Soul Plane
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: May 28, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
14
Negative:
11
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
A third of the way into Soul Plane, maybe earlier if you're in the right mood or with the wrong company, you might actually start to enjoy disliking the movie. Like, say, Prince's "Purple Rain," certain Joan Crawford movies, and Leslie Nielsen at his best worst, the film inspires cathartic ridicule. Read full review
60
Film ThreatClint Morris
A lot better than one would expect. It's amusing, it's inspired and hey, it's a lot wittier than the last two "Scary Movies" combined. Though, like most lampoons, it runs out of steam about half way through. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
An idea whose time is long overdue, a tricked-out jumbo jet custom fit to meet the needs of today's savvy black traveler. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
A raunchy spoof of the disaster-movie lampoon Airplane! - does everything to get the laugh. And in the way that a broken watch is right twice a day, a shotgun comedy like this one occasionally hits its target. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Has moments of inspiration, but the scattershot spoofing never achieves enough momentum to get this flight airborne. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Not everyone will be thrilled by the movie, which is one long dirty (and occasionally very funny) joke. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
A better- than-average comedy that is raunchy and tasteless but ultimately funny from beginning to end. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This is dumb, raunchy, and obvious, but it's also pretty funny, and delivered with the gusto of a Redd Foxx monologue. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Only fitfully funny, and it makes up for what it lacks in genuine humor by overdosing viewers with outrageous sexuality and outsize stereotypes. Read full review
50
PremiereOtis Hart
Snoop's subtle performance in the captain's chair flips all the right switches, and Ryan Pinkston's timing as Arnold's "straight out of Malibu" son is perfect, but these two aren't enough to salvage the film. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
A scattershot "urban" take on "Airplane!," Soul Plane misfires with its jokes at least as often as it hits (and less often than Snoop Dogg hits a joint), but when it works, laughs are generated. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
If you're looking for comic insights beyond the well-documented ass differential between whites and blacks, well, golly, you ought to try another carrier. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Flashy production design can't save Soul Plane from crashing and burning in a debris field strewn with stereotypes and raunch. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Starts out as an exuberant romp but soon gets trapped in a holding pattern of dumb sex and toilet jokes. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Begins as a high-spirited romp before running out of gas and ideas about halfway up the tarmac. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
With its excessive sleaze and gross-out gags, Soul Plane overshoots effective spoofery. Mostly it's a foul, eye-rolling experience. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
This one-joke comedy vehicle is flying through a laugh-free zone. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
When it's funny it's uproarious. Otherwise, you're crestfallen to discover that the movie is a relentless sucker punch to black entrepreneurship. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
While this flight should have been permanently delayed due to extraordinarily offensive conditions, there are no signs instructing you to remain seated should you decide to discreetly exit before your tour of the unfriendly skies is over. Read full review
30
Washington PostSara Gebhardt
An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up Soul Plane. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Director Jessy Terrero's spasmodically funny air-travel parody unfailingly counters every one of its genuinely uproarious gags with at least two or three others rooted in retrograde racial panic. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Let's make this simple: If you spend money on Soul Plane, you've been played. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Gross, nearly unwatchable comedy. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
In the midst of this comic black hole, only Snoop Dogg and Method Man emerge unscathed, as even material this bad can't mask their languid, long-limbed charisma. Read full review
20
Village VoiceJoshua Land
Coming off a memorable supporting turn in Starsky & Hutch, Snoop Dogg is sadly underutilized as the stoner pilot. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Excruciating in the extreme, this is the nadir of urban comedies thus far: a trashy, crass, and painfully unfunny airline disaster of a film. Read full review
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