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Leslie Nielsen was a serious dramatic actor, that was the joke of casting him in that role. That's why his delivery was like that, he was acting as though he was in a serious movie. He was already 20 years into his career. People loved it so much, he then went on to have his hugely successful comedic career.
Oh, that explains why they revealed him like that, not showing his face initially or not billing him in the beginning. The things filmmakers would do to make greatness! 🤣
Also like, that type of comedy is much funnier. Example: the old Ghostbusters vs the new. The old one worked so well because everyone played it straight.
I’ve never seen anyone this young so genuinely invested in this movie while simultaneously unwise to so many of the older references. I’ve also never seen anyone so innocently infatuated with the lovely Julie Hagerty. One of my favorite reactions to this movie.
Granted, some of the punch lines are so ridiculous that you laugh anyway. That’s the beauty of a movie like _Airplane!_ The degree of parody compensates for some of its age.
As for the "Check the Radar Range" joke. Early microwaves were called Radar Ranges. Radar used microwave radio transmissions to see aircraft. My grandmother had a Radar Range and when they came out they were all the rage. They promoted that you could cook a turkey in half the time as an oven.
In the US we just called them Microwaves unless it was an Amana Radar Range. In around 1980, I lived in 2 areas of the country, the North East and the Southwest and I never heard Radar Range used generically. Amana did a lot of advertising to make sure they held on to their brand name, so much the the housewives would brag that they got an actual Amana RR as if any other brand was some sort of generic POS.
Actress Lorna Patterson did sing "The River of Jordan". That's her actual voice. Actor Robert Hays is a pilot in real life and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft... Course, if I ever got on a plane and Ted Striker was our Captain... I would have to start re-evaluating my life choices....
In 1980 microwave ovens were still a pretty new thing and were referred to as “radar ranges” due to the fact that microwaves are literally the range of frequency that radar operates.
There are lots of jokes in the film which were more specific to the 1980s (when the film was produced). An example is the airliner's engine noise, which is that of a propeller plane.
Most of the actors are previous dramatic actors. The old woman translating Jive was June Cleaver (mom) in the Leave It To Beaver series, the captain was the lead agent in the old Mission Impossible series, Lloyd Bridges (quitting drugs this week) was in Sea Hunt and other action stuff and Leslie Nielsen had played a bunch of dramas and detective movies and such.
Most people don't know that the man waiting in the taxi was played by Howard Jarvis, an American businessman and politician who lowered California's property taxes by spearheading Proposition 13. And that's the joke. Jarvis, who was primarily known for his strong views on fiscal responsibility and limited spending kept waiting while the meter ran up a big tab.
The Sarah and Bethany comment was priceless. As far as things like Joey's dialogue, you have to keep in mind that there were a crazy amount of topical jokes and references. His dialogue was a direct parody of much of the stuff that was in syndicated TV at the time. That also goes for things like the woman who, "speaks jive." That was Barbara Billingsley. She played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, possibly the whitest character on the whitest show that has ever been aired. Other things like the dance (parody of Saturday Night Fever), the kissing on the beech (parody of From Here to Eternity) and the "win one for the zipper," line (parody of an old Ronald Regan movie), were very topical. Kids never really talked like Joey even in the 50's when they did on TV. In the 70's, when this movie was released, that was becoming more evident and understood. I knew all the "bad" words by the time I was seven. That would have been 1977. It also bares mentioning that no one had ever seen anything even remotely like this at this point. People were shocked. But, it was so funny, they let a lot of stuff slide. Captain Oveur's comments to Joey were SO over the top and SO shocking that people did the classic, "laugh about things that are too painful to cry about." Stuff like that had never been addressed in movies, much less parodied. It was a similar reaction as with Animal House or The Jerk. All three movies were so shocking and absurd that people just laughed because they couldn't help themselves. As far as comedies go, they were like Star Wars. They changed everything over night. Prior to this, jokes about masturbation, abortion, pedophillia, face-sitting even were not made. No one knew what to do with this movie. They just couldn't deny that it was funny, partially because it was so shocking. And an early form of microwave was called a radar range. Another thing you miss out on= all of Johnny's lines were written by the actor himself. They just gave him a script with blank spots where he was supposed to talk and let him say whatever he wanted. He's actually my favorite character. The most ironic thing is that, now the movie just seems like a series of Dad jokes.
A Radar Range was a branding on a microwave years ago :) Also the guy who says about 2 more minutes chief when he checks on the chicken is Mike from Breaking Bad.
The microwave was Thought up by a radar engineer who was testing a radar and he noticed that his chocolate bar melted when the radar was pointed at it. Hence the name “radar range“. Short version of the story.
This movie is based on a straight film called Zero Hour. A large part of the plot and lines of dialogue come direct from that movie. The producers had to buy the script from Zero Hour so they could use the script. The older actors were all known as straight actors, this was their first comedy film, all of them.
This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70’s they were called Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77 and Airport 79 the concorde. I saw this movie when it came out when I was 9 years old. The couple doing the airport announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life. Some of the questions the captain asked the kid referred to movies with a homoerotic theme like Spartacus and midnight express which took place in a Turkish prison.
