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Airplane! (1980) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Airplane! (1980) a score of 2.9881 out of 4
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Airplane! (1980) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Jesse Hassenger)filmcritic.com (Jesse Hassenger)
If Airplane! isn’t the funniest English-language movie ever made, it could at least get into some spirited comedy fisticuffs with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Fish Called Wanda, or Wayne’s World for the title. It might win, too. The ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at filmcritic.com (Jesse Hassenger)
Airplane! (1980) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
Unprecedented nonsense that--fashions aside--will remain timeless comedy cinema. [new DVD review] ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
Airplane! (1980) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for FulvueDrive-in.com (Chuck O'Leary)FulvueDrive-in.com (Chuck O'Leary)
Some of the humor has become very politically incorrect 25-plus years later. And God love it for that. ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at FulvueDrive-in.com (Chuck O'Leary)
Airplane! (1980) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for DVD Clinic (J. Andrew Hosack)DVD Clinic (J. Andrew Hosack)
One of the funniest spoof comedies ever made gets a double helping on DVD. What “plotline” there is follows the ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who suffers from wartime grief. The love of his life, Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty), has ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at DVD Clinic (J. Andrew Hosack)
Airplane! (1980) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Empire Magazine [UK]Empire Magazine [UK]
Surely, this is essential. Maybe, but don't call me Shirley, etc. ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Empire Magazine [UK]
Airplane! (1980) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Movie Reviews UKMovie Reviews UK
An endlessly inventive spoof of the airport disaster-movie genre, Airplane! is great schoolboy fun. Opening in an airport, of course, Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is desperately trying to reach his girlfriend Elaine (Julie Hagerty), who's a stewardess. ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Movie Reviews UK
Airplane! (1980) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie VoiceFilm Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
How do you evaluate a satire of a trend that has disappeared from consciousness There were a ton of really bad Airport movies in the '70s. I chalk it up to something in the water that led to a decade of weirdness that culminated in Ricardo Montalban, a ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
 
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Airplane! (1980) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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