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Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: NIELSEN/HAYS/STACK/BRIDGES
EAN: 9781415713877
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415713871
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: 097360309041
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 02, 1980
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Editorial Review:
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
Parody of airplane disaster films in which a former pilot gets his nerve back when he has to land a plane on which everyone has food poisoning.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: NIELSEN/HAYS/STACK/BRIDGES
Title: AIRPLANE
Street Release Date: 12/13/2005
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY VIDEO
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Clever, funny and amusing
This is one hell of a clever and funny parody. I love it. Can't get enough of it and every time I watch it, I get to see new stuff in the movie. If you want a good hard laugh, then this is it. Watch this movie and you'll laugh so hard that tears will come out of your eyes. great one!
Rating:  - The Complete Airplane! Saga Finally Gets Released Together In The USA!
(I should note that this is NOT necessarily a review of the version of Airplane! on this Amazon page. This release [currently unavailable here, sold exclusively at WalMart] and review should give you a heads-up on a possible alternative purchase of these comedy classics. A picture of it's cover is in the Customer Images located on the top left of this page)
This box-set that was released May of '08 could have been alot cooler. This is the first time (at least for Region 1) BOTH Airplane! ... Read More
Rating: - Airplane! DVD
Such a classic! If you like slapstick, physical humor that makes fun of a whole genre, you can't be without this film. It redefined Leslie Nielsen's career and essential birthed the genre of mockery film-making. It's rather adult but once my son was 17 I just had to share it. It's a bit dated (it helps to have lived through the 70's to get some of th jokes) but it's still a riot.
Rating:  - Great movie - worthless commentary
First of all -- the movie itself is outstanding. Classic comedy that has stood the test of time. I don't even have to go into it, I don't think.
A lot of people will buy this movie for the director's commentary. It's most entertaining to hear the insides of the jokes, film's evolution, mistakes, etc.
This one is not it. Instead you just get a bunch of pompous "industry" windbags praising themselves and dropping names. The jokes and bits fly by while they spent nearly the ... Read More
Rating: - Surely you have seen this movie.
Surely you've seen this movie many times, so why buy another DVD? Unlike other movies that include deleted scenes and interviews as a separate part of the DVD. DCMS includes these features as part of the movie, while your watching a part of the movie, suddenly everything will stop and you will be flung into a deleted scene or interview. Surely, if this is the first time you have seen the movie it would be distracting, but if your like most of us (who have watched the movie many times), surely it creates ... Read More
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