Airplane! Movie
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TAGLINES
What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?
Thank God it's Only a Motion Picture!
The craziest flight you'll ever take!
The Plane's going to Chicago. The Pilot's going to New York. The Passengers are going to Pieces!
Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Murdock |
| Lloyd Bridges | McCroskey |
| Peter Graves | Captain Oveur |
| Julie Hagerty | Elaine |
| Robert Hays | Ted Striker |
| Leslie Nielsen | Dr. Rumack |
| Lorna Patterson | Randy |
| Robert Stack | Rex Kramer |
| Stephen Stucker | Johnny |
| Otto | Himself |
| Jim Abrahams | Religious zealot #6 |
| Frank Ashmore | Victor Basta |
| Jonathan Banks | Gunderson |
| Craig Berenson | Paul Carey |
| Barbara Billingsley | Jive Lady |
| Jim Abrahams |
7.80 out of 10 (34598 votes)
Visitor Reviews
The movie is hilarious, and that's important right now!
posted on 15 Aug 2009Airplane was the grandest of all comedy movies. It's wacked, full of sight gags, and of course disaster. This movie is a riotous spoof of everything that's real and more! Leslie Nielsen delivers a smashing role as Dr. Rumack. An excellent film...
Striker...You're the only hope we've got...
posted on 13 Jul 2009This movie hasn't aged a bit. The gags are still funny, and the references to airports and air travel are still relevant today. Robert Stack totally steals the film, reprising his dead-pan persona from "the Untouchables" TV series. Many spoof films have followed, but i haven't seen one yet that maintains the laughs from beginning to end as this film does. 'A' grade for ageless.
The funniest movie ever made
posted on 13 Jul 2009What was Jim on when he wrote this masterpeice of comedy! I, and generations of viewers never have laughed so hard in their lives. Even funny on repeat, if not more so, viewings. Shirley it is. Who cares about plot when a movie is as funny as this. So get in crash positions and get ready to die laughing (and you might its very funny).
Simply the Best
posted on 13 Jul 2009Airplane! is the beginning of the stupid and best movies of all time and while the first still leads it's troops into battle. Films like Scary Movie and the 90's Lesile Neilson films were the spawns of these and many more. Anyone not seeing the film should be shot. With some of the funniest stuff I have ever seen Airplane! just makes me cry laughing whenever I see it. Surly it can't do that every time right? It can and you will not call me Shirly. With Strikers drinking problem and the two Jive talking guys this is the trip of a lifetime because all the normal people on that plane could have died. If anyone was normal. Not many films from the eighties can stand up to todays standards but Airplane still and will always be simply the best.
Nitrous Oxide for the Soul
posted on 10 Jul 2009It's easy to forget just how original this movie was when it first came out.
The last two decades have been packed with spoof-a-minute parody films which borrow heavily from the timing and nutty sense of humor in "Airplane".
But none have ever topped the original. After 20 years, it is still a very, very funny movie. It's a maelstrom of puns, sight gags, random cultural references, and an overarching parody of the melodramatic "Airport" films... the sort of comedy that when the occasional joke falls flat, two seconds later there's something else to laugh at. Airplane was one of those rare films that changed its genre forever, a parody that will undoubtedly outlive the object of its ridicule, and surely one of the funniest movies ever made.
Hilarious spoof of airplane disaster films!
posted on 07 Jun 2009Let me start off by saying, this is probably one of the best comedy films ever made, the jokes are great, and the whole movie went by way too fast while watching it. The acting was pretty well done, too, considering the wacky and insane situations the actors probably had to deal with! Whilst the movie garnered a PG rating, this movie is certainly not recommended for children, the jokes can be rather mature, and there is brief topless nudity. Many people call this movie "stupid" and that "it makes no sense", but that is all on purpose, and, in my opinion adds on to the hilarity and goofiness of the film in general. The cast and crew must have had a blast working on this awesome film, I certainly know that I would have!Rated: PG for Mature Humor, Profanity, and Brief Nudity.
Shirley, it's funny
posted on 08 May 2009The jokes come non-stop in this spoof of disaster movies that were popular in the 1970s, as well as send-ups of scenes from "From Here to Eternity" and "Saturday Night Fever." The large cast of familiar faces seems to be having a good time, including those previously known mainly for dramatic roles. Graves and Nielsen are particularly funny, with the latter delivering his famous "Don't call me Shirley" line. Some of the jokes that were timely and funny when the movie was made in 1980 don't seem that funny anymore. While the dialog is often amusing, much of it is forced and groan-inducing, especially the scenes at the control tower. Still, it's fun, helped by Bernstein's lively score.
It is not a PG movie, more like a R.
posted on 20 Apr 2009If you are looking for a good movie for your family with children, this one is not recommended.It is rated as PG and I got one for our Friday family movie night. It was terrible. The dirty language, violence, nudity, implicitly erotic made it unsuitable for any family.
So funny I fell to the floor of the cinema in fits of laughter.
posted on 14 Apr 2009I'd rate this as the funniest movie ever made. That isn't to say it's the best comedy ever made, but the only one which has caused me to fall to the floor of the cinema and roll around in helpless fits of laughter. There are so many sight gags that you need to watch it several times to catch 'em all. The Sydney cinema crowd with whom I viewed it made so much noise with their laughter that I missed a lot of the dialogue first time round. I had to wait for it to appear on television and when it did, at least I had the privacy of my home to roll around on the floor! Whatever happened to the third movie that was promised?
How you make a spoof.
posted on 09 Mar 2009This is one of the best spoof movies ever made. Why? Because it has its own plot for the most part and just doesn't fill the movie up with scenes from other movies...though it does have a couple of scenes like that. Most of the best spoofs made are like this, making more fun of a genre than just one movie. Top Secret and The Naked Gun are two others that do this quite well. This one of course is making fun for the most part, airplane disaster movies. It does it quite well as it is one joke after another. You have to play close attention to see some of the jokes in the background, others you have to listen for or realize what is wrong with what they are saying. The cast is great, as Peter Graves plays the pilot of the plane, Robert Hayes as a veteran pilot, and even Karim-Abdul Jabber as the co-pilot. Leslie Nielson of Naked Gun fame is in it as well, playing the role with dead seriousness, which makes his character all the more funny. That is one of the problems with most of his later roles is that he is trying to be goofy and he is at his best when he is serious. All in all this one is a laugh riot and well worth checking out.
The best pure comedy ever made
posted on 03 Mar 2009The plot of this movie is brilliant. Crew of the airplane get sick and stewardess has to land the plane. But that's not the thing, it's the marvelous jokes! The quantity makes it, not the quality!I have never laughed so much when watching film as I laughed with this picture. And movies always make you laugh more in the theaters than in home.Especially funny is the auto-pilot Otto who starts to live his own life when the auto-pilot was switched off. Leslie Nielsen used to be one of the funniest guys in movie business until he made Spy Hard and 2001: Space Travesty.And all you uncivilized who haven't seen this comedy classic: Watch it!
Surely it's a comedy classic. But don't call me Shirley.
posted on 25 Feb 2009Perhaps the greatest spoof in movie history, Airplane! is a nonstop laugh riot. The main plot, such as it is, spoofs airport disaster films but the plot here is hardly relevant. The plot really only serves to place the characters in hilarious situations as the film careens from one gut-busting gag to another. While those disaster flicks come in for the most abuse anyone and anything will be ridiculed to great comic effect. Some of the humor veers towards the politically incorrect if you're actually taking this film seriously. But if you're taking this film seriously you're missing the point. The whole thing is one big joke.If you are actually concerned with the plot, it revolves around Ted Striker, as played by Robert Hays, a wartime pilot who shall we say had some bad flying experiences during the war. He is on board this flight trying to win back ex-girlfriend stewardess Elaine, played by Julie Hagerty. The pilots of the plane (one played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who must surely be the world's tallest pilot) take ill and Striker is the only person on board who can land the plane. Is he up to the task? He certainly doesn't think so. Suffice to say much hilarity ensues.Striker (with Elaine's help) tries to fly and ultimately land the plane. Meanwhile, both on board and on the ground in the control tower, all kinds of wonderfully hilarious things are going on. Hays and Hagerty, whose characters are focusing on the task at hand, are essentially the straight people here, while the jokes and gags are left in the capable hands of the likes of Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack. Nielsen plays a doctor trying to care for sick passengers while also boosting Striker's fragile confidence. Nielsen plays the role wonderfully, with the perfect blend of deadpan seriousness and subtle comic genius. Bridges' air traffic controller, funny at first, is a bit of a letdown. He's really only got one joke and it's beaten to death. The true standout is Stack as Captain Rex Kramer, who served with Striker in the military and is now called in to help talk him down to the ground. Stack brilliantly ignores all the nonsense occurring around him and plays his character with such earnest seriousness amongst all the lunacy that he turns out to be the funniest of all.Any student of popular culture will appreciate the spot-on spoofs and references throughout Airplane! Movies as diverse as Jaws, Saturday Night Fever and Knute Rockne All American are among the many films spoofed to great effect. But even if you miss some of the references (and there are so many you undoubtedly will) Airplane! will have you laughing from beginning to end. It hilariously spoofs so much of what has come before it while adding so much brilliant fresh humor of its own. A great script brought to life by some truly great performances makes Airplane! surely one of the most consistently funny films ever.
Funny as Heck!
posted on 10 Feb 2009*Possible Spoilers* This is one of the best comedies ever. It had a lot of top comedians and a great silly, off the wall plot and script. I thought it was especially funny that they used the sound of a propeller plane for a jet plane. I thought the scenes in the Control Tower with Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack were hillarious. Stack comes into the room wearing two pairs of sun glasses. Lloyd Bridges finds out he's picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, taking anphidomiens and sniffing glue. After I saw this movie I was still laughing. A great comedy and deserves to be one of the top ten funniest movies ever.
