Writers: Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen
Composer: David Shire
Starring: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Rene Auberjonois, Ned Beatty, Bob Dishy, Jose Ferrer, Rugh Gordon, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman, Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan, Lynn Redgrave, Richard B. Shull, Stuart Margolin, Howard Hesseman, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Walter Brooke, Vic Tayback,
More info: IMDb
Tagline: AT LAST - THE FIRST DISASTER MOVIE WHERE EVERYBODY DIES (laughing)
Plot: The ultimate disaster movie parody. A nuclear powered bus is going non-stop from New York City, New York to Denver, Colorado, and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. When the driver is injured, a washed up, down on his luck, but used to be great type, who as it happens, used to be engaged to the inventor's daughter is brought in to drive the giant bus which includes a one lane swimming pool and a one lane bowling alley.
My rating: 7.5/10
Will I watch it again? Yes.
This is simply hilarious. It's so much in the vein of AIRPLANE! (1980) that you'd swear it was made by the same people but it wasn't, none of them. If you don't like AIRPLANE! style comedies then you won't dig this one, either. The jokes are all over the place, silly, ridiculous, absurd, broad, dumb and just plain fucking hilarious. I saw this back in the early 90s and I remember it being funny but not this funny. The beauty of the performances (and everyone in this is ridiculously funny) is that almost everyone is playing it straight and by almost, I think only the lounge piano player is being goofy (goddamn, he's funny). Hell, even David Shire's wonderful score is playing it straight as if this were a big budget serious disaster flick. And it doesn't matter one bit if you guess where the jokes are going, they're still funny. While this isn't as multi-layered with jokes like AIRPLANE!, it's still got a lot of laughs. It's an absurd premise with a big payoff.
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