AIRPLANE! (1980)
Featuring: Robert Hays; Julie Hagerty
Directors: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker; Jerry Zucker
Chances are that if you google 'funniest movie ever made' you'll find this one under the top ten. Directing trio Abrahams and the two Zucker brothers are of course known for making wacky movies like Ruthless People in 1986 with Bette Midler and Danny DeVito, the Naked Gun trilogy from the late '80s - early '90s with Leslie Nielsen and the Scary Movie series from this century. But it was Airplane! that put them on the Hollywood map.
As this is a spoof on the many aviation related disaster films (all the Airport derivatives) that were so popular during the 1970's there is not much of a story to speak of. Not that it really matters anyway. After all it is not so much in the dialogue but what is happening around the characters as well as in the background of every scene that makes this move so funny.
And then there is the cast. With serious actors like Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack able to hold their pose while everything around them fall to pieces is simply hilarious. Add to the mix famous names like basketballer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and singer Ethel Merman and you have a recipe for side splitting laughter all the way - right through to the end of the end-credits!
'Shirley' one of the funniest flicks I ever saw and for that I give it 4 out of 5 stars.
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One of the most famous scenes from this movie...
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