Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Eric Stevenson The original film was my favorite comedy of all time. This isn't good, but it certainly isn't terrible. Given the status of modern spoof movies, it's still the best movie ever. I think my main problem with this flick is that it just reuses many jokes from the first one. The weird thing is that the jokes they do use are funny. It just doesn't do anything that the original didn't do better.The two leads from the last movie still haven't gotten their relationship back together. I missed Leslie Neilsen. At least we got Johnny back! It's a pity the famous people who worked on the first movie aren't back. Weird, I thought William Shatner only had like a cameo in this movie. He actually did have a pretty relevant part. **1/2

Tweekums Set in the near future preparations are underway for the first commercial shuttle flight to the moon. Test pilot Ted Striker has warned that it isn't safe have been ignored and he has been committed to a mental hospital. When he hears of the flight he breaks out and gets a ticket. He approaches his former girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who is the shuttle's computer officer, but is unable to persuade her that the flight must be stopped. Once launched things inevitably go wrong; the computer locks the crew out of the navigation systems and set it on a course for the sun. Ultimately it will be up to Striker to save the shuttle and its passengers.The original 'Airplane' is a comedy classic; this isn't quite as good but it still keeps the laughs coming thick and fast from start to finish. Many of them refer back to events in the first film so some gags work better if one has watched 'Airplane'. The rest of the jokes are nicely varied; there are lots of verbal gags, sight gags and references to other films and TV shows. These references might not be too obvious to those who weren't around in the late seventies/early eighties but not spotting them all isn't a problem as another joke will be close behind. It must be admitted that some jokes probably won't be acceptable to some viewers such as when we are expected to laugh that one passenger is moving to the moon because of rape accusations; which appear to be well founded. The special effects are a bit ropey; looking a bit cheap even for the era. Overall I really enjoyed this; sure it was a shameless attempt to cash in on the superior first film but I still laughed more than I did watching most comedies.

Gideon24 1982's Airplane II: The Sequel is an amusing follow-up to the 1980 classic that, though funny, is not as consistent as the first film and I think it has a lot to due with the fact that the Zucker brothers, the creators of the first film, had nothing to do with this one.Writer/director Ken Finkelman has mounted a similar story, set in the future aboard a computer-operated space shuttle that is making its maiden voyage to the sun, while our hero, Ted Striker (Robert Hays) is on trial for his sanity after what happened in the first film. Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) is now the computer technician for the space flight and is engaged to marry Simon (Chad Everett), the pilot for the shuttle. As expected, circumstances once again find Striker at the controls of the space shuttle as the shuttle's computer goes haywire , not to mention the presence of a psycho(Sonny Bono) on board with a bomb.Finkelman's film does provide laughs but they are not original at all....everything he does here story wise is either lifted from the first film or from other films, giving the proceedings a pervading "been there done that" atmosphere, but I cannot deny that there are laughs here.The chemistry between Hays and Hagerty is still strong and Everett's stone-faced persona perfectly suits his character. Peter Graves returns again as Captain Oveur, as does Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey. Show biz veterans like Raymond Burr, Rip Torn, John Dehner, and William Shatner also score in supporting roles. The film is funny, but is only a pale imitation of the first film.

TheSeaLion If you've seen "Airplane!" than you've seen this. "Airplane II: The Sequel" is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed parody film from 1980 with many of the same elements. For the most part, the story, characters, and jokes are all the same, only this time the film is set in space and is parodying movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey".For the most part, the comedy style for this film was the same one that was used in "Airplane!" using lots of play-on-words jokes to keep the tone of the first film and did not fall victim to other comedy film sequels where it is nothing but juvenile humor. I did find myself getting annoyed at the fact that there were jokes recycled from the first film like the little boy (Oliver Robins) and Captain Oveur (Peter Graves) and the mix-up with the pilot's names. Another problem was that when a joke happened occasionally, I had thought of a funnier punchline in my head, which took me out of the movie a little and sometimes, the jokes just didn't work."Airplane II: The Sequel" brought back a number of characters from the first film including Striker (Robert Hays) and Elaine (Julie Hagerty), McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges) and Johnny/Jacobs (Stephen Stucker) and featured some new characters like Murdock (William Shatner) and Simon (Chad Everett). The problem is that the returning characters are the only ones who are really funny while the new characters, almost all the time, fall flat. Also, while the characters from "Airplane!" were funny and memorable, the only memorable characters from this movie are the ones that were brought back from the first film.In the long run, "Airplane II: The Sequel" is a less funny "Airplane!" set in space. The film had some good jokes that the writers thought up of themselves and the returning characters were good in it, but the same can not be said for the new characters. The jokes, for the most part, were either mediocre or the audience could think of better punchlines for them in their heads, and it did have to borrow a lot of jokes from its predecessor. When it comes down to it, though, "Airplane II: The Sequel" is a comedy sequel that is not as funny as the original, but it manages to make you laugh enough times to make the viewing worthwhile.