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Summary: "Do you know what it's like to laugh like that?"
Review: "Yes, yes I do." The sequel to Airplane! has the same laugh a minute style as the original, which is surprising considering both films were written and directed by different people. The original was written, produced, and directed by Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker (Naked Gun Films) and this sequel was written and directed by Ken Finkleman (Who's that girl, Grease 2). Any way both films are very funny. The sequel picks up with the same characters. Striker (Hays), now in a mental hopspital (because "he's sick..sick..sick" is still in love with Elaine (Hagerty) and tries to persuade her to help stop the XR2300 lunar launch because he believes the ship is faulty. The shuttle launches anyway and the scenes on board switch to Striker's court case which has to do with his flight "over macho grande" and his saving the Airplane! in the original film. Next the plane starts to "shimmy" and the pilots are knocked out by the ship's computer ROC (Like Hal from 2001). If that's not enough, Sonny Bono has brought a bomb (not a buh, a bomb) and plans to blow everyone up because of his impotence problem. Striker is helped by none other than William Shatner (in a very funny preformance) to land the shuttle. Many funny characters make return appearances, especially Lloyd Bridges as McCroskey. The DVD is the widescreen version which is nice but there are no extras which is disappointing but both Airplane films are must haves regardless."They're launching the XR2300! Do you know what that is Doctor?" "The muffler bracket on a 79' Pinto?" "No that's the XR2200, the XR2300 is the lunar shuttle!" "Ted Striker." "Do you know him, Sir?" "Never heard of him. That's not exactly true...we were like brothers." "Sir, these lights keep blinking out of sequence, what should we do?" "Get them to blink in sequence." "Ted Striker's got more guts in his little finger than most of us do in our large intestine, including the colon!"
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Summary: A good sequel to the original blockbuster
Review: The original "Airplane!" is one of my favorite movies of all time and one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. "Airplane 2 - The Sequel" is also funny, but it's not as funny as the original blockbuster movie. In this one, a shuttle is on its way to the moon, but it gets majorly off course and is headed almost straight for the sun instead. A lot of the original cast members are back in this sequel such as Julie Haggerty and Robert Hays. However, some such as Leslie Nielsen are not back, but there are some new and funny cast members such as William Shatner as Murdock. "Airplane 2 - The Sequel" has the same kind of hilarious antics that the original movie had such as when Julie Haggerty tells everybody that they might not make it because they're going through an asteroid belt. At that statement none of the passengers hardly have any reaction, but when she tells everybody that they're out of coffee, everybody goes ballistic. Another good parody is when William Shatner is looking through space with the aid of a periscope and he sees the Enterprise that he commanded in the original series of Star Trek flying in space. If you liked "Airplane!," I recommend getting "Airplane 2 - The Sequel." It's not as classic or as good as "Airplane!," but it's still funny and it's a fairly decent sequel.
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Summary: Warning: There's Something Missing...
Review: I won't waste time with complimenting or insulting this movie. I love it...just not as much as the origional. What really bothered me was the absence of several scenes. I kept having the funny feeling that I was missing something (I hadn't seen the movie in 10 years) and then it dawned on me. After the credits we see "Airplane III" and then it shows William Shatner say, "That's just what they'll be expecting us to do.". I had scene this snippet in a scene years ago when I watched Airplane II. I then realized that some very funny stuff had been left out of the movie. The origional or even TV version had several more scenes that were simply deleted in the DVD version. I'm guessing maybe 10 to 15 minutes are missing. I can't even begin to comprehend why these scenes were deleted. We're obviously not worried about time constraints on a DVD. I am very disappointed with this version simply because of the deleted material. I really enjoy this movie, but would have enjoyed it a lot more had the whole movie been included. Perhaps they should sell it with a warning stating that you're not receiving what you expect.
