Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

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.

Unlike the first more in this series, this movie has dated quite quickly but still stands up in many ways.So the characters from the first movie have progressed and developed in many ways. Ted Striker is now an important test pilot in the new space plane program and Elaine is a computer expert. Wow, how many other sequels have this level of character development between movies?Anyway, this time the problem is that the new shuttle has been poorly designed and this has been covered up while Ted Striker has had a nervous breakdown fighting the system while Elaine has moved on to the guy who was responsible for the cover up.Once again things play out the way they did in the first movie with Ted getting on the space flight with other commercial passengers and when the crew is sucked out into space he has to take over and land the plane.The beginning and end of this movie are good if not great with William Shatner being the man who has to talk down Ted Striker using nothing but the power of over acting and flashing lights. The middle of the movie is filled full of lame jokes that sometimes miss and sometimes make weak contact. But it is still a fun movie if you don't give up during the middle of the movie.

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.

The first Airplane movie was a classic comedy. A spoof of airplane disaster movies, and a great one. This, the sequel, is not as good as the first movie - the novelty has worn off somewhat. The structure and formula of the jokes is set, and the same as the first movie. Makes some of the jokes quite predictable.Still a good movie though. Hilariously funny at times. Like the first movie it does suffer from the fact that some of the jokes would have been topical at the time, but are mostly meaningless now.The two leads, Robert Hays and Julie Hagarty, reprise their roles from the first movie., and do a good job. As do Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves.Some famous faces in minor roles: Raymond Burr, William Shatner, Sonny Bono.