I can be short about this movie: Hilarious. It made me laugh so much that I almost ran out of oxygen.
Of course the story line is thin, and the musical score is just horrible.... but it is about the slapstick, the over the top panicking and the making fun of and the trying to escape from the otherwise in real life quite scary and threatening situations.
Of course the airplane scene is the most funniest scene I have ever seen in a movie. It appeals on everyone's fears that when in an airplane you could crash and that the pilot is just a person of flesh and blood who could become ill or whatever. I am sure that every airplane passenger with a little bit of fear of flying has thought about this.
And the airplane scene is not funny because the pilot is belching, like I read in a review. That would mean this film would be on the level of the Naked Gun series. The belching is just the introduction to this scene, the warming up. You think that this must be the funny part, and you start to laugh a little bit while thinking: "Is this supposed to be funny?". But when you know Gene Wilder's humour you know it can not stop there.
No, the comedy starts after this, when the pilot dies. When Gene Wilder just does not want to know the truth and just does not want to face reality and chooses to deny reality, to which audiences can relate: everyone at least at one point in their lives chooses to put their head in the sand. But when Gene Wilder does it, he does it in such a hilariously, hysterical funny way.
This film always stayed with me, over the years. And I just saw it again and it made me laugh just as hard as it did before, when I was in my teens.
So go along with the make believe, do not demand a solid script and just go with the slapstick and the hysteria. And laugh!
Of course the story line is thin, and the musical score is just horrible.... but it is about the slapstick, the over the top panicking and the making fun of and the trying to escape from the otherwise in real life quite scary and threatening situations.
Of course the airplane scene is the most funniest scene I have ever seen in a movie. It appeals on everyone's fears that when in an airplane you could crash and that the pilot is just a person of flesh and blood who could become ill or whatever. I am sure that every airplane passenger with a little bit of fear of flying has thought about this.
And the airplane scene is not funny because the pilot is belching, like I read in a review. That would mean this film would be on the level of the Naked Gun series. The belching is just the introduction to this scene, the warming up. You think that this must be the funny part, and you start to laugh a little bit while thinking: "Is this supposed to be funny?". But when you know Gene Wilder's humour you know it can not stop there.
No, the comedy starts after this, when the pilot dies. When Gene Wilder just does not want to know the truth and just does not want to face reality and chooses to deny reality, to which audiences can relate: everyone at least at one point in their lives chooses to put their head in the sand. But when Gene Wilder does it, he does it in such a hilariously, hysterical funny way.
This film always stayed with me, over the years. And I just saw it again and it made me laugh just as hard as it did before, when I was in my teens.
So go along with the make believe, do not demand a solid script and just go with the slapstick and the hysteria. And laugh!