Production Company(ies)
Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions,
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Paramount Building – 1501 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1982
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
 
Keyword(s)

Cast & Crew

Robert De Niro

Jerry Lewis

Sandra Bernhard

Diahnne Abbott

Shelley Hack

Rupert Pupkin

Jerry Langford

Masha

Rita Keane

Cathy Long

CAST & CREW
Robert De Niro – Rupert Pupkin
Jerry Lewis – Jerry Langford
Sandra Bernhard – Masha
Diahnne Abbott – Rita Keane
Shelley Hack – Cathy Long
Tony Randall – Self

 

Martin Scorsese

Paul Zimmerman

Arnon Milchan

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Martin Scorsese
 
Writer(s)
Paul Zimmerman
 
Producer(s)
Arnon Milchan

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 BAFTA Award
3 wins & 8 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Bob Thomas

Richard Brody

Jason Bailey

Melissa Anderson

Gary Arnold

Associated Press

New Yorker

Flavorwire

Village Voice

Washington Post

THE KING OF COMEDY
  All Critics (64) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (7)
  Scorsese is capable of building tension, but what is he trying to achieve? A comedy about the nature of fame? But he evokes only the most nervous of laughter.
 
  October 17, 2018
 
  Bob Thomas
  Associated Press
  TOP CRITIC
  Scorsese infuses this tale with the passionate energy of New York street life and an outsider’s wonder at the powerful workings of show business and studio craft.
 
  June 27, 2016
 
  Richard Brody
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  The tone it establishes is challenging, because there are funny scenes and situations which could easily be played for laughs, but that black cloud of tension and danger hangs over all of them, and Scorsese won’t give you that release.
 
  June 24, 2016
 
  Jason Bailey
  Flavorwire
  TOP CRITIC
  Brilliantly keeps viewers unmoored, the result of its consistently off-kilter tone.
 
  June 21, 2016
 
  Melissa Anderson
  Village Voice
  TOP CRITIC
  The King of Comedy fancies itself a scathing social satire about the lust for celebrity carried to extremes. But ultimately, director Martin Scorsese’s movie is a severely misconceived and distasteful study of delusional behavior.
 
  December 18, 2015
 
  Gary Arnold
  Washington Post
  TOP CRITIC
  A disturbing picture of a world in which television is taken for a “reality” higher than everyday life, it’s also darkly funny.
 
  April 18, 2014
 
  Philip Horne
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  The exploration into the darkly twisted world of celebrity worship makes for a fascinating portrayal that is both excruciating to look at but at the same time incredibly engaging.
 
  May 25, 2022 | Rating: 8/10
 
  Josh Parham
  Next Best Picture
  Episode 46: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / Share / The King of Comedy
 
  October 4, 2021 | Rating: 78/100
 
  Taylor Baker
  Drink in the Movies
  This jet-black comedy is a symphony of unease.
 
  August 29, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  The tone of The King of Comedy distinguishes itself in a very meritorious way. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
  May 8, 2020
 
  Alonso Díaz de la Vega
  El Universal
  The film is perfect, as much for its performances and its sheer un-comfortableness.
 
  April 17, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Patrick McDonald
  WBGR-FM (93.7 FM – Monroe, WI)
  If there was any doubt that Robert De Niro is the greatest and most unsettling actor in movies today and Martin Scorsese the director most adept at bringing out his genius, then The King of Comedy should dispel it.
 
  February 27, 2020
 
  Molly Haskell
  Vogue…

 

Plot
Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry’s show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants. Eventually he must team up with his psychotic Langford-obsessed friend Masha to kidnap the talk show host in hopes of finally getting to perform his stand-up routine.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)

 
Distributor
20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Hardangerjøkulen Glacier, Finse, Norway
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for sci-fi action violence
 
Year of Release
1983
 

 
Genre(s)
Adventure/Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, directed by Richard Marquand, written by George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Adventure, Action, Fantasy, PG, box office gross $309.3M, reviewed by Philip Strick, Michael Blowen, Evan Williams, Rena Andrews, Harper Barnes, Sheila Benson, Brian Eggert, David Gonzalez, Cory Woodroof, Eddie Harrison, Tony Black, George Lucas as writer, Lawrence Kasdan as writer, Howard G Kazanjian as producer, 20th Century Fox as distributor, Dolby A, Dolby Stereo, Surround, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track as sound mix, Scope (2.35:1) as aspect ratio, Star Wars Saga as collection
 

