Movie Review: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Airplane

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's monotone pseudo bad acting is completely in line with the rest of the movie and then also makes it funnier because it's supposed to be like a stodgy old disaster movie. The dialogue in that movie is designed to be said without any affect whatsoever. Nobody laughs in that movie. Unless it's like for like Johnny, the gay character in it has like a couple of breakdowns, whatever. But for the most part, people are playing the quote unquote drama of this airplane disaster really straight. It just makes for an extremely disconcerting experience when they are trying to be something other than who they are on screen.