Airplane!
PG

Airplane!

What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?

1980 • 88 min • Comedy

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Movie Knight Score
5164 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
  • 73 Audience · 5160 · 40%

Rubani wa zamani wa kivita mwenye hofu ya kuruka anapaswa kutua ndege ya abiria baada ya wahudumu kuugua. Vichekesho hivi vya zamani vimejaa utani wa haraka, vichekesho vya kuona, na hali zisizo za kawaida.

Violence & peril
2/10
Language
4/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
4/10
Romance & sensuality
3/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • Utani wa mara kwa mara wa kimapenzi na vichekesho vya kudokeza
  • Utani mwingine mchafu na matusi kidogo
  • Matukio kadhaa yenye pombe na uvutaji sigara

What it models well

  • Kushinda hofu
  • Kushirikiana wakati wa shida
  • Kujitolea

Talk about it after

  • Mtindo wa ucheshi na jinsi unavyofanya kazi
  • Jinsi wahusika wanavyokabiliana na hali za kutatanisha
  • Kuelewa majeraha ya zamani na kupona

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Top billed cast

Director: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams • Crew: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Trailers & clips

Leslie Nielsen On Dr. Rumack In AIRPLANE!

Airplane! (1980) Original Trailer [FHD]

Airplane! - Trailer

Reviewer notes

Recommended

**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).…

Recommended

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.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

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.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

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 Office'.…

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