'Airplane!' at 25: Still Lord of the Wings From: The Washington Post | Date: June 12, 2005| Author: Garrett Peck | Copyright 2005 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

"Airplane!" was a spoof of the disaster-related airport and towering inferno movies of the 1970s. And what an enormous sendup of American culture it was. Disco. "Jaws." Ronald Reagan. Poker-playing Girl Scouts. It's all there, in what is arguably the funniest movie ever made, a movie that turns 25 this summer.

Jim Abrahams, and brothers David and Jerry Zucker, the trio who wrote and directed it, also gave us "The Naked Gun" series (but weren't involved in the not-quite-so-funny "Airpl...

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