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Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
Average Customer Review : 4.5/5 based on 279 reviews
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Editorial Reviews
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
Spotlight Reviews
Still Good For a Chuckle Despite the Years! (2009-01-09)
Customer Review : 4
Comedies have a notoriously short shelf life because there are only so many times you can hear a joke before it stops being funny and you start to feel contempt for it. That's why I'm really impressed when I see a comedy over 10 years old that still manages to entertain me and even so if it's able to get me to laugh more often than not at most of the jokes.
"Airplane" is refreshing because I still found it funny although admittedly not nearly as funny as when I first saw it decades ago. This film is important though because of its impact and influence on countless comedies to follow that fit this particular sub-genre. I remember laughing until I cried when I watched films like "Top Secret" and the whole "Naked Gun", "Hot Shots" and similar comedies and even more recent films like "Epic Movie" and "Scary Movie" owe a great debt to this film. This kind of comedy sub-genre though is admittedly not for everyone but if you like your comedy totally screwy, corny and just plain silly then you'll enjoy this film.
Hardly any comedy rewards repeated viewing for the reason I mentioned at the top of this review although this film does to some extent provided you view this no frequently than annually to give yourself a chance to rediscover it like an old friend. I remember I also enjoyed the sequel with William Shatner in it too.
This dvd version is also pretty good in that the sound quality comes in a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound option which is pretty good and although the picture quality isn't perfect, it's still pretty good for an almost 30 year film with very few imperfections such as white spots to complain about. No special features worth mentioning but overall this is still a good standard dvd format version to own. I can only wonder what a restored and remastered Blu-ray version would look like though.
An original, crazy and some may say stupid comedy which I found still entertaining after all these years but it is certainly not for every taste.
A classic comedy, still funny today (2008-12-19)
Customer Review : 5
Who does not love this film?
A comedy classic.
Cast perfect in their roles.
Well written of course with the memorable catch phrases.
DVD package. Normal extras on it. Deleted scenes, commentary, trailer, that type of thing
BUT IT IS ONE OF THE I HATE THEM SO MUCH FLIP THE LITTLE FLAPS TO OPEN THE CASE.
The film that got Leslie Neilson's career into high gear in comedy's. there would have been no Naked Gun series of films without this film.
In it for Long Haul...but where is it? (2008-12-03)
Customer Review : 3
This is one of my favorite movies of all time and I anxiously bought it, inserested it in my new Samsung high-def capable DVD player. and clicked on long haul edition..and yes, I wanted to see deleted scenes and interviews. but, after trying several times, all I kept getting was the short version. Surely I'm missing something. I obviously am, or I wouldn't call myself Shirley. Feel free to comment.
Classic Comedy (2008-11-29)
Customer Review : 5
From start to finish, this movie is non-stop laughter. A must-bye for anyone interested in corny jokes and humor.
AIRPLANE (2008-11-16)
Customer Review : 5
ONE OF THE BEST HUMOR MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! NEVER GET TIRED OF SEEING IT OVER & OVER AGAIN!!! HATS OFF TO THE WRITERS, DIRECTOR, & ACTORS!!!! GREAT STUFF!!! THIS MUST BE IN THE REALM OF A CULT MOVIE BY NOW!!
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