Airplane from the team of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker is a hilarious treat. It takes place on a, er, airplane and has every comic trope available on board. Robert hays and Julie Hagerty play ex-lovers who bump into each other on the plane amidst chaos. Everything from gaffes to slapstick humor works like a charm and the presence of Leslie Neilson and Llyod Bridges only adds to the sheen. This film is considered a classic of the genre today and if you love comedy than there is no better option than to sit with a copy of Airplane tonight.

My friends and I quote lines from this movie incessantly. I watched "The High and the Mighty" from 1954 and it is a boilerplate for the jokes in Airplane. You'll laugh at both as watch.

Some people hate planes because of 9/11. If a security checked plane ride scares you, then you definitely don't want to be on the plane in "Airplane!" The plot follows a plane with a stupid pilot who ends up nearly crashing the plane. Well, he has an inflatable co-pilot, and when he deflated, the air hole is at his crotch area. He also serves fish that makes everyone sick. This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, and even the AFI(American Film Institute) names it the 10th greatest comedy of all time. My favorite part involves a little girl who needs to go to the hospital and her IV is pulled while a woman is singing to her. There is also a man who tells boring stories...so boring that the people who hear them actually take their lives to avoid hearing them. That wouldn't be funny in reality, but here it works. I could tell you more funny parts, but you should see it yourself. You surely won't be disappointed. And don't call me Shirley!

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.