Airborne

Plot synopsis:
Despite an approaching winter storm a near-empty airliner takes off from London for New York. One-by-one the passengers begin to disappear, while one passenger who frequents the route notices the plane has turned whereas it should be flying straight. Soon it is discovered that the pilots are dead and that the plane is on auto pilot; and it is revealed that two on board are hijackers who have murdered the pilots to take control of the plane. The passengers who disappeared were killed when they witnessed parts of the hijacking.
The hijackers intend to steal and sell both the plane and an ancient vase being transported on board which, according to legend, acts as a prison for a death god. The passengers try to hinder the hijackers but they are unable to overpower them and instead wind up tied to the seats of the plane, the hijackers planning to use them as hostages.
Meanwhile, air traffic control becomes alarmed; they have lost radio contact with the plane as it first veers off course and then disappears from radar. They alert the authorities, who assume the plane has been taken over by terrorists and send fighter aircraft to intercept it. As fighter planes take off and close in on the airliner the would-be hostages escape their bonds. The people on the hijacked airliner begin to go violently crazy, killing themselves and each other without apparent reason; the incorporeal death god has been released from the vase and is possessing people, trying to find a suitable host.
The airliner passes into South American airspace, causing the fighter jets to give up pursuit; then the air controllers watch in horror as the plane begins to descend, its trajectory sending it into the ocean. One of the passengers has disabled the autopilot and is flying the plane into the ocean to prevent the death god from being released into the world. A passenger possessed by the death god and one of the hijackers try to stop the plane from crashing, but they fail; the death god leaves the passenger's body at the last moment, giving her only enough time to scream into the radio before the plane hits the water. Back in London the air controllers are marched out of the control room by the authorities, who mean to leave no witnesses. The eyes of one of the controllers flash blue as he is possessed by the death god.

Tags: comedy

Review:
Jack is obviously the old farmer, who has seen it all in his day and now is bitter that time is no longer his friend.However, the "Preps" represent something far more imposing than anything Mitchell brings to the table.
Airborne is mostly a teen movie marketed back in the early 90's when the rollerblade craze was starting to catch on.
The girls in this movie look like a bunch of 12 year olds...
The movie ends with a rollerblade race through downtown Cincinatti with the hero's facing the "Preps".
The rollerblade race is the best part of the movie, and it is very well played out.
Everyone in this movie does a great job especially Seth Green.
They are beating me over the head with plaid and rollerblades and other 90s clichés." The I realized Seth Green and Jack Black were in it and I realized that it must in fact be a parody.
Anyway, for a teen high-school love story, this isn't bad.
I am more bugged by the movies made in Canada that try to pass themselves as U.S. locations (that tax credit must be a real biggie!)If you like fish-out-of-water movies or H.S. love interests, give Airborne a look.I hope Mitchell eventually made his way here to O'ahu and surfed our waves!
These moves were being done by a few people at the time, but most kids like me had never seen such things.
Not forgetting the appearances from a young Jack Black and Seth Green, the story moves the watcher with the a light hearted portrayal into teenage romance and angst.
The movie was filmed in Cincinnati-check the credits, and by the way, they only mention the fact that the kid has moved to Cincinnati about a million times!
The main plot showed a bunch of teens who like to play hockey and roller skate, but for the first 2 acts, this plot just coasts the movie along and makes it, suck.
I woke up late and caught this mad-capped adventure of a movie around noon with misty eyes and a dosey head...luckily the film did not cause me to think on too great a level and so it was easy to enjoy.
Notable appearances by a young, and rather funny looking, Seth Green of Buffy and Austin Powers fame was followed by the even more shocking appearance of soon to be huge actor...Jack Black.The Tenacious D frontman appeared as a cocky yet loveable class clown eagerly awaiting the prime bait of 'surfer dude' Shane McDermott.
The film was simplistic...boy moves away - boy gets picked on - boy fucks up - boy regains trust - boy = hero....and some sub-plotted love story that made no sense as the lead's love interest suddenly hated him for no reason...but he one her back by stripping her ex of his pants...go figure.
