AIRPLANE (1980) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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[@WVRSpenceWestVirginiaRebel]

From those of us in the comments, I just wanted to say good luck, and we're all counting on you.

[@Billy-zv6gv]

Perfect! 😜👍

[@christianvalentin5344]

😂😂😂

[@MikeD_]

Just stay clear of those Turkish prisons.

[@IggyStardust1967]

@@MikeD_ Nah..... I've seen a grown man nekkid, so it's alright.

[@dracoargentum9783]

The comments? What is it?

[@jstrahan2]

You skipped the little girl coffee scene. One of my favorite parts.

[@LMmccallL57]

It was likely edited out by them on purpose to try avoiding copyright issues. They said the full version is on their Patreon channel.

[@jstrahan2]

@@LMmccallL57 : I can't be a Patron for everybody. I like them, but I do have monetary limits.

[@LMmccallL57]

@@jstrahan2 Okay, I wasn't suggesting that you join their Patreon, just letting you know that the full reaction is there. So far, I don't have plans to pay for anyone's Patreon setup. It also seems that those who pay, get more attention from the reactors, but I guess you get what you pay for. Many of the people who have been with these two and others from the start, helped to make them popular and still watch, but because they don't pay, they miss out on certain things. Hmm.

[@jeanine6328]

And no one was offended back then….. except maybe little old ladies clutching their pearls.

[@SGlitz]

​@@LMmccallL57 seen many times on many channels...

[@tomstanziola1982]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="870">14:30</a>.....That's the real Ethel Merman, folks. She was a famous Broadway performer, but she was also in films and television.

[@chuckschulze6877]

I don't think anyone ever considered this controversial when it first came out. We weren't worried much about things like that. It was funny or not. Complete stop.

[@tenjed4224]

The movie had to deal with the mpaa for quite a bit of the filming. And after it and a few other 'raunchy' films came out, PG 13 became standard. Although we fans found nothing wrong with the movie, a lot of people did.

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

shush

[@kimberlyallsup8472]

Yeah! Can you imagine Archie Bunker today? 😊

[@IggyStardust1967]

@@tenjed4224 Ironically enough, THIS movie wasn't in the argument for the PG-13 rating. The two movies that were, were Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins. Both, for the "violent" content, not "nudity" or "adult humour".....

[@0okamino]

Even sniffing glue wasn’t controversial back then. _Quitting_ sniffing glue, however, was very controversial, and most were against doing so.

[@libertarianguy5567]

You didn't show the part where Barbra Billingsley talks jive to the two black guys. It's hilarious because Barbra played the mother on "Leave it to Beaver" a 50's sitcom where she plays a typical 1950's mother of 2, very prim and proper.

[@HeidiKunkel]

It's my favorite part! 😂😂

[@TheCJTok]

That’s my favorite part too!!, “Oh stewardess, I speak Jive.” 😂

[@firebird7479]

It's a shame that this generation doesn't get all the jokes, especially the Ethel Merman joke. Ethel was one of the legends of Broadway, film and TV in her era. That he thinks he's Ethel Merman and it cuts to Ethel Merman in the bed, singing, had us rolling when we were kids. Same with the Native Tribe when Stryker was showing the leader how to shake hands. When the leader holds out his hands and Stryker slaps them...that was a thing back then. It was an alternative greeting to a handshake and was used most often in sports competitions. "Gimme Five!" was a phrase that went along with it. Eventually, this gesture graduated to the HIGH FIVE, which still exists to this day.

[@ThunderPants13]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1589">26:29</a>. He said "altogether".....so they said it altogether. 😁

[@whitetornado603]

Thank you. Most people dont catch that. It was ingenious!

[@jongordon7914]

@@whitetornado603 Most people don't catch a bunch of stuff in this movie unless they're old enough. Very few people get how the primitive tribe was more comfortable with the "Black" handshake.

[@channelthree9424]

@@jongordon7914 most people under 40 do not get a lot of the jokes in this movie because they reference pop culture from the 70s but some of the jokes, like the “altogether“ joke people should get, but most do not. It goes right over their heads.

