User reviews

Right, well with a title like "Airplane vs Volcano" you know exactly what you are getting yourself into. Despite that, then I was a bit skeptic when I saw The Asylum name make an appearance on the screen during the opening scenes. But still, I continued to watch the movie, because it might just be one of those rare instances where The Asylum completely surprises with a unique experience...

...But that was not the case. Not by a long shot.

This movie was ridiculous in concept and execution. A massive ring of volcanoes erupt in a violent outburst, trapping a commercial airplane in the midst. And the only people on the entire world paying attention to it is a small group of soldiers stationed in something that looks more like an outdoor shack dressed up to be a military command post than it actually looked like an official military installation.

The CGI effects weren't too bad actually, I will say that much. But the constant repetitive usage of scenes was wearing thin within no time, even if the director tried to throw off the audience by flipping and mirroring the scene. But come on, it fools no one.

The characters in the movie were non-distinct, and they could all have been extras and fillers, because no one really stood out. You could say that they are one-dimensional and generic.

If you enjoy disaster movies, there are some far better movies out there, and I can't really come up with a valid reason for recommending this movie, aside from if you are a fan of anyone on the cast list.

This movie has to be the best movie ever created that can actually waste 2 hours of your time without giving anything back. You can actually learn more by watching the wall and following some ants around the house.

I recommend reading a book about nothing.

You can go out and just sit on the front of the house and enjoy 2 hours better than this movie.

I will be adding this movie to the worst list ever of movies that can waste money on actors and produce nothing.

10 lines!

....... I can't think right now...

.... I literally cannot think right now...

Okay, my mind is recovering: well, me and my family decided to sit down and watch some television on a very mundane Tuesday evening. Finding little to watch, we ultimately stumbled across the SyFy channel. There we took notice in the brilliant title "Airplane vs Volcano." It may have been better to just watch a blank wall for the equivalent amount of time that this movie took up. Me, my family, and even our dog lost IQ points for having sat through this.

If you are capable of suspending all belief and thought, then you might let this movie pass for not being the dumbest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

To sum up this movie: random volcanoes spike out of the earth, and Dean Cain pilots an airplane stuck in autopilot. If that sounds appealing to you, good luck!

If the caption bought you here then please click right away to the next movie on your list. The movie opens with such pathetic way. Actors shame themselves with college fest show. To keep it precise and short the movie lacks any suspense. At times when imagination runs wild and you expect something to happen the scene cuts to the next shot. The props are below par and some seismic reading equipment look like some hydrophone recorder. Folks trust me and jet off !!! Please don't go by the ratings of other users who sometimes over-rate or under rate movies. If at all please see that average users will always warn you to avoid these crap movies. Un-interesting avoid at all costs.

I think people are being a bit too harsh with their reviews.

First off, this is obviously not a Hollywood blockbuster.

Second, stop taking this movie seriously.

Get some friends, get some good food and some herb and get ready to laugh your a$$ off at a horrible attempt at a movie.

You have to appreciate that Dean Cain used to be Superman and is now in this low budget film.

Honestly, my favorite part of this movie was how unbelievable it was. I think if you have the right mindset, and aren't expecting Passenger 57 or Con-Air, you'll really enjoy how dumb this movie is.

One of my favorite things to do when I don't want to watch a good move, is to watch a bad movie. It's so much fun watching unbelievable plots with sub par acting and even worse special effects.

So, next time you watch a "bad" movie, remember to set your standards low and it might have be a great movie if you let it just be dumb.

I guess it's not for everyone. But, if you're taking life too seriously all the time, you'll miss gems like this movie. Cheers!

If you like movies like Two headed shark or Sharknado , this is something for you. There is some extra entertainment if you try and spot the errors in backdrop, equipment or just the bad extras in the background.

Some CGI scenes gets shown 5 or 6 times, but the movie actually does a good job of picturing a hellish place to fly around in.

Every scene where they try and get some sympathy or emotion from you or the actors fall dead flat, perhaps the writers next time should do a pure action movie without kids or women ? They could also do well by study some military from the inside instead of watching "Full metal jacket" 5 times in a row.

Asylum have done way worse movies than this.

I am so very sorry but there are serious spoilers in this comment. Avert your innocent eyes if you plan to watch this cinematic work of art and tenacity.

Don't Look!!!!

OK. You looked. It's on you now.