Yes swell used to be in kids' vocabulary. They just weren't sophisticated enough to say, dip, drip, fire, sus, banger, no cap, yeet, skrrt, slaps, simps, vibin', etc.
About 5 years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning incident onboard a plane. Nearly 200 people got sick from contaminated omelets. Fortunately, they were already near their destination and the pilots were able to make an emergency landing. It was by pure luck that the pilots didn’t eat the omelets. Because their biological clocks were still on Alaska time, they had ordered steak dinners instead. After the incident, recommendations were made that pilots and passengers be served different meals during long flights to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.
Leslie Nelson became famous with his Naked Guy series. All three are great is in the same style as Airplane. But even more crazy is Kentucy Fried Movie. But you really see "Enter the Dragon" with Bruce Lee and they do a parody of it.
I have vivid memories of my family going out to see this in theaters when it came out, even though I was only 4 years old at the time for a very important reason. We had dinner out at a seafood restaurant before the show. And 4 year old me "had the fish". It was 1980, there wasn't an easy way to get plot summaries or much information at all about a film before you went out to see it, so my parents had no way of knowing what a colossally bad idea that was. But we all learned an important lesson about the suggestibility of the 4 year old mind that night.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time! I'm glad you enjoyed it. You should have watched until after the credits. The cab is still sitting at the airport and the passenger looks at his watch and says "well I'll give him 5 more minutes, but that's it."
Aaaand another one who missed the after credit scene ;-) If you wanna more stuff like this, check out "The naked gun" or "Hot Shots!" from the same team, the first one got Nielsen as main character, the other Charlie Sheen.
Always fun watching the 'kids' reviewing these old movies. FYI: this Airplane! (with an exclamation point) is mocking the serious original Airplane movie (no exclamation point) about a guy who explodes a bomb in the plane. Just about everything in this Airplane! is in reference to the original. That's part of the reason it was a hit: the context was the WE watched the original. For example, the heart jumping over the doc's desk is about the girl you see later being disconnected from the catheter. Nothing is done "intentionally" as you commented: the scene with the stewardess banging the heads of passengers with the guitar, no, she didn't do it intentionally. It's satire of the ridiculous scene in the ORIGINAL about the little girl and the nun singing to her. The little boy speech, it was mocking the 1960s shows of 'pristine' family: that's how they used to talk in the shows. So, do a research about origins of some movies, and if they are a funny take from an original serious one, try to watch the original so you can get the jokes. I enjoyed watching your commenting about this movie.
Another bit of trivia: "Win one for the Zipper" is a parody of the "Gipper" speech from the 1940 biopic "Knute Rockne: All American." Ronald Reagan portrayed George "The Gipper" Gipp.
Way back when this was made, microwave ovens were still sometimes called "radar ranges". It was less common than it had been but was still the preferred name used by some manufacturers like Ammana. Also back then, most airports were infested with people promoting all sorts of causes. Some would be political, some religious. For a while, some airports tried to regulate it and limit it but eventually it was halted.
22:22 Well, you _definitely_ need to watch _Jaws_ (1975). For something a bit sillier, maybe _The Poseidon Adventure_ (1972). _The Perfect Storm_ (2000) is good, too.
Okay, the joke you didn't get about the chicken in the oven. The guy was told to check the radar range. In the 1970s, microwave ovens were often called a Radarange. ("range" being another word for oven)
The sequel is also good. There are a lot of jokes that were contextual to the time. All of these actors were in very serious roles prior to this movie, including Leslie Nielson. This movie launched his career in comedy as the straight man.
As far as Leslie Nielsen goes, check out The Naked Gun Trilogy (which was based on a show called Police Squad!), Spy Hard, and Airplane II The Sequel. And another movie like this one that he's not in is Mafia!
I watched this when I was little... and I watched it a few times since (as a kid) and it took me around the 3rd watch to "get" the "drinking problem" joke.
I've seen this movie 72,000 times. I just noticed at the beginning, when the airplane nose crashes through the window, a lady throws her baby in the air.
Young reactors get about 50% of the humor in this movie. It's not your fault. A lot of the gags are very specific to the pop culture and current events of 1980. (e.g. In 1980, there used to be a coffee commercial where the wife is surprised when her husband has a second cup of coffee at a restaurant.) It also includes classic film parodies that will fly over your head if you haven't seen the film. (e.g. The famous beach make-out scene from 1953's From Here to Eternity). You get the idea.
That's the old Yuban Coffee commercial where the slogan was "Richness is worth a Second Cup." The Mayo Clinic (we have one here in Jacksonville) is a world renowned hospital, considered the best, has a massive cancer patient care facility and all state-of-the-art technology. The founding brothers' last name was Mayo. The writers played on the name relating it to mayonnaise, Hence, the joke. Another one is when Capt Oever visits the news stand, under the category "Whacking Material", there is a Golf Digest, which I suppose is intended for golf fanatics that get excited over golf. We have lots of Golf lunatics here in Florida. Finally, the Air Israel aircraft is wearing a long beard and turban because that was the stereo type appearance of Jews in the 70's. So you see that if you were born in our era, you would have caught all the jokes referencing pop culture of the time.
17:35 - That's not a green screen effect, it's back-projected, which is what throws the colouring off slightly. It's a very old effect, but it works in this movie because it's an obvious parody.