[@whitetornado603]

@@channelthree9424 Im a 70s boy. Nuttin went over my head:)

[@whitetornado603]

@@jongordon7914 Lol very true

[@nativetexan9776]

If you would had watched to the end of the ending credits, you would see what happened to the guy waiting in the taxi cab

[@Billinois78]

It's possible that they did see it but didn't make it into the youtube edit.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

@@Billinois78 - It's possible he just talked right over it... just like all the other good punchlines throughout the film.

[@johndough3809]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop watching airplane! Reactions…

[@johnniekight1879]

The opening was a "Jaws" parody. Many of the jokes you won't get because they were topical at the time this was made. Many of the actors in this were dramatic and were making their comedic debuts. The "coffee" lady did a commercial thinking the same thought in it. The Mayo Clinic is a famous clinic here. This was the last movie to have a PG rating. It was replaced with PG13. Most of the dialog is from the movie "Zero Hour".

[@katherinedinwiddie4526]

Exactly

[@IggyStardust1967]

PG-13 didn't come into being until 4 years after this movie released......

[@dngillikin]

This was not the last movie to have a PG rating. The PG-13 rating wasn't created until 1984, four years after this movie was released. PG-13 did not replace the PG rating. The PG rating still exists and movies are still to this day released with PG ratings. The PG-13 rating was created due to graphic violence present in Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984.

[@krisfrederick5001]

Leslie Nielsen is surely a comic legend and don't stop here. And don't call me Shirley...

[@katherinedinwiddie4526]

Jimmy Walker the Airplane window washer was a very funny guy. He is famous for saying Dyn-o-mite !! This movie is a parody on a lot of older movies and commercials.

[@jimtatro6550]

I saw this opening night in 1980 when I was 13 years old in a packed theater. I don’t think I have ever heard such loud sustained laughter in my entire life before or since.😂

[@sherrellbennett1333]

Actually was in theaters in December, 1978. I remember because my friend wanted to babysit my youngest son before he turned 3 months, so I went to the movies so she could watch him. He was born 9/78.

[@jimtatro6550]

@@sherrellbennett1333 I’m sorry to correct you, but this movie definitely came out in 1980. I remember it playing next to the blues Brothers which we saw the next day and that also came out in the summer of 1980.

[@metfish]

@@jimtatro6550Absolutely 1980!

[@metfish]

I saw this with my Dad, a long time airline employee. He immediately picked up the sound that the airplane made is that of a propeller driven aircraft!

[@macroman52]

Yes, and does Kramer say "Have you ever flown a mono-engine plane before?"

[@Gravydog316]

i've seen this probably 20 times & never noticed until i read it on another reaction vid like a week ago 😆

[@ThunderPants13]

With a movie like Airplane, there are jokes coming at you left and right, so you really have to pay close attention (and not talk over the dialogue), otherwise you'll miss a lot of the jokes.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

And be familiar with American TV, movies, and pop culture from the seventies.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

Yeah, it's like his special talent... talking over punchlines and instead trying to make his own 'humor'. It gets old real quick.

[@scottdowney4865]

That's why POLICE SQUAD only lasted 6 episodes.

[@JerridCook]

This movie is definitely in my top 3 comedy movies! There are so many quotable lines from this movie! An absolute classic imo!

[@user-oh2hs6jh5x]

Not sure if you could handle it, but Blazing Saddles has a lot of funny stuff.

[@jimmymapes3411]

Watching Millie being horrified at some of the jokes was funny. This is actually a loose parody of a movie called "Zero Hour" with some other bits thrown in. classic!!

[@firebird7479]

It's not loose at all. A lot of the dialogue is in tact.

[@Steve-gc5nt]

It's almost scene for scene the same movie 😊

[@lastguyminn2324]

​@Steve-gc5nt The producers of the film bought the rights not only to parody Zero Hour, but they owned the actual movie for a time!

[@johndoe-lp9my]

If you guys liked this, you'll love the TV show _Police Squad!_ Or _The Naked Gun_ movies.

[@daseguin]

"It's an entirely different kind of flying.... All together." "It's an entirely different kind of flying."

[@jamesmarciel5237]

The fact that the automatic pilot gets his own credit as “Otto”!!

