Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)

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Classic Comedy, 2008-11-29
From start to finish, this movie is non-stop laughter. A must-bye for anyone interested in corny jokes and humor.

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Airplane!, 2008-11-27
The AFI has "Airplane!" as one of the funniest movies of all time. I don't know what to say to that. I watch "Airplane!" now - maybe once every five or six years - and find that it doesn't hold up quite as well with repeated viewings and as we get further and further from 1980. Yeah, it's funny, but perhaps for the first, second, third, or even fourth time out and then only if you are of a certain generation in which "Jaws" and "Saturday Night Fever" and those disaster films were topical; only if you are familiar with the 1970s commercial in which the wife frets over her husband never asking for a second cup of coffee at home; if you remember Ethel Merman for something other than her "Batman" cameo; and if you haven't seen all the subsequent knock-offs or spoof films (e.g., Airplane II, the Naked Gun films, Hot Shots, Scary Movie, etc, etc). br / br /I smile when I watch "Airplane!" now, but that's it. It brings back memories of what I was doing when I first saw it. Is it funny to someone born in the late 1980s or early 1990s? I suspect not as much, and that makes me wonder how a comedy with what was then some very new and topical jokes could be transcendent enough to make an all-time greatest list. I guess one could argue that perhaps it's because it was the first of its kind and the fact that some of the gags ("...and don't call me Shirley!") have seeped into our consciousness without a second's thought. However, I still contend that as the years pass some of its humor is showing its age.

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AIRPLANE, 2008-11-16
ONE OF THE BEST HUMOR MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! NEVER GET TIRED OF SEEING IT OVER OVER AGAIN!!! HATS OFF TO THE WRITERS, DIRECTOR, ACTORS!!!! GREAT STUFF!!! THIS MUST BE IN THE REALM OF A CULT MOVIE BY NOW!!

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Clever, funny and amusing, 2008-10-03
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!

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The Complete Airplane! Saga Finally Gets Released Together In The USA!, 2008-06-21
(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) br / br /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! movies have been released as one product in ONE case as far as I know. However, instead of 2-for-1 sets like Paramount's "Wayne's World" "Chris Farley" groupings, that were two movies put on one DVD-9 (dual layer-single sided/one movie per layer), all they did with this one was put the original 2000 discs in one dual spindle keepcase with a new cover/slipcase. And it does NOT contain the extras-filled "Don't Call Me Shirley!" edition of the first movie either, just the original bare-bones first release. Extras here are just the original commentary track trailer for the first film, "Sequel" is nothing but movie. I was hoping for a better presentation, but I bought it mainly for owning Part Two (as I already own the "Shirley" edition). As for picture/audio, it's what you'd expect from an eight year old digital transfer, not as good as "Shirley"'s. So I guess if you don't have any version of Airplane!, this set under $10 is nice quick, but look for the "Shirley" edition first for an outstanding copy of the original classic. br /(RedSabbath Rating:7.5/10)