This is pretty much a shot-for-shot, line-by-line remake of an old 50s movie, "Zero Hour!", but with sight gags thrown in. "Zero Hour!" was an overly-serious disaster movie, and the writers thought, "What if we remake this movie and have everyone read their lines with the same deadpan seriousness, but have crazy things happening around them?" They hired several of Hollywood's most "serious" actors for the roles. There's a video somewhere on YT that has a side-by-side comparison of the two films. RadarRange was a brand of microwave oven in the 70s. Fun fact: The two announcers arguing about the red zone and white zone at LAX were the actual people who did overhead announcements at LAX at the time.
Terrific reaction and I wonder if you went through the Horse scence again... To answer your question if they still make such movies, you should look at "Airplane II: The Sequel"; "Top Secret" and the "Hot Shots I+2" as well as The Naked Gun, and the shortlived tv series: Police Squad. They don't make them like this in the 2000's. It is a lost art, but these films are GOLD comedy. Yes mel Brooks did a few parody films too. Leslie has been in both serious and comedic films, such as Police squad and Naked Gun. I think you will enjoy these choices, if you haven't checked them out before! Have a wonderful weekend!
I’ve seen many reactions to this movie. One joke that no one ever gets is the “win one for the zipper” joke. Did you notice The Notre Dame fight song is playing in the background while Leslie Nielsen is telling the story? There’s a 1930s movie about the Notre Dame football coach called “Knute Rockne, All American”. Future president Ronald Reagan plays a football player named George Gipp. He is dying. On his deathbed Gipp tells Knute Rockne, “one of these days when the brakes are beating the boys, tell the team to go out and win just one for the Gipper”. True story. It was a meme before there were memes. People would sarcastically say “when one for the Gipper” whenever they were in a tough situation. Everyone in the 1970s audience would have understood the joke. There are lots of other jokes Like that in this movie. So, bottom line, the the movie was even funnier To a 70s audience then it is to today’s audience.
The more I see this movie, the more I notice and appreciate the over-the-top music from legendary composer Elmer Bernstein (The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird...)
That car scene wasn't a bad green screen effect. That technology (it was blue screen originally) was developed for the first Star Wars movie, which was released the year before Airplane. What you see here is an intentionally botched version of the previous effect, where the background footage was projected on a screen behind the car. Ironically, the new Mandalorian series is using an upgraded, much more expensive version of this, where they built a 360 degree LED wall, and the Unreal game engine generates the background.
There are advertisement parodies, movie and TV tropes, and other dated material that only reaches the real media nerds now. For instance, there are lots of leading men in this movie who not only had never been in an ensemble cast, but hadn't done comedy at all. You would never know that unless you were familiar with media previous and contemporary to 1980. It's a great movie, but it more captures its moment in time, than it's a timeless movie.
The radar range joke is simple. The very first microwaves we're named radar range (they were built using microwave emitter originally used in radar systems)
I do the drinking problem thing in real life. Been doing it since high school lol doesn't come up too often but if I get a water cooler with an eye shot I hope for the opportunity
Correct, however there are about 50 reactions that have already explained that joke. No worries, if you keep scrolling down, you likely find another dozen or so with this same explanation. It's all good; we all have made sure that this reactor will never forget that microwaves were first called radar ranges. hehe
Seems Like Old Times, Arthur, and Midnight Run are three funny movies that seem to get ignored. Back in the 80’s members of religious groups would hang out in airports trying to convert people. I remember that and also when you could smoke on a plane. Seems like a lifetime ago.
Leslie is the star of the Naked Gun movies. Also you might like his comedic take in Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Of course he's Dracula.. They don't make parody movies like this anymore. They're too busy doing remakes and comic book movies. 🙄
The Naked Gun is right up your alley if you want more Leslie Nielsen - he's the star and the humor is similar to this but I think funnier. AND if you want more of the cute stewardess you should watch What About Bob? starring Bill Murray.
😎👍 No, they don't make movies like this anymore. Fortunately however, they did make quite a few of them in the 80s and 90s. Believe it or not, Zucker Zucker & Abrahams' follow-up to this, "Top Secret" (1984) is just as funny as "Airplane!" ✈ If you can find it, another funny movie of this genre is "Young Doctors In Love" (1982). 🤡👍
This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute. It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - ua-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/v-deo.html BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued. References: Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS. Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - ua-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w-/v-deo.html same actress in real coffee commercial Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - ua-cam.com/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/v-deo.html From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - ua-cam.com/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/v-deo.html Also: He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke. A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - ua-cam.com/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/v-deo.html
The first popular microwave oven was called the "Radar Range"...Just one of the many pop culture jokes from back in the day that hardly any reactors know...
Nielsen, Graves, Bridges and Stack were all well known dramatic actors before appearing in this film. Their deadpan deliveries are what make a good portion of the jokes land.
I love how youre like an hour into the movie saying “another stupid joke!” Bruh, the entire movie. Like literally every 10 seconds. It was scientifically proven to be the movie with the highest slapstick joke density of all time.
