Kid reviews for Airplane! (2025)

October 24, 2023

age 15+

“'Passengers certain to die!'” “'Airline negligent.'” “There’s a sale at Penney’s!”

Airplane! is a 1980 comedy spoof film directed by the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams and starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Stephen Stucker, Lorna Patterson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Graves, Frank Ashmore and Otto.Language(3/5): The film has 6 uses of “s**t”, 4 uses of “damn” “hell”, 2 uses of “a**hole”, "G**", “a**” and "Jack", and 1 use of “g****mn”, “J*s*s”, “h*nky”, “mofo”, “pisser” and “bastard”. Stupid stereotypical humor occurs, such as a joke where we see a plane dressed with a beard and a hat as the airline says “'Flight Israel, please clear the runway!'” Two characters speak jive, and they frequently curse in English while we see subtitles. Later on, a nun talks in jive as well. The film has 28 total curses.Sex, Romance and Nudity(5/5): The film has frequent and obscene sexual jokes that basically push the PG-13 rating to its limits, despite being rated PG. In the first scene, a married couple argue over an airline intercom, mentioning abortion. A pilot stops at a magazine rack, we see a magazine labeled “Modern Sperm” and we see various p*rnographic magazines that are labeled “Whacking Material”; the magazines show numerous topless women, who are quite visible. A young boy reads a “Nun’s Life” magazine, and a nun reads a “Boy’s Life” magazine, which is implied to have p*rnographic material. A young boy stares at a young woman’s butt. The boy talks to the girl, asking if she wants coffee with cream, and she says “‘No thank you. I take it black, like my men.’” An old woman says Elaine has “‘a darling figure… supple, pouting breasts, firm thighs.’” A young boy goes up to the cockpit of the plane, and the pilot is revealed to be a pedophile, wrapping his arm around the boy and saying comments like “‘Have you ever seen a grown man naked?’”, “‘Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?’” and “‘Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?’” Frequent fart jokes are told, including one of the symptoms of the poisoned food being “‘uncontrollable flatulence.’” When the plane runs into turbulence, various close-ups of things shaking are shown, one of which being a plate of jello next to a woman’s large jiggling breasts, which are covered by her shirt. While reminiscing on the past, Elaine says to Ted, “‘Do you remember when I would sit on your face?’” During a flashback, we see Elaine on top of Ted making out while shirtless(her chest is barely covered by her hair) and wearing a thong that shows her buttocks. One of the signs on the airplane shows an outline of people having sex with an X crossed over them. The auto-pilot is revealed to be a blow-up sex doll named Otto, and when it starts deflating, a woman is forced to “'blow it up'”. The fuse is in the same place as a penis, and when the woman starts blowing air, we see the auto-pilot with a now pleasured expression, as well as the woman’s head going up and down. Dr. Rumack walks in and mistakes the situation for oral sex. After the pilot is inflated, we see the woman and the auto-pilot smoking cigarettes. When the passengers discover that the plane doesn’t have anymore pilots, chaos breaks loose, and a woman with large breasts passes the screen for a few seconds completely topless; the scene is brief but very graphic. When showing how to get into crash positions, a flight attendant uses an outfit that comically exaggerates her breast size. A woman is shown in bed under the covers with someone other than her husband, but when she turns the lights on, its revealed to be a horse, implying b**stiality. An obscured shot of a gynecologist performing surgery is briefly shown. When the plane takes a nosedive, Otto ends up flying around and grabbing onto Elaine's breasts and mounting her from the back, she takes his arms off of her chest and throws him off. Near the end of the film, Ted says “'When Kramer hears this, the s**t’s gonna hit the fan!'”, and it then it shows literal fecal matter being thrown into a fan, though the feces are clearly fake. Scantily clad women are shown throughout.Drinking, Drugs and Smoking(5/5): Explicit jokes about substance abuse occur throughout, with minor characters casually doing drugs left and right. Ted says he has a “drinking problem”, but the problem is that when he drinks any liquid, he misses his mouth. Characters frequently drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes, cigars and pipes, even on the plane. Alcoholic drinks are served on the plane, and one woman gets drunk off of the drinks. A man offers a woman whiskey; she declines, but she proceeds to snort cocaine with a straw afterwards, which is graphically shown. Steve McCroskey plans to stop his many addictions, but he frequently smokes, drinks and casually does drugs, including taking antidepressants and amphetamines, smoking marijuana and crack, briefly ingesting methamphetamine, and sniffing glue, which causes him to overdose. All of the drug use is graphically shown, but its only in a comedic context, as he continually says “‘Guess I chose the wrong week to quit ___’” before giving in.Violence(3/5): The film has frequent slapstick violence and fistfighting. A heart being prepared for surgery is shown jumping up and down on its own. A plane crashes into an airport after receiving wrong directions, though no one is hurt. The plane and its passengers are constantly in danger. Two girl scouts get into a fistfight at a bar, and it escalates into slapstick absurdity. A man is stabbed in the back with a knife. Passengers and the pilots of the plane end up being poisoned by a fish dinner. Ted bores people so much that they commit suicide; we see an old woman hang herself offscreen, a man stab himself in the chest via Hara-Kiri, and we see a man douse himself in gasoline and light a match. The man blows out the match before burning himself alive, but he then explodes(not graphic). A girl who’s having a heart surgery on the plane is accidentally unplugged from a medical device, causing her to lose air and hopelessly flail around. A woman starts having a panic attack, and people try to calm her down by hitting and punching her, and we see a line of people with weapons, a wrench, a baseball bat, boxing gloves and guns ready to attack her. A dog brutally attacks a man, but the man is completely ignored. McCroskey suffers a drug overdose at the end, and he jumps out of a window at the airport. During the climax, the plane is in danger of crashing, but no suspense is present.Positive Messages(1/5): The film’s purpose is to entertain, but Ted does demonstrate courage and redemption.Positive Role Models and Representations(1/5): Ted manages to redeem himself and overcome his fear of flying to save the passengers. Other people act heroic.Watching Experience: Quality(opinionated): (My rating)Rated PG-13For strong sexual humor and drug use throughout including some nudity, drinking, smoking, some language, and comic violence.

This title has:

  • Too much sex
  • Too much drinking/drugs/smoking

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