This is a truly brainless piece of celluloid - a movie that doesn't try to be anything that it isn't. Spoof films are entirely different from other movies because normally we would criticize a film if it considered its plot to be the least important element.
That is essentially all the film is about, but most of its duration is spent cracking jokes. If he messes up they will all die, and in a particularly funny scene, the pressure becomes so unbearable that he begins to literally sweat gallons in the cockpit. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) takes care of the sick passengers as Ted - an ex-fighter pilot from the war - decides to try and land the plane. Eventually many passengers begin to show symptoms of a rare disease, apparently transmitted by the food. When the aircraft is in midflight, both pilots become very ill after eating their meals. Right before her plane takes off, Ted climbs aboard, hitching a ride in order to woo her back into a relationship again. (Closely followed by "The Naked Gun" - also penned by the ZAZ trio - perhaps.) The plot: Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is a war veteran-turned-cab-driver who decides to chase after his girlfriend, an airline stewardess named Elaine (Julie Hagerty), who has dumped him in order to pursue a new life. Recent spoofs may have left a bad aftertaste in your mouth, but it seems to be a universal agreement: "Airplane" is the funniest film of its genre ever made. It was helmed by the ZAZ trio (Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker), whose dedication to making the audience laugh is surprisingly adamant. A satire of the disaster movies of the 1970s, particularly the "Airport" series, nothing makes sense and it doesn't need to. It is single-handedly responsible for literally inventing a sub-genre of comedy. "Airplane!" is, was and always shall be the master of spoof movies.
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