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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 479
Released: October 20, 2009 |
| Our Price: $8.89 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery named Del Griffith - a loud mouthed, but nevertheless loveable, salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild goose chase that keeps Neal from tasting his turkey. Steve Martin (Neal) and John Candy (Del) are absolutely wonderful as two guys with a knack for making the worst of a bad situation. If it's painful, funny, or just plain crazy, it happens to Neal and Del in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Every traveler's nightmare in a comedy-come-true!
Bonus Features:
* Getting There is Half the Fun: The Story of Planes Trains and Automobiles
* Other: John Hughes for Adults
* Other: A Tribute to John Candy
* Additional Scenes: Deleted Scene - "Airplane Food"
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Those Aren't Pillows Edition) Reviews:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! 
2009-11-27 - In honor of today being Thanksgiving, I thought I'd review this hilarious film! Steve Martin & John Candy are the perfect team. Neal Page is an advertising executive who is trying to get home for Thanksgiving. On the plane to Chigao, he chats with Del Griffith who is a sweet guy, but is very talkative and clumsy. They help each other get home, and nothing goes right. They are robbed and their car blows up. Will these two men make it home it time for Thanksgiving? I highly recommend PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES!!!
An 80's classic that gets a better DVD treatment!
2009-11-17 -
Neil Page (Steve Martin) is your typical businessman who had a meeting in New York as he must go back to his home in Chicago to see his family on Thanksgiven. Unfortunately he gets a terrible curse and that curse is Dell Griffeth (John Candy) who is a fat and obnoxious shower-certain salesman who is causing Neil's trip to Chicago from plane, train and car a living nightmare for two days.
A hilarious, heart-felt and exciting comical road trip romp from John Hughes is his best besides "Sixteen Candles" and "Ferris Bueller". Even though it's rated "R" for some swearing, it can still be enjoyed by the whole family as this is a heartwarming and funny movie about friendship and sometimes feeling left out. The acting is superb and so is the pacing in this movie, with a brilliant screenplay that feels so original. Featuring appearences by Kevin Bacon and Ben Stein, this movie is definitely a geniune crowdpleaser and my fave of Hughes's movies.
This DVD contains excellent picture and sound with some extras that were not in the bareboned DVD such as three featurettes including a tribute to the late John Hughes and a deleted scene.
FINALLY! A great movie.
2009-11-03 - What needs to be said but -- FINALLY it is here. I am so sickof seeing it dubbed and cut on TV -- YOU know the scene I am talking about... gobble gobble!
It has the extra doo-dads and one deleted scene on the airplane which is pretty funny!
Get this DVD.. NOW! :-)
Jim
I think they cut it out because it was too long.
Thank goodness. It's about time this comedy classic gets the special edition treatment!!!!
2009-10-11 - I've always enjoyed P.T.A. because of the star power of Steve Martin and John Candy they delivered in this film. Also the movie has some famous lines like "those aren't pillows!" I am pleased that Paramount has made the time to punch out the SE edition , especially just in time a month before Thanksgiving!!
yay, brownie scene!
2009-09-24 - I'm giving this 5 stars first, because it's a great movie, one of my favorite comedies. The other reason is that the "dinner" scene ( or "brownie" scene ) on the plane is one of my favorite scenes in the movie that is inexplicably taken out most of the time it's shown on TV and on all of the DVDs. The scene is classic, if you like the movie already and haven't got a chance to catch this scene, you need to.
I don't care about extra features, I usually don't watch them more than once, if that, so my rating is for the movie and the added scene ... finally.
