"Airplane! Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American satirical disaster film written and directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, 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. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film ""Zero Hour!"", from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from ""Airport 1975"" and other films in the ""Airport"" film series. The film is known for its"
"use of surreal humor and its fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, and obscure humor. ""Airplane!"" was a critical and financial success, grossing over $83 million in North America against a budget of $3.5 million, being released by Paramount Pictures. The film's creators received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy, and nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. In the years since its release, the film's reputation has grown substantially. The film was ranked sixth on Bravo's ""100"
"opposite Robert Hays in the parody film, ""Airplane!"" It was released in June 1980 and became the third-highest grossing comedy in box office history at that time, behind ""Smokey and the Bandit"" (1977) and ""National Lampoon's Animal House"" (1978). ""Airplane!"" was considered the first of the modern parody genre and established Hagerty as a noted comedic actress. Hagerty spent the 1980s starring in a number of theatrical films, ranging from the well-reviewed Albert Brooks film ""Lost In America"" and Woody Allen's ""A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"" to the badly received ""Beyond Therapy"". Her roles often involved a naive or spaced-out"
"in the United Kingdom judged it the second-greatest comedy film of all time. In 2012, ""Empire"" voted it number one in the 50 Funniest Comedies Ever poll. Critics praised the film, which also proved a long-term success with audiences. In 2010, ""Airplane!"" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The directors cast Nielsen for his ability to play like ""a fish in water"", saying ""You could have cast funny people and done it with everybody winking, goofing off, and silly ... we wanted people to be oblivious to the comedy."" For Nielsen, ""Airplane!"""
"an uproarious spoof comedy full of quotable lines and slapstick gags that endure to this day."" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating ""generally favorable reviews"". Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" wrote """"Airplane!"" is sophomoric, obvious, predictable, corny, and quite often very funny. And the reason it's funny is frequently because it's sophomoric, predictable, corny, etc"". Janet Maslin of ""The New York Times"" wrote """"Airplane!"" is more than a pleasant surprise... As a remedy for the bloated self-importance of too many other current efforts, it's just what"
"""Airplane!"" as number ten on its list of the 100 funniest American films. In the same year, readers of ""Total Film"" voted it the second greatest comedy film of all time. It also came second in the British 50 Greatest Comedy Films poll on Channel 4, beaten by ""Monty Python's The Life of Brian"". ""Entertainment Weekly"" voted the film the ""Funniest movie on video"" in their list of the 100 funniest movies on video. Several actors were cast to spoof their established images: prior to their roles in ""Airplane!"", Nielsen, Stack, and Bridges were known for portraying adventurous, no-nonsense tough-guy"
"watch as ""Otto"" takes control of the plane, inflates a female companion, and takes off. Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ), wrote ""Airplane!"" while they were performing with the Kentucky Fried Theatre, a small theatre they had founded in 1971. To obtain material for comedy routines, they routinely recorded late night television and reviewed the tapes later primarily to pull the commercials, a process Abrahams compared to ""seining for fish"". During one such taping process, they unintentionally recorded the 1957 film ""Zero Hour!"", and while scanning the commercials, found that"
"won the Golden Spire Award at the 1996 San Francisco Film Festival. The title is a reference to the 1980 comedy film ""Airplane!"" Airplaneski! Airplaneski! is a British 1995 Channel 4 72 minute documentary directed by Norman Hull, concerning the state of Russian civil aviation after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent division of Aeroflot into several hundred minor airlines. It contains interviews with Aeroflot pilots and crew, and with Western passengers who give accounts of comical or unusual events they have encountered on their travels. The documentary was screened on the 13th of July 1995, as"
