Top cast:Katherine McNamara,Mickey Rourke,Mark Dacascos
Director:Wallace McCutcheon&Edwin S. Porter
Genre:Animation
Region:Qatar
Year:2002
Storyline:On his front porch, when Sousè is introduced to Myrtle's fiancee Og, he quips:Og Oggilby.Sounds like a bubble in a bathtub.On his way through town, Egbert offers his helpful advice to a chauffeur who is toiling over his stalled limousine.Sister Blanche was assigned to supervise a "lay school" - which was already "overflowing" with students.Henry storyThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988),directed by David Zucker, co-written and co-produced by ZAZThe Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991), by writer/director David Zucker, co-produced by ZAZOther comedy spoof films had been madebefore 1980:Westerns spoof:Cat Ballou (1965)Japanese Monster Films spoof:Woody Allen'sWhat's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)Mel Brooks' spoofs of various genres (beforeAirplane!):Westerns:Blazing Saddles (1974)Horror:Young Frankenstein (1974)Silents:Silent Movie (1976)Hitchcockian Thrillers:High Anxiety (1977)ButAirplane!was responsible for unleashing a flurry of lampooning comedies (for many subgenres and film styles) - all trying to capitalize on its whopping success - including:Biblical Stories spoof:Wholly Moses! (1980)Mel Brooks' spoofs (afterAirplane!):Historical Eras:History of the World, Part I (1981)Science-Fiction andStar Wars:Spaceballs (1987)Swashbucklers:Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)DraculaFilms:Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)Serial Killer/Slasher and Stalker Movies spoof:Student Bodies (1981)Hospital Soap Operas spoof:Young Doctors in Love (1982)Film Noir - Crime/Detective spoof:Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)1930s Gangster Movies spoof:Johnny Dangerously (1984)1950s Sci-Fi Movies spoof:Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)TV'sPolice Squad (1982)spoofs:The Naked Gunfranchise (from 1988-1994)The Exorcistspoof:Repossessed (1990), starring Linda Blair and Leslie NielsenTop Gunspoof:Hot Shots! (1991), from co-writer/director Jim AbrahamsRambospoof:Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), also from co-writer/director Jim AbrahamsLate 80s-Early 90s Suspense-Mystery Thrillers spoof:Fatal Instinct (1993)Lethal Weaponspoof:Loaded Weapon (1993)Die Hard/Bondspoof:Spy Hard (1996), starring Leslie NielsenJames Bondfranchise spoofs:TheAustin Powersfranchise (from 1997-2002)Sports spoof:BASEketball (1998), from co-writer/director David ZuckerHorror movie spoofs:TheScary Moviefranchise (from 2000-2013)In the flimsy, sophomoric, tongue-in-cheek story, dumped, shell-shocked ex-military flyer-pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays in his screen debut) pursued ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julie Hagerty in her screen debut) - a Trans American Airlines stewardess on an ill-fated, crippled plane flight from Los Angeles to Chicago with food poisoning-stricken pilots, while a drug-using air traffic control ower chief-supervisor attempted to help land the troubled airliner.Plot SynopsisThe film opens impressionistically with the credits on top of a night view of the streets of Manhattan - a scene of urban jungle warfare.It was more similar stylistically, however, to the noirish dramaCitizen Kane (1941)than to the classic detective noirThe Maltese Falcon (1941)with Bogart's Sam Spade searching for a black statuette.