It’s been many years since I watched Airplane, that crazy comedy film from the ZAZ team of Jim Abrahams,
Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker. They mastered the art of goofball parody comedy
and made my youth more enjoyable than it otherwise would have been. Airplane was the one that started it
all. It’s possible to point to John Landis and Kentucky Fried Movie, but that’s more akin to sketch comedy – a bunch
of funny ideas loosely tossed together around a larger centerpiece parody of
Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon. But as
an outright genre parody, Airplane
set the bar, a bar that unfortunately has been lowered as the years have gone
on.
