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Rapid-fire spoof with sexual jokes and cartoon violence. Read Common Sense Media's Airplane! review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges
- David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Paramount Pictures
“Airplane!” is a comedy in the great tradition of high school skits, the Sid Caesar TV show, Mad magazine, and the dog-eared screenplays people’s nephews write in lieu of earning their college diplomas. It is sophomoric, obvious, predictable, corny, and quite often very funny.
Though unabashedly juvenile and silly, Airplane! is nevertheless an uproarious spoof comedy full of quotable lines and slapstick gags that endure to this day. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC....
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- Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- PG
- Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves
The story is simple but well-paced and fun, while the film's cast is a distinguished one. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are great leads, and Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges look as though they are also having a whale of a time.
Mar 13, 2001 · For audiences increasingly tired with the pompous 70s disaster movies that merely recycled former glories, "Airplane!" was the key that unlocked them from the shackles of big budget boredom.
Airplane!: Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty. After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Airplane! (1980) was a trend-setting, zany, hilarious comedy - using as its core material the airplane disaster film as the spoof's stepping stone, borrowing from the subplots of heavy-handed...