I have never in my life laughed more than I did at this movie. It was down right therapeutic. I think the last time I laughed this hard was...was...was...no...no. Nothing dumped poop on my eyes and brain like this movie did. This is the first time I've ever been this sorry for the actors. Dean Cain and Robin Givens... Times must be really rough to sign on for this ride. The other actors in this thing were clearly paid $20 if they spoke and $10 if they didn't.

Clearly the Janitor wrote this story and was paid for his expertise with a smoking jacket and a pipe. This movie should have ended at 13 minutes but NO! It had more to give to US, the beleaguered viewers.

You see, there was an airplane. There was a volcano. Plot done. But no! There's more! Now you have to ask yourself certain logic questions like, "How flippin' long does it take to fly over a volcano?? (I am laughing so hard, I can hardly see). Why did the captain set the autopilot to circle exploding volcanic ash clouds? Why is that kid even there? Why aren't the other passengers wondering what's up with the telephone/ tablet guy? Why is there a Marshall on the plane? To give the lunatic something to do, I reckon. Why am I watching this train wreck? WHHHYYY?? I'm totally rubber- necking at this point.

Then Dean Cain keeps on sitting in that pilot chair even though he isn't actually doing anything. The auto pilot, you know. Dang that autopilot!!!

At some point, the incompetent flight attendant fixed man's broken arm and made it WORSE THAN IT ALREADY WAS. Then she put a band-aid on it and called that a day. Then she has to turn off the auto pilot by reaching behind some freaky wire combobulation but instead, jettisons the fuel while Dean Cain fiddles his thumbs in the pilot chair due to the unlockable autopilot.

But there's more! The lunatic locked in the bathroom for 1/3rd of the movie. What is he doing in there in all that time??? WHAT????

My very favorite part was the plan to get off the plane with a raft and a parachute! GENIUS!!! We all get to float down to safety. ASTOUNDING!! We won't float down into volcanic magma that airplane is circling. Oh no!! At this point, I am laughing so hard that I need my asthma rescue inhaler. Remember, folks: Henry, the janitor wrote this movie and was paid with a pipe and a smoking jacket. Maybe a donut.

I could not BREATHE when the lunatic gets blown up in a raft in the water. My eyes brimmed. My body went limp with love for having this movie come into my life.

This "film" must be owned!!! I WILL buy this straight to video movie! Oh yes! It shall sit in my collection next to Ed Wood movies, Godzilla vs Anybody, and Plan 9 From Outer Space. It is a visual masterpiece that deserves a spot in your collection.

Watch it just one time and your depression will be lifted while your common sense is beaten into a bloody pulp right in front of you. You will think to yourself that this movie is a crime, a travesty of justice, that just keeps going on and on and on. (much like this post actually).

No, you won't ever get the time you spent watching this crime but, by golly, it's two hours you will never forget. Rent it! Watch it with close friends who have the same mental disease that you do. Get a monster sized vat of popped corn and a box of tissue for the tears of laughter.

There are commercials with better plot lines than this movie. But that is all a part of the fun.

This is a disaster B-Movie, its title is "Airplane Vs. Volcano"... yet looking at the reviews here, it would seem some people were expecting a blockbuster of multi-Oscar winning potential and a stella intellectual delight.

Those people are idiots who expect too much.

The acting is everything you would expect from one of these movies, the effects and plot follow suit.

The purpose of this movie is to allow your brain 90 minutes of rest, in that this movie succeeds.

Just sit back and enjoy the ride, let a laugh escape as you gaze in disbelief at some of the huge leaps it takes with logic.

But overall if you're a fan of these films you know what to expect and will enjoy it, for everyone else who just came here because of the flashy poster, amusing title, perhaps you just have a love for Dean Cain, or maybe you're just curious how a plane can take on a volcano? Whichever is your reason, this movie will serve its purpose for you, there are much worse movies of this genre out there (Titanic II, or Snow Sharks for example), at least this one avoids the teen frat boys at a drunken party feel.

In the immortal words of Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon"... "Don't think.... Feel" and you will have a fun 90 minutes. otherwise you can just sit there mocking and feeling offended that someone could release a movie of this style like so many of the other (clearly snooty) reviewers

This was undoubtedly the worst movie i've ever seen. (And I've seen a lot) A 10 year old could have come up with a better story line. Not only is it not realistic, it lacks logical sense as well. Even if that was OK, they've tried to squeeze in too many such stories into one.

Had they tried to work on one scenario, its may have been watchable at least. It was actually funny to watch and wonder if the director actually thought it was possible?

The graphics in the movie are horrid as well. I can't believe they made this type of movie in 2014.

Do yourself a favour and don't watch this.

