Airplane II: The Sequel

1982 "For the ride of your life... All you need for Christmas are your two front seats!"
6.2| 1h25m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 10 December 1982 Released
Producted By: Paramount Pictures
Country: United States of America
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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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Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Helio Could this film even be considered to be made much less released today? It shows physical abuse against women several times: getting slapped around, shaken, punched and humilated in various scenes seemed to be a common theme. How did people (the writers, the actors, the director, the audience) think this was funny?
Desertman84 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.
Rainey Dawn Although not quite as good as Airplane!, Airplane II is almost just as funny as the first film. Lots of odd-ball jokes and sight gags in the sequel. Ted and Elaine will do what they can to keep their passengers on the space shuttle safe but a computer error send them off their course and straight for the sun - can Ted get the shuttle back on the right course to the moon? Of course he can but not without a few more jokes and gags to help him and the audience along.If you liked Airplane! then you are sure to enjoy Airplane II The Sequel - it really is almost as funny as the first film.Recommended similar humored comedy movies: "Mars Attack!", "Galaxy Quest", "Spaceballs", and "Men in Black".9/10
l_rawjalaurence 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).