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Airplane!

Airplane!

Comedy

7.309/10

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US

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en

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88 min

Release Date: 1980-06-27

Overview - An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Production Companies

Paramount PicturesHoward W. Koch Productions

Overview - An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

User Reviews

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schoosskyler

8/10

An American Comedy _**Classic**_ - Everything about this film screams 'American Cinema Comedy'. A lot of the humor is a precursor to modern american humor, including the terribly cheesy pulp humor. This film is an homage to the comedies that came before it, but is innovative in its combination of wordplay and referential humor. I see vestiges of this film in everything from 'The Hangover' to 'The ...

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/10

Right from the "Jaws" (1975) inspired opening titles, this is a treat of comedy that sends up just about every genre of cinema as poor old "Ted" (Robert Hays) has to stave off an airborne disaster aboard his aircraft. Half the folks travelling have been stricken with food poisoning and when the cockpit it wiped-out, it falls to him to bravely take the joystick and try to land in Chicago. Luckily, ...

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drystyx

drystyx

9/10

Surely, this is hilarious. Surely. A film that never saw the word "Surely" in the same light again. This is a total parody, not just of disaster movies, but of all social mores. The "excuse" for the comedy is a plane where the entire flight crew is too sick to fly, so a nerve racked ex pilot needs to fly the plane. Lots of Monty Python style "unreal" events to make this even funnier, along wit...

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

9/10

**A memorable comedy that deserves to be revisited occasionally.** I can't say how innovative this film was in its time because I'm not one of those cinema experts who know almost everything (I'd like to know more, and I always learn more, but I'm reduced to the insignificance of knowing little). However, as far as I can understand, I think it was one of the first nonsense American satires, hea...

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