Overall good film, excellent stunts by Team Blade and some pretty cool action segments...but one nasty one of Jack Black ending up bow-legged on a tree...nasty...anyways I enjoyed it and I would recommend it to anyone after a night out getting drunk as a movie to sober up to..
* So the writer decided he wanted a movie whose climax was rollerblading scene down the hills of Cincinatti.* To make it interesting he makes it a race between two teams.
Needing a team we can root against, he makes the antagonists "preppies" (since everyone hates preppies and he could skip writing any character development for them besides their group label.* Realizing that he couldn't write enough script to say why he and his teammates hate the preppies, he decided that before our hero and pals teamed up, they were enemies.* In figuring out why our hero and his enemies team up against the preppies, the writer decided "shorts"ing a preppie would suffice.* To decide why our hero and his teammates were enemies, the writer thinks that our hero should a laid back surfer dude.* Looking over his story outline, the writer noticed how thin it was and added several elements to plump up the script.
Such items included a wacky friend (Seth Green, who takes a character you'd normally want to punch and makes him watchable), a Pauly Shore and Juliet romance with the sister of one of his enemies, and random acts of roller-hockey (specifically the kind where you're not allowed to play defense).The writer had the right idea about ending a movie with wicked rollerblade race down steep curvy hills, but the plot devices used to get that point are so awful, that you'll need to wear your cringe-proof vest to watch..
I promised someone that we'd watch a movie together, and she came home with Airborne.
My only regret for this film is that since I love to rollerblade, I wish there were more rollerblading scenes in the movie.
I absolutely *love* movies, and if I had to use a word to describe it the word would be *awesome.* Seth Green is one of my favorite actors, and this breakthrough performance is hilarious.
But the movie was really entertaining, to say the least, and Seth Green was awesome.
I watched this movie because I have a crush on Seth Green(his hair was looking AWFUL, by the way) and my eyes nearly popped out when I spotted Jack Black, another great.
Hockey is such a cool sport and so is all the other sports he can do to.I would love to know how to surf it looks so much fun (hopefully there no sharks).I think that Mitchell is very hot.
In Airborne, Shane McDermott plays the ultimate early 90's california surfer dude- a buff, blonde, laid-back pacifist who can skate and surf like nobody's business.
I really like Seth Green, so that was good!
Sometimes, you are forced on a Sunday to sit and watch whatever is on, due to laziness you don't get up, so you just keep teasing the remote...then-a movie like this comes on and you catch yourself--laughing.
Yes, the plot may be a bit thin with some slightly underdeveloped characters, but it's a fun kids movie.
Combined with music that moves the story along pretty well, and some exceptional rollerblading scenes, "Airborne" is worth the 91 minutes it takes to watch.
At first glance this looks like your typical teeny-bopper, roller-blading flick complete with the hero/outsider that is just a bit too good-looking and the Romeo and Juliet trait of the hero's love interest having a family tie to his enemy.But it is more than that.
The writing is fresh and realistic without resorting to foul language, the characters are well-developed and grow through the span of the movie and the acting is first rate.Another thing that really makes the film work is the music.
To be quite frank Seth Green is the best thing this movie as the rest of the cast is either far too static or fixed in their characuture roles.
Mitchell(Shane McDermott) isn't just some kid trying to get a date until he gets back to California, but that's what you're thinking, isn't it??
I thought that Airborne was a great movie..
My first house on Veazey, Ave, between Ferguson and Boudinot, was just a couple blocks away from Western Hills High.Watching this movie is like celebrating my courtship years in downtown Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport.
Watching a young Jack Black and Seth Green in a movie together is pretty entertaining and the humor is great!
