this movie is an actual masterpiece, the humor in it still holds up to this day and I genuinely think it's the funniest movie of all time. There's no sad scenes, no serious scenes, just straight comedy the whole time. Also don't call me Shirley.
Everything in this movie just hits perfectly. I've watched it countless times, and it has never failed to make me laugh! Easily one of the best comedies ever made
Yep. Everything about it is extremely clever, while also being incredibly stupid. It's an absolute work of art that should be on any film studies course 😂
I liked when Leslie Nielsen said "Everyone on this plane who had fish for dinner is going to become violently ill", and Peter Graves looks down at his plate on the floor and there's an entire fish skeleton, including the head and tail 🤣
One of my instructors, a calculus instructor in college, used to quote that scene, especially when talking about Vectors, and fractions (Unger/over...here's our Vector, Victor)...the aloof class didn't catch the references but I did. That may be the only reason he passed me. I had very little grasp of calculus, but I understood the sh*t out of his obscure 80's references.
I believe the intention was to cast actors and actresses known for serious and dramatic roles just to add to the tone of all these people treating ludicrous situations and dialogue with almost comical intensity, which was the norm of so many disaster movies of that era.
He did a couple of episodes of Columbo--he was completely serious but I kept waiting for the joke to come. Hard to take him serious after seeing him in Airplane and Police Squad.
"no, I mean I'm just not sure" "well can't you take a guess?" "well not for another 2 hours" "you can't take a guess for another 2 hours?" I was dying at that point lol
One of the underappreciated masterstrokes of this movie was the way they persuaded all these taciturn, tough-guy actors -- Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, and glory of glories, Leslie Nielsen -- to deadpan their way through mocking their own images. Absolutely inspired.
Yeah cuz I don't know how that guy from Mission Impossible and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar held such a straight face. I don't know how many times they took and redid that scene
See I love the one with the little boy asking the girl if she would like some coffee: boy: "excuse me, I happen to be passing and I thought you might like some coffee" girl: "oh that is very nice of you, thank you... oh won't you sit down?" boy: "thank you, cream?" girl: "No thank you, I take it black, like my men"
Arguably the greatest comedy movie of all time. Slapstick comedy is an extremely fine line to walk between clever and awful, and this did it better than anything else. My mom was 19 when this came out in theaters, she said her and her friends all got stoned before watching it and almost died laughing so hard. I'm pretty jealous tbh. 😂
Damian Louden They think he's telling them to repeat what he just said, all together/at the same time. But at this point I'm confused as to which part you're not getting: The "all together" thing, or the fact that he said "altogether".
@@mikewhatley8237 What do you mean, you missed the scene in Airplane where they had Richard Nixon on and declared he was the best president of all time?
"Captain, how soon can you land?" "i can't tell" "you can tell me, i'm a doctor" "no, i mean, im just not sure" "well, cant you take a guess?" "well, not for another two hours!" "you can't take a guess for another two hours"?
The funniest part for me is that he was sleeping one second, without the stethoscope, and the next, he looks like he's been awake the whole time, all ready to go, with the stethoscope already in his ears! XD
That's also a subtle homage to airline amenities in the dark ages. To listen to the entertainment channels, they gave you plastic tube headphones that were very similar to a stethoscope, and were worn the exact same way.
This movie is just absurdly funny. And every one keeping a strait face makes it better. My favorite gag was when Rex Kramer just casually walks through a mirror, and it took me time of seeing it to notice. Truely the greatest comedy of all time.
@@tjwash2 If Airplane! ever gets a big theatrical rerelease, for like an anniversary or something, Yuban needs to bring those commercials back for at least half a year before the movie comes back out. Or was it Sanka? I think it was Yuban.
For all those curious with the last joke, it's because Leslie Nelson voiced the Star Wars voice at the Death Star run. The part where the voice tells the pilots, good luck were all counting on you.
I used that when I worked at a school age daycare. Kid: What's snack? Me: It's a small amount of food eaten between meals, but that's not important now. That joke received some epic eye rolls from 4th and 5th graders.
Missed my fav bit, when in the tower someone asks: "Shouldn't light up the landing lights"? And the head pilot responds:"No, that's what they are expecting us to do!"
And later after II... Coming soon from Paramount Pictures, Airplane III! Buck Murdock (aka Shatner): That's just what they would be expecting us to do.
Probably because with our modern 'offense' and post air terror culture.. its highly unlikely that you could get away with making something like this today..
Indeed. The third death that occured when Ted was talking about his backstory is now harsher in hindsight thanks to terrorist-related plane crashes, especially 9/11.
+Carolus Rex *LOL* I've been watching this movie since I was a little kid, and that one went over my head a zillion times; when I finally got it, it became my favorite joke in the movie :)
It’s a parody of an old 70’s coffee commercial where the husband and wife are visiting friends and the husband has a second cup of her friend’s coffee but never the wife’s at home because the friends coffee is better.
I had to look up the old "Yuban second cup of coffee" commercial, and I'm only now realizing--after 35 years--that Jim and his wife are the very same actors from the commercial!
I don't think Nicholas Pryor (Mr. Hammen) was in the Yuban ads, but Lee Bryant (Mrs. Hammen) had been doing little variations on the same Yuban ad for years and years. I saw this in the theater, and the audience cheered when they realized the actress they'd already recognized from the ads was about to do the ad on the big screen. Genius filmmakers.
I wanted to see the cockpit scene where Striker is hearing an echo when he's talking to himself: "I've got to Concentrate...concentrate...concentrate" "I've got to Concentrate...concentrate...concentrate" "Hello? Hello...hello..." "Echo...echo..echo..." "Now...pinch-hitting for Pedro Borbon...Manny Mota...Mota...Mota..."
I love that they make fun of all races, cultures and genders without fear of offending. Jokes are not evil if if there is no Malice behind them. Life is so short; why take everything so serious.
@@pitapitmanager8613 Well, i can assure you, they did not make any jokes about race in the clips that were shown. From what i can tell, the jokes were aimed at cultures and to a minor extent religion and not race. But you're missing the point Mark Kazmier is making, the jokes were made in good fun and hade no melicious intent.
If you weren't around in the 70's, the coffee joke at 02:26 might be confusing. That actress in the movie was in a famous YUBAN coffee commercial in the 70's Search "1970s Yuban Commercial"
Yes. Benny Hill (since deceased British funny man who chased the ladies to that silly music) once did a spoof low budget movie that took the pee out of that too. Showed a scene inside an ocean liner. Then switched to outside, and it was a toy ship bobbing in a bath.
The whole thing was overall a close parody of the movie Zero Hour, which had a prop plane. Because it was the same studio they reused a lot of assets, including reusing the prop noise as a gag.
What made this movie such a success is that they cast a bunch of actors who until that point had been known for only playing serious, action, and drama roles. That contrast with the wackiness of the film is what made the movie even funnier.
We have Jeff and Bo Bridges to thank for some of the greatest scenes in Airplane. Lloyd Bridges' agent sent him the screenplay for Airplane. He read it and was uncertain as to whether or not to accept the role. He let his sons read the screenplay and they were laughing their heads off at it and convinced him that he should do it. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit posting on RU-vid,
