Airplane! (1980)

An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley.
Cast and Information
Directed By: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
Written By: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, Arthur Hailey
Starring: James Hong, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Julie Hagerty, Ethel Merman, Robert Hays, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Al White, Stephen Stucker, Lorna Patterson
Genre: Comedy
Franchise: Airplane
AKAs: Flying High, Flying High!
Country: USA
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MartinTeller | 95 98th |
I don't think they make comedies like this anymore. The laughs never stop for a minute... if you didn't like the last joke, just wait, there's another one right around the corner. It's so jam-packed with gags that watching it today I caught a couple I'd never noticed before, even after seeing the movie at least a dozen times (probably closer to 30). Comedy perfection.
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BeeDub | 100 97th |
The quintessential spoof movie, full of hilarious gags and quotable lines, many of which no one would have the guts to do today.
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BillyShears | 100 98th |
Perfect. Falls in with Dumb & Dumber/The Naked Gun as a fantastic comedy, you can rewatch it countless times and catch something new to laugh at. Love it.
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Ocelot | 99 99th |
I can't keep track of how many times I've seen Airplane! For my money, no other film makes such effective use of cinema as a medium for comedy, and it's pretty helpful that the dialogue and wordplay are just as immaculate as its visual humor. It's one of the absolute best films ever made, and I think that opinion would be more widespread if critics didn't thumb their noses at movies where old women snort cocaine and little girls take their coffee black like their men.
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guy piranha | 79 86th |
joey, have you ever rated a movie way too high for nostalgic reasons?
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terrymac | 85 93rd |
Very funny, very easy to watch, and quite charming in its own way. Has actually stood up pretty well over the years, as all the best comedies do.
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Luna6ix | 80 74th |
The granddaddy of modern parody movies, and unlike the majority of ones in this century, "Airplane!" has aged considerably well, it lacks the heavy leaning into present day pop culture that would make it irrelevant after just a few years. Shirley, this one is funny.
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4 | Launch | 96 98th |
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This is the perfect example of a comedy it delivers joke after joke and has you laughing from beginning to end. Undisputed as the greatest comedy ever in my book.
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Magb | 80 61st |
I'm pretty late to the party for this one. A very funny movie, to be sure. In some ways it's dated; in other ways its profound and lasting influence gives it a contemporary air and appeal even almost 30 years after its release. There aren't too many comedies that genuinely make me laugh when I'm watching them by myself, but this one actually did. Not just a few times either -- in many different scenes. The autopilot gags were particularly good.
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doctor7 | 86 86th |
Terribly silly and slapstick but it's just so good that you can't not laugh. There's hundreds of jokes machine-gunned out and they're almost all funny. It's just so downright absurd and that's its charm. This is slapstick humor at it's very, very best.
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BattleToad | 93 94th |
There is no point in this film where the jokes let up, and it's so unbelievably quotable that lines sometimes will just pop into your head uncontrollably. A parody of disaster films, this movie is one of the craziest and funniest movies ever. The fecal matter hit the oscillating device in all the right ways for this one. Awesome!
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3 | Ray | 95 96th |
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If it were possible to laugh yourself to death, then Airplane! would quickly have become the most prolific serial killer of all time. It is exceptionally funny, with some of the quickest humour and wittiest writing ever conceived. The jokes come hard and fast, each one causing so much laughter you're likely to miss the following three. A truly timeless film, Aiplane! soars to dizzying heights of comedy.
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2 | WoozyB | 60 14th |
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Somehow people seem to think of this as a classic, when it's really just pretty dumb.
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skiewulfy | 30 12th |
Prop humor, dragged to death punchlines and one note performances make Airplane quite possibly the most sobering film about air travel in existence. There's a respectable willingness to be silly and surreal, but that is killed by the complete lack of energy and timing. Little of the humor is even relevant to aviation (the 10 minute parody of Saturday Night Fever) but seems tacked on Family Guy style, because they couldn't think of any more prop gags involving the inflatable pilot.
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joel-w-m | 9 92nd |
A comedy film in the truest sense of the term: Literally not a scene goes by without a joke or two or three, and I wish I could mention them all: The one-off ones are certainly hilarious (see Kramer talking to no one), as are the random background visual gags (see doing the laundry at the control tower), but it's the repeated ones that really take the cake (see Striker's unfortunate seatmates), especially the ones that don't even start out funny ("Looks like I picked the wrong week...").
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TripleSH | 91 93rd |
Ah, pretty much any movie with the name Zucker attached to it is guaranteed to be a comedy classic. This movie has spawned so many jokes people still throw into conversations today.
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Actionberg | 90 92nd |
The perfect American comedy.
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JohnnyZombie | 82 45th |
Good gags, but the movie felt a little dated.
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Parmandur | 91 96th |
One of the funniest films ever.
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Dorkovsky | 4 41st |
It got a few chuckles out of me, but having not seen this as a 14 year old, I just thought a lot of the jokes were retarded.
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Pickpocket | 5 44th |
Not bad, but definitely not in the top 10 funniest movies ever. About 3 genuinely laugh out loud moments in the film, and a few more moments that will just make you smile. Dated and probably a fluke considering what Zucker later went on to do.
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TheDiceman | 35 12th |
Poor.
