The Gen X Files

For our second entry into All that ZAZ!, we're going to be covering the grandaddy of all spoof movies: Airplane! Based on Zero Hour, which was recorded by accident by ZAZ, it is one of the highest grossing and critically lauded comedies of all time. The brilliance of casting serious drama actors, like Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, and Leslie Nielsen, not only changed their careers, but changed the landscape of comedy in Hollywood, forever.

Welcome to All That ZAZ! First up is The Kentucky Fried Movie, the movie that Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker made because they couldn't get any studios to bite on Airplane! It's a barrage of sketch comedy that pushes the envelope as far as they can. Starring (with less than one minute of screen time total), Bill Bixby, George Lazenby, and Donald Sutherland. With support from Henry Gibson and Evan C. Kim. Directed by John Landis!

Join your ol' stepdads as we discuss the weather, new movies and TV shows, how many video games we aren't playing, and just generally aging gracefully. Or something. Oh, and we talk about politics! We know you've been waiting for this!

To close out our Good Presidents month, we end with the toughest President ever put on screen: Harrison Ford in Air Force One. Co-starring Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Liesel Matthews, and Dean Stockwell, with gritty direction from Wolfgang Peterson. Ford might force you off your plane, but you won't want to leave this thrill ride.

For our next President in our Good Presidents month, we hit up the quintessential American President: The American President. Generic name? Sure. Love story or political drama? Both. With amazing performances from Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, David Paymer, Samantha Mathis, and Michael J. Fox; witty writing from Aaron Sorkin; and deft direction from Rob Reiner, the American President is a movie that we need right now.