"against type, Nielsen protested that he had ""always been cast against type before"", and that comedy was what he always really wanted to do. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Peter Farrelly said of the film: ""I was in Rhode Island the first time I saw ""Airplane!"" Seeing it for the first time was like going to a great rock concert, like seeing Led Zeppelin or the Talking Heads. We didn't realize until later that what we'd seen was a very specific kind of comedy that we now call the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker school."" Farrelly, along with"
"Swarm"" (1978), ""Meteor"" (1979), ""Hurricane"" (1979), ""The Concorde ... Airport '79"" (1979), ""Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"" (1979) and ""When Time Ran Out..."" (1980) performed poorly at the box office signaling declining interest in the disaster film product. Although ""The Big Bus"" (1976), an earlier disaster film spoof, had failed to be a hit, the end of the trend was marked by the 1980 comedy ""Airplane!"" which fondly spoofed the clichés of the genre to surprising box office success, producing a sequel of its own, """", in 1982. The resurgence of big budget productions of the genre aided by advancements in"
"performed in Madison, Wisconsin as a sketch and comedy troupe called ""Kentucky Fried Theater"". From there the three went on and together co-directed ""Airplane!"" in 1980 and then went on to do ""Top Secret!"" in 1984, and ""Ruthless People"" in 1986. In 1990, he lent his directorial skills to the dramatic genre with ""Ghost"", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Recent directorial efforts of Zucker's include the 2001 film ""Rat Race"". Zucker's films have been ranked among the greatest comedies of all time: ""Airplane!"" was ranked at the top of ""Entertainment Weekly's"" list of best comedy"
"several films including ""Airplane!"" in 1980 and ""Top Secret!"" in 1984; along with his brother, Jerry, and Jim Abrahams, the trio make up the ""ZAZ"" team of directors. He has also worked with Pat Proft (with whom he first teamed up on the ""Naked Gun"" show ""Police Squad!"") and Craig Mazin (writer of three of the five ""Scary Movies""). ZAZ and Proft helped develop the parody genre of films, in which jokes are spit out with rapid-fire, using puns, physical humor, wit, and double entendres. Some of the veteran actors of ZAZ's vision of parody include Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges,"
"and the 1970s. Although his notable performances in the films ""Forbidden Planet"" and ""The Poseidon Adventure"" gave him standing as a serious actor, Nielsen later gained enduring recognition for his deadpan comedy roles during the 1980s, after being cast against type for the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker comedy film ""Airplane!"". In his comedy roles, Nielsen specialized in portraying characters oblivious to and complicit in their absurd surroundings. Nielsen's performance in ""Airplane!"" marked his turning point, which made him ""the Olivier of spoofs"" according to film critic Roger Ebert, and leading to further success in the genre with ""The Naked Gun"""
"response at one of the pre-screenings. But the film earned its entire budget of about $3.5 million in its first weekend of release. Overall, it earned more than $83 million in box office gross for $40 million in rentals, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 1980. ""Airplane!"" received universal acclaim from critics and is widely regarded as one of the best films of 1980. Based on 61 reviews, compiled retrospectively, Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 97% with an average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Though unabashedly juvenile and silly, ""Airplane!"" is nevertheless"
"game shows such as ""The $20,000 Pyramid"", ""The Gong Show"", ""Hollywood Squares"", ""Password Plus"" and ""Liar's Club"", as well as the Canadian cooking show ""Celebrity Cooks"" (November 1977), talk shows such as ""90 Minutes Live"" (February 24 and April 14, 1978), and ""The Mike Douglas Show"" (April 3, 1979 and February 7, 1980). He was also screen tested for the lead role in the 1980 film ""Airplane!"", a role that eventually went to Robert Hays. His dry, sarcastic humor caught the attention of scouts for ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"", and Letterman was soon a regular guest on the"
"Rumble event. At SummerSlam 1994, in a ""Naked Gun"" parody, they were hot on the case (in fact, they were standing on a case). Although they did not find the Undertaker, the case had been closed (the literal case had been shut), thus they solved the mystery. In 1990, Nielsen appeared as a Frank Drebin character in advertisements in the United Kingdom for Red Rock Cider. Noncomedic roles after ""Airplane!"" included ""Prom Night"" (1980) and ""Creepshow"" (1982), both horror films, and as a dramatic and unsympathetic character in the 1986 comedy ""Soul Man"". His last dramatic role was as Allen"
