This is one of the funnier "spoof" movies made, and groundbreaking in the sense that this type of rapidfire, "two zillion jokes in the same scene" humor was almost never seen before this film.
I have to agree that it is dated humor now that MTV has made this type of visual humor and style the norm, but somehow, when you dig out this movie on a rainy night, that won't be the point - you'll be laughing at the memories you have of the first time you saw it, and you might even find new things to laugh at that you missed when you first saw the film.
Leslie Nielsen makes his comic debut in this film. Prior to this, he was thought of as a dramatic actor, but solely on the strength of this performance and others like it, he started a career revival - this time as a comic actor.
The spoof comedy that set the gold standard for all that followed it AIRPLANE takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that peppered cinemas in the ...More at Family Video
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