Airplane! is an American comedy film, first released on June 27, 1980, produced and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, and starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson. It is the first film the trio wrote and directed together (the group previously wrote The Kentucky Fried Movie, directed by John Landis). In some foreign releases (including Australia), Airplane! was entitled Flying High: the reason most often quoted for this is that "in those countries 'airplane' is not used to refer to a powered flying machine, the correct word in countries of the British Commonwealth being 'aeroplane'."
Airplane! is a spoof of the disaster movie genre. It has elements of a serious storyline at its core, although the entire movie is thoroughly engulfed in humor. The movie is meant to be a spoof of several films, including Airport and Airport 1975, as well as commercials of the era. However, most of Airplane's storyline is based on the 1957 movie Zero Hour!. Many devotees of this movie repeatedly re-watch the film, in the process catching gags that they did not notice earlier due to the sheer number of often-overlapping sight, sound, and dialogue gags.
The Sequel, first released on December 10, 1982, attempted to tackle the science fiction film genre. Although most of the cast reunited for the sequel, the two films have no writers or directors in common.
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