[@johnscott4196]

I'll second whoever pointed out that nothing was controversial at the time. People had honest senses of humor and didn't censor themselves

[@emcsquared8681]

They still don’t if they do it right. Nothings changed.

[@SGlitz]

​@@emcsquared8681Orwellian much? :)

[@chrispalmer7893]

I’d argue that the really great comedies - and Airplane is one of the greatest - are great because they don’t rely on the sort of cheap, punching down gags of which we now disapprove. There’s almost nothing in here that falls foul of modern day sensibilities - even the jive-talking black guys and the natives being naturally good at basketball are the right side of the line. The target of the jive jokes is the gentrification of their language the sub-titles, and the target of the basketball gag is Ted’s arrogant attribution of their skill to “advanced interrogation techniques”. If I was making the movie today I might be tempted to remove the random nudity (not convinced it’s needed for the joke), but other than that I wouldn’t expect it to be considered problematic. Short version - modern day sensibilities make comedy harder for hacks, but only for hacks.

[@emcsquared8681]

@@chrispalmer7893 my argument for the random nudity (literally one shot) is that it is in fact random just like most of the gags in the movie. And the fact it’s just one shot makes it perfect, any thing beyond that would be in fact hacky. And South Park (which is brilliantly done most of the time) proves you can still do offensive humor as long as you pick on everyone and actually be funny.

[@chrispalmer7893]

@@emcsquared8681 I get that, I just don’t think it really adds anything. They’ve got plenty of random stuff after the nudity with the passengers fighting each other.

[@CaddyJim]

If you enjoyed this one there are similar types of jokes in *(The Naked Gun)* Starting *Leslie Nelson* who played the "Doctor" in *(Airplane)*

[@johnscott4196]

The George Zip jokes were referencing a famous old movie about Knute Rockne who coached the Notre Dame football team. A player named Gipp gave them a pep talk before the big game and told them to "go out and win one for the gipper"

[@mikejankowski6321]

And Gip was played by Ronald Reagan, who ended up with the nickname "the Gipper".

[@StanSwan]

It is based off a 1950s film that is a drama about a plane in trouble. This movie is really a parody of that film. The little old lady that would not take a drink is a dead ringer for the woman in that film.

[@DaisyCloverbee]

It's full of well done goofiness.

[@tenjed4224]

The heart patient was a semi regular, who became a regular (and one of the main characters) on the show The Love Boat.

[@janetsanford6923]

James asked if the guy playing the co-pilot was the basketball player, yes that is Kareem Abdul -Jabbar (former name Lew Alcindor), who played for Milwaukee Bucks then Los Angeles Lakers teams. 🏀

[@libertarianguy5567]

And at that time was arguably the best center in the NBA. They didn't show the line where the kid was opining on his lack luster playing. Truly a great line.

[@procrastinator547]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen two people laugh less at the funniest movie of all time.

[@Steve-gc5nt]

Millenials. Humour is largely wasted on them.

[@procrastinator547]

@@Steve-gc5nt I’m a millennial lol

[@zedwpd]

Not a controversial movie. We were more inclusive of jokes back then. Lots of cultural references from American sports, television, music, and movies here. Got to be pretty old to catch them all now. Not many know who Ethel Merman and Barbara Billingsley are today.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Today, pilots and copilots cannot eat the same meal.

[@jeanine6328]

You have to watch it at least twice more to catch all the jokes. This one is shooting jokes like a machine gun. Impossible to catch them all in 1 go.

[@user-oh2hs6jh5x]

They're not going to get some of the visual jokes that most Americans are going to get. The tail of the plane in the clouds, combined with the music, is like the Shark in Jaws. The guy taking off his metal arm is like 'the one armed man" in the movie The Fugitive, and so on. There is going to be several more they won't understand.

[@QuagmiresDooflab]

You don't need to be American to get the Jaws reference. Most of the jokes are universal and work in any country. This is purely down to their ages.

[@azntrtnmnt]

Did anyone notice that the jet engines sound is propeller engines?

[@stevewebster5219]

That observation seems to go over most people's heads

[@SilvaJrEddie]

And the rain on the plane windows in some scenes?

[@itsjuliescottyay]

This film was produced by brothers David and Jerry Zucker. The woman on the plane that kept trying to put on her makeup and smearing it all over her face was their mom.

