From the creators of The Naked Gun, Airplane!, largely considered one of the funniest movies of all time, is now streaming ...

The Naked Gun aims to resurrect what was once one of our most beloved sure-hit genres. Why did it ever go away?

Leslie Nielsen plays Dr. Rumack in the 1980 comedy "Airplane!", written and directed by Shorewood natives David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.

That's why it's so funny. Movie comedies these days are so hung up on being contemporary, radical, outspoken, and cynically satirical that they sometimes forget to be funny. That's 1980.

1980 was the year of “ The Empire Strikes Back,” but flying under the radar was a $3 million gag-fest called “ Airplane! ” that featured unknown leads, veteran character actors not at all ...