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Film · Paramount · 1980

Airplane!

Name: Airplane! scores 45 — Live Historic
Item: Airplane!
Rating: 45
Author: Live Historic

45Watch it awake.

It's funny in a pile, but some jokes are meaner than the landing deserves.

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The review

Somebody still has to land the plane. That sentence is doing more work than the pile of jokes around it. A traumatized pilot, a spoof of the flying-disaster pictures, gags stacked until the stack is the style. Some of them are language bent until it snaps. Some are cruel about identity.

I can laugh at the wordplay. I do not need the cruel ones, and the film will not sort them for you. The competence underneath is real: people are still in the air, and a man who did not want the controls has them. Watch it for the landing if you watch it. Do not tell yourself the mean gags were required.

Journal

Keep Airplane! in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Sandlot

56 instead of 45

The Sandlot is still a comedy film, and it scores 56 instead of 45. What you gain is household: A loose gang of boys, and a stepfather trying.

The eight

7
Industry
A traumatized pilot still has to land the plane.
2
Household
No marriage or child is the life this spoof is built around.
3
Piety
Nothing in the joke pile asks anyone to drop a cruel gag.
7
Courage
The pilot takes the controls after trauma, with people aboard.
6
Republic
Passengers are still owed a landing, spoof or not.
3
Temperance
The film stacks the next joke, including ones cruel about identity.
4
Truth
Some jokes are wordplay, and some are just mean about people.
4
Stewardship
What remains is a landed plane and a pile of unbilled gags.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2025

A Minecraft Movie

45Watch it awake.

The craft is the good idea. The joke is louder than the craft. Children will come anyway.

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The review

A game about placing blocks is one of the few popular games that is secretly about work. The film knows that for a few minutes at a time, and then it remembers it is a brand and starts shouting. Children went in enormous numbers. The number of tickets is not the measure. The measure is whether they come home wanting to make something or wanting the next joke.

Watch it with them if they are going anyway. Afterwards put a real material in their hands — paper, wood, dough — and build one thing that is not a reference. That is the part the film kept dropping.

Journal

Keep A Minecraft Movie in the record.