A slim entry in the "Airplane!" genre, "Soul Plane" starts out as an exuberant romp but soon gets trapped in a holding pattern of dumb sex and toilet jokes. Like the airline at its center, the film more or less lives up to the slogan, "We Fly, We Party, We Land," and that's about it. Younger audiences will help the comedy accrue boxoffice miles as a down-and-dirty diversion, but older filmgoers will avoid a flight that goes nowhere.

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