Airplanes! Filmmaker Uncut Movie Reaction!

Also, this movie is one of the oldest I know of that has a post-credit scene, a call-back to one of the movie's recurring jokes. I don't think I've seen a single reactor that caught it the first time around.

Thomas Yanez

I saw this movie when I was a kid. I was visiting my grandparents for the summer and saw it with my grandma. That was convenient, because even seeing it in the theater, at the time it was released, a lot of the references were pretty old. Fortunately, my Grandma was able to lean over and whisper, "That's from 'From Here to Eternity'..." or other things. The movie was life changing for me, in terms of comedy appreciation... and briefly very uncomfortable when the boobs (PG meant something different back then) showed up and I heard my Grandma gasp.

Thomas Yanez

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and Dutch

James

The Jerk is great

Luke Trottier

I'll throw out The Jerk as a recommendation. Also Caddyshack!

Charles Allen

ZAZ apparently have (or had) a rule that something funny pretty much always has to happening; so if there's exposition or something serious in the foreground, there needs to be a joke in the background. Also, I think one reason their parodies work so well, and hold up well, is because they're making fun of tropes, not necessarily specific films. So even though Airplane! does have references to certain other movies, you don't need to have seen them to enjoy Airplane! itself.

Loyd

If you like this type of comedy, you should check out more Mel Brooks films as well. Know you have already watched Blazing Saddles, but got to check out Young Frankenstein (co-written by Gene Wilder), Spaceballs (makes fun of Star Wars), and Robin Hood Men in Tights (makes fun of Robin Hood Prince of Theives). Also, the Don Knotts Tim Conway classic, Private Eyes, is great and constantly makes me laugh. Uses the Airplane! Humor to make fun of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Also, check out Ghost. The Director of Airplane! actually directed Ghost, that is considered both one of the best romantic and supernatural films of all time. Also, it’s the film that has Whoopi Goldberg’s Oscar winning performance in it. Also, I would suggest watching any Bob Hope films not actually the same type of humor, but Bob is the comedy master of quick wit dialogue. Does not get much better than Bob.

Cody Price

Airplane is a nearly shot for shot remake of a dramatic film called "Zero Hour!" punched up by line delivery and additional shots which provides the comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs is a shot comparison of the two.

This is know as ZAZ comedy (Zucker, Abrams and Zucker). Other classics were the Naked Gun series, the Hot Shots series, as well as Top Secret and the Kentucky Fried Movie. This film also follows the story structure of a 1950s crashing airplane movie and keeps a lot of the original dialogue as well.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar