Anssi Vartiainen A sequel to the legendary Airplane!, with no returning actors, no original team and none of the talent that made the original such a hit. This time we're ripping off space clichés with a space shuttle headed for Moon, but naturally things don't go according to plan because incompetent people lead the flock and we need a plot, don't we.This film attempts to make humour the same way humongous supermarkets do business. Namely through sheer quantity. It doesn't matter if the individual items, or jokes in this case, are of poor quality. If you have enough of them, someone will buy something. In the case of this movie that means that every single opportunity for a visual gag, pun or pratfall is seized with both hands, almost like a drowning man might grasp at straws. There's no rhythm, no reason, no art. Just jokes, jokes, jokes, until they stream out of your ears.And yes, because there are so many jokes, some of them do hit the mark. I did chuckle once or twice. But because most of the gags are so below the bar, that is a very small consolation.This film doesn't deserve to exist. Enough said.

mark.waltz Rushed together under the success of the first one, the nastiness of getting this released. The jokes are mostly unfunny, the set-up forced, and the slugs at the "Airport" series forced rather than fully plotted. This takes the bomb plot of the first film and puts it into the hands of Sonny Bono who buys a bomb in the airport gift shop before boarding a super sonic jet heading for the moon. Once again, Robert Hays is estranged from fiancée Julie Hagerty, having had another breakdown somewhere in between the two movies, and is desperate to get her back. Somehow discovering that Bono has a bomb, Hays becomes a hero again, after the pilots (once again lead by Peter Graves) are afflicted by poisonous gas let out of the computer system let out by a Hal like mind. The first movie was hysterically funny because every gag seemed to be choreographed rather than just tossed on for cheap laughs. The gags here are either repeated or weakly placed without regards to the outcome or the placement. Gone are Leslie Nielsen (seen only in an obvious filler flashback) and Robert Stack, here replaced in a different part by William Shatner, obviously spoofing his "Star Trek" role, and he gets the funniest visual gag. Lloyd Bridges and Stephen Stucker are back as are a few of the same passengers, with Ann Nelson very funny in her cameo, but poor Lee Bryant reduced to further hysterics that uses a flashback and comes off as more gratuitous than funny. I missed Lorna Patterson, seen in the same flashback, but a definite sad absence. I wanted to see more of future soap diva Louise Sorel, seen briefly as a nurse.A sad follow-up to one of the greatest comedies ever made took the spoof out of filmmaking until the "Naked Gun" series came along. In watching the two films back to back, the second film's weaknesses become all the more apparent.

utgard14 Airplane! was one of the best comedies from the 1980s. Some would argue it was THE best. So this sequel had a lot to live up to. Obviously it's nowhere near as good as the original. It's not as creative or unique. It reuses some of the same jokes and gags. But it also adds some new material. Unfortunately, the sense of familiarity wears on you after awhile. I'd say after about the hour mark I was no longer laughing steadily. Instead I was chuckling every few minutes. Still, as far as sequels go, not being a complete wretched abomination can be seen as a huge accomplishment. I'd recommend you not watch it immediately after the first film. That might help some of the reused jokes seem a little fresher.

David Love You do need to watch Aiplane first, but this is a good laugh in its own right. Most of the favourite characters are here, this time in the first passenger space shuttle to the moon: Julie Hagerty as Elaine, torn between weak boyfriend Simon (Chad Everett) and battle wounded Striker (Robert Hays) who sneaks on to the shuttle then has to pilot it home.The cockpit crew this time around consists of Oveur, Unger and Dunn who had previously served together in the Air Force ("That's right. Dunn was over Unger and I was over Dunn.... So, you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur, even though I was under Dunn").The misunderstandings are still there: (Can I ask you a question? What is it? It's an interrogative statement, used to test knowledge. But that's not important now) Great to see some old-timers: Chuck Connors as Sarge, Lloyd Bridges as McCrosky (I love the gag where he poses against a desk in front of a photo of him posing against a desk, in front of a photo of him...). As this is a sort of Star Trek version, it's brilliant to see William Shatner in a gloriously mad cameo.Even as a Brit 30 years on I can get the gags about Ronald Reagan and the 'Psycho Month' magazine with Alexander (I'm in charge) Haig on the cover.I love the trial sequence with Raymond Burr as the judge. Listen to the prosecutor's footsteps. I missed that on the first couple of viewings. The jive testimony "So Blood hammered out and jammed jet ship. Tightened that bad sucker inside the runway like a mother. Sheeet." (translated as: So Mr Striker took control and landed that plane safely. Golly!). I do think it was a mistake to revisit the 'hysterical woman' sequence, not because it isn't funny but because we see Leslie Nielsen in a flashback from Airplane and he is sadly missed from Airplane 2. The best sequence is the 'Buddy couldn't handle it' one but it should have been cut at 'I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande'.I also love the sequence where the Japanese and Chinese guys overhear Ted and Elaine's conversation. The Japanese guy understands English so when he hears 'this ship could blow any second' he spits out his drink. The Chinese asks what that was and the Japanese guy translates. Now the Chinese guy spits out his drink. The timing is perfect.Yeah. Plenty still to like here.