Truly Dreadful Film

How sad is this?

Fresh and Exciting

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

My friends and I quote lines from this movie incessantly. I watched "The High and the Mighty" from 1954 and it is a boilerplate for the jokes in Airplane. You'll laugh at both as watch.

Some people hate planes because of 9/11. If a security checked plane ride scares you, then you definitely don't want to be on the plane in "Airplane!" The plot follows a plane with a stupid pilot who ends up nearly crashing the plane. Well, he has an inflatable co-pilot, and when he deflated, the air hole is at his crotch area. He also serves fish that makes everyone sick. This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, and even the AFI(American Film Institute) names it the 10th greatest comedy of all time. My favorite part involves a little girl who needs to go to the hospital and her IV is pulled while a woman is singing to her. There is also a man who tells boring stories...so boring that the people who hear them actually take their lives to avoid hearing them. That wouldn't be funny in reality, but here it works. I could tell you more funny parts, but you should see it yourself. You surely won't be disappointed. And don't call me Shirley!

This is a wonderful example of good Slapstick. This film is what got me into the naked gun series and many other good classic Slapstick humor comedy.

I liked this movie as a kid but just watching it last night, it doesn't hold up the way the Naked Gun series does. It's much slower paced than today's movies and a lot of the context is gone. Reading through the Trivia section, I can see there is a lot of context missing today that audiences would have originally gotten the joke too.Unfortunately, Airplane suffers from the same scenario that a lot of original endeavors do. It was very original and fresh at the time when it came out. But since then, so many movies have copied it's style that it has now become the movie that feels out of date.There were still some funny parts where I was laughing but the movie just tends to drag on. It's like a lot of comedies where the first 30 minutes is funny but then you're just waiting for it to end.