Re:David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021
by OJFord on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @07:19AM
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> Many of them take aim at people's sex or race, but not in a challenging way.
Interesting, I wouldn't summarise it that way at all.
If I had to characterise it so succinctly I'd say many of them play on language, and I think it's as funny now as when I first saw it (probably early 2000s).
"How soon can we land?"
"I can't tell."
"You can tell me, I'm a doctor."
As you said in another comment I suppose, it's a lot of 'dad jokes', but I don't know why you think it hasn't aged well.
Slapstick, highly visual comedy, and 'dad jokes' is hardly a massive on-screen genre; I might agree it hasn't done well over time if there was more of it, modern stuff, more developed somehow. But it's still so unlike most comedy films to me that I think it'll always make me laugh.
Interesting, I wouldn't summarise it that way at all.
If I had to characterise it so succinctly I'd say many of them play on language, and I think it's as funny now as when I first saw it (probably early 2000s).
"How soon can we land?"
"I can't tell."
"You can tell me, I'm a doctor."
As you said in another comment I suppose, it's a lot of 'dad jokes', but I don't know why you think it hasn't aged well.
Slapstick, highly visual comedy, and 'dad jokes' is hardly a massive on-screen genre; I might agree it hasn't done well over time if there was more of it, modern stuff, more developed somehow. But it's still so unlike most comedy films to me that I think it'll always make me laugh.