Slapstick is primarily physical comedy involving comedic falls and accidental injury. Often involving props like a ladder or tools. Much like you see in a 3 Stooges short. Silent comedies used a lot of slapstick. Buster Keaton was a master. There's actually not a lot of slapstick in Airplane!
There is too much in this movie to comment on, but fyi, "radar range" was the first consumer brand of microwave oven. Just one of the countless, end-to-end references and inside jokes that make up this entire movie.
The "grandma" that spoke Jive to the two black guys is Barbara Billingsley. It was even funnier in the day because the audiences knew her as the June Cleaver, the housewife in the 50s sitcom "Leave It to Beaver". The Cleavers were the stereotypical 50's American family. Dad went to work every day in a suit. Mom stayed home and wore dresses and pearls while cooking and cleaning. They had a suburban house and 2 kids.
The part was originally offered to Harriet Nelson, from Ozzie and Harriet, but she turned it down. She later said she regretted it. And Sigourney Weaver was originally cast as Elaine the stewardess, but she refused to say the "sit on your face and wriggle" line. But I don't think her career suffered any. 😁
All true but if you never had the pleasure of watching Leave it To Beaver back then, well, the joke just simply doesn't land or have any relation to it. Sometimes having to explain a joke can make it more confusing. For us we get it; however, for a 24y, that joke is just too dated and flies over their head.
So glad you watched this. Its hilarious because it's so stupid, you literally couldn't count the amount of silly jokes they shoehorn into this movie. It must have been really hard writing this and keeping to a plot, it's a stroke of genius really
Although Leslie Nielsen is the star of the show, my favorite bits are the heavy-handed effort to calm the hysterical woman and Beaver Cleaver's mom speaking jive. Leave It to Beaver had a bit of a comeback in the 80s with reunion films and even a sequel series on the Disney channel. I wonder to what extent the success of this movie factored into renewed interest in the series after nearly 20 years.
That's right. Another thinking joke. Just like the fact that he was in the Air Force, but then when he shows up at the bar, he's clearly wearing his Navy issued dress white uniform. Not an Air Force uniform, but all reactors don't catch that one either.
dumbest movie i've ever seen but god damn if it wasn't hilarious
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Pre 1983
Smoking was Allowed on Airlines
...and don't call me Shirley.
SE7EN is a hilarious hoot too.
By the way, one of the first brands of microwave oven was the Amana Radarange.
They used to call microwaves radar range. They actually cook food with radar technology. It was one of those accidental inventions.
Leslie Nielsen was a serious dramatic actor, that was the joke of casting him in that role. That's why his delivery was like that, he was acting as though he was in a serious movie. He was already 20 years into his career. People loved it so much, he then went on to have his hugely successful comedic career.
Oh, that explains why they revealed him like that, not showing his face initially or not billing him in the beginning. The things filmmakers would do to make greatness! 🤣
Not only Leslie Nielsen but also Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges ,Peter Graves and others were big time dramatic actors.
Also like, that type of comedy is much funnier. Example: the old Ghostbusters vs the new. The old one worked so well because everyone played it straight.
The Naked Gun series have Leslie Nielsen and are just as funny and stupid, especially the first 2. Well worth a watch.
I’ve never seen anyone this young so genuinely invested in this movie while simultaneously unwise to so many of the older references. I’ve also never seen anyone so innocently infatuated with the lovely Julie Hagerty.
One of my favorite reactions to this movie.
Granted, some of the punch lines are so ridiculous that you laugh anyway.
That’s the beauty of a movie like _Airplane!_ The degree of parody compensates for some of its age.
As for the "Check the Radar Range" joke. Early microwaves were called Radar Ranges. Radar used microwave radio transmissions to see aircraft. My grandmother had a Radar Range and when they came out they were all the rage. They promoted that you could cook a turkey in half the time as an oven.
For a while it was a generic term, like when all copiers were called "Xerox".
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 or Brits saying Hoover, or Yanks saying Kleenex, or
"If it doesn't say Amana, it isn't a Radar Range"
@@zedwpd Southerners calling any soda pop a Coke, or any foam sports ball is a Nerf ball, or
In the US we just called them Microwaves unless it was an Amana Radar Range. In around 1980, I lived in 2 areas of the country, the North East and the Southwest and I never heard Radar Range used generically. Amana did a lot of advertising to make sure they held on to their brand name, so much the the housewives would brag that they got an actual Amana RR as if any other brand was some sort of generic POS.
Actress Lorna Patterson did sing "The River of Jordan". That's her actual voice. Actor Robert Hays is a pilot in real life and is qualified to fly multi-engine aircraft... Course, if I ever got on a plane and Ted Striker was our Captain... I would have to start re-evaluating my life choices....
In 1980 microwave ovens were still a pretty new thing and were referred to as “radar ranges” due to the fact that microwaves are literally the range of frequency that radar operates.
There are lots of jokes in the film which were more specific to the 1980s (when the film was produced). An example is the airliner's engine noise, which is that of a propeller plane.
Granted, with how ridiculous some of the “punch lines” were, modern audiences can still laugh at it.
Most of the actors are previous dramatic actors. The old woman translating Jive was June Cleaver (mom) in the Leave It To Beaver series, the captain was the lead agent in the old Mission Impossible series, Lloyd Bridges (quitting drugs this week) was in Sea Hunt and other action stuff and Leslie Nielsen had played a bunch of dramas and detective movies and such.
