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Airplane! (1980) Rank 4 Reviews
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Andrew Hicks (Andrew Hicks)
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)
eFilmCritic.com (Ryan Arthur)
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)
Daily-Reviews.com (Chuck Dowling)
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)
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)
Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
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]
Movie 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
Film 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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