Cast & Crew

Mark Hamill

Harrison Ford

Carrie Fisher

Billy Dee Williams

Anthony Daniels

Luke Skywalker

Han Solo

Princess Leia

Lando Calrissian

C-3PO

Mark Hamill – Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford – Han Solo
Carrie Fisher – Princess Leia
Billy Dee Williams – Lando Calrissian
Anthony Daniels – C-3PO
Peter Mayhew – Chewbacca
Director – Richard Marquand
Producer – Howard G. Kazanjian
Writers – George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas

 

Richard Marquand

George Lucas

Howard G. Kazanjian

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Richard Marquand
 
Writer(s)
George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
 
Producer(s)
Howard G. Kazanjian

 

Film Festivals
Toronto
 
Awards & Nominations
Won 2 Oscars
25 wins & 20 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Philip Strick

Michael Blowen

Evan Williams

Rena Andrews

Harper Barnes

Sight & Sound

Boston Globe

The Australian

Denver Post

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

STAR WARS: EPISODE VI — RETURN OF THE JEDI
  All Critics (98) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (17)
  If the revels of Star Wars are indeed now ended, Jedi couldn’t have been a better resolution for them.
 
  December 17, 2019
 
  Philip Strick
  Sight & Sound
  TOP CRITIC
  “Return of the Jedi,” the final act of George Lucas’ first “Star Wars” trilogy, is the best one yet.
 
  April 26, 2018
 
  Michael Blowen
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  There are all sorts of hints in the latest escapade (notionally directed by Richard Marquand) that we are meant to be taking it seriously.
 
  December 15, 2015
 
  Evan Williams
  The Australian
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s everything it ought to be — glorious, exhilarating, exciting, absorbing, technically wondrous. But there also is something bittersweet in the knowledge that, with Jedi, we are bidding a fond farewell to all of the characters we got to know so well.
 
  December 15, 2015 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Rena Andrews
  Denver Post
  TOP CRITIC
  The characters and dialogue get lost somewhere between the bug-eyed monsters and the exploding spaceships, but it is all so much fun it probably really does not matter a whole lot.
 
  December 14, 2015
 
  Harper Barnes
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  TOP CRITIC
  With this last of the central Star Wars cycle, there is the sense of the closing of a circle, of leaving behind real friends. It is accomplished with a weight and a new maturity that seem entirely fitting, yet the movie has lost none of its sense of fun.
 
  December 14, 2015
 
  Sheila Benson
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Given how well Return of the Jedi was put together from a technical perspective, and how entertaining the whole thing ends up being, it’s difficult not to enjoy the film on very basic levels, but it stands as the original trilogy’s odd man out.
 
  April 23, 2022 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  The Return Of The Jedi offers enough moments that is not only a fitting entry into the franchise but what was thought of at the time as a fitting conclusion to it as well.
 
  February 18, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  David Gonzalez
  Reel Talk Inc.
  Return of the Jedi is easy to nitpick, but its best qualities are simply that it’s got the aura of an original trilogy film.
 
  February 11, 2022
 
  Cory Woodroof
  615 Film
  …the decline that began in The Empire Strikes Back has becomes a malaise by now, with continuity stretches making nonsense of the narrative…
 
  August 25, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Eddie Harrison
  film-authority.com
  It’s well constructed, tonally in spirit, and hugely enjoyable, but the Force simply isn’t as strong in this one.
 
  February 16, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Tony Black
  Cultural Conversation
  An enthralling resolution that brings the epic story of Darth Vader to a close.
 
