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Airplane! (1980) Rank 5 Reviews
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eFilmCritic.com (Ryan Arthur)
Daily-Reviews.com (Chuck Dowling)
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)
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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)
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)
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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)
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]
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
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
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Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
It might be a bit too old and creaky to consider leaving the ground in nowadays, but there are still plenty of belly-laughs to be had in this early one from the 'Naked Gun' blokes. ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Audio Revolution
As the liner notes helpfully point out, ‘Airplane!’ was voted one of the 10 funniest movies ever made by the American Film Institute. Whether or not one accepts the AFI’s assessment (there are plenty of less financially successful films that might ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Audio Revolution
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Having already honed and perfected their unique brand of guerilla comedy in their long-running Kentucky Fried Theater and 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie (which was directed by John Landis), it was finally time for the ZAZ team (brothers David and Jerry ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
DVD Verdict (Norman Short)
While I wouldn't put it in the top ten funniest (nor did I agree with many of the AFI choices) it is still a very funny film that only suffers from some dated jokes. ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at DVD Verdict (Norman Short)
DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
It's all very reminiscent of Mad magazine, surely Abraham and the Zucker's inspiration. ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Film Threat (Brad Laidman)
If you get half of the jokes flung your way, and laugh at half of those you're still in much better shape than the very best episode of Three's Company . ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Film Threat (Brad Laidman)
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E. Benjamin Kelsey
In the seventies, disaster films seemed to be at an all time high. Films like EARTHQUAKE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE were big hits. There was also a series about the disasters that can arise when traveling by plane a series that ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at E. Benjamin Kelsey
Reel.com
The DVD version's "enhanced" widescreen is presumably a studio attempt to preserve some of the widescreen visuals while minimizing those dark bands at the top and bottom of the screen, and, indeed, it's a pleasure to watch in this format. Many of the ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Reel.com
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
“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 ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Boulder Weekly (Thomas Delapa)
Still the funniest and most inspired of the madcap genre spoofs. For every dumb or tasteless joke that doesn't fly, a dozen land directly at Laugh Central. ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Boulder Weekly (Thomas Delapa)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
grabs you from the opening moments and doesn't let up for 90 minutes ...read the complete Airplane! movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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