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www.filmthreat.com - : How do you evaluate a satire of a trend that has disappeared from consciousness? There were a ton of really bad Airport movies in the '70s. I chalk it up to something in the water that led to a decade of weirdness that culminated in Ricardo Montalban, a midget, and Fantasy Island, but do you know anyone who has rented one of those disasters lately. Sure, they were dumb. Sure, they were downright absurd and over dramatic, but they also seem to be dead. more...
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www.mutantreviewers.com - : This goes into my big book of movies I saw as a kid and liked, then saw as an adult and loved! It's not unlike Bugs Bunny, in a sense. Kids see it and laugh at the sight gags, and pretty much don't comprehend anything. An adult watches the same show and catches the more adult themes, and the subtler nuances that cruise easily over the kiddies' heads. Thank goodness I was a lot shorter as a child... more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : “Airplane!” is a comedy in the great tradition of high school skits, the Sid Caesar TV show, Mad magazine, and the dog-eared screenplays people's nephews write in lieu of earning their college diplomas. It is sophomoric, obvious, predictable, corny, and quite often very funny. And the reason it's funny is frequently because it's sophomoric, predictable, corny, etc. more...
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