Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition) |  | Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  301 reviews
Sales Rank: 943
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD030904D
ISBN: 1415713871
UPC: 097360309041
EAN: 9781415713877
ASIN: B000B5XOWA
Theatrical Release Date: July 2, 1980
Release Date: December 13, 2005
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The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '70s cinema, from disco films to star-studded disaster epics--are more than worthy for send-up. If you've seen even one of the overblown Airport movies then you know the plot: the crew of a filled-to-capacity jetliner is wiped out and it's up to a plucky stewardess and a shell-shocked fighter pilot to land the plane. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are the heroes who have a history that includes a meet-cute à la Saturday Night Fever, a surf scene right out of From Here to Eternity, a Peace Corps trip to Africa to teach the natives the benefits of Tupperware and basketball, a war-ravaged recovery room with a G.I. who thinks he's Ethel Merman (a hilarious cameo)--and those are just the flashbacks! The jokes gleefully skirt the boundaries of bad taste (pilot Peter Graves to a juvenile cockpit visitor: "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"), with the high (low?) point being Hagerty's intimate involvement with the blow-up automatic pilot doll, but they'll have you rolling on the floor. The film launched the careers of collaborators Jim Abrahams (Big Business), David Zucker (Ruthless People), and Jerry Zucker (Ghost), as well as revitalized such B-movie actors as Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Leslie Nielsen, who built a second career on films like this. A vital part of any video collection. --Mark Englehart
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 AIRPLANE! July 23, 2010
Glenn R. Smith (CITRUS COUNTY, FL)
This is the film that launched the series of spoofs about everything!
These guys were brilliant in this and the following series.
Leslie Nielsen got a new lease on his career and life!
 Ordered the old 2000 version. April 20, 2010
D. Eldridge
I ordered the version that was made just before 9/11, hoping that some of the scenes that are missing from the earlier TV releases and in the later "Don't Call me Shirley" edition are missing. This disc says 87 minutes, has captions, a clean simple menu, and no annoying ads at the beginning like some DVDs do. Strangely, the copyright warning is in another language.
Some of the missing scenes: * The man who yells "Hi Jack!" (Hijack) is dragged away by cops. * The long discussion between the two kids about how the girl had never gotten married * The co-pilot doesn't ask for nonsensical calculations and then say 49er, 9er, 9er... 9er into the radio. * The pilots notice two jet engines going out while making propeller sounds. And there are more than that. It's a shame that these don't seem to have made it into *any* of the DVD releases.
I'm still giving this movie four stars because of the clean simple DVD release (again, this is the pre-9/11 DVD with the "widescreen" logo at the bottom instead of the top) and the comedic quality of the original movie. "Airplane" is a classic.
airplane April 16, 2010
R. GILMAN
Too bad some of the younger folks won't recognize the whole cast. Great in their roles, and quite a departure.
 chopped down from 95 min. April 4, 2010
Chris Cox (caldwell,idaho)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
this version of the film has had all of it's terrorism spit bombs and highjack jokes chopped out and why, because of the 911 tragedy?(g.m.a.b). david and jerry zucker can got to hell, for this new g rated edition. the only film i like by them still is the kentucky fried movie which still remains untouched to this day with the rex kramer stunt man and catholic high school girls in trouble sketches left in the film exxxtreemly funny!!!!!!
Silly and outrageously funny March 9, 2010
David Long (NJ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Godfather of all movie spoofs, every fan of comedy should see this movie. From beginning to end, it is filled with brilliant one-liners and sight gags. Even the more obvious jokes are still funny because of the witty writing and spot-on timing. Especially if you're a fan of movie spoofs and somehow haven't seen it yet, this is a must-see. While the sets may be a bit dated, most of the comedy itself holds up well.
What is the plot? It's the main story of a movie... but that's not important right now. Robert Hays plays Ted Striker, a former military pilot who has been too afraid to fly since the war but is the only person who can land the plane after the pilot and co-pilot come down with food poisoning, along with half the passengers. Julie Hagerty plays Elaine, the stewardess who was in love with Striker but hates how he's stuck in the past. The cast is rather interesting, with a mix of comedic and serious actors all delivering the one-liners. My favorite is Lloyd Bridges as McCroskey, the supervisor in the air traffic control tower. There are some inspired choices here, such as Barbara Billingsley (the mother in "Leave it to Beaver") as a jive talker, and Peter Graves as Captain Oveur.
In addition to lots of great one-liners, the movie also has some really funny ongoing gags, such as McCroskey saying he picked the wrong week to quit smoking and then later that he picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines. There's no shortage of sight gags either, including an automatic pilot which is a blow-up dummy. Almost everyone can use a silly movie now and then and "Airplane!" definitely delivers.
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