Soul Plane 2004

Critics score:
18 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Offers nothing but degrading stereotypes and repulsive toilet humor. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The jokes fly faster than the plane, but the humor cruising level is closer to the old TV series Flying High than to Airplane. Read more

Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: No one is spared the movie's raunchy political incorrectness. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: A prime example of a comedy that's all marketing. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: No doubt Soul Plane sounds more offensive than it is when seen. That doesn't make it more than passable burlesque, but burlesque has its place, too. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: A better- than-average comedy that is raunchy and tasteless but ultimately funny from beginning to end. Read more

Sonia Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Almost as funny as it is offensive. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Soul Plane should come with an air-sickness bag. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A relentless sucker punch to black entrepreneurship. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: It's just not very funny. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: If it's not funny to you that a bunch of white passengers in polo shirts would say 'Oh, goody!' when they hear the in-flight movie stars Sandra Bullock, then don't bother with the rest of Soul Plane. Read more

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Basic, brazen, and scatologically obsessed, Plane forgoes any analysis of its essentialist japery, marveling instead at its own familiar naughtiness. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: It might be pushing it to recommend this movie for full admission, but it's probably worth a matinee or rental. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Long before landing, the movie's tireless minstrel-show mentality sends it into a nosedive. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Starts out as an amiable send-up of black enterprise before stumbling into the familiar blender of diced stereotypes, pureed sexual innuendo and controlled substances. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Movies like Soul Plane give bad taste a bad name. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Nearly unwatchable. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: So broad and relentlessly raunchy that it makes a spoof like Airplane seem as demure as a vintage drawing-room comedy. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Soul Plane is about 'the first urban' (black) airline, whose motto is 'We fly. We party. We land.' They left out 'We potty.' Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Soul Plane recycles its few jokes again and again and yet again, running out of fuel long before touchdown. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Sloppy, uneven, vulgar, lowbrow and often very funny, Jessy Terrero's debut movie might be called Airport Car Wash Scary Movie. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: 90 minutes of amateurish, adolescent yuks. Read more

Brian Lowry, Variety: Soul Plane begins as a high-spirited romp before running out of gas and ideas about halfway up the tarmac. Read more

Joshua Land, Village Voice: This nearly plotless movie follows the maiden voyage of NWA (a moniker that seems to be the extent of the film's wit) through a torrent of stale ghetto jokes in the vein exhausted years ago by the Wayans brothers. Read more

Sara Gebhardt, Washington Post: An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up Soul Plane. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Makes up for what it lacks in genuine humor by overdosing viewers with outrageous sexuality and outsize stereotypes. Read more