Airplane!
I love Leslie Nielsen, and adore Naked Gun, so I thought that was what I was getting into with Airplane!, but unfortunately, that was not the case. We haven’t seen Zero Hour!, which Airplane! is a shot for shot remake of, but it seemed way to tied to its source material in a way that hurts this as a comedy 56 years later. It has a few laughs, but much of the humor hasn’t aged the best. Would not recommend if you haven’t seen it, and if you saw it many years ago, I’d leave it in your memory.
-Z
I’ve heard so many references to this over the years, with many people proclaiming how funny it was, but I’m not sure I get it. It feels like the kind of humor I do generally like, but here it feels a bit too over the top and also quite dated. After reading a bit more about the documentaries/disaster movies it was spoofing, I’m sure there were a lot of things that would have been funny had I had that context. It’s not a bad movie, but I felt pretty disappointed in the end.
-E