  September 8, 2020 | Rating: 10/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins…

 

Plot
Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master’s help will Luke survive when the Dark Side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Horizon Pictures,
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Lighthouse, Gatteville-le-Phare, Manche, France
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1982
 

 
Genre(s)
Mystery & Thriller
 
Keyword(s)
starring Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu, Jacques Fabbri, Chantal Deruaz, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, written by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Philippe Djian, genre: Mystery & Thriller, box office performance: $60.5K, reviewed by Melissa Anderson, Bruce McCabe, David Fear, Hank Sartin, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Sid Smith, Judy Stone, Matt Brunson, David Lamble, Michael Lasky, Judy Wynn, Veronica Geng, produced by Claudie Ossard, MPAA rating: R, cinematography, soundtrack, mail carrier, American diva, recording, police chief, mob, gangsters, suspense, thriller, stylish, brilliant
 

Cast & Crew

Frederic Andrei

Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez

Richard Bohringer

Thuy An Luu

Jacques Fabbri

Jules

Cynthia Hawkins

Gorodish

Alba

Commissaire Jean Saporta

Frederic Andrei – Jules
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez – Cynthia Hawkins
Richard Bohringer – Gorodish
Thuy An Luu – Alba
Jacques Fabbri – Commissaire Jean Saporta
Chantal Deruaz – Nadia

 

Jean-Jacques Beineix

NA

NA

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
 
Writer(s)
NA
 
Producer(s)
NA

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Melissa Anderson

Bruce McCabe

David Fear

Hank Sartin

Lisa Schwarzbaum

4Columns

Boston Globe

Time Out

Entertainment Weekly

Chicago Tribune

DIVA
  All Critics (54) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (2)
  Beineixs film delights, if not overwhelms, the eye. (And in its obsession with the beauty and power of the human voice, Diva might also be thought of as an illustration of the cinéma du listen). Its bewitchery hasnt dimmed more than forty years later.
 
  April 29, 2022
 
  Melissa Anderson
  4Columns
  TOP CRITIC
  Diva is a cinematic textbook on style. It comments on so many facets of the daily contemporary culture — and of film — that it seems to be an inspired shorthand.
 
  April 27, 2018
 
  Bruce McCabe
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  November 18, 2011 | Rating: 3/5
 
  David Fear
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  November 17, 2011 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Hank Sartin
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  September 7, 2011 | Rating: A
 
  Lisa Schwarzbaum
  Entertainment Weekly
  TOP CRITIC
  The movie’s a maelstrom of possibilities touching ethnic relations, high art, fashion and modern morality, not to mention cinema.
 
  October 18, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Sid Smith
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  In his first feature-length film, director Jean-Jacques Beineix shows a fanciful, tongue-in-cheek talent for spoofing old mysteries, creating incongruously beautiful photographic images and mixing it all up with a touch of Zen. Delightfully original.
 
  November 11, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Judy Stone
  San Francisco Examiner
  An art-house flick that should appeal even to people who don’t like art-house flicks.
 
  August 16, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  Diva hasn’t dated a moment, stylistically or topically, for the movie is, in many ways, a sublimely entertaining debate on the legality and morality of trying to capture the artistic moment in a bottle.
 
  May 29, 2020
 
  David Lamble
  Bay Area Reporter
  Ostensibly the film is a comedy thriller. Other than a few sight gags the humor is noticeably missing and the thrills only come if you completely suspend credibility.
 
  May 12, 2020
 
  Michael Lasky
  Bay Area Reporter
  Diva is a fan’s fantasy-come-true.
 
  August 19, 2019
 
  Judy Wynn
  Sojourner
  Beineix makes a colorful, rhythmic thriller — the beauty intensifies the suspense… Diva’s freshness invites you beyond movies for comparisons.
 
  January 10, 2018
 
  Veronica Geng
  The New York Review of Books…

 

Plot
A young opera-loving mailman, Jules, becomes inadvertently entangled in murder, when a young woman fleeing two mob hit men drops an incriminating cassette into his mailbag. Jules has just recently recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins’ latest concert, something of a coup as Hawkins refuses to make recordings of any kind. Soon Jules finds himself the target of the hit men, who want the voice recording, and also of another couple of ominous and mysterious agents.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, who plays American diva Cynthia Hawkins in the film, was actually an opera singer in real life and had never acted before.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Final Cut for Real Sun Creature Studio Vivement Lundi
 
Distributor
Universal Pictures
 
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Dixie Square Mall – 151st Street & Dixie Highway, Harvey, Illinois, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1980
 

