Movies | Entertainment | Reels on Instagram: "🎬 Airplane! (1980) is a classic American spoof comedy directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker that parodies disaster films, especially Zero Hour! (1957), using rapid-fire visual gags, wordplay, and absurd deadpan humor; the film stars Robert Hays as Ted Striker, a troubled former pilot forced to land a commercial jet after the crew falls ill, alongside Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen (in his breakout comedic role as