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Airplane is a classic spoof of the 'Airport' series of films that did the rounds in the 1970's, that got more and more ridiculous as they went on culminating in 'Airport 79, The Concorde' which was literally the most ridiculous film ever made.

Airplane came along not long after, ensuring that the Airport series of films were put firmly in their place!

The acting in Airplane is deliberately wooden, the music is cheesy, the effects are terrible, and the dialogue and script are also predictable and cheesy.. all deliberate and perfect for what the film is, a spoof. And what a spoof! Even 44 years later, Airplane is an absolute classic and hilarious to watch. It holds up so well, even against current comedy films.

There are so many clever plot points in Airplane that even though I've probably watched it 20 times, I still spot something new everytime I watch. For example, it was only recently I realised the scenes where they show the plane flying have the sound effects of a propellor plane, even though the aircraft is a jet! Subtle, but hilarious when you notice.

In fact, I don't think any single item in this film was spared from being comedic in some way, and clearly a lot of effort was put into making sure everything was funny.

If you have never seen Airplane, then you can only be younger than about 40, because back in the day everyone watched it, and everyone loved it.

I can't wait for my own children to discover this cinematic masterpiece when they are a little older!

My son Henry who is nearly 13 has been playing the computers games for Five Nights at Freddy's for years, which having only briefly played the VR version myself before getting motion sickness, I gathered was the story of some children that ware kidnapped and murdered and their souls made to inhabit big robot teddy bears that are the main attraction at a defunct burger restaurant from the 1980's called 'Freddy Fasbergers'.

So when they said last year or so they were bringing a movie out, my son has been so, so excited ever since, literally counting the days down until it comes out. We planned a trip away months ago so we could watch it at a big cinema with big leather reclining seats.

So imagine when we found out a couple of months ago that it had been rated 15 so he wouldn't be able to see it!

So me being me, and Henry being Henry..... hatched a perfect plot to get him in to see it, which we gave the name 'Operation Teddy bears picnic'.

On the night of the film, I bought tickets for myself and my older son to go and see Five nights at Freddie's which was on screen 13 at 7:40pm. We had also bought a ticket for the Taylor Swift tour movie, which was showing 3 screens away down the same corridor at 7:30pm. We knew they check your tickets and check ID for age as you go through to the screens, but not at each individual screen.

So, armed with his ticket, Henry went to the Taylor Swift movie and sat there quietly for 10 minutes surrounded by hundreds of little girls waving flashing LED glitter wands and running around in Disney dresses like maniacs on cocaine, arguing about whether 'Shake it off' is better than 'Bad Blood'.

Myself and my other son then went through the security to the Freddy movie and sat there for 5 minutes.

I then went to the toilets, where Henry was there waiting for me as had been pre arranged, and we then both went to the Freddy movie, with me stood tall hiding him as he snuck into the screen.. and it worked! Mission success! So I'm now officially the best Dad that ever lived.

I think in reality, the people checking the tickets, who were teenagers themselves on minimum wage, probably wouldn't have cared in the slightest, but we couldn't take any chances.

Henry spent the first half hour looking very nervous as he was worried that at any moment the screening would be stormed by a SWAT team armed with Bar Code readers, who would swoop on him and throw him out. Fortunately this never happened, and we were able to watch the movie and egress to a safe distance without any further drama.

As for the movie itself, well, what can I say? It's clearly aimed at fans of the game franchise, but I've never played the games myself so many of the references and names were sadly wasted on me. But that being said, with no real prior knowledge of the movie, I watched it with an open mind. And I did find it really, really entertaining. I gather people are complaining it doesn't follow the story of the games, but as I didn't know that, I found the story they actually did tell compelling, interesting, and exciting. I could quite happily watch it again! I was fully engaged for the entire movie.

The characters are good, the music and special effects are excellent, and really set a good scene for the many jump scares which I gather is the main theme of the whole Five Nights at Freddy's 'lore'.

As for the rating. Well, I think 15 is too harsh. It doesn't need to be a 15. That being said, it could certainly terrify younger children, especially those who haven't played the game or who are not aware of it. There is certainly a lot of nightmare fuel in there. Huge animatronic teddy bears with glowing eyes will be populating a number of nightmares for years to come I suspect. Possibly mine.

So if you have a precious sensitive child who only plays Minecraft and Minion Rush while in their 'safe space', then you may want to give this a miss.

If on the other hand you have a more robust child who makes dens, digs holes, and plays by streams with a stick.. then they're going to love watching Five Nights at Freddy's. It was fantastic.

So, where to start?

It's all a bit 'Blade Runner' esque, with replica women to replace peoples wives. I'm sure there is a whole debate to be had about the morality of that, but I'll leave that for other people to discuss!

The story centres around William and Meredith, and Meredith waking up for the 'first' time with William.

There are a load of sub plots going on, which at first all seem a bit random if I'm honest. There are also some things which made me wonder if there were some continuity errors, or scenes that hadn't been thought through properly as they seemed out of place or meaningless. This made the start and middle of the film actually a bit disjointed to watch.

But... as the film got into its last third, all these disjointed parts actually came into play. So something that seemed to have, at best, mediocre writing.. turns out to be a lot better written than I'd first thought. I'm actually really glad I saw it out to the end as it made everything make sense.

For that reason I'm going to watch it again in a week or two, as now I know the ending I think I'm going to get a lot more from a re watch, now I know what I'm looking out for.

The special effects, music, and actual filming and sets are really good. It does feel like a quality production. The only thing that lets it down really is some quite poor acting, which is a shame, as I don't normally pick up on bad acting, so for me have to done so means it must have been bad.

The exception here is Elena Kampouris who was excellent. The way she plays a sort of robot character, initially very clunky, but learning and improving as she goes along was played really well. She honestly does act and appear to be a robot, so she is certainly the shining star here, and hopefully this will get her more work in the future as she deserves it.

So yeah.. 6 out of 10. Not a terrible film but not a great film either. If you like Elena Kampouris and science fiction then you'll probably really enjoy it, as she carries the film through to its reasonably good ending, almost single handedly!