i watched this film back in the 80s when i was in my teens, i thought it was amazing. Watched it recently, thought nothing special of it. Jokes are dated, not funny, and some jokes are offensive!!
The Police Academy films are far better than this garbage!
This is still as funny to ME today as it was back in the 80s.
And oh hell, I get SO DAMN tired of the word "dated". If it didn't come out 5 minutes ago it's DATED by today's standards!
God forbid anything should be from another time without that 21st century "touch" to it.
And hell isn't EVERYTHING gonna suffer being "dated" eventually? Just b/c something is dated doesn't mean it's lame or unfunny.
Question your prejudices.
Couldn't agree more toking65000. Airplane! is still as funny today as it was back in the 80s, if not more so when compared against the current crop of crap that Hollywood is trying to pass off as comedies.
shareThanks! I was expecting to get cussed out LOL
But this movie is a lot better than Scary Movie and things like that of today which always has to be a freakin porno to be funny. Well I liked Scary Movie 3 ok but that was about it.
I just get so tired of hearing how things that are dated to a certain decade and how styles from a particular decade are SO lame by today's standards.
Question your prejudices.
We just showed it to our 19 year old son and he thought it was great; granted, we did need to explain some of the jokes because they involved things he just had no idea about: we had never mentioned that people used to be able to smoke on planes...
shareAgreed - still funny. I was reading over the quotes and laughing just now.
shareA classic. Perhaps the cleverest lines ever in a movie. Of course, the film was considered as crap by the Academy, giving it zero nominations. Offensive, yes, but who cares, we need a good laugh nowadays. Scary Movie and its sequels were supposed to be funny? Not at all funny but silly!
sharetoking65000^
Yes.
I saw it when it first came out, and I still get a kick out of it when I watch it today :)
"We would have been fine, if there hadn't been any.....mess"
Loved it then, and love it now. Well said toking65000.
And you gave her a land mine? Really?
Well, it seemed appropriate at the time.
- Ron Swanson
True, the gay stereotype character is pretty offensive.
zider is a lying pro-Uwe Boll douchebag - Note that.
Nope, very funny....
You Have a Hard Lip, Herbert..
Better Living Thru Chemistry
And what the hell "OFFENDED" you about him? He's effeminate, so are thousands of other gay people, and I accept them as much as I accept the gay leather guys. They are all my equals and deserve full respect and equality. Go off and work on your prejudice and THEN come back here.
A proud gay,
Kevin
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In real life that guy was gay and sadly died of AIDS. He was also playing a character that he had been doing as part of the Zucker brother comedy act for years prior to the movie. He was a long time friend of theirs.
shareEver watch Ben-Hur? You could watch it in 1959 (when it was made) or 2029 and it would still be a fabulous movie.
Airplane! is still the funniest movie I have ever seen. If you like screwball comedies rent "What's Up Doc" with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal
Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow.
shareIMO, Airplane! is not at all uproariously funny. It is at best mildly amusing with the best parts being the jive talk and probably the gay air traffic controller. 6/10
I normally avoid the word "dated" because quality is just that, whatever the year.
Rationality is a superficial veneer on the human condition.
I totally agree. I'm not usually one to mindlessly talk bad of movies I didn't love or enjoy, but I saw this for the first time tonight and almost every single joke felt like something I might have laughed at had I seen it when it was new. As it stands now it merely seems like a more dated version of the kind of thing Leslie Nielsen went on to do after. It hasn't aged at all well for a modern audience, the jokes are too obvious, groan-worthy and reliant on cheap puns.
shareDid the OP really say that it was offensive? My God... BOO HOO. I wish we could go back to this type of humor.
"When the fox hears the rabbit scream he comes a-runnin'... but not to help."
club-shred^
Yes.
Some need a sense of humor...period, and not be "oh so offended!!"
"We would have been fine, if there hadn't been any.....mess"
I only saw it recently and was nowhere near being alive when it was made...I found it pretty funny. Completely ridiculous but not as dated as I'd imagined. Made me laugh more than I thought it would.
shareIt's a light comedy that gets me nostalgic for "the good old days". It's an okay movie.
I prefer watching the khayak races on Battle of the Network stars. It's hilarious when the celebrities' boats go into everybody's lane but their own. Watch it on Youtube (especially the Judy Norton Taylor one).
Dude offensive is FUNNY...I love this film because it is anti PC..
You Have a Hard Lip, Herbert..
Better Living Thru Chemistry
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It's the same sort of phenomenon as when people say the Exorcist isn't scary or even say it's funny...
Because Airplane! (like the Exorcist) is such a landmark, groundbreaking film, it's since been endlessly imitated, quoted, aped, and otherwise dissected in the years since. Since it is already a parody, it can't be said that it has been endlessly parodied like the Exorcist, but I think you get my point... it is very hard for it to have the same impact that it had on initial release. Since then there have been not only ZAZ's Naked Gun movies, but all the wannabe ZAZ movies like Scary Movie, Epic Movie, ad nauseum. Also, although I am not someone who considers every movie that came out more than five minutes ago to be "dated", one has to admit that a lot of the jokes rely on very specific cultural references of that era such as other disaster movies, TV commercials, etc.
A discerning viewer, however, can account for and adjust his/her attitude for these factors and still enjoy the movie quite thoroughly. I just did.
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So wait a minute, the OP thinks that Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol is funnier than Airplane? That's what I'm reading right?
share”Aped” is a new one to me. What does that mean?
”Deh Deh Deh, DA Dabacco”-Puert Rican dude from the ”I aint your Papi” episode of COPS.