Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

eric262003 While putting in the efforts of spoofing the 1970 film classic "Airport", "Soul Plane" freely utilizes stereotypical jive lingo as an homage to 1970's blaxploitation films has its share of slightly amusing moments, but the final product falls flat and is quite tedious in terms of detail. The story tells the tale of sadly unlucky airplane passenger Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) who's had the worst airplane flight of his lifetime. His dog was regarded as checkout baggage, the food on the flight was gross, plus his behind was stuck in the crapper during turbulence and if that's not enough, his dog gets sucked into the jet engine due to a stewardesses carelessness. Nashawn sues the the airline with a whopping amount of money of close to $100 million and it was granted to him. With that amount of restitution, he establishes his own airline company, the NWA (Nashawn Wade Airlines). The abbreviations have a certain wink to something straight out of Compton. The airline caters to African-Americans and the hip-hop lifestyle. Even the terminal is named Malcolm X and the airlines come complete with hydraulics, spinners and a dance club. Surely Nashawn shouldn't have another troubled airplane ride. Right? And don't call him Shirley.In the spoof of disaster film "Airport", "Airplane!" went all in in lampooning all the seriousness that "Airport" possessed. They showed no apologies to its audience who felt offended by saying you can't be serious all the time. Fun should play an important role in life and I couldn't agree more. What made "Soul Plane" irksome was that it was lampooning a a film that' already a parody of another film which makes everything seem odd and really out of place. The sentiments in this film is handled with a superficial texture in the script that is only manifested by its insensitive approach which seems very accepted in its delivery.The gratingly long scene in "Soul Plane" deals with Nashawn's awkward moment while he's stuck on the toilet and the loss of his dog plus the overlong court case settlement. At first glance, screenwriters Chuck Wilson and Bo Zenga seem to be aiming towards a human emotional comedy where we do take pity for Nashawn and his misfortunes. But this scene is only just a small detour for "Soul Plane" to fall into an array of politically incorrect humour and scenes that truly generate laugh out loud moments. Even though Nashawn's misfortunes tend to go on for too long, it's easily one of the funniest scenes in the movie. Once the NWA gets under fruition, everything is just over-the-top and tedious.What differs "Soul Plane" from "Airplane!" is that the focal characters are around the passengers as opposed to the crew. The only exception is around NWA flight Captain Antoine Mack (Snoop Dogg) as he's trying to overcome his fear of heights. A stewardess named Blanca (Sofia Vergara) get into the melee where one of the more famous tropes to the disaster film has to have a civilian to eventually save the day. Most of the film's plot seems to veer vaguely into the lives of the other people on the plane. The only Caucasian family on the flight are the Hunkees (racist humour right?). Any film that stars are more calmer Tom Arnold character (who plays Elvis Hunkee) does get some credit for doing a very good deed.Though he he has starred in bigger and better things in his career, Kevin Hart has claimed that "Soul Plane" was pivotal in the jump-start of his career and to his credit he does deliver a serviceable acting job. Sadly the film was just poorly submitted that it just wastes the talent here who poured their heart out in making the film work. This is one film that wasn't ready for takeoff.

Adam Foidart "Soul Plane" is an incredibly unfunny, incredibly racist excuse for comedy with no plot and lazy gags. The conceit of the film is that if an African American man did own a plane, it'd would be the most coonish, irresponsibly run, "hip", and party-filled airline. That's really all there is to the movie. There's no real plot, just a quick origin story for the airline (which is most undignified) and a demonstration of what the flights are like. I could in theory have seen how this would have worked. A "hip" airline that really speaks to the black community, with a single white family bearing witness to their African American neighbours being finally able to let loose and say what they've been thinking about airplanes for years... there might be some material there. The fact is, the owner of the "Soul Plane" is not a responsible business man who has triumphed over adversity in an industry run by white people. He did not actually earn the money to buy his own plane, instead getting it when a toilet incident kills his dog (just go with it, the sequence where this happens is idiotic and trying to explain exactly what happened would be a waste of time). Even while managing the airline, the "lead" character is completely incompetent, hiring the worst possible pilots to fly his plane and nearly killing everyone on board. I say "lead" because there really is no actual main character to this film, the story jumps from gag to gag for the entire running time with some running jokes that resemble a plot giving you only a vague idea of who you should be cheering for The movie degrades women and shows them all as having no ambitions or desires besides having sex with black men (without even having the guts to show any male or female nudity in an R rated comedy aimed at teens) and depicts all men as stupid or incompetent. The film makers idea of a joke is constantly throwing stereotypes at the screen. What do they serve in the plane? well Popeye's fried chicken of course! What do they serve in the airport lobby? Fried chicken and waffles! I lost track as to whether they ended up with watermelon, grape soda, pickled pig's feet and chitlins. A special dishonorable mention to John Witherspoon that plays a blind character so stupid he confuses a baked potato with a woman in a really disgusting and rage inducing gag. The movie starts off bad, then irritating, then genuinely offensive over and over until you either become a seething pot of boiling rage, or you fall back into your chair in a semi-depressed state, wishing it would simply end so you can try to purge all memories of this abomination from your mind. Writing a review for this was incredibly difficult because it's genuinely hard to express how bad this film is. If I can put it simply, there is absolutely no reason to watch "Soul Plane", to recommend it or for this movie to have even been made. (On DVD, July 27, 2012)

wes-connors After eating Beef Stroganoff on an airplane, obnoxious passenger Kevin Hart (as Nashawn Wade) has to make a quick run to the restroom. While making a noisy bowel movement, the plane encounters turbulence and Mr. Hart gets himself stuck in the toilet seat. He sues the airline and is awarded $100 million. Hart decides to use the money to create his own airline, called N.W.A. (Nashawn Wade Airlines). The initials are probably also meant to evoke T.W.A. and the name of a rap group (one with Attitude). Toilet, sex and race humor dominates, courtesy of writers Bo Zenga and Chuck Wilson. Their cleverest joke is on Michael Jackson. The director who keeps this turkey in the sky is Jessy Terrero. Other names in the cast are Tom Arnold, who was married to Rosanne Barr four wives ago, and legendary rapper Snoop Dogg. The latter performs on the soundtrack, but it doesn't make this film any less painful.* Soul Plane (5/28/04) Jessy Terrero ~ Kevin Hart, Tom Arnold, Method Man, Snoop Dogg

hana27 i don't know if im the only 1 but i think this is soo bad it amazing snopp dog i luv him in this film i love the soundtracks on this film over all a brilliant film i have recomnded it 2 a lot of friends my whole family likes it there's a bit of a stupid ending and no real story line the pink pimped up palne is good. the only thing is if you want to get this film it is hard i got it from HMV about 1 week ago but I've never seen it there before if you have something like love films or amazon you should rent this film places like blockbuster will not have it i know you probably think if its that hard to get it must be bad but its not trust me.