"and appeared in their movies. Brooks' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films (""Young Frankenstein""), westerns (""Blazing Saddles"") and Hitchcock films (""High Anxiety""). Following his success on Broadway and on film with ""The Odd Couple"" playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon would also be prominent in the 1970s, with films like ""The Sunshine Boys"" and ""California Suite"". Other notable film comedians who appeared later in the decade were Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Burt Reynolds. In 1980, the gag-based comedy ""Airplane!"", a spoof of the previous decade's disaster film series"
"both become seriously ill from food poisoning. A man who has not flown for 10 years and has no familiarity with large aircraft is given instructions from the airport and safely lands the plane. The 1980 comedy film ""Airplane!"" spoofs the same plot with a passenger on a jet airliner being talked down to a safe landing after both pilots contract food poisoning. ""Airport 1975"" released in 1974 has a plot where a Boeing 747 has a mid-air collision with a small plane that leaves the crew dead or badly injured and a stewardess is instructed to fly the aircraft"
"Al White Allen ""Al"" White (born May 17, 1942) is an American character actor. He has appeared in various movies, such as ""Airplane!"" and """", and ""Back to the Future Part II"". Over the course of his Hollywood acting career, White has frequently portrayed police detectives in television and film. On screen, White is perhaps best known for his role in hit comedy ""Airplane!"" as the jive-talking man whose words have to be translated (he reprised the jive-talking for a courtroom scene in the sequel). He also acted in ""Back to the Future Part II"" and has a long television"
"for the Iran nuclear deal in the form of a parody prescription drug ad. In 2016, Zucker said that he was working on a script for a fourth ""Naked Gun"" film with Pat Proft. Among all of his directed and/or produced parody films, Zucker had frequently cast the late Leslie Nielsen. David Zucker (director) David S. Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized as the director and writer of the critically successful 1980 film ""Airplane!"" as well as being the creator of ""The Naked Gun"" franchise"
"The 1980 comedy film ""Airplane!"", though more specifically a remake-cum-spoof of the 1957 film ""Zero Hour!"" (itself a precursor to the ""Airport"" concept with a screenplay by Arthur Hailey), is often identified as a spoof of the ""Airport"" series. It spawned its own follow-up, """", in 1982. Airport (film series) Airport is a 1970s film series consisting of four airplane-themed disaster films that include ""Airport"", ""Airport 1975"", ""Airport '77"" and ""The Concorde ... Airport '79"". They are based on the novel ""Airport"" by Arthur Hailey. The only actor who appeared in all four films is George Kennedy in his recurring"
"by the trio's breakout hit ""Airplane!"", which remains a revered comedic milestone. Subsequent collaborations include the TV series ""Police Squad!"", its subsequent ""Naked Gun"" trilogy and the films ""Top Secret!"" and ""Ruthless People"". All of their projects relied heavily on parodies, visual gags and breaking of the fourth wall, and established a strong cult following. The notable stylistic exception is ""Ruthless People"", a more traditional farce that was directed by the trio but unlike their other productions, not written by them. Prominent ZAZ actors and actresses include Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg and Charlie Sheen."
"corrupt mayor. In 1980, he guest-starred as Sinclair on the CBS miniseries ""The Chisholms"". Nielsen's supporting role of Dr. Rumack in Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's 1980's ""Airplane!"" was a turning point in his career. The film, a parody of disaster films such as ""Zero Hour!"" and ""Airport"", was based on building a comedy around actors known for dramatic roles. Other stars included Robert Stack, Peter Graves, and Lloyd Bridges. Nielsen's deadpan delivery contrasted with the absurdity surrounding him. When asked, ""Surely you can't be serious?"", he responded with a curt, ""I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."" In several"
"Soul Plane Soul Plane is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Jessy Terrero, written by Bo Zenga and starring Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man and Snoop Dogg. Supporting actors include Mo'Nique, Loni Love, K.D. Aubert, D.L. Hughley, Godfrey and Sofia Vergara. Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) has a horrible experience with a typical airline: his dog Dre was classified as a checked baggage instead of a carry-on, he eats a horrible airline meal, his buttocks gets stuck in the toilet during turbulence, and Nashawn's dog is sucked through a jet engine (after a stewardess accidentally opens the cargo door)."