Jeff Bridges’ dad!
Most people don't know that the man waiting in the taxi was played by Howard Jarvis, an American businessman and politician who lowered California's property taxes by spearheading Proposition 13. And that's the joke. Jarvis, who was primarily known for his strong views on fiscal responsibility and limited spending kept waiting while the meter ran up a big tab.
The Sarah and Bethany comment was priceless. As far as things like Joey's dialogue, you have to keep in mind that there were a crazy amount of topical jokes and references. His dialogue was a direct parody of much of the stuff that was in syndicated TV at the time. That also goes for things like the woman who, "speaks jive." That was Barbara Billingsley. She played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, possibly the whitest character on the whitest show that has ever been aired. Other things like the dance (parody of Saturday Night Fever), the kissing on the beech (parody of From Here to Eternity) and the "win one for the zipper," line (parody of an old Ronald Regan movie), were very topical. Kids never really talked like Joey even in the 50's when they did on TV. In the 70's, when this movie was released, that was becoming more evident and understood. I knew all the "bad" words by the time I was seven. That would have been 1977.
It also bares mentioning that no one had ever seen anything even remotely like this at this point. People were shocked. But, it was so funny, they let a lot of stuff slide. Captain Oveur's comments to Joey were SO over the top and SO shocking that people did the classic, "laugh about things that are too painful to cry about." Stuff like that had never been addressed in movies, much less parodied. It was a similar reaction as with Animal House or The Jerk. All three movies were so shocking and absurd that people just laughed because they couldn't help themselves. As far as comedies go, they were like Star Wars. They changed everything over night. Prior to this, jokes about masturbation, abortion, pedophillia, face-sitting even were not made. No one knew what to do with this movie. They just couldn't deny that it was funny, partially because it was so shocking.
And an early form of microwave was called a radar range. Another thing you miss out on= all of Johnny's lines were written by the actor himself. They just gave him a script with blank spots where he was supposed to talk and let him say whatever he wanted. He's actually my favorite character.
The most ironic thing is that, now the movie just seems like a series of Dad jokes.
Good ol’ ZAZ. They gave many dads many jokes.
A Radar Range was a branding on a microwave years ago :) Also the guy who says about 2 more minutes chief when he checks on the chicken is Mike from Breaking Bad.
The first microwave I remember my family having in the mid 70's was an Amana Radar Range. On of the jokes that aged out.
The microwave was Thought up by a radar engineer who was testing a radar and he noticed that his chocolate bar melted when the radar was pointed at it. Hence the name “radar range“. Short version of the story.
@@Hayseo Huh. If true, that's really cool.
I learned something new today.
. . . er? . . . .something "old" today.
That was the biggest chicken I've ever seen; I always thought it was a turkey as it took up the entire microwave. Wow.
4:16 lool I love this joke, the pun is of all the pilots names; Clarence Over, Roger, and Victor
This movie is based on a straight film called Zero Hour. A large part of the plot and lines of dialogue come direct from that movie. The producers had to buy the script from Zero Hour so they could use the script.
The older actors were all known as straight actors, this was their first comedy film, all of them.
They use to call Microwave ovens "Radar Ranges". Ranges being another word for stove.
This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70’s they were called Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77 and Airport 79 the concorde. I saw this movie when it came out when I was 9 years old.
The couple doing the airport announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life.
Some of the questions the captain asked the kid referred to movies with a homoerotic theme like Spartacus and midnight express which took place in a Turkish prison.
Well, JAWS would be a summer movie since it takes place around the 4th of July.. But yea... Another must watch film.
Yes swell used to be in kids' vocabulary. They just weren't sophisticated enough to say, dip, drip, fire, sus, banger, no cap, yeet, skrrt, slaps, simps, vibin', etc.
About 5 years before the movie, there was an actual food poisoning incident onboard a plane. Nearly 200 people got sick from contaminated omelets. Fortunately, they were already near their destination and the pilots were able to make an emergency landing. It was by pure luck that the pilots didn’t eat the omelets. Because their biological clocks were still on Alaska time, they had ordered steak dinners instead. After the incident, recommendations were made that pilots and passengers be served different meals during long flights to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.
This was Leslie Nielsen's first comedy. It launched him into a whole new career in comedies.
Leslie's delivery is played totally straight even if the dialogue is sometimes ridiculous, this style of humour is known as "Comically Serious".
Leslie Nelson became famous with his Naked Guy series. All three are great is in the same style as Airplane.
But even more crazy is Kentucy Fried Movie.
But you really see "Enter the Dragon" with Bruce Lee and they do a parody of it.
I have vivid memories of my family going out to see this in theaters when it came out, even though I was only 4 years old at the time for a very important reason. We had dinner out at a seafood restaurant before the show. And 4 year old me "had the fish". It was 1980, there wasn't an easy way to get plot summaries or much information at all about a film before you went out to see it, so my parents had no way of knowing what a colossally bad idea that was. But we all learned an important lesson about the suggestibility of the 4 year old mind that night.
The best word to describe this is 'relentless'.
