AIRPLANE! 1980 Movie Reaction! First Time Watching

[@CynthiaJohnson1ofmany]

I'm surprised this movie was chosen; the low brow humor, pop culture references and slang word play made it hard for Naveed and Mansoor to fully understand.

[@Tconl]

I do hope with movies such as this they get a disclaimer that this is a movie that might have a bunch of jokes they might not get.

[@dan_hitchman007]

This classic film is more high brow and clever than a lot of modern comedies.

[@FSboy70]

Different civilization = different reality.

[@Marchant2]

I picked that up immediately.

[@BobbyLandiaPDX]

I always enjoy your reactions. I think the humor in this movie was very specific to American culture and the English language. Many of the jokes do not make sense if you are not from America or speak English, but you two are always so fun to watch every movie. Thank you.

[@summerskull9379]

I wish I could have watched this movie with them and been like "Let me explain why 'Don't call me Shirley'" is an amazing joke 😆

[@Great-Documentaries]

Most of the jokes make no sense if you are from American and were not from the 1970s or before. But sure, this is a movie that in particular seems kind of random to them.

[@Desibeatnik]

Watch Raising Arizona

[@terryconnelly484]

This movie has the record for the most jokes in a minute throughout the movie.They probably caught about ten percent

[@laknad7750]

Found your reactions and lack of reactions very entertaining. As others have commented, you have to be American and fluent in the English language to catch the dozens of "play on words" not to mention the pop culture references from the 1980's, which many younger Americans don't understand either. I will help you out on two items: you commented it made no sense to have a bird sitting on the seat with the pilot. The bird was a buzzard, which is a bird that waits for things to die and then eats their dead flesh. The buzzard was sitting there waiting for them to die so it could have a meal. You had to get all those references for it to be funny. Item 2: the girls fighting in the bar were Girl Scouts (we can tell by the uniforms they were wearing). Girl Scouts are known for being honest, upstanding citizens who always do good. The joke is: these two supposedly angelic girls were playing cards for money, cheating at cards and fighting in a sleazy bar. The fact they were even there was funny to Americans.

[@SolistFrankHerrmann]

The buzzard was a VULTURE. Who eat dead carrion meat.

[@who-nobody-never]

Were they girls? I always thought they dressed some guys up as girl scouts as a further layer.

[@laknad7750]

@@who-nobody-never I don't think it really matters if they were secretly guys dressed up as girls. They totally looked like girls and that made it funny.

[@who-nobody-never]

@@laknad7750 I thought that was an additional layer to the joke, manly girl scouts fighting.

[@laknad7750]

@@who-nobody-never I understand now. It's irritating for me to sift through all the political stains, pseudonyms and pronouns these days, but I see now that was not your basis for the additional layer. I accept.

[@davidrooker5141]

wow

[@nicholasregan6526]

"they are doing foolish things despite being in trouble" what a way to put every ZAZ movie out there! LOL

[@gionnijohnson408]

ZAZ?

[@nicholasregan6526]

@@gionnijohnson408 Zucker Abrams Zucker productions, the team that comes up with these goofy comedies that I love so much, starting with kentucky fried movie, one just before airplane. peace.

[@gregweatherup9596]

I think this movie had 3 strikes against it for them: 1) The older pop culture references are hard for modern audiences to pick-up on. 2) A lot of the word-play jokes don’t translate properly to another language (if they are watching a subtitled or dubbed version) and/or require a certain level of English language fluency (if they’re watching it in English). & 3) This type of “low-brow” humor isn’t for everyone.

[@jamesalexander5623]

98% of the Jokes Went Right Over Your Heads! ....

[@patinho5589]

For then it was a drama / thriller lol

[@terryconnelly484]

I wonder How the jive talk was translated to them

[@lindafauntleroy6558]

Naveed's reaction to the naked chest scene wins best reaction!! The combination of shock, and then what looked primal to me, the tongue flicking and blown out cheeks to expose two beautifully puckered lips. I laughed sooo hard. I rewatched for Mansoor's reaction to Naveed's. Too funny.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Always puts a smile on my face to know that I am going to watch one of your reaction videos. Please keep them coming. By the way, since you like science fiction. There is an older science fiction movie that nobody has ever reacted to called: “No Escape.” I think you might enjoy it. If you are looking for great movies from the 80’s: The Devils Advocate, The Game, Field of Dreams, Unlawful Entry are fantastic movies.

[@brianlanning836]

"drinking problem" is a nice way in English to say alcoholic. So they're making fun of that expression, like his problem is that he always misses his mouth. This is probably the funniest reaction to this movie I've ever seen. I don't think they understood a single joke. lol Almost every single scene or sentence was some kind of joke. But I think for most of the jokes, you had to live in the US back in the 70s to understand them. Most of us are old enough to still get the jokes. Even young Americans watching this movie miss half of them. Back in the 70s, there were a series of disaster movies about plane crashes. This movie was trying to make fun of them.

