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| Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Zucker, David, Zucker, Jerry
Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Jonathan Banks, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (277 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1863
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 87 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD030904D
ISBN: 1415713871
UPC: 097360309041
EAN: 9781415713877
ASIN: B000B5XOWA
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: July 2, 1980
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007
Amazon.com essential video
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 a 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
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 Classic Comedy November 29, 2008
From start to finish, this movie is non-stop laughter. A must-bye for anyone interested in corny jokes and humor.
 Airplane! November 27, 2008
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).
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.
AIRPLANE November 16, 2008
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!!
Clever, funny and amusing October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
The Complete Airplane! Saga Finally Gets Released Together In The USA! June 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
(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! 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.
(RedSabbath Rating:7.5/10)
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