If you enjoy bad movies, you will love this film.
the movie came out when i was 11 years old so at that time i thought it was a great movie.
at the time though i thought that shane mcdermott was hot so the movie was very appealing.
he really wasn't the best actor but at 11 i wasn't really critiquing the acting, i just watched a lot of movies if i thought the lead guy was hot.
if you are over the age of 15 this movie is probably not going to appeal to you but if you are younger then you might like the rollerblading scenes and the fact that there is a cute male lead.
The hockey scenes are kind of odd, especially when Snake is skating and it sounds like a knife being sharpened, but everything else is great.Jack Black gives an awesome performance.
"I like Nintendo and" Seth Green is also awesome as Wiley.....Funny movie and I personally recommend it to everyone out there!GORent or buy the movie!.
The scene " I'm too sexy", I laughed so hard, it was so funny, I had to rewind and watch it again, the whole movie was great.
This movie has real good rollerblade stunts.
Seth Green was just to funny in this movie, all of his movies I have seen with him in it, have been great.
Jack Black plays a real good roll in this movie as well.
This enjoyable yet predictable teen movie is about rollerbladers in Cincinnati that race down Devil's Backbone.
While he's charming to the girls, the gang of steroid-pumped high school hockey players he runs into hate him, and they try all they can to give Mitchell a hard time and make his visit in Ohio as difficult as he can.
Mitchell's only peace offering is his ability to rollerblade, which will come in handy during some finale competitions in which the guys all get their opportunity to bond.The story is kind of stupid and hard to believe knowing that some of the high school guys are played by actors like Jack Black and Chris Conrad who are long past teen years.
But, Shane McDermott and Seth Green both offer a few good laughs, nonetheless.
However, the beauty in this movie is indeed the skating scenes, particularly the five-minute downhill race along Devil's Spine.
It is a fantastic sequence, especially if you like skating movies.
It's like having a movie that takes place in North Carolina and Joe Pesci doing his Goodfellas schtick.Lastly, during the final climactic race scene, the kids take roads in the city that do not interconnect and actually end up on opposite sides of this 20 something mile wide city in a matter of seconds, and even end up in Kentucky without going across one bridge.These problems probably wouldn't bother the normal viewer (the other 1000 holes will do that just fine.) However anyone who has spent any signicant time in Cincinnati will be left scratching their heads asking themselves "How the heck did they end up there?".
Throw in a then-unknown Jack Black and a bunch of funny little high school types, and then Edie McClurg on top of it all, and you have one of those perfect 1980s-early 90s films, with the perfection and classicness of which that can't seem to be replicated today.
I say the only disappointment in watching it is the realization that more modern movies are nothing like it..
A lot of fun to watch.Also very early film for Seth Green and Jack Black..
The idiotic high school theme to the movie was incredibly bad and the acting by Jack Black and Seth Green is so bad, it's hard to imagine that they still have careers - now, 10 years later.
This movie may appeal to you pre-teen and early teen girls who want to see a good "date" movie, but anyone that is expecting a high class masterpiece film, it is definitely not this one..
For those of you who've never been to Cincinnati, the hills there are monstrous, crazier than San Francisco and the streets more like Boston.There are several young actors whose careers have taken off since ( Seth Green, Alanna Ubach, Jack Black, Jacob Vargas e.g.), the plot is fine theater, the sound track is very good and the whole thing is fun.
It wasn't worth the movie stub to see it, nor the rental at the video store, watch it on tv if someone's already checked out the last copy of 10 things I hate about you..
Shane McDermott is great i love Seth green and Jack Black they crack me up so hard.
All in all i love this movie its laugh out aloud funny and out and out the best skate next to Brink.
It doesn't have the best acting, or the best story, or even the best characters but there's something about this movie that has made me watch it numerous times.
The rollerblading stunts are top notch and the final racing scene is very well worth seeing the whole movie.
You also get to see early performances by Seth Green and Jack Black (Shallow Hal).
Today I watched it again- I came in just in time to see the stupid romance scenes, and of course who could forget Wally's profound dream (in which, he claims, a shark, representing his love interest's protective older brother, tells him to get away from a perfect wave.
I didn't like the film, but then it was worth the watch.