I can summarize this review by simply saying that if Dean Cain and Robin Givens (former Mrs. Mike Tyson punching bag) is in the movie, just walk on by, nothing to see here. You have to say to yourself, who in god's name would even accept a screenplay written about an airplane, an airliner no less, that is somehow out of all improbability flown into the center of a ring of volcano's that are erupting at the same time?? Have you EVER heard of any more than ONE volcano in any geographic area erupting? No, cause it has never happened in recorded history. And of course the FAA didn't see this, even just one of the volcano's causing a flight hazard?? Well maybe an FAA under the incompetent Oblamo Administration. Anything more written is an even bigger waste of time than seeing this boil of a movie. Go and rent the original "Airport" movie and have a good laugh at a great pun filled comedy instead. As for Dean Cane, take up selling Real Estate in Hollywood instead and stay off the Big and Little screen, please.

Oh, gosh, so many h8rs for a film that doesn't aspire to be anything more than worth every penny of your $1.50 at the Redbox.

You'd do yourself a favor to cut this The Asylum outing the break your IMDb and Amazon peers have denied.

The preposterousness and cheesiness of this comic book melodrama are actually redeemed by some winning performances; colorful and creative, if not convincing special effects; and a cast totally committed to this project, no matter how ridiculous the plot thickens like flowing lava.

The story: Some unclear natural disaster has created volcanic activity of such scale that it's essentially turned the West Coast into Mordor.

As it happens, an airline (for some reason, just one airline, and not hundreds) is approaching L.A. at that exact time, and ends up flying straight into the volcano.

It flies and flies and flies, for the entire 90-minute runtime, somehow, despite engine failure, pilot deaths, insane terrorists, low fuel, volcanic heat, flying lava balls and ash clouds so hot they turn beachgoers into piles of cinders.

How will they survive? How can the volcano be stopped?

You'll be surprised how much you'll care about those answers.

The cast: Dean Cain got too fat to be Superman, so now he turns up in The Asylum roles Greg Evigan turns down to preserve his dignity. He's OK in this one as one of those stock-character passengers who happens to know how to fly a plane once the pilots are dead.

Surprisingly endearing is a turn by Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, famous only as Freddy "Boom Boom" Washington on the '70s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," as a grizzled air marshal. Somebody give this talented Hollywood veteran a cop series.

Robin Givens shows up, characteristically devoid of any charm or personality, as a volcano expert who exists only to forward and describe the absurd pseudo-science of the film's main conceit.

And as is true in pretty much every other The Asylum flick, the supporting cast and extras act their little nobody hearts out, as if this stupid DTV kerfuffle was "Terms of Endearment."

The SFX: Most of the time, it looks like a CGI aircraft superimposed on a Renaissance painting of the Catholic interpretation of hell. But you can't say that's not doggone pretty to look at. Most of this film is the fire-orange hue you wish Crayola made a crayon of when you were an insane little kid.

A couple of times, when a piece of lava hits the plane, or as the plane flies over vast magma fields, it looks really cool. Credit the editor as much as the SFX team for creating fine dramatic tension on the cheap.

Other times, it looks like a cartoon. Like a "Bullwinkle" cartoon.

The lowdown: Look, you watch a movie called "Airplane Vs. Volcano," you know It's from The Asylum, you can't fault the thing for wasting your time because it wasn't "Star Wars."

Few production houses require viewers to leave their brains at the door as often as The Asylum. But when we do, we're occasionally charmed by the end product.

"Airplane Vs. Volcano" is one of those pearls in an otherwise slimy oyster bed.

Is this movie even scripted? Who but the US Army recruiters would produce this garbage? What a message.

The nation state military can save you from the big bad Volcano.

I think we all know this is psychological manipulation going on here.

This movie doesn't even qualify for B class.

Count the American flags.

I've noticed DoD putting out quite a bit of garbage lately.

This one blows the top off of the volcano.

Just replace all the US flags with North Korea and you'll realize what propaganda this movie is.

So sad... in 2014... This is what is served up to drum up sentiment.

