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4.0 out of 5 stars
High-flying hilarity,
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This review is from: Airplane! "Don't Call Me Shirley" Edition (DVD)
This edition offers the 'long-haul version' as well as the original film, and has some interesting extras as well.Leslie Nielsen is a shining star in this film, as are Frank Ashmore (later of "V" fame), Robert Hays, and Lloyd Bridges (whose character gets more hilarious as the film goes on). There are many cameo appearances, but these may be lost on someone like me who was a small child when the film was first released. If you're older, or if you watch the film with someone who is older, you'll get a lot more out of the cameos, the "in" jokes, spoofs of tv ads and films of that time, and it'll be even funnier. Some of the humour is a little hard-edged for my liking though, so I rated it "Like it" instead of "Love it". But it was a close call. If you like to laugh and you want to see something out of the ordinary, this film is for you :-)
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best spoof ever made, period.,
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This review is from: Airplane! "Don't Call Me Shirley" Edition (DVD)
One of the few films, along with some of Monty Python's best stuff, that left me laughingso hard I was actually in pain. A brilliantly funny spin on disaster movies in general, airplane disaster movies more specifically and specifically a serious 1950s B-movie called 'Zero Hour'. Indeed, whole chunks of this are taken from 'Zero Hour almost verbatim, but just played with the right warped sensibility to make you realize how funny all those all cliches can be. Full of amazing comic performances, including many by actors who had always been thought of much more as serious dramatic actors (Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen) clearly having the time of their lives. So many memorable bits and moments it's hard to even start counting them all. If you haven't seen this yet you really, really owe it to yourself to finally get to it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Every thing you ever wanted to know about air travel,
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This review is from: Airplane! "Don't Call Me Shirley" Edition (DVD)
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. This particular film uses the "Airport" movies as the basis of most of its humor. 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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