It's your usual fish-out-of-water culture clash teen dramedy where an outsider must endure certain hardships because he is so different than those around him.Seth Green gets the chance to play the comedy foil, as Mitchell's loser cousin, Wiley, the little man subject to much bullying from his school peers.
Mitchell meets a nice, pretty girl, with a knock-out smile, named Nikki (Brittany Powell) who is perhaps the first good thing to happen to him while in Cincinnati, but soon learns that she is Jack's sister, creating obvious complications along the way.
Owen Stadele is Jack's nemesis, Blane, who becomes a thorn in Mitchell's side when he attempts to provoke a fight over Nikki, which ultimately leads to a street hockey game and the eventual epic rollerblading challenge down "Devil's Backbone".
During the finale, "Airborne" allows McDermott's character (not just here, but in other portions of the movie when Mitchell shows out for the local skateboarders and bikers) to perform magnificent feats like leaping completely over a moving vehicle and jumping from a bridge, onto a truck, and safely to the street without a scratch.
Also, as a kid I thought that the Devil's Backbone was real, and was more than a little disappointed when I came here in 2002 for college when I found out it wasn't.Still, it's fun seeing familiar sites like ravine, Clifton ave near Mitchell, old Cinergy park, and krohn conservatory etc..
A typical fish out of water story.....The young hip SoCal surfer kid named Mitchell (Shane McDermott) gets moved, against his will of course to land locked Cincinnati, Ohio where his geeky cousin Wiley (Seth Green) lives.
Wiley an outsider himself in a way tries to show his SoCal cousin the ropes at his hockey crazy high school.The set up of the movie is really lame.
I suppose it was sort of funny watching Jack Black play goal and fall down a few times but beyond that it was all pretty lame....The movie really changes as soon as a dejected Mitchell comes home from another miserable day a school, and gets a package in the mail.
And he starts to feel good about himself for the first time since leaving the beach.Shane McDermott has since retired from acting, but this was probably his best performance.
He holds his own in a movie filled with fun characters by such current superstars as Seth Green and Jack Black.This was the first movie I ever saw Jack Black in, and it was apparent right away that he was going to be a star.
And of course Seth Green is always good.Alanna Ubach is also in the film, and although she is not yet a household name, she will be eventually.
And she is a very good actor.Eventually the tough guys from the opposing hockey team pick a fight with Mitchell and his refusal to fight makes people think he is a wuss.
When Mitchell's pacifist ways make it look like he does not care, people pull away from him.
Of course he does and helps them win the big race and all his happy in the end.While the hockey scenes are pretty lame as far as realism goes, the roller blade stunts are quite good.
And that maybe fighting is not always the answer.The movie is just some fun mindless entertainment, with some good actors sprinkled through..
To be fair this isn't a bad movie if anything it's actually pretty good but I do think it's a little disappointing.
4. Seth Green is like a girl in this movie.
This is about a new kind in a different element that don't fit in.this move is about rollerblading.they have done movies on surfing and skateboarding now they did one on rollerblading.Mitchell Goosen played by Shane Mcdermott is a teenager that lives for surfing and surfs everyday in California then his parents have to go to Australia and he cant go since it's during the school year so he has to stay with his cousin in Cincinatti where there is no ocean.he's sad but when he get's off the plane it's snowing and his cousin's family pick him up and they say basically about the surfboard there are not many places to use that here,he say's I feel naked without it.so his cousin Wiley played by Seth Green thinks he's cool and the town is all about hockey.Mitchell goes to a new school and the girls fall for him and the boys don't like him.He don't fit in,in there small town, he meets a girl that he likes it just happens to be the sister of the school bully.so they play hockey against the preps then in the end there is a skate contest down the biggest hill in town called devil's backbone,between the preps and the losers,Jack Black in one of his first movies is funny and has funny lines.It's a great comedy and entertaining, teens will enjoy it especially the skating.I know I did when I watched it when it came out and me and my friends got into rollerblade's for awhile.