![]() ![]() Writer-director Amy Heckerling’s modern take on Jane Austen’s Emma continues to hold up extremely well over time, with subsequent viewings proving to be as enjoyable as the initial one. Justin Walker and Alicia Silverstone in Clueless (Photo: Paramount)ĬLUELESS (1995). Blu-ray extras include audio commentary by ZAZ and producer Jon Davison a Q&A with ZAZ and an isolated score. Yet it’s the wily veterans - Leslie Nielsen (“Don’t call me Shirley”), Lloyd Bridges (“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue”), Robert Stack (“Flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes”), and Peter Graves (“You ever seen a grown man naked?”) - who prove to be the MVPs.Īirplane! has been reissued as part of the Paramount Presents line. Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is amusing as the co-pilot who insists he’s not Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty essay the leading roles as the passenger and flight attendant who must land a crippled aircraft after the cockpit crew contracts food poisoning, and L.A. The film’s blazing humor may have been slightly tempered by endless attempts over the years to capitalize on its success ( The Naked Gun being the best of the imitators), yet it retains its winning charm. 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. Since 1977’s hilarious The Kentucky Fried Movie wasn’t a box office hit upon its original release (its reputation was made on the midnight movie circuit), this subsequent picture by the comedy team of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker (aka ZAZ) was the one that basically rewrote the rules of screen comedy. ![]() Ratings are on a four-star scale.) Lloyd Bridges in Airplane! (Photo: Paramount)ĪIRPLANE! (1980). (View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Rossie Harris and Peter Graves in Airplane! (Photo: Paramount)
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