[@TheJudiBambiPurrsParadox]

Now that you've seen a bunch of American movies, you can identify the jokes referencing classic older movies, that this movie and other spoof/parody movies, like Spaceballs, love to do! *_Parody takes a specific literary work and exaggerates its form and language, often replacing serious subjects with silly ones. Spoof is where a writer takes the conventions of a well-known genre and pokes fun at them. Finally, satire uses ridicule, exaggeration and irony to comment on society, religion and politics._*

[@ccispahan7514]

Kudos to you for watching this movie as it is very difficult to catch all the jokes when you are a non-native speaker. There are many American pop culture references and innuendos which are not politically correct these days… They play a lot with cultural stereotypes. There are also many wordplays that are hard to grasp when you are not very fluent in American English.

[@jpiccone1]

I think it would be difficult for you to find this film very funny because it's full of American cultural reference from 45 years ago, and lots of wordplay. For example, "drinking problem" means alcoholism, but Ted has a literal problem drinking things. Or whem the old lady asked him if he was nervous then asked him if it was his first time, she meant his first time flying, not his first time being nervous.

[@terryconnelly484]

I don't think movies like these Translate that well fully, and especially with past cultural references

[@jamesalexander5623]

Before I decide if I'll watch a Reaction, I check the running Time .... 29 Minutes IS Not enough time to do this Film Justice!

[@patriciamedaris8552]

Please watch the movies "Police Academy" and "Blazing Saddles"! The first one mentioned is just slap-stick American humor, the second is Mel Brooks making fun of racism, both are hilarious if you just enjoy comedy

[@julienielsen4462]

Wasn't my kind of film but love to see different movie reactors give their opinions on it. I was born in the 70s so understood many references. Wonder when jive slang stopped though. If you watch the show the Jeffersons they speak a little jive in it.

[@golmatol6537]

The cultural references and jokes went waaayyy over their heads. Not a great movie to show these folks. In fact, don't show them any spoof / parody movies at all. They just aren't ready for such movies.

[@dan_hitchman007]

This is a film you will only understand if you know U.S. culture, history, literal humor and sight and verbal gags that rely on high level English language comprehension skills.

[@ELOrocks189]

Wow! They actually condemned the film as unwatchable. Perhaps they do not understand "spoof" movies. Someone should tell them to avoid films like "Top secret", and "Naked gun".

[@ccispahan7514]

There are a lot of nods to American blockbusters in ‘Airplane!’: movies from the seventies like ‘Saturday Night Fever’ or ‘the Godfather’ but also to older classics like ‘From Here to Eternity’ and B Disaster Movies, a successful genre in the sixties and seventies. I feel that most of these parodies are now getting lost in translation for younger generations as they do not get the original references. ‘Airplane!’ belongs to the pastiche genre.

[@Catbytes]

but... ..JAWS. 🦈

[@wtfn1]

Oh, waiting - Scary movie (2000) and Scary movie 2 (2001)

[@MrBigPicture835]

I don't think they had a clue about the movie.

[@gmunden1]

The host needs to explain to them that this is a parody of disaster films. They did not understand the humor.

[@longfootbuddy]

hey, now everyones going to tell you about all the jokes you missed.. they cant help it.. they do it on every single movie reaction.. its like an automatic reflex that makes me gag.. its a reverse gag reflex.. and they also have to tell you the same fun facts over and over.. they cant help it.. and they also cant help highly recommending the same movies over and over.. so you see, this movie is more realistic than you think

[@machinegod3000]

So its not recommended to let the bros to endure some Monty Python?? Would be bummer!

[@Marchant2]

These guys don't understand a LOT of the humor in this movie.. This is a particular type of slapstick comedy that hinges on absurd, ridiculous situations. At the time, Airplane popularized this brand of slapstick. It's not meant to be taken seriously.

[@terryconnelly484]

They didn't like this movie.I wonder why?..... they didn't get it. Whoever recommended this was not thinking.Check your head next time

[@WillardWooten]

So many jokes are going over there heads and some go over even English speaking people. One such joke. The Mayo Clinic with all the jars of Mayonnaise in the background , hold the Mayo . Many Americans put mayo on sandwiches with Ham .

[@WillardWooten]

Mayo clinic is a top notch and expensive hospital with patients from 140 countries that have used their facilities in Arizona , Minnesota and Florida.

[@Fischstix95]

When will we get new videos?

[@Seek1878]

Great movie but not a great choice for them - a lot of the humor is wordplay and american pop cultural references...its hard to get.

[@Broom-SSN]

Wow, with the conservative culture the brothers are in, I am surprised that they are watching this film. Lots of risqué humor, sexual situations and even nudity in this one. Another thing about this film is that there is ALLOT of humor based on word-play. There's really no way for translation to handle this sort of humor.

[@rodney-m7g]

You guys completely missed so many of the jokes because you don't have a good command of English and don't understand so much of the puns and word play . Most of it is stupid , but is so stupid that it makes it funny .

[@davidcopple8071]

Unlike many other people. I've never really liked the type of dumbed down humor in this ridiculous film. But for the more simple minded i l understand they really like it a lot.

[@MegaTechno2000]

You have to be an American to understand this movie, it's just a waste of time on them.