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Airplane! (1980)
More AIRPLANE! Trivia
I wish IMDb would have mentioned the German translation of the title, AIRPLANE. The Germans could have translated the title to German simply and literally (IMDb won't allow me to tell you what the translation of AIRPLANE is, nor its German title, because their stupid system reports the German words as all spelling errors and won't allow me to proceed until I have "fixed" them.)
At any rate, the Germans instead chose a title that means, "The Unbelievable Flight in a Crazy Airplane."
~~~ And that, it was! ~~~
REVIEW: Defines a new sub-genre of comedy - A+++++ FUNNY.
Zero Hour! (1957)
The actual movie that is spoofed by "Airplane!"
Ignore reader comments that say that the movie "Airplane!" by Abrahams, Zucker and Zucker is a "rip-off" of "Zero Hour." Airplane was a SPOOF of Zero Hour - not a rip-off. One would think "Airplane!" was a spoof on "Airport" - and in a way it was, but watch "Zero Hour" and you'll see their real inspiration.
If watch Airplane first, then Zero Hour, you'll find Zero Hour to be a very (unintentionally) funny COMEDY! The AIRPLANE writers even pulled one ridiculous line from Zero Hour, untouched: "The life of everybody on board depends on one thing. Finding somebody on board who not only can fly the plane, but didn't have fish for dinner."