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Summary: Not Anywhere Near The Original
Review: Let me start off by saying I loved the first Airplane and consider it to be the best comedy ever. So I'm not a hater of the genre. When I first saw Airplane about two years ago I laughed until I cried. Just days after seeing it I was in an electronic store and saw Airplane 2 on DVD. Assuming it was made by the guys that made the original I bought it, oh how wrong I was. This is nothing but a sad attempt to copy the success of the original. Paramount asked the Zuckers and Jim Abrahams to do the sequel, when they declined saying there's not enough jokes left to do a sequel Paramount just hired some other guy to do it. The result, Airplane 2 crashes and burns.
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Summary: Not Better than the Original But it`s has some moments.
Review: When the Air Travel Company has made a Plane that could go to the Moon! But Ted (Robert Hays) is now a Mental Hostipal and he escaped from there, because he knows there`s a flaw on that new Plane. Elaine is also on that Plane, now is up to Ted to save the Passengers and his Girlfriend but when a Terrorist (Sonny Bono) is in the airplane, he wants to Kill the Passengers and Kill Himself. The only man, who could help Ted is from the Moon!, an air controller supervisior (William Snather), who could save them. Directed by Ken Finkleman (Screenwriter of Grease 2 & Who`s That Girl) made This sequel doesn`t have the same laughs as the Original or Doesn`t have the same style of direction from:Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker. Still, it was a Box Office Hit in 1982. Snatner steals the film, when he`s on Screen. Dumber than the Original but not Better. Grade:B+.
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Summary: Lack of New Material Lets it Down
Review: Two years after the hilariously funny, and new comic styled original came the sequel (inevitably I suppose) and sadly was nowhere near its predecessor in comedy or durability. Perhaps the lack of the Zucker team at the helm helped steer this vessel on to the rocks, as it certainly dived at the box office pretty rapidly. Don't get me wrong, this is still funny, but is really only a reworking of the original movie, only this time using a Space Shuttle as the doomed aircraft. The main characters are all back to reprise their roles with the addition of William Shatner (who's presence and role are one of the high points of the movie), but unfortunately the director just went with the same formula, and the lack of fresh material, makes the movie lumber. Fans of the genre will no doubt find plenty here to keep themselves amused, and the budget price means that your home collection can be completed quite inexpensively if you have the original, but otherwise this is a bit of a let down. I desperately wanted to give more but 3 stars is a stretch.
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Summary: A Special Edition DVD Would Be Nice!
Review: Airplane II isn't as funny as Airplane but it has it's moments and has some funny scenes that make it worth watching especially the hilarious scenes with William Shatner poking fun at his Captain Kirk, Star Trek persona and he seems to be really good with comedy. I want to buy this movie on DVD but it's a shame that there aren't any extra features but hopefully a special edition DVD will come out soon as well as a special edition DVD for Airplane so I think that maybe I will wait for special Edition DVDs.
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Summary: "Do you know what it's like to laugh like that?"
Review: "Yes, yes I do." The sequel to Airplane! has the same laugh a minute style as the original, which is surprising considering both films were written and directed by different people. The original was written, produced, and directed by Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker (Naked Gun Films) and this sequel was written and directed by Ken Finkleman (Who's that girl, Grease 2). Any way both films are very funny. The sequel picks up with the same characters. Striker (Hays), now in a mental hopspital (because "he's sick..sick..sick" is still in love with Elaine (Hagerty) and tries to persuade her to help stop the XR2300 lunar launch because he believes the ship is faulty. The shuttle launches anyway and the scenes on board switch to Striker's court case which has to do with his flight "over macho grande" and his saving the Airplane! in the original film. Next the plane starts to "shimmy" and the pilots are knocked out by the ship's computer ROC (Like Hal from 2001). If that's not enough, Sonny Bono has brought a bomb (not a buh, a bomb) and plans to blow everyone up because of his impotence problem. Striker is helped by none other than William Shatner (in a very funny preformance) to land the shuttle. Many funny characters make return appearances, especially Lloyd Bridges as McCroskey. The DVD is the widescreen version which is nice but there are no extras which is disappointing but both Airplane films are must haves regardless. "They're launching the XR2300! Do you know what that is Doctor?" "The muffler bracket on a 79' Pinto?" "No that's the XR2200, the XR2300 is the lunar shuttle!" "Ted Striker." "Do you know him, Sir?" "Never heard of him. That's not exactly true...we were like brothers." "Sir, these lights keep blinking out of sequence, what should we do?" "Get them to blink in sequence." "Ted Striker's got more guts in his little finger than most of us do in our large intestine, including the colon!"
