Airplane!

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Airplane!

This movie is just a silly, crazy comedy. But it is indeed a classic. Everything from its classic lines, to the classic gags. Maybe not all of it entirely works nowadays. But when the jokes do work, they are pretty funny. I also remember the score being pretty memorable, I don't know why though.

By now, everyone must know about "Airplane!". A spoof of the disaster movies of the 1970s replete with every gag imaginable. Whether it's the announcers arguing over the red zones and white zones, the obnoxious solicitors, the jumping artificial heart, the oddly named crew, the automatic pilot, or the various media sources around the world, the goofiness just keeps on coming. The relationship between Ted Striker (Robert Hays) and Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) basically takes a back seat to the outlandish one-liners ("We have to get this woman to a hospital." "A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important now.") If you ask me, humor doesn't have to reflect the real world; a bunch of wacko gags works just fine. And that's just what "Airplane!" is. I guess that you could say that Leslie Nielsen (himself a veteran of "The Poseidon Adventure", a typical disaster flick) was getting honed for the "Naked Gun" movies.

Very rarely does a film come out that is as truly brilliant as Airplane. It has everything that a comedy should have. The cast is fantastic, the jokes hilarious and almost constant. One of the best things about Airplane that I have found is that the jokes are not all obvious, and because of this it has far more re-watchability than most comedies, as every time you watch it you pick up on more of the subtler jokes and background sight gags. It is a film that manages to cater for almost all tastes in humour, from dry wit to slapstick via spoofery and dark humour. If you haven't seen this film you MUST watch it. This is one of those few films that everybody can enjoy. It's fairly rare to find a comedy the whole family can enjoy, most are either unsuitable for children or too childish for adults, but Airplane manages to find that balance where all ages can enjoy it. In conclusion, if you have yet to see this film, watch it. If you have seen it, watch it again.

Airplane, or Flying High as I have always known it, is fantastic stupidity. I promise you will not catch all the jokes the first time watching it, they are everywhere, in every scene. I guess one downside for the movie is that many of the jokes (as this style of movie tends to do) are based on current topics (40+ years ago) or identities that may pass by younger or newer viewers. So this may lose some of the jokes but there are still plenty to go around. These are not complicated story jokes, its a million one-liners and visual laughs. I have found this movie even funnier after a few drinks!

A flight ends up in real trouble when a case of food poisoning takes down the Pilot, co Pilot and lots of the passengers. Airplane is one of those films that no matter what kind of mood you're in it will make you smile, it's adorably funny. 80's humour had a sense of innocence, so different to what is classed as funny now. Dull to the point of absurdity, it is the original king of spoofs, you can't help but feel it led the way for future films in this genre. It's really nicely acted, Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays are just delightful as our lead characters Elaine and Ted. She is incredibly sweet, just adorable. It boasts way too many funny moments to try and pick out a best bit, but some of the highlights are, the kids with the coffee, the Hospital scene, Ethel Merman haha, the food poisoning sequences, especially the woman doing her makeup! the film is just true family fun. Don't eat the fish!! 9/10

Elaine (Julie Hagerty) is a flight attendant. She breaks up with Ted Striker (Robert Hays) who can't get over the war. He can't take it and follows onto her flight. When the flight crew gets food poisoning, surely Ted could save the day. Abrahams and Zucker have created the iconic satire of a disaster movie. It's a great take on a genre so popular at that time. It's a constant stream of jokes. There isn't any time in between to allow the jokes to hit. That's the point. Just when a joke hits you, the next joke is already on the way. There is no time to take a breath. This constant stream of jokes provide the blueprints for this genre for years to come. I'm not going to list the countless jokes here. There are too many hilarious moments. Just watch the movie.