[@mildredpierce4506]

This was not typical of 1980s comedy. That’s why it stood out. There was nothing else like it at the time.

[@scottmoquin]

It broke my heart when Millie said "Are we aloud to laugh?" YES ........if it's funny you can laugh......don't worry about what other people think.

[@silikon2]

The radar range gag was about microwave ovens that were based on radar technology. For many years in the US at least, microwave ovens were advertised as "radar range" ovens.

[@manontherails4937]

Growing up watching this movie, I had to watch it a few times to get the hundreds of the smaller details worked into the movie along the way. It took me the second time to realize that there was propeller sounds when they showed the 'jet' plane flying. The Pilot (Peter Graves was in the famous American TV series, 'Mission Impossible' and his brother James Arness was a famous cowboy actor who starred in the TV series 'Gunsmoke'). The Doctor is a very serious actor and starred in the movie 'The Poseidon Adventure'. Rex Kramer was played by classic actor Robert Stack, and McCroskey was played by great American Actor Lloyd Bridges, who has two famous sons Jeff and Beau, and lastly, L.A. Lakers and Basketball great Kareem Abdul Jabbar. But in the end, it was a movie for the times (1980s), so most of the comedy was from/for that era. But I hope that comedy like this is still universal.

[@Progressive_Canadian]

It's hard for people to review this movie on youtube because every time you make a comment you miss a joke. They're literally one right after the other.

[@mildredpierce4506]

You can always tell which reactors have never seen Jaws.

[@erikthompson619]

That ominous music in the beginning is the theme from "Jaws". Hence the airplane tail playing sharkfin through the clouds.

[@tomstanziola1982]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1168">19:28</a>.......The co-pilot is played by Kareem Abdul-Jabar, a famous basketball player.

[@johnnehrich9601]

This movie is almost a scene-for-scene spoof on the 1957 movie, Zero Hour. There are several KZbin episodes comparing the two side by side and some of the comedy in this movie makes a lot more sense if you see that. Also some elements of another disaster movie, Airport. ---- When the plane starts off, it satires a well-known (at the time) 1944 wartime movie, Since You Went Away. A soldier is saying goodbye to his girl at the train station, the conductor comes up in his railroad garb, pulls out his pocket watch and says "Better get on board, son." The breaks away from his girl's embrace and get onto the train, standing in the vestibule between coaches, with the top of the dutch door open. The locomotive starts to slowly pick up speed as indicated by the tempo of the chugging noise (as does the airplane), but the two lovers continue talking. He throws his watch to her as a parting reminder. She then has to start running, almost bumping into several station lampposts. You can watch just this scene on KZbin: Since You Went Away, chasing the train ---- Movies spoofed: Jaws (opening scene) Saturday Night Fever (bar scene dance) From Here to Eternity (embracing on the beach) (Also spoofed in Shrek 2) The Godfather (horse in the bed/severed horsehead in the bed)

[@pcsixty6]

The opening is a parody of The Jaws and the suit he wore is a reference to another movie Saturday Night Fever

[@ronalddobis6782]

I'm just starting to watch but I fear a lot of the humor will go over your heads. A lot of the jokes are based on 70's American pop culture including television and commercials of the time. Even young Americans don't get a lot of the jokes.

[@manontherails4937]

I found out that the actress who said "never has a second cup" is the actual actress from that same coffee commercial. You can look it up - I found fascinating. Also fascinating that the man in the taxi was none other than Howard Jarvis who was a L.A. Consumer Rights Activist/Fiscal Campaigner who made the joke complete.

[@mlong1958]

Back in the 1970s, there were a bunch of religious sects that would approach people with "free" flowers, fully expecting to be paid for them. They were quite annoying. The Jive lady was beloved TV actress, Barbara Billingsley, who played the mom on Leave It To Beaver. She and the two black men worked out what to say in Jive. They became fast friends and remained so for the rest of her life. She said that this movie rejuvenated her career. The "glue sniffer" was Lloyd Bridges, father of Jeff and Beau Bridges. He initially didn't want to do the movie because he was a well known "serious" actor. His sons convinced him to do the movie and it rejuvenated his career as well because he was brilliant at comedy. He was also in the Hot Shots movies. This movie is a parody of the rash of disaster movies in the 1970s, like the Airport movies.

