Don Firth - I love slapstick when it's well done and it's in a movie with an intelligent script. The Pink Panther films had a lot of slapstick, and they are among my favorites. A Fish Called Wanda had some neat slapstick too, and so did Ruthless People (An American film). I also LOVE Chaplin, Laurel and Hardie, and some of the other greats of the silent era...but I am not too keen on the Marx Brothers whom I find sort of annoying if not downright obnoxious.

Clearly, Don, I have not become "too sophisticated" to appreciate movies which feature slapstick...my taste in them just doesn't ALWAYS dovetail absolutely perfectly with yours, that's all. I realize that this divergence from the Don Firth Code of Humor Appreciation casts me out into the nethermost darkness, there to dwell amongst vile heathens, lowlifes, and moribund sophisticates of the worst sort...but so be it! ;-)

It isn't slaptick per se that I object to. It's a script which never (or very seldom) manages to achieve anything but "stupid" jokes and crude, dumbass humor which I object to. Most of the films Nielsen was in struck me as that type of script...some funny moments, for sure...but overall something that could never rise above being what I'd call a "B" film. Hollywood figures that that's good enough, and most of their audience agrees. I do not. I want something smarter and wittier than a typical Leslie Nielsen comedy. If it also has some good slapstick...great!

Airplane may be as good as you say, Genie. I've never seen the entire film, so I can't say.