Airplane II: The Sequel

Plot synopsis:
In the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. A lunar shuttle known as Mayflower One is being rushed to launch from Houston. The head of the ground crew, The Sarge (Chuck Connors), does not like what is occurring, but he defers to the airline's management.
On the flight crew are Captain Clarence Oveur (Peter Graves), navigator/co-pilot Unger (Kent McCord) and first officer/flight engineer Dunn (James A. Watson, Jr.). Also on board is computer officer Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty). Elaine has long left Ted Striker (Robert Hays) and is now engaged to one of the flight crew, Simon Kurtz (Chad Everett). Striker has in the meantime been committed to an insane asylum, as he was declared mentally incompetent in a lawsuit following a test flight that Ted piloted and in which the lunar shuttle crashed. Striker believes that the lawsuit was used to silence him, because he knew there were problems with the lunar shuttle that made it unsafe, and he is once more haunted by his actions in "The War" - causing a relapse of his "drinking problem", specifically the events that took place over "Macho Grande", where he lost his entire squadron. When Striker reads of the upcoming lunar shuttle launch, he escapes the asylum and buys a ticket for the flight.
During the flight, Mayflower One suffers a short circuit, causing the artificially intelligent computer ROK to go insane and send the ship toward the Sun. Unger and Dunn try to deactivate the computer, but are blown out of an airlock. Oveur tries to stop ROK, but the computer gasses him. Kurtz abandons Elaine and leaves in the only escape pod. Once again, Striker is called upon to save the day, but first he has to figure out how to make the computer relinquish control. Steve McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges), the air traffic controller, reveals that a passenger named Joe Seluchi (Sonny Bono) had boarded Mayflower One with a bomb in a briefcase, intending to commit suicide so that his wife can collect on insurance money. Striker manages to wrestle the bomb from Seluchi and uses it to blow up ROK and set course for the Moon as originally intended.
Using the bomb to destroy the computer causes collateral damage to the shuttle, meaning the flight is not out of danger yet. On the way to the Moon, control of the flight is shifted to a lunar base, commanded by Commander Buck Murdock (William Shatner). He has a high level of contempt for Striker because of Macho Grande, but agrees to help anyway. They manage to land the craft on the Moon. Ted and Elaine fall back in love and are married at the end. After the wedding, Seluchi looks into the cockpit and asks for his briefcase back.
A postcredit scene shows a screen that says "Coming From Paramount Pictures: "Airplane III". Murdock is then seen saying "That's exactly what they'll be expecting us to do!"

Tags: entertaining, flashback

Review:
More-of-the-same sequel sees Robert Hays, Julie Haggerty, and Lloyd Bridges(among a few others) return as they are now involved with the first lunar space shuttle that is accidentally sent into a collision course with the sun after a computer malfunction.
Once again only Ted Striker can land the ship, and save their lives, with help from the airport crew(this time William Shatner as Buck Murdoch).Sequel tries awfully hard for laughs but comes up short; most are either recycled from the first, or outright fail, though William Shatner is the highlight here, successfully spoofing his "Star Trek" action hero persona well(Watch out for the Enterprise...) Promises a Part III that never materialized, so we'll likely never know if that was a good or bad thing!.
Airplane II - The sequel is quite literally more of the same, same cast (I'm glad to say) except Leslie Nielson (shame that) same jokes (Most of which still work well) same plot (Only this time we are in space) and the same hero.Given all of the above, you may wonder why bother?
Another hilarious spoof of disaster films, this one takes most of the cast of the original "Airplane!" and puts them in the future where space shuttle travel is the hot new thing.
Robert Hayes and Julie Hagerty reprise their roles as Ted Stryker and Elaine Dickinson, two bumbling and likeable characters who fall in love (like so many times before...) during the inevitable breakdown of...
There are one or two good moments, though (some William Shatner scenes and the 2001 waltz spoof) and it's a good thing that the main cast (excluding Leslie Nielsen & Robert Stack) from "Airplane!" returned for this one.
Or maybe saying that most of the jokes are repeated from the first movie.Robert Hays yet again plays Ted Striker, but he doesn't have Elaine (Julie Hagerty).
The film refers about the first journey headed to the moon by means of the space shuttle ¨The Mayflower I ¨.Hilarious as well as silly spoof is loaded with nutty situations , irony , slapdash , slapstick , comedy with tongue-in-cheek , bad taste jokes , rapid flash thrilling choreography , funny situations and with a distinctly American sense of humor .
Basically a rehash of the first genius film, 'Airplane II' recycles the same old jokes over and the few new ones that are there fall flat on their face.
I thought it was really funny that they went into space this time, and they could have done a lot more science fiction movie related jokes, but they didn't, and I suppose that's okay.
In this case I laughed out loud even more.Both are great examples of modern slapstick films - full of numerous obvious gags which means that, if you like this sort of movie, they stand watching many times over, often revealing subtle little visual or audio jokes you didn't spot first time.
In Airplane 2 the visual gags were even better and towards the end William Shatner gave an inspired performance.These films were the first in a long line of similar spoof movies from the same makers, and although there is some tailing off, most of them are very funny in the same way as 'Airplane'..
