Chloe Bridges, Stephen Guarino, Arielle Vandenberg, Kevin Heffernan, Nick Swardson, Mikaela Hoover, Chris Wylde and Erik Griffin have supporting roles in the film, and it was also the final screen credit for Beverly Polcyn, who died 16 days after the film's release, at the age of 90.įilming began in 2016, and it was supposed to be released a year later. Logan Paul portrays the main character, a fictionalized version of himself, who is put in a situation where he has to overcome his fear of flying in order to land a plane containing a group of famous social media influencers. If you’re of a certain age and don’t have a clue about any of these folk, it might be best watching the 1980 film instead.Airplane Mode is a 2019 American surreal action comedy film directed by David Dinetz and Dylan Trussell, and written by Dinetz, Trussell, Logan Paul and Jake Paul. If you like your humour at a base level, you’ll probably get a lot out of this. We’re not talking Carry On-style innuendo, this is hardcore.Ī number of surreal moments are worth watching out for, especially the termites and flashback to Paul’s first attempt at flying. It’s odd that since most of the audience of for YouTubers are teens that they choose to include wall-to-wall sex references – evidenced by the film’s certificate. It’s telling, though, that the ‘stars’ still don’t really come across as likeable. Some of the more outrageous jokes are at the expense of the stars themselves, and there’s even some political satire, particularly during the airport security sequence. All involved seem to be enjoying it, which does it more favours than you’d think. Some gags land better than others, but there’s a startling amount of sexist, racist, homophobic, and downright sleaze amongst the ‘jokes’. And a serial prankster, being extradited by the US government, has escaped his binds and is running riot.Īs much as it pains us to say it, this isn’t as bad as it could have been. Mid-air, the social media obsessed pack refuse to adhere to the command to switch their phones to airplane mode, causing a malfunction and the deaths of the pilots. If you’re expecting high-brow humour, you’ll be greatly disappointed. Logan Paul’s afraid of flying, but is desperate to meet his online girlfriend, while his ‘foreign exchange’ brother just wants to pop his cherry. Not that the plot matters, but a group of YouTubers set off for a convention in Australia. Fortunately, this updating of classic wacko comedy Airplane! gives the narcissistic self-made celebrities a chance to goof off and poke a little fun at their existence.įull disclosure: we had no clue who most of these people were before watching and had only actually heard of Logan Paul, but in fairness, they don’t do a bad job of being entertaining in what is essentially a re-run of the Abrahams/Zuckers’ film crossed with American Pie. A film packed with nothing but YouTube ‘stars’. We suppose it had to happen at some point. AIRPLANE MODE / CERT: 18 / DIRECTORS: DAVID DINETZ, DYLAN TRUSSELL / SCREENPLAY: DAVID DINETZ, DYLAN TRUSSELL, LOGAN PAUL, JAKE PAUL / STARRING: LOGAN PAUL, CHLOE BRIDGES, NICK BATEMAN, JAKE PAUL, MIKAELA HOOVER / RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 14TH
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