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Soul Plane If you're like me, one image from this movie has been sticking in your mind since you heard about it. When that purple pimped-out plane goes bouncing down the runway, Soul Plane looks like it might one of the funniest movies ever. Sadly, the rest of the film doesn't live up to it. Kevin Hart stars as Nashawn - a young African-American entrepreneur who experiences the worst flight you have ever seen, then wins a $100 Million court case against the airline. With his new found wealth, Nashawn has decided to start his own airline catering to African-Americans, but on the maiden flight from Los Angeles to New York, everything that could go wrong does including a captain (Snoop Dogg) who has suspect credentials, a white family accidentally transferred on board, the return of a long lost love, and dissension among the staff. Can this flight land safely? Soul Plane is a great premise searching for a better script. When it focuses on airline satire and skewers security, treatment of passengers, employees, the class system, the food and more, Soul Plane is hilarious. These moments give Hart, Tom Arnold as Elvis Hunkee, Snoop Dogg, and all the actors who play airline employees a chance to get honest laughs. However, writers Bo Zenga and Chuck Wilson, along with director Jessy Terrero, often go the easy route and settle for potty humor and vulgarity, which yields more cringes than laughs. This is the most disappointing aspect of the movie because the smart comedy is there for you to enjoy and it's accessible to anyone who has tried to fly someplace in the last 10 years. Soul Plane is one of those movies you will see on cable someday, enjoy for what it is, then forget about it. 1 ½ Waffles (Out Of 4) Copyright 2004 - WaffleMovies.com
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