 
Genre(s)
Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher, directed by John Landis, written by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis, action, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Gene Siskel, Steven Reddicliffe, Charles Champlin, Jack Mathews, Dave Sargent, Jason Bailey, Robin Holabird, John Stark, Joe Baltake, Patrick Taggart, Marylynn Uricchio, R rating, produced by Robert K Weiss, Universal Pictures, Dolby, Mono, The Blues Brothers, comedy, musical, Chicago, car chases, soul music, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, reviewed by audiences, Mark Walker, Alex r, Stephen E, Dann M
 

Cast & Crew

John Belushi

Dan Aykroyd

James Brown

Cab Calloway

Ray Charles

Jake Blues

Elwood Blues

Reverend Cleophus James

Curtis

Ray

– John Belushi as Jake Blues
– Dan Aykroyd as Elwood Blues
– James Brown as Reverend Cleophus James
– Cab Calloway as Curtis
– Ray Charles as Ray
– Carrie Fisher as Mystery Woman

 

John Landis

Dan Aykroyd

Robert K. Weiss

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
John Landis
 
Writer(s)
Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
 
Producer(s)
Robert K. Weiss

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 1 nomination
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Gene Siskel

Steven Reddicliffe

Charles Champlin

Jack Mathews

Dave Sargent

Chicago Tribune

Miami Herald

Los Angeles Times

Detroit Free Press

Sydney Morning Herald

THE BLUES BROTHERS
  All Critics (89) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (65) | Rotten (24)
  The Blues Brothers is the year’s best film to date; one of the, all-time great comedies; the best movie ever made in Chicago. All are true, and, boy, is that ever a surprise.
 
  December 21, 2020 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Gene Siskel
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  Too many times, The Blues Brothers is static when it should be ecstatic. When it tries to hit the heights, it’s not nearly dizzying enough And when it should soar, it simply hangs there.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Steven Reddicliffe
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  Despite the temporary lift that the old pros give the picture, it is difficult for the non-cultist to feel anything but dismay, again, that so much has been squandered to produce so little that is truly artful or genuinely entertaining.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Charles Champlin
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  As spectacular as the chases are, Blues Brothers works because of Aykroyd and Belushi, who play off each other with nearly flawless timing and sustain it throughout the movie’s two hours and 10 minutes.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Jack Mathews
  Detroit Free Press
  TOP CRITIC
  With a simple narrative based around the- brothers trying to put together a band and raising money for the orphanage that moulded them with numerous complications along the way there are plenty of chances for viewers to be entertained.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Dave Sargent
  Sydney Morning Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  Landis’ staging and camera blocking aren’t always up to the task, but the performers are so electrifying, it doesn’t much matter.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Jason Bailey
  The Playlist
  TOP CRITIC
  No matter that the big screen story gets convoluted and improbable-the characters make it work. They sing classic rhythm and blues songs well enough, but better yet, perform with the greats.
 
  August 11, 2021
 
  Robin Holabird
  Robin Holabird
  The Blues Brothers are a popular novelty, and have a definite tongue-in-cheek appeal. But this film does nothing with the characters, except to portray them as a couple of one-sided and unlikable hoods.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  John Stark
  San Francisco Examiner
  The Blues Brothers is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, at once touching and far-far out — and most of all, best of all, it is hugely entertaining.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Joe Baltake
  Philadelphia Daily News
  The film is a monument to car wreckage, with a tip of the hat to rhythm and blues. If you’ve seen the preview, you’ve seen the movie.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Patrick Taggart
  Austin American-Statesman
  Only the music, a collection of rock and blues hits, is palatable but not enough to pull this film out of the gutter.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Marylynn Uricchio
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  The film is a dreary waste of crude gags and misfiring stunts. But… small relief is afforded along the way by musical encounters (all too brief) with John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.
 