Top Secret with a young dreamy Val Kilmer is very much the same back to back to back jokes and visual gag movies.
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This is one of my favorite movies of all time! I'm glad you enjoyed it. You should have watched until after the credits. The cab is still sitting at the airport and the passenger looks at his watch and says "well I'll give him 5 more minutes, but that's it."
Aaaand another one who missed the after credit scene ;-)
If you wanna more stuff like this, check out "The naked gun" or "Hot Shots!" from the same team, the first one got Nielsen as main character, the other Charlie Sheen.
Always fun watching the 'kids' reviewing these old movies. FYI: this Airplane! (with an exclamation point) is mocking the serious original Airplane movie (no exclamation point) about a guy who explodes a bomb in the plane. Just about everything in this Airplane! is in reference to the original. That's part of the reason it was a hit: the context was the WE watched the original. For example, the heart jumping over the doc's desk is about the girl you see later being disconnected from the catheter. Nothing is done "intentionally" as you commented: the scene with the stewardess banging the heads of passengers with the guitar, no, she didn't do it intentionally. It's satire of the ridiculous scene in the ORIGINAL about the little girl and the nun singing to her. The little boy speech, it was mocking the 1960s shows of 'pristine' family: that's how they used to talk in the shows. So, do a research about origins of some movies, and if they are a funny take from an original serious one, try to watch the original so you can get the jokes. I enjoyed watching your commenting about this movie.
Another bit of trivia: "Win one for the Zipper" is a parody of the "Gipper" speech from the 1940 biopic "Knute Rockne: All American." Ronald Reagan portrayed George "The Gipper" Gipp.
Way back when this was made, microwave ovens were still sometimes called "radar ranges". It was less common than it had been but was still the preferred name used by some manufacturers like Ammana. Also back then, most airports were infested with people promoting all sorts of causes. Some would be political, some religious. For a while, some airports tried to regulate it and limit it but eventually it was halted.
22:22 Well, you _definitely_ need to watch _Jaws_ (1975). For something a bit sillier, maybe _The Poseidon Adventure_ (1972). _The Perfect Storm_ (2000) is good, too.
Roger, roger. Over, over. What's our clearance, Clarence?
21:01 The Amana "Radar Range" was a very popular and ubiquitous model of the early microwave ovens. That's what that one means.
Okay, the joke you didn't get about the chicken in the oven. The guy was told to check the radar range. In the 1970s, microwave ovens were often called a Radarange. ("range" being another word for oven)
The sequel is also good. There are a lot of jokes that were contextual to the time. All of these actors were in very serious roles prior to this movie, including Leslie Nielson. This movie launched his career in comedy as the straight man.
As far as Leslie Nielsen goes, check out The Naked Gun Trilogy (which was based on a show called Police Squad!), Spy Hard, and Airplane II The Sequel. And another movie like this one that he's not in is Mafia!
I watched this when I was little... and I watched it a few times since (as a kid) and it took me around the 3rd watch to "get" the "drinking problem" joke.
I've seen this movie 72,000 times. I just noticed at the beginning, when the airplane nose crashes through the window, a lady throws her baby in the air.
Dude, same about being scared of flying and deep water! 2 modes of transportation I'll never take, planes or cruise ships
25:39 - Good job recognizing Mike!! I was going to point him out, but you beat me to it!
Airplane 2, Hot Shots, and Hot Shots 2 are all in the same vein.
An almost shot-for-shot remake of Zero Hour. Look up on UA-cam the comparison.
Young reactors get about 50% of the humor in this movie. It's not your fault. A lot of the gags are very specific to the pop culture and current events of 1980. (e.g. In 1980, there used to be a coffee commercial where the wife is surprised when her husband has a second cup of coffee at a restaurant.) It also includes classic film parodies that will fly over your head if you haven't seen the film. (e.g. The famous beach make-out scene from 1953's From Here to Eternity). You get the idea.
That's the old Yuban Coffee commercial where the slogan was "Richness is worth a Second Cup." The Mayo Clinic (we have one here in Jacksonville) is a world renowned hospital, considered the best, has a massive cancer patient care facility and all state-of-the-art technology. The founding brothers' last name was Mayo. The writers played on the name relating it to mayonnaise, Hence, the joke. Another one is when Capt Oever visits the news stand, under the category "Whacking Material", there is a Golf Digest, which I suppose is intended for golf fanatics that get excited over golf. We have lots of Golf lunatics here in Florida. Finally, the Air Israel aircraft is wearing a long beard and turban because that was the stereo type appearance of Jews in the 70's. So you see that if you were born in our era, you would have caught all the jokes referencing pop culture of the time.
17:35 - That's not a green screen effect, it's back-projected, which is what throws the colouring off slightly. It's a very old effect, but it works in this movie because it's an obvious parody.
This is pretty much a shot-for-shot, line-by-line remake of an old 50s movie, "Zero Hour!", but with sight gags thrown in. "Zero Hour!" was an overly-serious disaster movie, and the writers thought, "What if we remake this movie and have everyone read their lines with the same deadpan seriousness, but have crazy things happening around them?" They hired several of Hollywood's most "serious" actors for the roles. There's a video somewhere on YT that has a side-by-side comparison of the two films.
