S.W.’s Scores
Continuity
+2
Entertainment
+7
Rewatchability
+5
CastRobert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves
StreamingParamount+, Amazon Prime
S.W.’s Verdict
A spoof of disaster movies that fires jokes so fast that missing three doesn't matter because the next four will land. Nielsen plays it completely straight, which is why it works — nobody in this film thinks they're in a comedy, and the commitment to deadpan absurdity is total. The humor ranges from surgical wordplay to a full-blown jive translation scene. Some gags have aged poorly. Most haven't. The continuity is irrelevant because the film's internal logic is deliberate chaos. You don't rewatch it for the plot; you rewatch it because you missed half the jokes the first time.