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Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

December. 10,1982
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6.1
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PG
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A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

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Alicia
1982/12/10

I love this movie so much

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Raetsonwe
1982/12/11

Redundant and unnecessary.

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Pacionsbo
1982/12/12

Absolutely Fantastic

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TrueHello
1982/12/13

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Eric Stevenson
1982/12/14

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

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SlyGuy21
1982/12/15

If there's one thing that the first "Airplane!" taught us, it's that some parodies can only be done once. The main problem with this sequel is that it just feels like the first movie again, some of the same jokes are even recycled from the first movie to a T. Aside from a few minor changes, this is essentially the first "Airplane!", but without the effort or charm of the original. It just feels lazily put together in order to shovel out a sequel. I will say however that William Shatner is the highlight of the movie. His character here is a great parody of Captain Kirk from "Star Trek", and almost all the jokes he has work. Besides Shatner though, the rest just feels phoned in and not worth your time.

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Desertman84
1982/12/16

Airplane II: The Sequel is the sequel of the 1980 satirical comedy Airplane,which received a lot of praise for being a great film that parodies accident genre films that became popular during the 70's. It was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and it features Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono. Without the involvement of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker unlike in the original,this film does not hold a candle to the timeless classic.The significant difference in this film and the original is that the event takes place in the spaceship headed towards the moon after an airplane crew was assigned by the management to take over.While it may still offer tons of laughter especially with tons of references based on frequent sex and drugs,it wasn't as funny as the first film.Despite of it,it was still a film worth one's while and it is nice to see stars like Hagerty,Hays and the rest get together again for one sequel of Airplane.

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l_rawjalaurence
1982/12/17

As if to prove that nothing succeeds like imitation, producer Howard W. Koch takes the plots, characters and gags from the first film (1980) and recycles them in a spoof that has intrepid pilot Striker (Robert Hays) and his faithful assistant Elaine (Julie Hagerty) trying their best to stop a passenger-laden aircraft from being incinerated by the sun. Jokes come thick and fast in this ninety-minute piece - so fast, in fact, that if we blink an eye we are likely to miss them. While some of them are extremely funny, many of them might also be considered extremely sexist, involving nymphomaniac virgins (a deliberate contradiction), clerics giving blow-jobs, repeated close-ups of female breasts. Other jokes might be thought of as simply taboo in today's world (for example, implied references to pedophilia and/or bestiality). Nonetheless AIRPLANE 2 offers a good example of great character actors from US television of the Sixties and Seventies - Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors - being willing to make fun of themselves on screen. They might have had no choice (especially if their found work difficult to come by after their respective series had concluded), but they clearly relish the opportunity to deliver their ridiculous lines with deadpan seriousness. Shatner is especially good as a service commander charged with the responsibility of bringing the stricken ship to a safe landing (he fails, by the way).

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