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) to the story. Elaine has left Ted, due to his inability to get over the war. Ted chases after Elaine for a chance at patching things up, and becomes the one passenger who can land the plane after the flight crew falls ill.
Jokes pile on top of one another throughout the course of the film, with subjects ranging from hare krishnas, substance abuse, Ted's drinking problem, flashback film parodies, and an automatic pilot that runs on helium. The gags are fast and furious, and sometimes go unnoticed during single viewings. Leslie Nielsen, as deadpan-speaking Dr. Rumack, gets off many of the best one-liners, along with Stephen Stucker as the flamboyant control room operator Johnny Hinshaw. Of course, no Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker film would be complete without numerous references to themselves and their families. The two Zuckers show up early in the picture as members of the ground crew who cause the plane to crash through the terminal window, while Abrahams shows up as a religious zealot who gets roughly pushed aside by Robert Stack at the Chicago Airport terminal. Proud mom, Charlotte Zucker, appears as a woman struggling to apply make-up during the plane's crash landing, and sister Susan Breslau appears early on as a ticket agent.
Without a doubt one of the funniest movies of all time, "Airplane" is available in a sparse edition on DVD. There are only two bonus features included in this release, which is at least better treatment than most older comedy films receive in their trasnfer to DVD. Still, it would have been interesting - if available - to include David Letterman's screen test and the deleted scenes used as filler on the televised broadcasts.
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Summary: One of the finest comideies ever!!!
Review: I saw this DVD for $8.88 at Wal-Mart. I heaed a lot of things about it, and decided to buy it! It was a great choice!
Airplane! is about a war veteren, Ted Striker, boarding an airplane, finding his lost love. Until people get sick and they must land. Since the captain's also sick, it's up to Striker to land it!
Doesn't seem like much? Well, while the plot isn't that deep, there's so many funny jokes and gags that it's not stop funny! Great dialogue, tons of humor. A must-see!
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Summary: Like it or not, this may be the funniest movie of all time
Review: i thought i knew what good comedy was. but then i saw "Airplane!" and understood exactly how it should be done. i wasn't expecting much--you've got here an 80's movie that is rated PG that rips off of classic movies (mainly old airplane dramas) and also punches in hundreds of their own silly humor. that sounds like a good movie but not the best. well don't let that sound convince you, because this movie IS the best! the humor in this movie is endless (once it gets going). from the start i was thinking, "this is gonna be silly, but not laugh out loud funny". i was wrong. the jokes in this movie are not immature and "slapstick" style, they are actually quite clever (...okay, so there is some immaturity, but hell, thats just good comedy!). from beginning to end i found myself giggling to death over all the puns they made to other movies and some of the most original (and now classic) jokes. there is some crude humor on here as well (and on that note, they didn't have "PG13" in the 80's, it was either "PG" or "R", and this one was still border line "R"). not to mention one shot of a woman's breasts which shocked me since it was PG, but that was it for the worst of this film. otherwise, its okay for most ages (though not many younger views would even understand half of the jokes). all i can tell you is please rent it at least. if you find anything funny at all, then this movie will have you laughing--i garentee you. the basic plot: an airplane is going to crash and it must be landed safely (along with a sub-plot love story. but dont worry, its not dramatic. its just funny). there is no real moral lesson you get from this movie. theres not even much of a storyline. there is just some very very very very very funny stuff. thats it. i'm done babbling. if you don't watch this movie, its your own fault. but don't say i didn't warn you: its possibly the funniest movie ever and should be seen by everyone. too damn funny to miss.
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