Wow! Such a good movie.

Why so much hype?

Good concept, poorly executed.

Brilliant and touching

I'm not always fond of older movies for various reasons but this one still gets me every time I watch it.

Airplane!Its cheeky slick fun to a point where one finds itself laughing to the most redicule thing that if being thought about, comes out smarter than it seems. The gags still works like a charm that is hand over to each individual amusing characters who invests equally as the writers have. Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker; the writer-director, are putting all their chips in and wins over the audience without much effort. The cast has done a decent work and have stucked to their sketchy characters throughout the course of it. Airplane! has many strength where the writing being the core one, but that doesn't mean that it always works in its favor for there are some sequences where the makers blurred out between fun and stupid which is the only weakness in this feature.

While nowadays the style of humor pioneered by the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams is passé - and, some would argue, practically ruined by its overbaked usage in some of their subsequent projects including the Scary Movie franchise - back then their humor was fresh, and most of the jokes in this film do indeed hold up today.There's double entendres, lots of one-liners, plenty of sight gags, a bit of politically incorrect racism and sexism, some absurd violence, the legendary scene where Barbara Billingsley says, "Oh stewardess, I speak jive," a deadpan Leslie Nielsen, and more. My favorite actor in the movie was and still is Stephen Stucker as Johnny; every time he pops up to give some anarchic and ridiculous line, it puts a smile on my face.What always struck me about this movie was that, despite all the absurd humor, the central love story does actually take itself rather seriously; Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are perfectly cast. There's also real suspense when Hays attempts to pilot the passenger plane to safety in a storm; even with all the jokes the movie knows when to give the audience some genuine emotional beats. That was one of the biggest problems the sequel had - it jumped the shark early and often, provoking many viewers to ask "what's the point?"This one, though, is still a fun watch in 2018.

I enjoyed this movie as a kid, mostly for the visual gags. I rewatched it recently with my daughter, and though she said it was the dumbest movie ever, she did laugh frequently. Some of the gags made more sense to me now, and some were annoyingly repeated. Funny and dumb but not the masterpiece everyone thinks of it.