Film · Paramount · 1980
Pass it on
Airplane!
45Watch it awake.
It's funny in a pile, but some jokes are meaner than the landing deserves.
The review
Somebody still has to land the plane. That sentence is doing more work than the pile of jokes around it. A traumatized pilot, a spoof of the flying-disaster pictures, gags stacked until the stack is the style. Some of them are language bent until it snaps. Some are cruel about identity.
I can laugh at the wordplay. I do not need the cruel ones, and the film will not sort them for you. The competence underneath is real: people are still in the air, and a man who did not want the controls has them. Watch it for the landing if you watch it. Do not tell yourself the mean gags were required.
Journal
Keep Airplane! in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Sandlot
56 instead of 45
The Sandlot is still a comedy film, and it scores 56 instead of 45. What you gain is household: A loose gang of boys, and a stepfather trying.
The eight
- 7Industry
A traumatized pilot still has to land the plane.
- 2Household
No marriage or child is the life this spoof is built around.
- 3Piety
Nothing in the joke pile asks anyone to drop a cruel gag.
- 7Courage
The pilot takes the controls after trauma, with people aboard.
- 6Republic
Passengers are still owed a landing, spoof or not.
- 3Temperance
The film stacks the next joke, including ones cruel about identity.
- 4Truth
Some jokes are wordplay, and some are just mean about people.
- 4Stewardship
What remains is a landed plane and a pile of unbilled gags.
Where to watch
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