First Time Watching Airplane! (1980) Film Reaction & Review
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- This is my reaction and review for the film Airplane! directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. Leslie Nielsen is a legend.
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I love the fact that there are so many reactions to this movie on CZcams and none of them have noticed the noise of the plane when filmed outside. The plane has jet engines but the noise is from old fashioned propeller engines.
Stephen Stucker, the flamboyant actor, was one of the first openly gay actors at that time. He was also the first actor to openly admit that he had AIDS. He died in 1986.
The Jive interpreter was Barbara Bilingsly, who was best known for playing Mrs. Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver-which is what makes it even funnier. The little girl with the IV is. Jill Whellan, best known for playing Vicki Stuben on the Love Boat.
Leslie Neilson wasn't the only serious actor whose career was revived by this movie. Peter Graves who played the pilot, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges also got career boosts after this movie. Lloyd Bridges went on to do the Hot Shots movies. In fact, the people who made the movie specifically wanted actors who could play their roles deadpan and straight-faced because the comedians who tried out kept hamming it up and mugging for the camera.
Leslie Nielsen's performance was so much funnier back then because up till this movie, he'd always been a totally serious actor. Same with Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack. And at that time most of us were more familiar with the original "Airport" movies, which many of these gags were derived from (like the sick girl and the singing nun who are straight out of "Airport 75"). Great reaction video.
Since everyone's filled you in on the Jive lady...
The Jive Interpreter scene is so funny it should be framed and put in a museum.
Those two black actors improvised all of their scenes. The writers and director wrote a script for them but they felt it wasn't right, sounded racist but then those two actors said leave it to us and made up the whole damn thing😃😁🤣
Airplane is an almost scene for scene comedy remake of ZERO HOUR you can see comparisons on you tube.
You're right when you say that this was the first of this type of humor. Absolutely everyone was talking about it.
This is pretty much Leslie Nielsen's First comedy part. Before this he did all serious rolls.
This movie (and others by the same directors) has what I like to call "dimensional" humor. What I mean is that - there is always something happening, if it's not a visual gag, it's a wordplay or pun, or if the conversation is serious, there's something ridiculous happening in the background. Depending on your "lens of focus" you can always find something to laugh at, somewhere. And then theres a subtlety that we acknowledge when we laugh at certain jokes that tell us something about our culture. For example, when the girl says "I take it black, like my men" that's hysterical because we instinctively understand that that is "adult" humor, and so when a little girl says it, it's extra outrageously funny. This illustrates age-appropriate humor. There's just so much in this movie, and I appreciate how you try to put yourself in the context of the time when this was released. A lot of reviewers and reactors don't bother to take the time to do that. Thanks!
Fun fact: the guy stuck in the taxi was Howard Jarvis. He was the California politician responsible for Proposition 13, which did a lot of damage to the state economy and resulted in services diminishing. Seeing him at the mercy of a cab driver got a LOT of laughs in that theater!
I was about 11 or 12 years old when I saw this in the theater, first run. I didn't get half the jokes but I recognized that this was something different, something clever.
The other part of the old lady doing the translations was that she was the mom on Leave it to Beaver, and known for being all 1950s
They brought in all these veteran actors who had done more serious films and told them to act like they don’t know they’re in a comedy. Leslie Nielsen was working like he was back in The Poseidon Adventure.
My dad use to show me this film when I was younger and during a Christmas get together with my extended family, we were all sitting around the table with the adults drinking coffee after dessert. My great grandmother (who was around 90 and nearly deaf) asked for coffee. When my grandfather asked if she wanted cream or sugar, she replied "black" and since I watched the movie several times at that point, my 8 year old self added " like my man". My family was shocked, my great grandmother couldn't hear, and my dad was losing it. Such a great movie xD
Need to watch the movie "Forbidden Planet" 1956 with young Leslie Nielson. You will laugh to see how serious an actor he really is. Thinking about his last 20 years of spoofs...what an actor.
The line that always gets me - "The fog is getting thicker....... and Leon's getting LAAAARGER"...... gets me every f'n time for the last 40 years!!
I appreciate this dude's reaction. Smart, observant, and showing all the right jokes. He gets it. And what he keeps referring to, as far as Leslie Nielsen making comments in a serious way, is deadpan delivery humor. It's extremely effective in this movie.