One of the funniest movies I have ever seen!!
posted on 01 Feb 2009There are alot of hilarious 10 out of 10 laugh out loud comedies like Stripes, Caddyshack, Heavyweights, Kingpin, There's Something about Mary, and Animal House but Airplane is just phenomenal as all of them if not better. It is one of the best movies of the 80's and is one of the funniest films. The best scene out of the whole movie is the jukebox dancing scene. My favorite part!!The guy who gets stabbed in the back and is still dancing makes you cry laughing. That's how funny it was. Truly a superb comedy with one of the comic geniuses Leslie Nielson starring in it. Truly a recommended film.****!!Hedeen's outlook: 10/10!!
Still funny, but dated
posted on 29 Jan 2009I watched this again the other night and it finally sunk in to me: "Airplane!" may be on its last legs as a relevant comedy.To start with: Airports are no longer the microcosm that they were when this film was made, and it's not even the idea that this is a "post-9/11 world." Whether you buy that philosophy or not (I don't), but it has had an impact on American airports in a way this movie couldn't foresee. That means there is a new generation of fliers who are unfamiliar with the Hare Krishnas in an airport.But, there's more to it than that. Disaster movies are no longer on Hollywood's radar, and the old ones have not aged well. I would argue that "Saturday Night Fever" is the only spoofed movie here that modern audiences are going to understand, and that might even be stretching it, and the serious actors who were put to such great use (Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges) are not known in the same way as a 1980 audience would know them.I still do like this movie, but, for a modern audience, I think its relevance might soon be lost.
More AIRPLANE! Trivia
posted on 20 Jan 2009I wish IMDb would have mentioned the German translation of the title, AIRPLANE. The Germans could have translated the title to German simply and literally (IMDb won't allow me to tell you what the translation of AIRPLANE is, nor its German title, because their stupid system reports the German words as all spelling errors and won't allow me to proceed until I have "fixed" them.) At any rate, the Germans instead chose a title that means, "The Unbelievable Flight in a Crazy Airplane." ~~~ And that, it was! ~~~ REVIEW: Defines a new sub-genre of comedy - A+++++ FUNNY.
what else is there to say, aside from "I laughed"?
posted on 21 Dec 2008Like other efforts from the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team ("The Naked Gun" and its sequels come to mind), "Airplane!" has aged somewhat awkwardly as a kitchen-sink parody where nothing is sacred. That being said, the movie contains its share of righteous hilarity and groan-inducing lameness, the laugh factor operating with enough consistency to weather the turbulent passages. The plot is really just an excuse to cram in as many gags as a frame will allow, but here goes: former military pilot Striker (Robert Hays) still lusts after old flame Elaine (Julie Hagerty), an airline stewardess; one fateful night, their paths cross when the flight is stricken with food poisoning, bad weather, and just about every other friendly cliché at your typical disaster film's disposal. The offbeat casting works extremely well, from Peter Graves as a gay pilot ("Ever been in a Turkish prison?"), Lloyd Bridges as glue-sniffing ground control, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the copilot (who, in a great scene, breaks character to put an obnoxious little boy in line). The gags come at a rapid clip, and what sets "Airplane!"'s brand of humor above the more vulgar profiteers of recent years (the Farrelly brothers, for instance) is how subtly racy it feels, even today--from fellatio to cocaine to abortion to gynecology to the stereotypical way we perceive a person's manner of speaking (exhibited brilliantly in Barbara Billingsley's interaction with the jive-talking black guys), nothing is sacred (nor explicit), and that in itself is an achievement. Though the film is hit-or-miss, it's mostly 'hit.'
I just want to tell you both - Good luck, we're all counting on you!
posted on 12 Dec 2008I have had this film on VHS for about thirteen years now, and every time I watch it, I see or hear something that I never noticed the previous time. Leslie Neilson is legendary, as is Lloyd Bridges, Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays. They all come together to create a comic wave that still leaves a big wake some twenty years after they created it.
Brilliant stuff
posted on 18 Aug 2009I came of age when the Naked Gun films came out and Leslie Nielsen was a comic hero of mine. No one could deliver a line quite that deadpan and quite that silly as him. I was a little too young to have seen Airplane when it first came out and somehow I only got to seeing it a couple weeks ago. Having read a lot of the comments here (and fully expecting to enjoy it as much as I did), I know that the wealth of references to modern culture, to entertainment, to life in America at the time, was numerous. Having read many of the reviews (and not that I needed much encouragement-I had planned to watch it again some time soon) I will have to go back and see it again some time soon. I do remember the welter of disaster movies which came out, even after this film, and certainly it was ripe for parody. If you loved Naked Gun, just remember, without this film, Naked Gun would not exist.