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Barbara Billingsley (Mrs. Cleaver in “Leave it to Beaver”) was pure magic. “I speak jive.”

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

One of the guys playing a Hare Krishna on the plane later became famous as “Joe Isuzu”, selling Isuzu cars in TV commercials.

[@CaddyJim]

*#FYI** Always watch the credits especially on comedies (You can delete them in editing if there's nothing there.* (In this one that guy is still sitting in the cab)

[@janp719]

A lot of famous actors, slapstick, references to social and cultural events and other movies.

[@NarnianRailway]

George Zipp and the Doctor's pep talk were a parody of Ronald Reagan's (presidential candidate when movie came out) character George Gipp in "Knute Rockne All American" (1939) along with other Reagan references. Fun reaction video! tupperware trivia: after the War, Tupperware purchased the former Royal Ordnance Factory munitions factory near Wigan UK in the late 50s. After the movie was released, Tupperware ceased manufacturing in Wigan around early 80s but the original factory building is still in use as a carpet manufacturer.

[@JPMadden]

If there is a world record for most uses of "oh my days," James might have challenged it in this reaction. I noticed that Millie was trying not to laugh and only partially succeeding at the scene of the woman passenger getting slapped. I read that the actress suggested they (pretend to) hit her more.

[@angelavalentino5146]

This movie actually has several famous actors/ celebrities, you might want to look them up. I would recommend using the closed caption/ subtitles all movies before 2000. The sound can be tricky on some TVs.

[@channelthree9424]

You have to watch the entire movie. You have to watch the credits and read each line. There are jokes within the closing credits plus one additional scene.

[@Cbcw76]

There are already so many 'in jokes' that these reactors (and many others) don't "get" because the references are over 40 years old. BUT... I'm convinced that if audiences re-watch this film (and the NAKED GUNs, etc) then research skits and dialog, they can learn more of those lost references and enjoy the films all the more.

[@pigpen5073]

You missed it, after the credits you'll see the guy in the cab one last time

[@TheJasonbking]

Trivia: Robert Stack (Rex) did all his own stunts when walking into the airport and 'fighting' all those people.

[@rromano158]

The opening scene and music where you see the tail of the jet going back and forth through the clouds is a homage to the 1975 movie Jaws. The whole movie is one comedic gag after another. A couple of the things you may not have picked up on: (And there are probably more) The man in the door opening yelling, "Goodbye darling," and the sound of the plane was actually the sound of a train pulling away from the station. The sound of the plane engines while in flight are of propeller engines and not jet engines. The disco scene in the bar is a homage to the movie Saturday Night Fever.

[@radioroscoe]

I think you guys might have just won the award for the most missed jokes haha. Anyhow, keep up the good work. 🙂

[@lastguyminn2324]

I think the funniest part of this reaction is watching these young kids completely miss all the topical gags. 😂

[@mildredpierce4506]

This movie was not controversial in 1980. All people under 40 would think something like this would be controversial.

[@RobertEWaters]

This is a parody of an old 40s film starring Dana Andrews. It was a drama with exactly the same plot. Even the names of the characters were the same.

[@neutrino78x]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1597">26:37</a> lmao this joke is about the difference between "altogether" (meaning "entirely") and "all together" (meaning, to say something as a group at the same time). lmao 🙂

[@johnscott4196]

Now you need to watch Saturday Night Fever, with John Travolta. You will get the dance scene

[@lidlett9883]

The joke about the Ronald Reagan film was in the movie as well as the George Zip gag. Was because at the time Ronald Reagan was president of the US before being president he was governor of California and before that he was an actor. That played a dying football star names George Ghip. Who told the Dr. just before he died. The character tells the Dr to tell the teammates to "just win one more for the ghipper"

[@firebird7479]

Jimmy Carter was still president. Reagan was elected in November 1980, well after Airplane! was released. He didn't take office until January, 1981.

[@coldwhite4240]

Watching Airplane? "I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you." 😅

[@andreduarte8372]

You guys missed the post-credits scene! 😂

[@firebird7479]

Sadly, the movie theater I saw this in with my brother, sister and my brother's friend when I was 15 has given way to an entirely new shopping center...altogether...

