“Airplane!” is a parody movie that throws enough jokes and good ones at you to keep you laughing throughout. This is brought to you by the people who made “The Naked Gun”, “Top Secret” and the television series “Police Squad!” so you know that you’ll be laughing. Sure the jokes are juvenile but they not completely disgusting so you won’t have that problem.

In “Airplane!”, a plane leaves with an assorted bunch of misfits for passengers. The crew and several passengers take ill so a war veteran named Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is forced to land the plane. Other passengers include are Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen “The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear”), a nun and a lady who speaks jive. Also in this film are some wacky ground controllers and an inflatable autopilot named Otto.

Leslie Nielsen provides a lot of laughs as Dr. Rumack and it’s amazing to think that although he’d been making films for over thirty years before this movie that this was his big breakthrough. Robert Hays is okay. Lloyd Bridges (“Sea Hunt”) is okay. Most of the cast provide a decent portion of laughs but it’s amazing how many laughs you get from the inflatable autopilot.

The famous quote from this movie has Robert Hays’ Ted Striker saying “Surely you can be serious?” with the reply by Nielsen’s Dr. Rumack “I am serious and don’t call me Shirley” but this for me at least wasn’t anywhere near the funniest point in this movie. My favourite bit is when a panicky passenger is told to calm down and she’s slapped, shortly after another person comes along and does a similar thing but then you see a whole queue of unique passengers with various weapons including a gun ready to convince her to calm down. There are loads of sexual jokes that are funny, there are loads of slapstick jokes and there are loads of other types of jokes too. This movie crams so much in that’s it’s hard not to find something funny in it.