"Don't call me Shirley!"
"Over, over" "Huh?"
"What a pisser!"
"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue."
"It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether."
"Just Kidding!"
"How about some coffee Johnny?" "No thanks!"
Most quotable film ever? Surely you can't be serious? (EVERYBODY!)
David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams bought the rights to the 1957 disaster pic, Zero Hour and decided to make a comedy parodying such films. Many parts of the original dialogue is even lifted to great effect. "We have to find someone that not only can fly this plane, but that didn't have fish for dinner." Actual Zero Hour line!
It's a gag fest a go go from the very start. Betty and Vernon, the airport announcers disputing where no stopping is allowed when the real issue is Betty's unwanted pregnancy. The flashbacks of Elaine and Ted's romance as Ted bores several of the passengers to suicide. Stephen Stucker's camp one liners. A jive talking granny. Jim never vomits at home. Crash positions!!
It is unrivalled in it's laugh out loud moments and it's all delivered with great comic aplomb. Most of the characters are played straight. It's what makes the peado captain and the doctor so hilarious.
The original movie spoof comedy and still the best.
scene stealer!
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