Kevin Hart is a kid who loves airplanes, and grows up to be an adult who still does, even though the experience of flying is pretty pathetic. On one trip, his dog is sent to checked luggage, he gets a bad meal, has his ass sucked into the toilet, and watches his dog get sucked into the engine. So he sues the airline, and with the money. builds his own airline.
We see this mainly through the eyes of the Honkee family - the whitest people imaginable. Dad Tom Arnold, his trophy second wife Missi Pyle, his almost legal daughter and his blinged-out wannabe rapper son are bumped from their regular flight onto the new airline. The plane has hopper hydraulics, spinner wheels and a hot paint job. It has a luxurious Upper Class, but the Honkees are stuck in Low Class, with overhead coin lockets and one bottle of water per row ("Take a sip and pass it on").
Hart's cousin, Method Man, has hired Snoop Dogg as pilot, but it turns out he's never flown. He got his training on Flight Simulator in prison. Also, Hart's lost love is on board. Once airborne, Meth turns the Upper Class lounge into a strip club, then a casino. Add in a raunchy blind man, a couple trying to join the mile-high club, lots of toilet and sex humor (including sex in the toilet humor), and there you go.
This was pretty bad. It was insulting to woman, gays, the blind, Muslims, white people, black people, rappers, strippers - did they miss Asians or did I just forget? The jokes mostly aren't funny (or even really jokes - just awkward or silly situations). Even the hip-hop soundtrack was weak (to my non-expert ears). There are a lot of funny people in this movie, like D.L. Hughley and Mo'Nique, but they don't have much to work with. Snoop was pretty funny too.
Strangely, Tom Arnold gets to be quite sympathetic, giving the black side of life a chance. Sure, he's depressed when his new wife finds out what black men have in their pants, and he's worried when his birthday girl hits the plane's nightclub, but he takes it philosophically. They try to give Hart the same kind of human reality with his ex, but less successfully.
So. not exactly a success. Now I must ask, do we watch Undercover Brother or not?
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