| | Airplane! DVD (2 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Comedies DVDs, Recommended Movies, Essential Cinema Videos, Spoof, Parody, AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes, AFI Top 100 Laughs, High Flying, All-Star | | Starring | Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cyril O'Reilly | | Director | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker |
Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays star. This spoof of disaster film finds a washed-up war pilot as a doomed plane's only hope when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning. A tongue-in-cheek spoof of the disaster genre.
A former wartime flight commander has to take control of a jet after every pilot aboard comes down with food poisoning -- even though he's now too scared to fly.
The airplane's passengers include a wild assortment of comic loonies. The spoof comedy that set the gold standard for all that followed it, AIRPLANE takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that peppered cinemas in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot (who has a drinking problem and is afraid of flying) must cooperate with his ex-girlfriend turned stewardess to bring the plane to a safe landing. No disaster flick cliche is left unroasted, and the musical score itself takes a less than reverent look at overly melodramatic compositions.
The plot of this film -- on which the spoof is hung -- is based on a 1957 movie called "Zero Hour!" The film also borrows from the more recent disaster film "Airport."
Although this was a low-budget film, it did better than many of the big budget movies of that year.
Available to buy in the UK. Airplane! Reviews: "...Jokes -- hilarious jokes -- to spare....Clever and confident and furiously energetic..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1980"-- Vincent Canby, New York Times "...Nonstop comic invention made AIRPLANE! one of the funniest...comedies of our time..." -- Rating: A
-- Glenn Kenny, Entertainment Weekly "...Most of the gags hit the mark, and the dialogue's as quotable as ever..."
-- Simon Brew, Total Film "[A] cornucopia of geeky slapstick, self-referential jokes, and satirical pastiches..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "[T]he contrarian casting of deadpan actors like Leslie Nielsen reinvented careers by making every utterance a punchline." -- Grade: B+
-- Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly Ranked #15 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "You are certain to laugh."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 5 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ithout doubt one of the funniest movies ever made."
-- Total Film Staff, Total Film Airplane! | List Price | $12.99 (You save $4.44) | | Studio | Paramount Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1980 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3502  | | CD Universe Part number | 6947336 | | Catalog number | 30904 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 13, 2005 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Also Known As | Airplane | | Running Time | 87 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; "Don't Call Me Shirley" Edition/ Widescreen |
Airplane! Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  You Got TO Love The Zucker Brothers!
This has got to be the funniest comedy I have seen so far. Not even the commedies from today can be compered to Airplane. You can watch it a million times and still laugh out loud! If your looking for a good laugh, then watch Airplane! Garranteed!
Submitted by lngroup (Pretoria, GP, RSA) 
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One of the best. It started a whole new career for Leslie Neilsen.
Submitted by chrslcs (Round Lake Park, IL, USA)
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I've loved this movie since I was 10 years old!! My son just saw it for the first time and he thought it was hilarious... though some of the innuendoes were not understood, which is a really good thing!!
Submitted by Laura.Monty (Wallingford, CT)
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This review is for a different format. One of the best comedies ever
It is one of ten best comedies ever made. Every time I watch it I see something that I missed before. It keeps you laughing from beginning until end. Don't forget to watch the very last scene after the credits roll.
Submitted by john.biardo (Chicago, IL, USA)
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This review is for a different format. re: AMAZING
In answer to your question about the missing scene in Airplane!. I've noticed in this movie and the sequal, when shown on cable there are certain scenes missing. Some of them were shot just for television and are added to fill in where the "too nasty for TV" parts are cut out. The same happened in Blazing Saddles, there's a scene when the Gov and Lilly Von Schtup ride into the fake Rock Ridge in a carriage for some "political schmoozing with the locals". Mel Brooks has his photo taken with one of the dummy's that was made right before the bad guys showed up.
Hope that helps!
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Airplane! DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen -
1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Production Interviews
Audio Commentary: Jerry Zucker - Writer/Director, David Zucker - Writer/Director, Jim Abrahams - Writer/Director, Jon Davidson - Producer
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Enhanced Movie Branching (Deleted Scenes, Interviews)
Trivia Track
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