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Thursday, September 17, 2020

40 years later & the spoof movie AIRPLANE is still funny.

AIRPLANE from PARAMOUNT PICTURES. It is the first and the funniest spoof-movie ever made. It came out way back in 1980 and in it's first five days. The comedy recouped its' production budget of $3.5 million. It went on-to make a worldwide total of $158 million at 1980 ticket prices. It had also made veteran character-actor, Leslie Nielsen, a top film comedian. 

There are so many spoof-films these days that they just don't measure up to the very first. "The Guardian" ranks it as the best spoof comedy film ever-made. Go here for their article....

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