Undescribable Perfection

Instant Favorite.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Airplanes vs. Volcanoes is a movie about ,well as you would expect by the title, an airplane vs. volcano. This movie stars Dean Cain in the leading role alongside Robin Givens as they are trapped on a plane in among volcanoes trying to escape.As you would expect this movie isnt very interesting in the slightest,actually the whole idea of this movie is nonsense.Normally as a reviewer i try to give movies a chance a small benefit of the doubt. For the most part some movies do have redeeming qualities,but there is movies such as this that really stretch it.I find it sometimes hard to phrase how i feel about things and this one such case i dont. Firstly, let me start off by saying that this movie attempts to flesh out its characters, this aspect isnt focused on for very long as the dialogue between the characters either sounds clunky or forced preventing any type of development. Some characters present on the plane throughout the movie feel as if they are ghosts not reacting or saying anything. I would have expected, since the cast on the plane itself is very small, everyone to play a role in the plot someway but as you would expect are props to kill off or something along those lines. Most of the main cast of characters,including the likes of the protagonist and the air marshall, lack any sort of depth and to me felt one dimensional. As for interactions there lacks any kind of substance to hold interest for very long.I found myself at many points during the movie laughing, just purely at how things kind of just happen. I feel as if, eventhough it is fictional, the amount of absolute nonsense characters say in this movie doesnt reflect the tone very well. The tone of this movie is very unclear as i felt that it was intentionally over the top and goofy, for the lack of a better word, but i think it was meant to be serious for the most part. As of right now, and probably for the fact that i wont waste an hour and a half again, i dont recommend this movie to anyone. At the least get some friends together to experience this as you might get some laughter out of it.2 out of 10

Once you see that the production company of a "film" is The Asylum, all bets are off and you cannot take anything seriously. To wit - Dean Cain and his acting. For the majority of the movie he sits in the pilots' seat of the plane and looks like he's trying to sh.t out a bowling ball. The air marshall, who I think is Washington, the sweathog from Welcome Back Kotter, was a good laugh. The psychopath dude, not sure if he was supposed to portray some kind of middle eastern terrorist or Spanish one, but whatever. What a great role to ham it up. And that dude did. I really had to laugh at the military clowns. The general in charge had one expression on his face - that of angry constipation. And the scenes outside of the base looked more like a nuclear powerplant than an army base. Robin Givens acting was terrible. I guess Mike Tyson must have beat her so many times during their short marriage that she now is permanently punch drunk. Or she's smoking crack. Because she both acted and looked awful. If you've got two hours to waste, watch this or not.

Some of the various cockpit constructions in this fine film would make dear old Edward D, Wood Jr. proud. And like Sir Wood's oeuvre, Airplane vs. Volcano is hilariously terrible. Indeed, it is a rather one-sided fight from the get-go, and a very strange one. Plot-wise, an airplane flies into a ring of volcanoes that rise instantly, seemingly controlled by a Master 'Cano, and then charts how they will escape with only a light aircraft pilot at the stick! The film throws in a bunch of stock characters, such as the handy vulcanologist, an Airplane-style pilot, a plucky stewardess, a cute kid, a brave mechanic, a commanding officer who won't risk his men to save the stricken passengers, a communications trooper who will risk the brig to do the right thing, and a villain. Of the villain, his motives are totally bizarre and soon go from fear to pure selfish evil (motivated by his erroneous belief that an auto-pilot can do everything, even, presumably, safely landing the plane). Anyhoo, the airplane faces all kinds of flaming balls and fuel malarkey, and the film even manages to have a Star Wars-type finale with poorly rendered CGI (or even models on strings – Ed Wood lives, again!) taking on Mount Doom, and the visuals at the climax really are laughable (which of course just adds to the pleasure of the picture). However, Dean Cain takes it all very seriously, and so I shall end my mirth-filled observations here, in honour of his thespian commitment in bringing us Clark Kent vs. the Volcano.

This is a disaster B-Movie, its title is "Airplane Vs. Volcano"... yet looking at the reviews here, it would seem some people were expecting a blockbuster of multi-Oscar winning potential and a stella intellectual delight.Those people are idiots who expect too much.The acting is everything you would expect from one of these movies, the effects and plot follow suit.The purpose of this movie is to allow your brain 90 minutes of rest, in that this movie succeeds.Just sit back and enjoy the ride, let a laugh escape as you gaze in disbelief at some of the huge leaps it takes with logic.But overall if you're a fan of these films you know what to expect and will enjoy it, for everyone else who just came here because of the flashy poster, amusing title, perhaps you just have a love for Dean Cain, or maybe you're just curious how a plane can take on a volcano? Whichever is your reason, this movie will serve its purpose for you, there are much worse movies of this genre out there (Titanic II, or Snow Sharks for example), at least this one avoids the teen frat boys at a drunken party feel.In the immortal words of Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon"... "Don't think.... Feel" and you will have a fun 90 minutes. otherwise you can just sit there mocking and feeling offended that someone could release a movie of this style like so many of the other (clearly snooty) reviewers