Airplane Mode (2019 film)

For the 2019 Italian film, see Modalità aereo.

Airplane Mode
File:Airplane Mode 2019 poster.jpg The film's poster, which parodies the 1980 film Airplane!, features the plane dabbing.
Directed by	David Dinetz Dylan Trussell
Written by	David Dinetz Dylan Trussell Logan Paul Jake Paul
Produced by	Andrew Alter Jeff Levin
Starring	Logan Paul Juanpa Zurita Andrew Bachelor Amanda Cerny Nick Bateman Vitaly Zdorovetskiy Brittany Furlan David Dobrik Casey Neistat Nick Swardson Chloe Bridges
Cinematography	Colt Seman
Edited by	Mitch Rosin
Music by	Martin Wilund 2WEI
Production company	Culprit Creative
Distributed by	Gravitas Ventures
Release dates	February 2019 (2019-02) (Mammoth Film Festival) August 2, 2019 (2019-08-02)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Airplane Mode is a 2019 American surreal action comedy film directed by David Dinetz and Dylan Trussell, and written by Dinetz, Trussell, Logan Paul and Jake Paul. Logan Paul portrays the main character, a fictionalized version of himself, who is put in a situation where he has to overcome his fear of flying in order to land a plane containing a group of famous social media influencers. Chloe Bridges, Stephen Guarino, Arielle Vandenberg, Kevin Heffernan, Nick Swardson, Mikaela Hoover, Chris Wylde and Erik Griffin have supporting roles in the film, and it was also the final screen credit for Beverly Polcyn, who died 16 days after the film's release, at the age of 90.

Plot

Logan, Juanpa and Andrew Bachelor take a taxi to the airport, and Andrew tells Logan that prankster Vitaly Zdorovetskiy will be on the same flight, as he is being extradited back to Australia to be put on trial for an incident involving dingoes. Juanpa goes to immigration where the customs officer believes that he is an illegal immigrant, and deports him back to Mexico, although Juanpa convinces him to deport him to Australia as he is desperate to lose his virginity. Logan goes through customs smoothly, but his fear of flying gets the better of him and has to be forced to get on the plane by his friends. Logan takes his seat next to a woman named Jenna, who has similar femur scars as him, and she holds his hand as the plane is about to take off. The pilots announce over the intercom that all passengers should put their smartphones on airplane mode, which they refuse to do. The phone signals causes havoc within the plane's wiring, resulting in the pilots getting electrocuted to their death. One of the flight attendants, Clarice, looks through the peephole, walks in and then immediately walks out, thinking that the pilots are having oral sex. Logan asks for Jenna's Instagram handle, but she tells him that she is not on social media, before realizing that he is part of the "Hashtagacon" group. Logan plays this down and says that he is actually on the flight to meet his girlfriend for the first time. Jenna asks Logan about his girlfriend and how he can love someone that he has not met. Logan tells her that Ariel is the only person that can make him snort while laughing. Jenna proves to Logan that she can do the same thing, and flings a chocolate mousse at a sleeping passenger across the aisle, making him snort as well. Jenna then goes to sleep, using Logan's shoulder as a makeshift pillow. Hours later, Clarice discovers that the co-pilots are actually dead, and gets the air marshal over to the cockpit to deal with the situation, leaving Vitaly on his own. Logan gets up from his seat and overhears the conversation in the cockpit. He opens the door and asks if everything is okay, but freaks out when he realizes that the pilots are dead. Suddenly Vitaly appears, killing the air marshal by breaking his neck, while Clarice and Logan both faint and collapse on the floor. Logan wakes up in the cockpit and goes to find Juanpa to see if he can help him, but he is incapable of doing so. Realizing that his friends would also be the same way, Logan wakes Jenna up from her sleep and gets her to go to the cockpit with him. Jenna freaks out over the situation, while Logan decides to try and find the flight attendants, who are bound and gagged in the cargo by Vitaly. However, Logan chickens out and it is only when Jenna berates him that he decides to come back. He calls the air traffic controller in Sydney, and tells him that the pilots are dead and the flight attendants are missing. The air traffic controller named Benji, suggests using the auto-pilot stick which Logan had broken in a panic, but when Logan tells him that they cannot use that, Benji cannot help them anymore and goes on a lunch break. Meanwhile, Vitaly wants to know where the emergency oxygen supply is, and proceeds to feed a dog cat food, so Clarice tells him where it is. Vitaly opens the cargo door, and says that it was dog food the whole time; it was just in a tin used for cat food. He then throws Clarice out of the plane, before saying his catchphrase, "It's just a prank, bro!". In a mid-credits scene, Juanpa is seen running across another beach (with only a couple of leaves covering his genitals) and chases after a kangaroo. Logan arrives at the house of the boy whose instructional video he watched, and kicks down the door which knocks out the boy's sister. Finally, Andrew is shown to have survived the whole ordeal, washing up on another beach and then starts making out with a sex doll.

Cast

• Logan Paul as Logan
  • Rocco Piazza as Little Logan
• Juanpa Zurita as Juanpa
  • Liam Ramos as Little Juanpa
• Chloe Bridges as Jenna
• Stephen Guarino as Bruce
• Arielle Vandenberg as Clarice
• Kevin Heffernan as Gary
• Nick Swardson as Esteban
• Mikaela Hoover as Claire
• Lorynn York as Ariel
• Hal Alpert as Eugene
• Beverly Polcyn as Old Lady
• Chris Wylde as Co-Pilot Penis/Benji
• Erik Griffin as Co-Pilot Trussell
• Antoine Dodson as Head TSA Agent
• Timothy Brennan as Old TSA Agent
• Casey Neistat as Snoring TSA Agent
• Roman Atwood as Airport Security Guard
• Stacey Scowley as Mrs Marx
• Cassie Brennan as Becky Marx
• Jake Brennan as Connor Marx
• Richard Whiten as Cedric
• James Pulido as Richie

The following social media personalities play fictionalized versions of themselves: Lele Pons, Andrew Bachelor, Jeremy Jahns, Nick Bateman, Jon Paul Piques, Jimmy Carr, Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, Chris Stuckmann, David Dobrik, Alex Wassabi, Anwar Jibawi, Amanda Cerny, Kyle Myers, Lauren Elizabeth, Jerry LaBranche and Paige Ginn.

Reception

Eric D. Snider of Crooked Marquee gave the film a D+, concluding, "We may think that as a society we have done nothing to deserve the image of a lactating Nick Swardson, but we are fooling ourselves. This is who we are."

Lawsuit

Filming for Airplane Mode began in 2016, and it was supposed to be released a year later. However, the film was shelved due to the controversy surrounding Logan Paul and his suicide forest video, and it was eventually released on August 2, 2019 on iTunes. In December 2020, Logan Paul was sued by the production company, Planeless Pictures, for upwards of $3 million after his suicide forest video led to the company's exclusive publishing deal with Google to be suspended. The company alleged that Paul uploaded the suicide forest video in a deliberate attempt to sabotage the film's production, claiming that Paul should have been held responsible for paying back the production company's losses. The lawsuit was settled in May 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Airplane Mode at IMDb
• Airplane Mode at Rotten Tomatoes