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Airplane! (Widescreen)

Robert Hays (Actor), Julie Hagerty (Actor), Jim Abrahams (Director), David Zucker (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (160 customer reviews)

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The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '70s cinema, from disco films to star-studded disaster epics--are more than worthy for send-up. If you've seen even one of the overblown Airport movies then you know the plot: the crew of a filled-to-capacity jetliner is wiped out and it's up to a plucky stewardess and a shell-shocked fighter pilot to land the plane. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are the heroes who have a history that includes a meet-cute à la Saturday Night Fever, a surf scene right out of From Here to Eternity, a Peace Corps trip to Africa to teach the natives the benefits of Tupperware and basketball, a war-ravaged recovery room with a G.I. who thinks he's Ethel Merman (a hilarious cameo)--and those are just the flashbacks! The jokes gleefully skirt the boundaries of bad taste (pilot Peter Graves to a juvenile cockpit visitor: "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"), with the high (low?) point being Hagerty's intimate involvement with the blow-up automatic pilot doll, but they'll have you rolling on the floor. The film launched the careers of collaborators Jim Abrahams (Big Business), David Zucker (Ruthless People), and Jerry Zucker (Ghost), as well as revitalized such B-movie actors as Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Leslie Nielsen, who built a second career on films like this. A vital part of any video collection. --Mark Englehart

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One of the best spoofs ever made, period. April 6 2011
By K. Gordon TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
One of the few films, along with some of Monty Python's best stuff, that left me laughing
so 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.

This edition is also full of fun extra goodies.

If you haven't seen this yet you really, really owe it to yourself to finally get to it.
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Outrageously funny! July 11 2004
Format:DVD
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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Outrageous Comedy About 70's Disaster Films Jun 21 2004
Format:DVD
Airplane was released in theatres in 1980 and was in production in 1979. Evidently, "Airplane" was a spoof of the 70's disaster film "Airport." This movie was an original concept in comedy at the time that made way for future spoof movies as the Scary Movie series in recent years and the Naked Gun movies in the 90's. Stars Robert Hays, Julia Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves with a special appearance by Lakers player Kareem Abdul Jabaar. Leslie Nielsen would move on to doing other such comic films, particularily at home with the Nake Gun series and Spy Hard.

The movie was a comic farewell to the 70's, a milieu which this movie holds on to visually- disco music, including a scene ripped off from Saturday Night Fever in which Robert Hays and Julia Hagerty dance while two women fight each other at a disco/bar. The comedy is non-stop and everything is a gag or joke, written into the script. Highlights include an elderly white lady who can speak Jibe or black street slang, Ted and Elaine in an African village as part of a peace corps mission. Ted is teaching the native men how to play basketball while Elaine demonstrates Tupperware to the village women. The movie is cartoonish, over-the-top, silly but lots of fun. Look also for the film's sequel, released in 1982.

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Most recent customer reviews
does not stand the test of time
wow.what a bore.the jokes were tired and lame.my friend and i barely
chuckled.we had to stop it just after an hour.we just couldn't go on. Read more
Published on Oct 12 2006 by falcon
One of the all-time great comedies!
Airplane! is most definitely one of the ten greatest comedies of all time, and it's held up well over the past 24 years or so. Read more
Published on May 20 2004 by Grant McKee
Wide-Ranging Parody, Hysterical Results
I have always felt that even the best parodies (like most Mel Brooks' films) tend to run out of gas once the novelty wears off. Read more
Published on May 19 2004 by Rocco Dormarunno
"Roger." "Huh?"
Films simply don't get any funnier than this one. Even if a gag fails for one person, it hits a home run for another. Read more
Published on May 13 2004 by D. Knouse
A Comic Gem!
Hard to believe that this movie is almost 25 years old, but it is still very funny, even if some of the topical gags miss the mark with a more up to date audience. Read more
Published on May 12 2004 by A.M.Boughey
Hilarious!
This movie was awesome! Sure the visual effects are corny as hell, but that's not what matters, it's the comedy that does. Read more
Published on April 27 2004 by Gina
What is Airplane? It's a movie that's funny and worth.......
Airplane is one of those movies that was created by people who truly understood the parody process and just plain comic genius. Read more
Published on April 21 2004 by M. Miller
Funniest Movie Ever?
I have a hard time deciding which is funnier, Airplane! or Animal House. I bought this DVD for $9.99 at Circuit City and I'm glad I did. Read more
Published on April 21 2004 by M. Tennis
Still The Funniest Movie Ever Made!!!!!!!!!!
The collaborative comedy writing team of Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker (also known as Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker or, alternatively, "The ZAZ Boys"), who had... Read more
Published on April 17 2004 by Robert J. Schneider
"Get me Ham on 5, hold the Mayo."
Airplane! (1980) is the second collaboration of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team (the first being Kentucky Fried Movie) that would later bring us such brilliant spoofery as Police... Read more
Published on Mar 20 2004 by B-MAN
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