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Summary: Nowhere Near As Good As The Original, But It's Still Funny!!
Review: The redundantly-titled (on purpose, of course) AIRPLANE 2 - THE SEQUEL (1982) follows the rapid-fire, gag-a-second style of the original AIRPLANE! (1980) so well that, although it doesn't come close to matching the original for laughs, it's amazing that it was made without any input at all from the ZAZ boys (Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker) whatsoever---no writing, no directing, nada! It was in fact written and directed by just one man: none other than Ken Finkleman. I know, you're probably asking, Ken Who? Well, it seems that good ol' Ken is rather famous---more like *infamous*---for two mega-bombs of the '80's: GREASE 2 (made the same year, actually---1982) and WHO'S THAT GIRL? (1987). The fact that he took a beloved comedy that was still fresh in the minds of the audience members and dared to follow it up with his own vision, and made it this funny, is just amazing. (Now, if he only could have done that good a job with GREASE 2...) Of course, AIRPLANE 2 - THE SEQUEL couldn't live up to the lofty expectations set by its predecessor, but that's okay, as there are some big-league laughs here. Robert Hays returns as the stone-faced, hilariously serious Ted Striker as he tries to prevent disaster on the First Passenger Space Shuttle To The Moon. Along for the ride, literally, are Julie Hagerty as Elaine, the flight attendant and Striker's ongoing love interest from the first film. Also making a return is (believe it or not) Lloyd Bridges as old Steven McCrosky (who must've picked a bad time to start guiding space shuttles), and Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Oveur (thankfully, little Johnny didn't board this flight). Too bad Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) didn't come back for this trip; however, joining the crew in AIRPLANE 2 - THE SEQUEL are Chuck Connors as The Sarge, Raymond Burr as Judge D.C. Simonton, and William Shatner as Commander Buck Murdock. Shatner steals the show and gives what is easily the funniest performance in this film. Unless you've never seen Star Trek, you're bound to get the endless jokes! In short, this is a really short movie. At only 85 minutes, with at least five of those minutes showing flashbacks to the first AIRPLANE!, this sequel doesn't give us very much. However, it still gives us plenty of hilarious moments, such as what happens at the end of a line of people, each one exclaiming "Striker," "Striker," "Striker...!" Also, it gives us Sonny Bono as the villain---c'mon, you can't possibly hate a movie that does that---plus, we get brilliant cameos by Rip Torn, Hervé Villechaize, and James Noble (the Governor on the TV show "Benson" for those who don't recall the name). Not only that, but David Leisure is back! (Although, instead of playing "First Hare Krishna" he's playing "Religious Zealot #1.") Listen, I wouldn't recommend spending the proverbial arm & a leg on this DVD, especially because, like its predecessor, it offers absolutely nothing in the way of extras. But, at the price for which it's being offered on Amazon, I'd say that it's well worth it. RECOMMENDED
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF AIRPLANE!
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Summary: Take a flight on the Airplane shuttle and laugh.
Review: Grab your bag of peanuts and get ready to take another flight aboard Airplane. It all starts with the theme from the TV series "Battlestar Gallactica". All-star cast includes the return of Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves with Oliver Robins, David Leisure, George Wendt, Chad Everett, John Dehner, Rip Torn, John Vernon, Raymond Burr, Chuck Connors, Jack Jones, Sonny Bono, Kent McCord, James A. Watson Jr., James Noble, Ann M. Nelson, Donn Porter, Louise Sorel, Pat Sajak, Gail Matthius, Art Fleming, William Shatner, Herve Villechaize and many more. They never made a third film. DVD contains no extras or bonuses.
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