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Airplane! (1980)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 8/04, 3/05

3/05: Overladen with boring spoofs, the jokes in Airplane! are dry as a bone.

There are a couple of good moments, but most of the time has been wasted on feeble attempts at humor. The eggs-in-the-mouth thing is too lame.

Like Hot Shots!, Lloyd Bridges barely manages to save Airplane! from being labeled a complete stinker. In the meantime, I'm willing to fork over money for Stephen Stucker to be administered thousands of paper cuts and then tortured with bath salts for hours and hours.

Here's a memo to Hollywood: when making a comedy, they should learn how to be subtle. Speaking of the obvious, there are a lot of easy-to-spot crappy visual effects such as the padded block on one guy before he got stabbed in the back and the strings on Striker who pretends to be Superman.

All in all, Airplane! isn't "one of the top ten funniest" but "one of the top ten unfunniest" pictures made.

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