People on this board keep comparing this film and Airplane!

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Michael71 — 10 years ago(September 03, 2015 12:19 PM)

Yeah I think Airplane ripped off 1941, the only difference is better, this film was bloddy awful, how did hell did THEE steven spielberg direct this beep

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joe_538 — 10 years ago(September 13, 2015 03:48 PM)

Actually, Airplane is very much a comedy remake of Zero Hour!, plot, character names, and stretches of dialogue are the same.

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Outstandingness — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 07:38 AM)

Airplane is a direct spoof of Airport. 1941 doesn't deserve to be in the same sentence as Airplane.

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brad_filippone — 10 years ago(March 03, 2016 09:44 AM)

Actually, Airplane! is a direct spoof of Zero Hour, with only a few elements of the Airport series thrown in.
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Outstandingness — 10 years ago(March 03, 2016 10:46 AM)

hey i've never of that one, thanks. I'll have to check it out.

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Blubonnet_Spearman — 10 years ago(September 21, 2015 10:01 PM)

Airplane is a parody movie and a different style of comedy. This is just zany comedy which is not the same

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Fenris Fil — 10 years ago(September 25, 2015 03:43 PM)

Depends what you mean by compare. I don't consider the movie at all similar to Airplane! except that it involves planes. However, with the movie coming out around the same time it's hard not to compare them as a way to demonstrate how 1941 got it wrong.
I also compare it in that way to Life of Brian. Those two movies (Airplane! and life of Brian) are perhaps the two funniest movies of all time. For me that gives 1941 no excuse for the comedy seeming so dated. I was only 4 when the movie came out so I have no idea how people felt back then, but to me it seems like it must have seemed dated even back then.
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metatron1970 — 10 years ago(October 26, 2015 12:44 PM)

I really can't think of many comparisons between 1941 and Airplane! except they both open with a Jaws parody and both have Robert Stack doing his amusing straight man act.

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Ryan-Lee-Hillton — 6 years ago(April 04, 2019 03:10 AM)

it be the same mang
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(January 29, 2022 03:23 AM)

1941 is a better off compare with John Landi's
The Blues Brothers -'80
. Both are epic comedies and full of high energy antics. TBB is funnier though and more down to earth visually and is contemporary compared to Spielberg's wacky period piece.
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