RadarRange was a brand of microwave oven in the 70s.
Fun fact: The two announcers arguing about the red zone and white zone at LAX were the actual people who did overhead announcements at LAX at the time.
A synonym for "microwave" was radar, so "Radar Range" was and original trade name for microwave ovens.
Terrific reaction and I wonder if you went through the Horse scence again... To answer your question if they still make such movies, you should look at "Airplane II: The Sequel"; "Top Secret" and the "Hot Shots I+2" as well as The Naked Gun, and the shortlived tv series: Police Squad. They don't make them like this in the 2000's. It is a lost art, but these films are GOLD comedy. Yes mel Brooks did a few parody films too.
Leslie has been in both serious and comedic films, such as Police squad and Naked Gun. I think you will enjoy these choices, if you haven't checked them out before! Have a wonderful weekend!
Fun Fact! This is a parody of the movie Zero Hour!
"Oh my God that's a fucking horse!"
Exactly.
Did you see the after credits scene? The guy was still in the taxi. Was gonna give Ted like 20 more minutes.
You'll love the Naked Gun films with Leslie Nielson 💜 -x-
I’ve seen many reactions to this movie. One joke that no one ever gets is the “win one for the zipper” joke. Did you notice The Notre Dame fight song is playing in the background while Leslie Nielsen is telling the story? There’s a 1930s movie about the Notre Dame football coach called “Knute Rockne, All American”. Future president Ronald Reagan plays a football player named George Gipp. He is dying. On his deathbed Gipp tells Knute Rockne, “one of these days when the brakes are beating the boys, tell the team to go out and win just one for the Gipper”. True story.
It was a meme before there were memes. People would sarcastically say “when one for the Gipper” whenever they were in a tough situation. Everyone in the 1970s audience would have understood the joke. There are lots of other jokes Like that in this movie. So, bottom line, the the movie was even funnier To a 70s audience then it is to today’s audience.
As much as you enjoyed Leslie in this you should definitely watch the naked gun!
The more I see this movie, the more I notice and appreciate the over-the-top music from legendary composer Elmer Bernstein (The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird...)
That car scene wasn't a bad green screen effect. That technology (it was blue screen originally) was developed for the first Star Wars movie, which was released the year before Airplane.
What you see here is an intentionally botched version of the previous effect, where the background footage was projected on a screen behind the car. Ironically, the new Mandalorian series is using an upgraded, much more expensive version of this, where they built a 360 degree LED wall, and the Unreal game engine generates the background.
Yeah but at first it was just a shitty green screen. Then it was revealed to be a purposely shitty green screen
There are advertisement parodies, movie and TV tropes, and other dated material that only reaches the real media nerds now. For instance, there are lots of leading men in this movie who not only had never been in an ensemble cast, but hadn't done comedy at all. You would never know that unless you were familiar with media previous and contemporary to 1980. It's a great movie, but it more captures its moment in time, than it's a timeless movie.
Microwave ovens were called Radar Ranges back then.
I agree about driving. If I ever go to New Zealand, I'll drive there!
The radar range joke is simple. The very first microwaves we're named radar range (they were built using microwave emitter originally used in radar systems)
I do the drinking problem thing in real life. Been doing it since high school lol doesn't come up too often but if I get a water cooler with an eye shot I hope for the opportunity
Henderson, Check the RadarRange...
Its about 2 more minutes Chuef.
The Amana RadarRange was the first commercially available microwave oven.
Correct, however there are about 50 reactions that have already explained that joke. No worries, if you keep scrolling down, you likely find another dozen or so with this same explanation. It's all good; we all have made sure that this reactor will never forget that microwaves were first called radar ranges. hehe
"Get this man Jaws"
--T'Challa
Have you watch the part *after* the credits? If not, go watch, you'll like it! 😀
This is a parity of “Zero Hour!” from 1957. If you watch it, you will appreciate the details in this movie more.
I love seeing a young Mike ehrmantraut in this movie even if he's only on screen a few seconds at a time
Seems Like Old Times, Arthur, and Midnight Run are three funny movies that seem to get ignored. Back in the 80’s members of religious groups would hang out in airports trying to convert people. I remember that and also when you could smoke on a plane. Seems like a lifetime ago.
Leslie is the star of the Naked Gun movies. Also you might like his comedic take in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Of course he's Dracula.. They don't make parody movies like this anymore. They're too busy doing remakes and comic book movies. 🙄
The Naked Gun is right up your alley if you want more Leslie Nielsen - he's the star and the humor is similar to this but I think funnier.
AND if you want more of the cute stewardess you should watch What About Bob? starring Bill Murray.
The scene on the beach spoofed From Here to Eternity with Burt Lancaster.
Microwave ovens were originally call Radar Ranges.
There's a short post-credits scene...
Also, the credits themselves have some tasty insights 😊
"That's the kind of humor I like..."
Buckle up!
It's safe to fly - no one ever got hurt crashing into a cloud. Yeah - but no one ever fell 30,000 feet out of a Toyota, either. LOL
😎👍 No, they don't make movies like this anymore. Fortunately however, they did make quite a few of them in the 80s and 90s. Believe it or not, Zucker Zucker & Abrahams' follow-up to this, "Top Secret" (1984) is just as funny as "Airplane!" ✈ If you can find it, another funny movie of this genre is "Young Doctors In Love" (1982). 🤡👍
This film has been rated to have the most laughs per minute.