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

It's an entirely different kind of reaction. Altogether.

[@sherrellbennett1333]

IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KIND OF REACTION.....

[@TheCJTok]

😂😂😂😂😂^^^^^^

[@andrewgalindo6959]

One of my all time favorite movies of all time. I still use some of the jokes from the movie.

[@Actrjay]

I love Airplane! Hearing you say you've never heard of the movie makes me feel ancient,I saw it in the theater in 1980. Here's some trivia for you. The announcers who argue over the airport intercom were a real married couple who actually made the announcements at LAX at the time. The two guys in the "Where's the forklift" scene are David,and,Jerry Zucker,two of the directors of the movie. The Mayo Clinic is a real highly respected medical research clinic. The joke was just the jars of mayonnaise is the background. Although the plane is a jetliner,every shot of the plane flying uses the sound of a prop plane. Kareem Abduhl-Jabbar was in fact a(VERY) famous basketball player for the Lakers. The song Staying Alive was slightly sped up for the movie. Most assume Airport! was a parody of the series of disaster movies Airport in the 70s ,but was actually an almost shot for shot remake of the 1957 film Zero Hour. Someone has actually edited a side by side comparison which can be found on KZbin. I could go on forever,but,I'll stop.

[@TheCJTok]

I cannot say how many times I’ve watched this movie since it came out but today was the first time I realized that there were jars of Mayo in the bookcases!!! 😂 It’s the kind of movie you can watch over and over and still pick up on new jokes.

[@Desibeatnik]

Highly recommend Top Secret. The best of the genre imo.

[@johnscott4196]

So you guys haven't seen JAWS? And btw airports were really like this in the early 80's, moonies in robes trying to pin flowers on you, and the coffee jokes were because of a series of popular coffee commercials then. The beach scene was spoofing a famous movie "From Here to Eternity". The pilot was from a famous series Mission Impossible and was the brother of the guy who played Matt Dillon in the long running western Gunsmoke.

[@angelavalentino5146]

I guess you two haven’t seen Jaws yet.

[@judyhorstmann6332]

Good thoughts! Can't wait until you're back with us, again! We miss you!

[@daseguin]

There are so many references from the time period that are simply impossible for you 2 to understand in their hilarity. The plane fin in the beginning, for instance, is a parody of the blockbuster movie Jaws. So many more as well.

[@ramonalfaro3252]

NAKED GUN is similar & stars Leslie Nielson (The Doctor in Airplane). Absurd comedy GOLD!!!!

[@gwstlouis1603]

This was hilarious watching your reaction to this American Classic for those who are fans of this type of comedy.

[@mrtim5363]

As a Chef I carved Prime Rib for Sunday night buffet, when the Pilot came through I mentioned the Co-Pilot had Prime Rib on his plate & the Pilot & Co-Pilot are not allowed to eat the same meal. He reminded me I was a passenger on the outbound flight & if I poisoned both of them, I was going down with the plane. Pilot: "I'll take my chances, put med-rare on the plate."

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Ever seen The Kentucky Fried Movie? Probably 90% of the jokes will go over your heads, but it is freaking hilarious. “Zinc Oxide and You” is still used as ~code~ for those of us who are of a ~certain~ age.

[@janetbaker645]

The make-up woman was the mother to the Zucker brothers they were 2 of the 3 directors…

[@tofersiefken]

For an authentic '70s disaster movie, I'd like to recommend The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

[@stevemattfis]

This is a different type of movie for you two.... altogether.

[@channelthree9424]

😆😆

[@jimmymapes3411]

I Love this movie . it was groundbreaking when it came out with all serious actors in comedic roles

[@channelthree9424]

Almost no one gets the “it’s a totally different kind of flying altogether” joke.

[@iiiDartsiii]

I think it was one of the last jokes I picked up after rewatching it many times.