It has all of the same types of jokes, the same writing style, the same filming style, and a hilarious cast of people who understand exactly what it takes to make a movie funny.The site gags, the plays on words, the silly facial expressions and the overall humor of this movie works so well that I can watch it over and over without losing any real fun value.I strongly recommend this movie to anyone who liked the first movie or who can watch a funny movie without taking it seriously at all.I think that this is one of the first movies that William Shatner was in that I really liked, and he helped add a lot to the fun value of the movie.
Most of the time the sequel rides the wave that the first movie created and the writer/director of this movie did nothing to help it, only hurt it.This time the ridiculously silly movie starts off like the last Airplane movie except that this time it's the first commercial shuttle flight to the first colony on the moon.
Doing it once or twice, say like in Austin Powers, its OK, but if most of your jokes are based on the original jokes from the first movie, then it quickly becomes tiresome and unfunny.There are a few jokes that are funny, the beginning with the Iran Air Courtesy shuttle is one, and most of the stuff with William Shatner was funny until the very end.
This is great fun, and a ton of laughs.....if you are an atheist, Democrat and generally a person of few morals.Yes, if you can laugh at all the sleazy jokes and naked breasts, chuckle at the priests and nuns looking like fools, along with the reference to some nut-case thinking he was Jesus Christ; laugh at child molestation gags, Ronald Reagan insults, etc., then this movie is for you!Hey, I love outrageous humor but make SOME attempt and being "fair and balanced." Why are there no Liberals trashed in here?
You wonder how they found the jokes, it's weird Leslie Nielsen doesn't play in it!How can a movie be this funny, it isn't normal anymore!
The sequel is funny, and that's all that matters.The film may lack ideas and originality but it makes up for it with plenty of laughs.
'Flying High II' - or as it is better known, 'Airplane II: The Sequel' - this follow-up feature takes place in the near future and this time involves disaster on a plane trip to the moon.
Yes, this sequel may not be as fresh and original as its predecessor, but it is very decent of its sort - even if the film was made without the blessing of the original movie's writer-directors..
The on-board computer then goes wrong killing the crew leaving Striker the man to save the day once again.The best way of describing this film, is like going to watch a stand up comedian new show and finding out that the three quarters of the show is the same jokes as the one you saw last time.
The new jokes are very funny, but you just wish there was more of them.Another disappointing thing on the film was Stephen Stucker character (Jonny in the first, Jacobs in this).
Of course, this isn't on the same level as the first "Airplane!", but it's a good parody movie, even without the ZAZ team around.The main actors reprise their roles and that makes it seem like a legit sequel (Sorry - no Leslie Nielsen here).
However, many jokes are recycled from the first one - they're still funny, but this means that "Airplane II" just doesn't have the same staying power as the original - I liked it, but I'm not in a hurry to rewatch it again anytime soon.
It's like, without ZAZ, they just couldn't figure out when to stop at the right time, and that makes some jokes not so funny after a while.But if you forget there was a first movie, you will have fun with this silly little comedy.
Not the worst comedy ever, but not exactly something you should rush out and watch immediately.Copying some jokes from the original film, then overusing its own new jokes, this gets a bit daunting at times.
The main differences are that they're going into space, Leslie Nielsen is only in archival footage, and there is a bit of nudity.Striker (Robert Hays) escapes from the loonie bin to come rescue Elaine (Julie Hagerty) on the inaugural flight of the space shuttle Mayflower.
Captain Oveur (Peter Graves) is piloting the shuttle, and Striker is forced to fly the plane once again.The repeating of many of the jokes from the first movie is probably very necessary.
A new face in this one is William Shatner as Buck Murdoch, Striker's commander.Of course, it wouldn't be a silly spoof without a joke and/or sight gag every couple of seconds.
While it's just a space copy of the original it still has some funny jokes that keeps me watching.
Paramount decided to go ahead and make one anyway despite the protestations of the creators, and hired the writer of Grease 2 (1982) to make the magic happen once again.Predictably, Airplane II - amusingly subtitled The Sequel - doesn't come close to matching the hilarity of the original, doing what most bad comedy sequels do and re-hashing most of the humour that worked so well previously, only without the same conviction or execution.
It short-circuits, causing its on-board AI to go insane and change course for the Sun. Ted Stryker (Robert Hays), the hero from the first movie, escapes from the insane asylum he was placed in by his employers after he discovered technical problems with the space shuttles, and boards the Mayflower in the hope of averting disaster.
Also on board is his old flame Elaine (Julie Hagerty), who is now engaged to one of the flight crew, Simon Kurtz (Chad Everett).Despite the absence of the original writers, there are still a few laughs to be had throughout the film, namely in the form of the permanently stressed and chain-smoking air traffic controller Steve McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges) and his incessantly chirpy assistant Jacobs (Stephen Strucker).
But the saddest thing is that the best jokes are the ones re-worked from the original, with writer/director Ken Finkleman failing to inject enough humour to make this one stand out on its own and not just be remembered as the weak sequel to one of the funniest farces ever made.