  December 21, 2020
 
  Tom Milne
  Observer (UK)…

 

Plot
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit “The Penguin”, the last of the nuns who raised them in an orphanage. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from God” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The Blues Brothers features cameos from musical legends such as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)

 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Los Angeles International Airport – 1 World Way, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1980
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
Airplane!, comedy, disaster movie, spoof, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, produced by Jon Davison, Howard W Koch, box office performance, budget, PG rating, reviewed by Michael Blowen, Ron Pennington, Martin Chilton, Richard Schickel, Kathleen Carroll, Adam Smith, Kenneth Turan, Mike Massie, Bryan Reesman, Richard Propes, Matt Brunson, audience score, critic consensus, slapstick gags, quotable lines, movie parodies, puns, non sequiturs, Mad magazine, food poisoning, rogue pilot, stewardess, safe landing, Paramount Pictures, mono sound mix, flat aspect ratio
 

Cast & Crew

Robert Hays

Julie Hagerty

Peter Graves

Robert Stack

Lloyd Bridges

Ted Striker

Elaine Dickinson

Captain Clarence Oveur

Captain Rex Kramer

Steve McCroskey

Robert Hays – Ted Striker
Julie Hagerty – Elaine Dickinson
Peter Graves – Captain Clarence Oveur
Robert Stack – Captain Rex Kramer
Lloyd Bridges – Steve McCroskey
Kareem Abdul-Jabaar – Roger Murdoch

 

Jim Abrahams

Jim Abrahams

Jon Davison

Howard W. Koch

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
 
Writer(s)
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
 
Producer(s)
Jon Davison, Howard W. Koch

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
3 wins & 7 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Michael Blowen

Ron Pennington

Martin Chilton

Richard Schickel

Kathleen Carroll

Boston Globe

Hollywood Reporter

Daily Telegraph (UK)

TIME Magazine

New York Daily News

AIRPLANE!
  All Critics (70) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (2)
  The popcorn will probably stick with you longer than this silly saga but, if you need a few belly laughs, get a boarding pass. Airplane is the ultimate take-off.
 
  April 28, 2018
 
  Michael Blowen
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  The level of humor is not always consistent, but the filmmakers have thrown almost everything in with a shotgun approach and the routines work more often than not.
 
  July 3, 2017
 
  Ron Pennington
  Hollywood Reporter
  TOP CRITIC
  The really great thing about Airplane! is that the jokes undercut your expectations so deftly.
 
  June 8, 2015 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Martin Chilton
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Airplane! is a splendidly tacky, totally tasteless, completely insignificant flight, a gooney bird of a movie that looks as if it could never get off the ground and then surprises and delights with its free-spirited aerobatics.
 
  June 8, 2015
 
  Richard Schickel
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who share both writing and directorial credits, become so desperate for laughs that the jokes descend to a much cruder level.
 
  April 7, 2015 | Rating: 2/4
 
  Kathleen Carroll
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  Surely as good as modern comedy gets?…and don’t call me Shirley.
 
  April 1, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Adam Smith
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  It is very funny in a very silly kind of way and that people who intend to see it should do so as soon as possible. For this is a movie whose charm comes totally from the unexpected, off-the-wall nature of its jokes.
 
  November 4, 2021
 
  Kenneth Turan
  New West/California
  Part of what makes this all so effective is how straight the actors play their parts; in the face of unending fatuousness, the cast remains earnestly aboveboard.
 
  June 28, 2021 | Rating: 8/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  It reminds us of the importance of pushing boundaries at the same time that it gives us a playbook for doing so in a good-natured rather than vicious or belittling way.
 
  April 26, 2021
 
  Bryan Reesman
  NBC News THINK
  The cast is nearly perfect.
 
  September 1, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0
 
  Richard Propes
  TheIndependentCritic.com
  With its endless succession of movie parodies, puns and non sequiturs, it’s the closest that cinema has ever seen to a live-action interpretation of Mad magazine.
 
  August 5, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  Hays and Hagerty had great chemistry that made their story believable.
 
  July 27, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Allison Rose
  FlickDirect…

 

Plot
Drowning his sorrows after that botched mission during WWII, the traumatised former fighter pilot with a fear of flying, Ted Striker, still hasn’t got over his old flame and flight attendant, Elaine Dickinson. Determined to win her back, Ted boards a domestic flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, only to come face-to-face with a severe case of in-flight food poisoning that is threatening everyone’s lives. Now, with most of the passengers and the entire cockpit crew down with the food-borne illness, Striker has no other choice but to confront his inner demons and take over the control of the ungovernable aircraft with the help of a gruff air-traffic controller and his former commander. Can Ted land the plane and save them all?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who plays co-pilot Roger Murdock, had to shave his trademark skyhook hairstyle for the role.
 

 
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