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All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review
Soul Plane
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out of 4
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Starring: Method Man, Tom Arnold Director: Jessy Terrero
Rated: R RunTime: 87 Minutes Release Date: May 2004 Genre: Comedy |
| *Also starring: | Snoop Doggy Dogg, Kevin Hart, Dwayne Adway, Angell Conwell, Jennifer Echols, Yolanda Gill, Brian Hooks, D.L. Hughley, Mo'Nique, Arielle Kebbel |
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 Review by Susan Granger 1 star out of 4
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Created as a hip-hop spin on "Airplane!" - this vulgar, tasteless drivel
crashes on take-off.
After insisting he endured humiliation aboard a big commercial carrier,
Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) is awarded $100 million in compensation. With the
help of his cousin Muggsy (Method Man), he decides to launch his own airline,
NWA, aimed at the African American traveler. His metallic purple and
chrome-colored flagship with oversized, hydraulic wheels is equipped with an
on-board dance club, funky music, live DJs and attitude-laden flight crew as it
departs from its own Malcolm X Terminal in Los Angeles for New York City. With
recently paroled, weed-smoking Capt. Mack (Snoop Dogg) already flying high in
the cockpit, the passenger list includes Nashawn's ex-girlfriend (K.D. Aubert),
Elvis Hunkee (Tom Arnold) with his trophy mistress (Missi Pyle) and kids (Ryan
Pinkston, Arielle Kebbel), plus a randy couple eager to join the Mile High
club. High Class is drop-dead sleek with Cristal champagne, filet mignon and
Maine lobster, while Low Class is so cut-rate that the fried chicken is stale
and the seats don't match. Before take-off, the sexy stewardesses sing Destiny
Child's "Survivor."
First-time director Jessy Terrero relies on his music-video background
for inspiration since Kevin Bisch, Freddie Gutierrez, Wesley Johnson and Scott
Taylor's sketchy, low-brow, snicker-laden script, based on Bo Zenga and Chuck
Wilson's crude, repulsive, pointless story, is more scatologically offensive
than funny. (Apropos of nothing, did you know that Snoop Dogg got his nickname
when his mother told him he resembled the Peanuts character Snoopy?) On the
Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Soul Plane" is a raunchy, rude 3. Try another
carrier.
Copyright © 2004 Susan Granger
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