"Jerry Zucker Jerry G. Zucker (born March 11, 1950) is an American film producer, director, and writer known for his role in directing comedy spoof films such as ""Airplane!"" and ""Top Secret!"", and the Best Picture-nominated supernatural drama film ""Ghost"". Jerry Zucker and his older brother, David Zucker, collaborated on several films. Zucker was born to a Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Charlotte A. (Lefstein) (d. 2007) and Burton C. Zucker, who was a real estate developer. He graduated from Shorewood High School. Zucker's early career work started with Jim Abrahams and brother David Zucker. The trio"
"Airplaneski! Airplaneski! is a British 1995 Channel 4 72 minute documentary directed by Norman Hull, concerning the state of Russian civil aviation after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent division of Aeroflot into several hundred minor airlines. It contains interviews with Aeroflot pilots and crew, and with Western passengers who give accounts of comical or unusual events they have encountered on their travels. The documentary was screened on the 13th of July 1995, as part of Channel 4's ""True Stories"" season. The programme was made by Great Percy Productions and was produced by Helen Hill. The programme"
"Flirting in the Air Flirting in the Air (唐伯虎衝上雲霄) is a sex comedy film directed by Aman Chang. The film was released on October 1, 2014. Summary: Airline pilots Cool (Champan To), Sam (Lam Tze Chung) and Guy (Dominic Ho) were proud womanizers whom all took tremendous pleasure in making rounds with every stewardess they came across. But one day during a seemingly routine flight, they encountered a violent magnetic storm that sent them falling through a wormhole. Upon landing, they assumed the storm had blown them off course onto a film set, but in reality, they had traveled back"
"Airborne (1993 film) Airborne is a 1993 American comedy-drama film centered on inline skating, starring Shane McDermott, Seth Green, Brittney Powell, Chris Conrad, Jacob Vargas, and a then unknown Jack Black. Mitchell Goosen (McDermott) is a teenager from California who loves to surf and rollerblade. His zoologist parents are given the opportunity for grant work in Australia for six months. Eager to accompany his parents to the surf-friendly shores of the South Pacific, he is dismayed to find out that he will not be joining them and instead will be living with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio, so"
"characters. Stack's role as the captain who loses his nerve in one of the earliest airline ""disaster"" films, ""The High and the Mighty"" (1954), is spoofed in ""Airplane!"", as is Lloyd Bridges' 1970–1971 television role as airport manager Jim Conrad in ""San Francisco International Airport"". Peter Graves was in the made-for-television film """", in which an SST was unable to land owing to an emergency. Nielsen saw a major boost to his career after ""Airplane!""s release, and the film marked a significant change in his film persona towards a new specialty in deadpan comedy, notably in the three ""Naked Gun"""
"after his recovery. The 1995 release of ""Getting Any?"" (""Minna Yatteruka!""), which was filmed before the accident, showed Kitano returning to his comedy roots. This ""Airplane!""-like assemblage of comedic scenes, all centering loosely around a Walter Mitty-type character trying to have sex in a car, met with little acclaim in Japan. Much of the film satirizes popular Japanese culture, such as ""Ultraman"" or ""Godzilla"" and even the Zatoichi character that Kitano himself would go on to play eight years later. That year Kitano also appeared in the film adaptation of William Gibson's 1995 ""Johnny Mnemonic"", credited by the mononym ""Takeshi"","
"airplane. It proceeds with the phases of her life and the kind of laughter she brings among her friends and family. She fights for another girl who is molested by a group of men on the street and rescues her, whilst on-lookers do nothing about it. The song finishes with her fulfilling her ambition of becoming an air force pilot. Sony Music Entertainment had exclusively partnered with Fever FM as the radio partner, Nokia digital download store and MTV Indies as their music channel partner. The album was unveiled by Bollywood actor Salman Khan on 27 February 2014 at a"
"in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and ""The Guardian"" newspaper in 2007. Rotten Tomatoes lists it as one of the best reviewed comedies, with a 97% approval rating from 60 published reviews. A 2011 poll by ""Time Out"" magazine ranked it as the third greatest comedy film ever made, behind ""Airplane!"" and ""This is Spinal Tap"". The BFI declared ""Life of Brian"" to be the 28th best British film of all time, in their equivalent of the original AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. It was the seventh highest ranking comedy on this list (four of the"
"Planes (film) Planes is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy film produced by Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a spin-off of Pixar's ""Cars"" franchise. Despite not being produced by Pixar, the film was co-written and executive produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios' then-chief creative officer John Lasseter, who directed the first two ""Cars"" films. The film stars the voices of Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Priyanka Chopra in her Hollywood debut, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Danny Mann, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Roger Craig Smith, John Cleese, Carlos Alazraqui, Val Kilmer, and Anthony Edwards. Like many"