Most importantly, is that enough of the lines/gags worked to make this movie good.On the minus side, the plot is a little too similar to the first movie, the characters duplicate their roles - unfortunately to the point of repeating virtually the same lines (no longer that funny).
to use as blueprint, without anything new to add.Well, there is of course a major difference between the two Airplanes: this time, the story takes place on a space shuttle.
Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who just HAPPENS to be on board!That said, there are some funny moments in Airplane II: The Sequel.
There are a few new entries (Raymond Burr as a judge and William Shatner playing an astronaut) who may induce a smile in film-buffs, but sadly, no laughter.Those who haven't seen the original Airplane!
Airplane II: The Sequel is another disaster spoof film except it wasn't made by ZAZ.
Overall good spoof movie but needed some new jokes.
I nearly wet my pants watching Airplane and the same thing happened whilst watching Airplane II:The Sequel.Straight faced Robert Hays is back as Ted Striker, a top pilot who has had a few mental problems along the way.
Just like in Airplane, it's up to Ted Striker to save the day.A good comedy is one that you can watch many many years after you first saw it and still find it amusing.
While it's slower-paced than the gut-bustingly funny AIRPLANE and re-uses some of the same material, AIRPLANE II packs more science fiction movie in-jokes into its length than any other film I've seen, and stands up to repeated viewings better.
This is a good sequel, but a lot of funny things that could have happened didn't.
somehow, i managed to get through all 84 minutes of airplane 2.however,i found it more tedious than airplane 1,which i thought was impossible.i think i cracked a smile once during the first one,but not even close in this one.the jokes were even more stale and unfunny.i'm sure there are people who have enjoyed and will enjoy this movie,but i am not one of those people.interestingly,ken finkleman wrote and directed this movie and would years later go on to create and write the very funny show the newsroom.but i digress.after watching airplane 2, i decided i have to do something fun and entertaining.so' i'voe booked myself into a four day insurance seminar.maybe i'll get more laughs out of it.unless you're a hardcore fan you should avoid this movie.
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.
It is booked with passengers and sent to space on a first ever voyage, and also on board are the stars from the previous film: Ted Striker (Robert Hays), Elaine (Julie Hagerty) and Captain Oveur (Peter Graves).
While at first a smooth ride, a faulty computer causes the shuttle to head straight for the Sun.Probably not as popular or as funny as the first movie, but jokes, absurd humor and slapstick comedy are still in abundance.
But it's a weird follow up where the main characters were reduced to some funny gags (the majority of jokes simply doesn't work) while the background figures are responsible for the outstanding moments of joy this movie has to offer.
The film is worthy enough but not as nearly funny or brilliant as it's original but it's always worth to watch the cast again.
The jokes come at a fast pace and for the most part they are pretty funny, though a lot of them are just the same ones from the first airplane movie.
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.
Despite the sorely-missed presence of Leslie Nielsen for the first film, this is generally a whole heap of fun, a comedy laden with funny gags.As in the first movie, there's always something going on in AIRPLANE II.
"Airplane II: The Sequel" is a typical ZAZ-style sequel affair - not nearly as good as the original (think "Naked Gun II" and "III") but still entertaining and funny.
For some reason a lot of people seem to hate "Airplane II" with a vengeance but it's really not all that bad - you just have to watch it with low expectations and not expecting a sequel on-par with the original.Of course the novelty has worn off, and that's part of the problem.
Every time it gets close to the original it only makes me think of how good the original was and how much I want to be watching that instead of this.I still laughed plenty of times and they have tried to change the nature of the jokes to be slightly different from the original but it is clear that even many of the characters are the same even if played by different actors (Murdock being a space-age Kramer).
The cameos (Burr, Torn, Shatner) are all good value though.Overall this is a funny film, but it will be funnier to those who have not seen the original.
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.
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.
I will watch any of the Airplane movies again they are not funny.
It's basically a recycling of "Airplane" with some of the same actors in the same roles, but this time we're dealing not with an airplane but some kind of lunar shuttle that carries passengers.Like most sequels, it's not up to the original.
The premise is almost identical (substituting a space shuttle in trouble for the earlier 707), as is the cast list with Robert Hays and Julie Haggerty reprising their lead roles as the hapless pilot and air-stewardess, with the likes of Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and Steve Stucker also present, although Leslie Nielson is greatly missed.The same rat-a-tat gag-per-minute ratio is kept up, but it has to be said the humour thus time is a little coarser and lacking in originality.
OK, so it was quite funny, but I found that most of the times that I laughed it was simply about how awful the film was.
The jokes are all what I call environmentally friendly- reduced, reused, and recycled, from the original airplane movie and elsewhere.
Problem starts to arise when there's a passenger carrying a bomb and a faulty computer leading the ship their way to the Sun. Could Ted Striker land the shuttle safely...again?This movie looks like a promising sequel with most of the cast returning but having a different crew.
Mostly, all the jokes were recycled, making the movie feeling like a repeat on the original, with an exception on some parts of the film.Having said that, most of the re-used and new jokes were funny.
Airplane II: The Sequel is NEARLY as good as the original.