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auritech | 83 81st |
An undeniable comedy classic that basically defined the visual pun based film parody and probably changed the course of film comedy, for better or for worse. It's still fun to watch even years later.
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PeaceAnarchy | 71 29th |
I tried to find it hilarious, but it just wasn't. It was funny and I enjoyed it well enough, but it feels really clumsy at times. Maybe I need to see more of the movies it parodies.
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RAmpersaND | 25 9th |
Ninety minutes of silly puns and stupid pratfalls might've been funny in 1980, but this "comedy" is simply groanworthy today.
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rob | 15 83rd |
Joke after joke after joke after joke, each of them surprisingly well-crafted. The whole thing is hilarious: in terms of sheer quantity of laughs, I don't think there's anything better.
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nilkynarfy | 50 34th |
The older I get, the more I dislike it. There's a little more craft than the movie movies, but it's still just a collection of wacky puns, groaners and sight gags. If it wasn't for Leslie Nielsen, it would be a total bust.
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vesupria | 7 78th |
Really amusing spoof flick, with interesting characters (comedic value wise) and some fairly good satire in places. But mostly watch it because it's damn hilarious! I'm also impressed by the fact that there is always a joke, and some of them require you to pay a lot of close attention!
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1 | wcnitz | 92 98th |
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This is the best and the only truly great parody film. It has no peer.
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1 | Shao | 53 12th |
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Dumb.
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Jarmann | 86 87th |
The first and by far the best in the series.
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recklessmess | 80 71st |
I don't think airplanes work like that.
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Wiche | 27 8th |
O God, no. One of the top 10 funniest movies ever? Not a chance! Really dumb jokes. Ok, I smiled and laughed occasionallyn but way to little for a comedy. Just not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.
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miss jesus | 99 99th |
Wall-to-wall hilarious jokes--and not even any mean-spirited jokes. Endlessly quotable. Most people my age (born in the 70's) have never even seen any of the movies this parodies--and it doesn't matter, because it fulfills the prerequisites for a story with dramatic arc and all that on its own, something most parody films seem to have forgotten how to do nowadays.
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Pepsi-Man | 3 74th |
Succeeds where most other parody movies fail because it throws actual jokes at you, not just references. One of, if not the, best spoofs ever made. Watch this numerous times.
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CosmicMonkey | 93 97th |
Loses points for some mildly racist humour.
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Dunder74 | 9 96th |
Probably the funniest film ever.
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billkerwin | 90 83rd |
Very funny! I never get tired of watching it.
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Sweekoden | 72 68th |
Tons of funny lines and gags here. A couple of 'wow that probably shouldn't be shown on TV anymore' type jokes (suicide gags and especially the stuff said to the kid in the cockpit), but impressively relentless in churning out comedy.
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OhYes | 54 26th |
Not as great as pop culture wants me to think it is.
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1 | kctgreat | 95 96th |
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HILARIOUS!!!!!!! the 1st of its kind for me. "assume crash positions everyone!"
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1 | myfajahas400 | 90 72nd |
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One of the funniest movies ever!
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Noblet | 77 62nd |
Hilarious-and besides some disco gags, holds up very well.
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thegreyfox | 90 93rd |
Does a film have to "last" 37 years in order for it to be a classic? Of course not ... wonderful daft humour, and great to be reminded of comedy that didnt mind "offending" people because no one took "offense". So many quotes ....
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fuzzleshnops | 50 24th |
First seeing this in 2020. Good god as a female this was SUPER uncomfortable to watch. There was one scene where there was a line of people queue'd up to slap a woman on board and another scene where an "automatic pilot" was groping a flight attendant. There was also a random shot of a random woman's boobs.... what? This is not funny.
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manymoons | 80 72nd |
Hilarious, and not at all "dated".
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KramYessev | 88 98th |
Along with "Holy Grail", "Airplane!" is undisputedly the greatest comedy of all time.
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mattorama12 | 100 99th |
Maybe it's because I saw it for the first time when I was 8. Maybe it's because there are bare breasts in a PG-rated movie. Either way, for my money, the funniest movie of all time.
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1 | brandons | 91 92nd |
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Though unabashedly juvenile and silly, Airplane! is nevertheless an uproarious spoof comedy full of quotable lines and slapstick gags that endure to this day.
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adouble | 95 96th |
Comedic perfection. So many jokes that you could watch it 20 times and still catch something new every time.
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MacSwell | 100 99th |
Airplane! thoroughly deserves its reputation as one the finest comedies ever made, with an excellent and relentless mix of smart wordplay, satire, reference humour and old-school slapstick, ensuring one belly-aching laugh after the next. The two leads are good, but it's the supporting cast, notably Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen and Peter Graves, who really steal the show. With the jokes having endured remarkably over time, a testament to the strength of the writing, this is a true comedy gem.
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thereeldeal | 65 37th |
Airplane!'s renown lies in its unwavering assault of joke-a-second puns and absurdities, bringing slapstick and screwball comedies of the era it parodies to their (il)logical conclusions. However, it's still the extremity of a frequently trite form of comedy. Airplane! never builds on itself like character-driven comedies and their possible other intricacies. It's an assault of stones that eventually you give into and accept the chuckles, but it's not humor that draws from the soul.
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1 | brell | 40 76th |
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my brain heard the racist jokes and winced but my heart was attracted to that other donor heart leaping around on that dude's desk while jars of mayo lined the walls
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