What is the iRankMovies score for Airplane!?

Name: Airplane!
Director: Jim Abrahams
Genre: comedy
Released: 1980
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 7.7

Airplane! has an iRankMovies score of 82/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Airplane! (1980)

What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?

Release:1980

Runtime:1h 28m

Country:United States

Director:Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker

Language:English

Genre

Comedy

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Keywords

Chicago IllinoisPost Traumatic Stress Disorder PtsdAirplaneCataclysmNunGuitarAlcoholStewardess

iRank82

Airplane! rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.7/10· 285K votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic78%

TMDb7.308/10· 5K votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.7/10 on IMDb and 78/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Airplane!

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Cast of Airplane!

Robert Hays
as Ted Striker
Julie Hagerty
as Elaine Dickinson
Leslie Nielsen
as Dr. Rumack
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
as Roger Murdock
Lloyd Bridges
as Steve McCroskey
Peter Graves
as Capt. Clarence Oveur
Robert Stack
as Captain Rex Kramer
Lorna Patterson
as Randy
Jill Whelan
as Lisa Davis
Ann Nelson
as Hanging Lady
Jim Abrahams
as Religious Zealot #6
Jonathan Banks
as Gunderson

Airplane! facts

Budget: $3.5M
Box office: $83.5M
Collection: Airplane Collection

Our take on Airplane!

Jim Abrahams's 1980 comedy sends up disaster movies with a relentless barrage of visual gags, deadpan one-liners and absurd non sequiturs. The thin premise, an ex-fighter pilot forced to land an airliner after the crew succumbs to food poisoning, exists mainly as a clothesline for jokes fired at machine-gun pace, some landing, others deliberately groan-worthy. Its influence on the parody genre is hard to overstate. If you enjoy rapid-fire silliness, delivered with the straightest of faces, and don't mind humor that leans dated in places, this holds up as a foundational comedy. Viewers wanting plot or character depth should look elsewhere; everything here serves the gag.

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