Airplane! (I Love the 80's Edition, Widescreen) - Comedy Classic Movies on DVD (1980) Starring Robert Hays & Julie Hagerty; Directed by Jerry Zucker; Jim Abrahams & David Zucker; Paramount : OLDIES.com

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Also released as:
Airplane! ("Don't Call Me Shirley" Edition / Widescreen) for $9.95

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Genre: Comedy

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Item Number:
PRT 137804D

DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen

Audio:

Unspecified - English

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times - 07/02/1980

"...Jokes -- hilarious jokes -- to spare....Clever and confident and furiously energetic..."

New York Times - 12/28/1980

Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1980"

Entertainment Weekly - 09/16/1994

"...Nonstop comic invention made AIRPLANE! one of the funniest...comedies of our time..." -- Rating: A

Total Film - 03/01/2001

"...Most of the gags hit the mark, and the dialogue's as quotable as ever..."

Premiere - 12/01/2003

"[A] cornucopia of geeky slapstick, self-referential jokes, and satirical pastiches..."

Entertainment Weekly - 12/16/2005

"[T]he contrarian casting of deadpan actors like Leslie Nielsen reinvented careers by making every utterance a punchline." -- Grade: B+

Rolling Stone - 12/01/2005

Ranked #15 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "You are certain to laugh."

Total Film - 07/01/2006

5 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ithout doubt one of the funniest movies ever made."

Product Description:

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.

Plot Synopsis:

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.

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Production Notes:

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.

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Robert Hays & Julie Hagerty
Directed by		Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams & David Zucker
Performer		Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack & Cyril O'Reilly