[@cathyvickers9063]

Have you seen Mel Brooks' comedy films? He'd pick a movie genre (say, horror) & write a parody of a movie in that genre (generic Frankenstein) while packing in everything & anything that fits the genre & setting. One warning: Robin Hood: Men in Tights is based directly on the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring an actor who didn't even try for an English accent, hence comedy Robin's quip that he can speak with an English accent. And his scifi parody is not directly based on Star Wars. The characters are only loosely inspired by the ones in the 1977 movie; and there's no Luke character. The movie, made with the consent of George Lucas, jokes about merchandizing, because Lucas feared buyers would get Spaceballs merch confused with his universe; & the Han Solo parody is dressed like Indiana Jones as part of the same agreement. (It also helps to be somewhat familiar with scifi movies from the 60s & 70s, since there are a lot of references that are visual jokes.)

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Read the IMDB trivia for this movie and watch the post credit scene regarding the cab rider. A lot of jokes are geared to US people from the past (like me). This makes the movie even more hilarious, even today. You may have been surprised at what they got away with as a PG movie - however, there was no PG-13 at the time and PG was quite a wide rating. R was used for outright sex and graphic violence. As for the "brakes" on the plane, that's not how a plane decelerates. A plane is heavy and requires full thrust and proper flaps to gain the proper wing shape for lift. Once on the ground, simply stop applying thrust and the massive jet will roll to a stop on its own. In some airports, thrust is used to taxi to the gate, while others are towed. Engines may remain running to generate power for lights and other electrical services.

[@user-hq2nm5qp5g]

At ~<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="898">14:58</a>. She's not really playing that guitar, it's an overdub. I play guitar and her fingers are nowhere close to what's actually being played lol

[@dracoargentum9783]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1521">25:21</a> when Rex walks _through_ the mirror…

[@ryanje8147]

I think these reactors missed many of the jokes. lol

[@Steve-gc5nt]

I think they probably miss most of everything that goes on around them. 😂

[@melkaman8200]

Hello from America, James and Millie. Love your reactions. This movie is a classic spoof of the 70s disaster movies directed by Irwin Allen. The nun with the guitar was Maureen McGovern, who sang the radio version of "The Morning After," which was the famous song from "The Poseidon Adventure," an early major disaster movie by Allen. Leslie Nielsen (the doctor) was the captain of the ship in that movie. You may want to check out the six-episode long "Police Squad" and/or the Naked Gun movies. And back to this movie, the Ethel Merman cameo at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="857">14:17</a> was her last movie appearance, and it was a great one!

[@jobethk588]

Have y’all seen Jaws? The opening plays off the Jaws theme and the tail of the jet is supposed to look like a shark’s fin.

[@mildredpierce4506]

“Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”

[@johnwjr7]

Because he said, "It's an entirely different type of flying, altogether". So they said it all together. I think you would enjoy watching "Police Academy". At least the first few of them were good.

[@GinkoYoki234]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1520">25:20</a> Most people miss this outstanding visual pun. The pilot is looking at himself in the mirror. Then, when he says, "Alright, let's get out of here," he steps through the mirror. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1589">26:29</a> "It's an entirely different kind of flying... altogether." He's telling them to repeat what he just said by saying it together. So the doctor and stewardess say, "It's an entirely different kind of flying,"... together 🙂

[@stankulp1008]

It's good to see people still enjoying this even when they are too young to catch 35% of the gags. The references to commercials and old movies are nonstop. The actors were mostly famous for straight, noncomedy roles and told to play it that way. Just their being who they were in a movie of this caliber was humorous. Airports later disallowed Chrisnas and Moonies from begging near the ticket areas. (One time my brother and I were flying and he took a flower from one of these guys at a fast pace. He later gave it to the flight attendant and she got all flustered and spilled a drink on him.) The airport at LAX had a very annoying repeated message telling drivers not to park near the drop off area with one male and one female voice alternating. The jive talking bros were assisted by the actress Barbra Billingsly who was the mother in Leave It To Beaver, a very straight-laced role. The slap of the native was a standard meeting that later became the high five but back them one would precent his hands, palms up for the other to slap down on as a greeting. just a few run on facts

[@markhellman-pn3hn]

this movie was voted as one of the greatest movies of all time

[@INDYANDY4C]

Original was 1957! And a Drama!

[@chrisstrand500]

Didn’t even notice the propeller noise coming from a jet 😂