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PLANE FOLKS Godfrey C. Danchimah and Snoop Dogg have ''Soul''
Soul Plane: Bruce Talamon
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Release Date: May 28, 2004; Rated: R; Length: 86 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy; With: Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg
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By Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

Apparently, you can tell a lot about a race by the way they fly. ''Airplane!'' taught us that much 24 years ago, when Barbara Billingsley helpfully translated a black passenger's ''jive'' into English. Now THERE was a race joke -- so transgressively silly, it ascended into the comic absurd-o-sphere. The makers of Soul Plane figured they'd simply reverse the racial polarity and pack a whole movie full of similar material -- just not as funny. Basic, brazen, and scatologically obsessed, ''Plane'' forgoes any analysis of its essentialist japery, marveling instead at its own familiar naughtiness. The best gags -- and the cheapest -- involve the aircraft itself, a pimped-out microcosm of black stereotypes, from its Escalade-sleek First Class cabin to ''Low Class,'' a flying tenement lined with liquor ads. If you're looking for comic insights beyond the well-documented ass differential between whites and blacks, well, golly, you ought to try another carrier.


Posted May 26, 2004
 

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