Airplane (1980)

Director: Jerry Zucker  Jim Abrahams  David Zucker  Starring: Julie Hagerty  Robert Hays  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Paramount
Format: DVD
UPC: 00097360130546
Buy.com Sku: 40143449
Item#: VRH5VT
Category Keywords: All-Star  Essential Cinema  High Flying  Parody  Recommended  Spoof  Theatrical Release 
Rating: 
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
 
The persons and events in this film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/stewardess/co-pilot; and a cast of all-stars including Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar... and more. Their hilarious high jinks spoof airplane disaster flicks, religious zealots, television commercials, romantic love... the list whirls by in rapid succession. And the story races from one moment of zany fun to the next.
 


Editor's Note

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 Summary

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.

 
Features
Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Collectors Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Letterbox - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams - Directors
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer



 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Paramount
Release Date: 1/8/2002
Running Time: 88 minutes
Original Release Date: 1980
Catalog ID: 013054
UPC: 00097360130546
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed
Available Subtitles: English
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Robert Stack
Julie Hagerty
Robert Hays
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Peter Graves
Cyril O'Reilly
Leslie Nielsen
Lloyd Bridges
Jerry Zucker - Director
Jim Abrahams - Director
David Zucker - Director

 
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"...Jokes -- hilarious jokes -- to spare....Clever and confident and furiously energetic..." 07/02/1980 p.C17

New York Times
Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1980" 12/28/1980 p.II:15

Entertainment Weekly
"...Nonstop comic invention made AIRPLANE! one of the funniest...comedies of our time..." -- Rating: A 09/16/1994 pp.126-8

Total Film
"...Most of the gags hit the mark, and the dialogue's as quotable as ever..." 03/01/2001 p.100

Premiere
"[A] cornucopia of geeky slapstick, self-referential jokes, and satirical pastiches..." 12/01/2003 p.13

Rolling Stone
"[T]imelessly wacky....You are certain to laugh." 12/01/2005 p.100

Entertainment Weekly
"[T]he contrarian casting of deadpan actors like Leslie Nielsen reinvented careers by making every utterance a punchline." -- Grade: B 12/16/2005 p.67

Rolling Stone
Ranked #15 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "You are certain to laugh." 12/01/2005 p.98

Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ithout doubt one of the funniest movies ever made." 07/01/2006 p.119

  
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