Airplane!
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Airplane! has come to be considered one of the great parody films of all time, renowned for its dense co-mingling of slapstick, sight gags, wordplay, innuendo, satire, and an overarching tone of deadpan mock seriousness. Created by writer-producers Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker on an extraordinarily small 3.5-million-dollar budget, Airplane! satirized the disaster film genre – particularly Paramount’s 1957 epic Zero Hour – and demonstrated the viability of the parody film as a blockbuster genre.
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