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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
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
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
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