Airplane!: A Quick Review

Just watch it. It's been called one of the greatest comedies of all time and everyone should see it once and form their own opinions on it. It is a disaster movie spoof that takes place on a plane. Yep, that's why it was named what it was named. Lots of people on the plane are getting food poisoning - including the pilots, so one of the passengers has to land the plane. It's a fun time had by all, especially with Leslie Nielsen as a doctor on a plane...just please don't call him Shirley. The two main characters actually really annoyed me as well as another guy who is ridiculously annoying and unfunny...but that doesn't stop the movie from being funny. I happen to find a white woman singing R-E-S-P-E-C-T to a black man, Barbara Billingsley speaking jive to a couple black men, a flashback where a soldier in a hospital in convinced he's Ethel Merman ("I am serious and don't call me Shirley"), as well as several other great lines/scenes hilarious. Sure, there's some not so great lines, but nobody's perfect. However, "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" is the funnier movie. There is just no way to contradict that statement. It's faster-paced, the one-liners come fast and furious, there's hilarious physical comedy, and there's more Leslie Nielsen...and Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalbon, and O.J. Simpson - the same team made both movies. After reviewing "Airplane!" I really want to watch "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!"...I'm a little bit happier knowing that movie exists.

-Joseph Sbrilli