When political correctness wasn't yet an issue..

[Art Blade]

I love the humour of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (ZAZ). They REALLY went over the top. And under as well.

[Art Blade]

interesting.. did you know it was based on a 1957 film?

[Dweller_Benthos]

haha, that is funny, the original looks like such a serious film, and Airplane is so wacky!

[fragger]

  I love that ridiculous kind of humour, such as in that movie, the Naked Gun series and Hot Shots (a Top Gun send-up). Another couple of funny ones are Fatal Instinct and Loaded Weapon (guess which movies those two send up? )

For some reason, "Airplane!" was released as "Flying High" in Australia. Dunno why.

[Art Blade]

Here it was even worse. We called it, no, make that they (not me) called it "Die unglaubliche Reise in einem verrückten Flugzeug" which translates to "the unbelievable journey in a crazy aeroplane"

And since it was a dubbed version, the play on words never made sense in the translation or was simply lost in translation. Which, including the title, made it a horrible film.

I'll really have to get it now that usually even old films come with the original audio version. And very cheap, too

And yes, I love the ZAZ humour You can almost tell, if a movie is so completely over the top, they were the ones who made it happen