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Bookmark this pageAirplane! (1980)
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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From Time Out Film Guide
Zapping every disaster movie cliché with the cartoon subtlety of Mad magazine may be nothing more than cannibal glee, but it prompts enough convulsions of laughter in this wacky spoof from the Kentucky Fried Movie team for you not to notice their dead hand at work. Imagine the same old '50s airplane yarn: pilots poisoned, passengers panic, while a traumatised war-hero lands the jalopy. It should be disastrous. But psycho ground controllers (Stack and Bridges), laff-a-second pace, and bludgeoning innuendo make this the acceptable face of the locker-room satire. DMacp.Author: DMacp
Cast & crew
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Producer: Jon Davison
Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 87 mins
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