In 1980, the comedy film soared to new heights from which it would never come down. “Airplane!” was a parody of the airplane disaster movies of the past, and it took whatever rules the comedy genre had established for itself and broke them all in one fell swoop. Here, the classic formula of a flight in chaos was turned on its head, reconfigured with one outrageous joke after the next. This was non-stop silliness, an avalanche of good clean fun from its first moments to its last. Some of the big screens’ funniest quotes come from “Airplane!” so please buckle up as we remember each character’s best lines.
