Back in 1980, filmmakers Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker struck comedy gold with their spoof of airplane disaster movies, Airplane!, which launched the comedy rebirth of straight man Leslie Nielsen. Since then, Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker and their blatant imitators have taken aim at such sitting ducks as the cop show, science fiction, James Bond, Top Gun, and the Rambo movies. What makes these films special is the way each scene is played completely straight, while all kinds of hijinks ...more