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Originally Posted by Lasereth
The comedy in Airplane is barely a step above the drivel that comes out today. Some of it is genuinely funny and entertaining but a huge portion of the movie is just stupidity, and not funny stupidity like 40 year old virgin.
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Yeeeaaahhh...but you're missing the point. The comedy in Airplane
was sophmoric and assinine.
However...it was the actors that delivered that drivel that made it over the top funny. These were some heavy hitting dramatic actors. We'd never seen them in comedic roles before, and it was completely out of synch with everything we knew. Steve Carell
is a comedic actor. He's
supposed to be funny. But Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Robert Stack? No...not so much.