Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)   Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Jonathan Banks, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley Director: Zucker, David, Zucker, Jerry Average Rating:

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2008-12-19
Who does not love this film?

A comedy classic.

Cast perfect in their roles.

Well written of course with the memorable catch phrases.

DVD package. Normal extras on it. Deleted scenes, commentary, trailer, that type of thing

BUT IT IS ONE OF THE I HATE THEM SO MUCH FLIP THE LITTLE FLAPS TO OPEN THE CASE.

The film that got Leslie Neilson's carreer into high gear in comedy's. there would have been no Naked Gun series of films without this film.

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2008-12-03
This is one of my favorite movies of all time and I anxiously bought it, inserested it in my new Samsung high-def capable DVD player. and clicked on long haul edition..and yes, I wanted to see deleted scenes and interviews. but, after trying severeal times, all I kept getting was the short version. Surely I'm missing something. I obviously am, or I wouldn't call myself Shirley. Feel free to comment.

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2008-11-29
From start to finish, this movie is non-stop laughter. A must-bye for anyone intrested in corny jokes and humor.

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2008-11-16
ONE OF THE BEST HUMOR MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! NEVER GET TIRED OF SEEING IT OVER & OVER AGAIN!!! HATS OFF TO THE WRITERS, DIRECTOR, & ACTORS!!!! GREAT STUFF!!! THIS MUST BE IN THE REALM OF A CULT MOVIE BY NOW!!

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2008-10-03
This is one hell of a clever and funny parody. I love it. Can't get enough of it and every time I watch it, I get to see new stuff in the movie. If you want a good hard laugh, then this is it. Watch this movie and you'll laugh so hard that tears will come out of your eyes. great one!

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Editorial Review

The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 funniest movies ever made). The humor may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '70s cinema, from disco films to star-studded disaster epics--are more than worthy for send-up. If you've seen even one of the overblown Airport movies then you know the plot: the crew of a filled-to-capacity jetliner is wiped out and it's up to a plucky stewardess and a shell-shocked fighter pilot to land the plane. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are the heroes who have a history that includes a meet-cute ? la Saturday Night Fever, a surf scene right out of From Here to Eternity, a Peace Corps trip to Africa to teach the natives the benefits of Tupperware and basketball, a war-ravaged recovery room with a G.I. who thinks he's Ethel Merman (a hilarious cameo)--and those are just the flashbacks! The jokes gleefully skirt the boundaries of bad taste (pilot Peter Graves to a juvenile cockpit visitor: "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"), with the high (low?) point being Hagerty's intimate involvement with the blow-up automatic pilot doll, but they'll have you rolling on the floor. The film launched the careers of collaborators Jim Abrahams (Big Business), David Zucker (Ruthless People), and Jerry Zucker (Ghost), as well as revitalized such B-movie actors as Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Leslie Nielsen, who built a second career on films like this. A vital part of any video collection. --Mark Englehart

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007



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