It’s a comedic remake of an original movie from 1957 called ZERO HOUR - ua-cam.com/video/8-v2BHNBVCs/v-deo.html
BTW, the producers bought the rights to ZERO HOUR just to avoid being sued.
References:
Opening plane in clouds mimicking the movie JAWS.
Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home (coffee commercial spoof) - ua-cam.com/video/MJ4kCF22O2w-/v-deo.html same actress in real coffee commercial
Boy/Girl Coffee Scene: The Original and the Spoof - ua-cam.com/video/yH6KW6eMWJI/v-deo.html
From Here to Eternity- Beach Scene - ua-cam.com/video/7TlDNMc_hFk/v-deo.html
Also:
He walked out from the mirror at Captain Kramer’s house. A lot of people don’t catch that joke.
A lot of people miss the jokes throughout the credits and afterwards the man in the cab says he’s going to give him another 20 minutes but that’s it. - ua-cam.com/video/DPeYFD-vVHg/v-deo.html
The first popular microwave oven was called the "Radar Range"...Just one of the many pop culture jokes from back in the day that hardly any reactors know...
Definitely have to watch The Jerk.... one of the best!
A good Leslie Neilson movie is called "Repossessed", Its a parody of The Exorcist and is Hilarious,
Striker says that he's in the Air Force, but he's wearing a navy officer's uniform.
Nielsen, Graves, Bridges and Stack were all well known dramatic actors before appearing in this film. Their deadpan deliveries are what make a good portion of the jokes land.
"Excuse me stewardess. I speak jive." LOL
I love how youre like an hour into the movie saying “another stupid joke!” Bruh, the entire movie. Like literally every 10 seconds. It was scientifically proven to be the movie with the highest slapstick joke density of all time.
Slapstick is primarily physical comedy involving comedic falls and accidental injury. Often involving props like a ladder or tools. Much like you see in a 3 Stooges short. Silent comedies used a lot of slapstick. Buster Keaton was a master. There's actually not a lot of slapstick in Airplane!
It's a 90 minute dad joke.
There is too much in this movie to comment on, but fyi, "radar range" was the first consumer brand of microwave oven. Just one of the countless, end-to-end references and inside jokes that make up this entire movie.
If you haven’t seen Mel Brook’s parody films, you should. Other excellent comedies are Monte Python films, Naked Gun films, and Hot Shots films.
The "grandma" that spoke Jive to the two black guys is Barbara Billingsley. It was even funnier in the day because the audiences knew her as the June Cleaver, the housewife in the 50s sitcom "Leave It to Beaver". The Cleavers were the stereotypical 50's American family. Dad went to work every day in a suit. Mom stayed home and wore dresses and pearls while cooking and cleaning. They had a suburban house and 2 kids.
Yep. “Americas mom “
The part was originally offered to Harriet Nelson, from Ozzie and Harriet, but she turned it down. She later said she regretted it. And Sigourney Weaver was originally cast as Elaine the stewardess, but she refused to say the "sit on your face and wriggle" line. But I don't think her career suffered any. 😁
All true but if you never had the pleasure of watching Leave it To Beaver back then, well, the joke just simply doesn't land or have any relation to it. Sometimes having to explain a joke can make it more confusing. For us we get it; however, for a 24y, that joke is just too dated and flies over their head.
Thank you for such a great reaction!
Actress Lorna Patterson actually was 26 and unmarried when this movie was made.
I've seen it a few times. I know what's coming and I still laugh.
This was Leslie Nielsen's first comedy. Before this he was a serious dramatic actor; this was his "discovery."
The woman whose husband had the cup of coffee spoofed a Yuban coffee commercial.
So glad you watched this. Its hilarious because it's so stupid, you literally couldn't count the amount of silly jokes they shoehorn into this movie. It must have been really hard writing this and keeping to a plot, it's a stroke of genius really
RadaRange was one of the early brands of microwave ovens.
yes more comedies please, Hot Shots 1 and 2 next ;D
beginning of a second act for Leslie Nielsen.
Although Leslie Nielsen is the star of the show, my favorite bits are the heavy-handed effort to calm the hysterical woman and Beaver Cleaver's mom speaking jive. Leave It to Beaver had a bit of a comeback in the 80s with reunion films and even a sequel series on the Disney channel. I wonder to what extent the success of this movie factored into renewed interest in the series after nearly 20 years.
You have got to see Haws, Jaws 2, and Jaws 3-D
No one notices the propeller noise in the background ... And they are on a jet!
You are right, and no one notices that we are seeing a scale model and not a real 707 airliner.
a microwave used to be called a radar range
18:44 After a million views, I _finally_ got that joke. 🤦♂
No reactor seems to notice the "doctor, you're wanted on the phone" line. There were no phones on planes at that time.
That's right. Another thinking joke. Just like the fact that he was in the Air Force, but then when he shows up at the bar, he's clearly wearing his Navy issued dress white uniform. Not an Air Force uniform, but all reactors don't catch that one either.