That is not to say Airplane vs. Volcano is great, because it isn't. It isn't particularly good either, but with the concept and the movie's title(any low-budget movie that has vs. in the title is often bad) I was expecting a disaster. Airplane vs. Volcano doesn't look too drab and it is shot and edited competently, while the direction shows signs of tautness. The music is a step above the sluggish-in-temp and generically orchestrated scores I'm used to hearing from an Asylum movie, while there are signs also of fun and tension that isn't present in most Asylum movies with the more scientific elements not completely out of whack this time. The acting is better than average too, well at least mostly. Best of all being Robin Givens, it's very rare to have an Asylum movie who has a beautiful woman who can act halfway convincingly, though Dean Cain is also a more than serviceable lead. However, Airplane vs. Volcano also isn't without questionable acting, David Vega in particular is saddled with a stereotypical and fairly insignificant antagonist role and overplays it so badly that it feels like pantomime. The effects do look cheap and rushed-looking, the best they actually get quality-wise is okay. The dialogue, though there are some snappy and thoughtful moments(something that you almost never hear me say about an Asylum movie), can feel ham-fisted- especially in the more dramatic parts- and for a straight-face movie there are some lines where it actually is difficult to keep a straight face. As has been said, there is some fun and tension but Airplane vs. Volcano takes a straight-faced approach and takes the story far too seriously. The dramatic parts really bog down the movie- the pacing is fairly tight and brisk everywhere else- and come across as too melodramatic and in a way that doesn't feel natural at all. The conflict is equally unconvincing, it feels very forced and it's not helped that the antagonists are so weakly written. Overall, has a lot of problems but considering the concept and title screaming of disaster Airplane vs. Volcano was surprisingly better than expected. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Worst movie ever seen. Ejected at min. 49. Tried to continue the second day but, no! - When you have a stinky sh on your plate you simply can't admit it's a cake. - This movie was made for people with mental disorders. - It's something like those Kung Fu movies where fighters are jumping 10 meters from ground. - You simply can't make movies like this. - This is 2014 not 1982. Wake up, grow up! Made a lot of lines, also but not enough.Sorry, nothing else to say. This is Guantanamo.. That's why I'm gonna start to sing, right now: I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee, I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to see. It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry The sun so hot I froze to death, Susanna, don't you cry.

Talk about a film that doesn't talk itself too seriously. You'll literally cry tears of catharsis as all your stress and whatever has been getting you down is forgotten and your sins are forgiven.

So many good parts... when they have to fix the engine, the first rescue attempt, the entire situation on the ground.

Believe it or not you can actually watch this film more than once. I've watched it a few times and each time I notice clearly intentional gaffes for the viewers entertainment. Enjoy!

Volcanic lava appears to eat a man in Hawaii as he talks to Robin Givens (as Lisa Whitmore) on the phone. She has a bandaged finger. The volcanoes are still pretty hungry because they next try to down an airplane flying around the Pacific Ocean. In order to get heroic star Dean Cain (as Rick Pierce) into the driver's seat, the airplane's pilots both die during turbulence. However, the plane goes on auto-pilot, due to terrorism concerns, and just keeps flying around hungry volcanoes. This looks like a job for Superman, but Mr. Cain can only turn into a chubbier Burt Reynolds. Acting from his seat for the entire movie, Cain tensely grimaces...

The Kondelik Brothers and the folks at "The Asylum" may have noticed the publicity surrounding the studio's awful movies had reached a feverish pitch with "Sharknado" (2013) and others. "Airplane vs. Volcano" can genuinely classified as hilariously bad. The directors skillfully guide cameras and performers from one ridiculous scene to another, keeping almost everyone's tongue in cheek...

The exceptions, top-billed Cain and Ms. Givens, are largely quarantined from the action. Cain ends up contributing mightily to the silliness. Givens is dispensable but sexy. The real "stars" are volcano expert Matt Mercer (as Landon Todd) and Earth-bound specialist Morgan West (as Neil Tully). With the directors' guidance, Mr. Mercer and Mr. West handily steal, and anchor, the movie...

Of the supporting characters, officer Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (as Jim Kirkland) most captures the goofy mood of the story. He consistently portrays his character with both dignity and humor. His is the best-written role and the heart of the story. The highlight may be when handsome auto-body worker Anthony Marks (as Frank Matthews) volunteers to go on a mission outside the flying airplane. Incredibly, they buckle together seat belts and string Mr. Marks out of the plane; you must cross your fingers and hope one of the buckles doesn't come undone. The lovely Tamara Goodwin (as Rita Loss) and crazed David Vega (as Carlos Crieger) fill their roles well...

Followers of good bad movies should definitely catch "Airplane vs. Volcano". You'll have a fun flight.

****** Airplane vs. Volcano (3/28/14) Kondelik & Kondelik ~ Dean Cain, Matt Mercer, Morgan West, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

If one is expecting a low budget, bottom of the barrel movie, it may meet your expectations. Thinking while watching this movie is not advised. It is, however, quite high on the absurd level.