Airplane! (DVD) Reviews

This has to be one of the funniest movies ever made! I know it's one of my favourites and I have to say that I generally don't really like spoof movie. Usually everything about a spoof movie annoys me, it's repetitive and predictable but the very things that put me off from these are actually the reason why I can't help loving this movie. It's the ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Airplane belongs to that classic league of comedy films that's simply unbeatable and utterly timeless in its delivery. David Zucker really is a legend of comedy, and proves it here with a film that would allow him to graduate to the arguably just as great Naked Gun series, ...  Read the complete review

Without giving too much away, Airplane is a 1980 spoof comedy disaster film about a plane that is unable to land because the pilot crew have become ill after eating fish which contained something to knock them unconcious, therefore one of the passengers has to land the plane. The man to do so is Ted Striker (Robert Hays), a former pilot during the ...  Read the complete review

I have now vowed never to watch this film with my hubby ever again as each time he spoils it for me. I am sitting there trying to watch and all I get is 'watch this bit' or he laughs before the funny bit happens and then he even starts telling what they are about to say and it drives me crazy. He does wonder why I can sit straight faced through ...  Read the complete review

Airplane is one comedy film that bears watching over and over again. It was written, directed and produced by the Zucker brothers- David and Jerry with Jim Abrahams who went on to make other spoof films like The Naked Gun series. Those of us who remember Police Squad with Leslie Nielsen know exactly what type of humour it is. There is a collection ...  Read the complete review

Up until the time the movie "Airplane" was released in 1980 comedy director Mel Brooks had been the undisputed king of zany and off beat comedy in the cinema, with such marvellous spoof movies like "Blazing Saddles" (1974) and "Young Frankenstein" (1974). It's widely rumoured that when he first viewed this superb ...  Read the complete review

(Film only review) Introduction --------------- Disaster strikes a flight as the crew and some of the passengers are struck with food poisoning. Can failed pilot Ted Striker land the plane? Or will the audience laugh themselves to death first? The Cast ----------- The cast of Airplane is a strange one. To ...  Read the complete review

***the plot*** This is the classic spoof disaster movie, so don't be surprised at anything...The basic plot is quite sensible, however. Everyone on board who has had the fish as in in-flight meal is struck down with violent food poisoning, including everyone who could safely land the plane. So it left to ex-Navy pilot Ted Striker (who ...  Read the complete review

In 1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker unleashed the comedy classic ‘Airplane!’ to international acclaim, a film that combines high-tension danger, struggling romance and a lot of silly jokes to create one of the most influential films of the early eighties. It’s a funny film. PLOT Elaine Dickinson ...  Read the complete review

Airplane what a film a classic, from the very first glimpse of the film (seeing the fin of the plan through the clouds like the shark in ‘Jaws’) you know that you are going to be laughing solidly though out the film. It was nominated for a Golden Globe: Comedy/Musical Picture. Sadly it did not win this award. ...  Read the complete review

I think it was a classic! - Advantages: Family oriented - Disadvantages: Too short

Airplane - an all time classic. David Zucker stars in this fantastically funny movie topped off with a performance from Leslie Nielson. So you must go buy this movie? Why, what is it, I hear you ask? Well, it's a story with actors, but that's not important right now!!! The use of steroetypes and classic one liners will have you rolling ...  Read the complete review

Ah, the 'Airport' films. Standbys of Sunday afternoons on ITV and loved by all those people who are so bored they'll watch anything that's on. There's a nice, safe, familiar predictability about those films, similar to that of 'Casualty'. Just as you know that the guy who reassures his wife that he doesn't need to ...  Read the complete review

This hilarious spoof movie makes fun of the whole Airport series of films, and also has fun at quite a few other classics such as Saturday Night Fever. The air hostess Elaine and Ted Striker have to fly the plane after the crew any many passengers get food poisoning from the fish meal. The crew of Captain Oveur, Victor and Roger all ...  Read the complete review

Very few movies this old are still as fresh and funny as Airplane. Born of the Police Squad series type of humor (and the same actors), Airplane uses puns, one-liners, and slapstick to deliver one hilarious movie. They managed to get big names outside of acting to join in-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the most famous basketball players ever and ...  Read the complete review

That's what Total film viewers think, and you can certainly see why. It's just so funny, with amazingly classic spoff moments, from the announcements in the airport, with the PAs arguing about which zone is for loading and which is for unloading, to the autopilot who is a blow up doll 9and who steals the plane in the end, and including ...  Read the complete review

This hilarious spoof of the 'Airport' disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing lines, and brilliant comic acting to make the audience laugh - and it succeeds, time and time again. This film pulls out all the cliches as alcoholic pilot 'Ted Striker' (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear of flying ...  Read the complete review

This irrevent romp has but one objective - to make the audience laugh. Many a film aims at a silimar goal and hits the corner flag instead but 'Airplane!' - a glorious satire on those doomy 'Airport' movies - is on target more often than not. Every joke that doesn't work is swiftly followed by some that do. Th cast, lead by ...  Read the complete review

Airplane is famous for establishing a new high in laughs per minute. Airplane is a Paramount Picture that was written, directed, and executive produced by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. It stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, and Leslie Nielson. The film is a spoof of a 1957 movie called Zero Hour! Robert Hays plays a former ...  Read the complete review

After many years I once again picked up a copy of Airplane in a car boot sale, the best couple of quid I've ever spent. Even though I have seen the film on numerous occasions it made me laugh from start to finish, hhilarious is the only word for it. Some of the one liners are so dry and the wit is fantastic, checking the airplane oil on a ...  Read the complete review