Airplane! - Film #2

I’ve seen this film like a million times before but every time I watch it I find it just as funnier than the last time I did. It follows the guy Ted Striker an ex-pilot during the war who is now scared to so much as look at an airplane. It sort of follows more of a love story between him and Elaine he met back during the war. He gain the courage to go after her (as she’s an air stewardess) and gets on the plane that’s about to take off.

From the very start of the film a whole series of funny events happen, such as striker reminiscing about the way he met Elaine and such as crazy way they danced or how two girls were brutally fighting each other in the pub they met which you wouldn’t expect. The funny things are what make the movie what it is and they funniness is just about every scene. Eventually leading up to the part where they discover there was a problem with the food on board the plane and everyone who ate fish get’s badly ill including the pilots! This cause them to activate the automatic pilot... that is a blow up doll, it’s just hilariously funny. Eventually this means that there is no pilot able to fly the plane and someone is going to have to fly the plane after the automatic pilot deflates.

Striker is the only one on the plane who is capable enough of landing it safely with the experience he had back in the war. If it wasn’t enough getting on a plane he must now control and land it safely with everyone on the plane depending on him. The funny parts of the film are what make it and the story much more exciting, it just makes you  forget all the boring seriousness of other films and just generally enjoy a film with wild antics but at the same time have a somewhat story line between the two main characters that makes you want to know what happens in the end with a background behind it all that supports it but in that same comedic way like the rest of the movie that makes you enjoy it all the way through.

You just sort of feel attached to every character in some way or another because you just love everything that’s going on and you can’t wait to see what joke or laughable thing is going to happen next. It sort of takes the piss out of all them cliché tragic love stories you see too much in movies and turns it into something fun to watch, I guess some would even class this as a romantic comedy on some level. It just makes you smile all the way through it and I know the first time I watched it, it was almost impossible to stop laughing and especially for its time when it was released I could imagine thousands of people at the cinema laughing just as hard as we still are today. I think it’s one of them classics that you come back to watch over and over again in time and it doesn’t get boring.