Like The Naked Gun, exposing a younger audience to the likes of Airplane was a risk, again due to the sometime adult nature of the humour. And likewise, the younger audience is more likely to engage with the visual jokes and pay no attention to the more risque ones. It had the desired effect. The scale and rapid-fire nature of the jokes is exhausting but the film does not suffer for it.
Having watched it many times in the 80s there were so many moments to look forward to, so many lines, so many scenes often repeated in lesser films. It's unlikely to stick to long in the child's memory and there wasn't a huge interest in watching the sequel (although nothing remains memorable about that film), but for 90 minutes we both enjoyed relentless jokes.
Adult score: 4/5
Child score: 4/5
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