Comedy

Airplane II: The Sequel

- For the ride of your life... All you need for Christmas are your two front seats!

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.

Release Date : 1982-12-10

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Paramount Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Airplane 2: The Sequel

Cast

Character Name : Steve McCroskey

Original Name : Lloyd Bridges

Gender : Male

Character Name : Judge D.C. Simonton

Original Name : Raymond Burr

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Sarge

Original Name : Chuck Connors

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bud Kruger / President Reagan

Original Name : Rip Torn

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Commissioner

Original Name : John Dehner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Simon Kurtz

Original Name : Chad Everett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Clarence Oveur

Original Name : Peter Graves

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elaine Dickinson

Original Name : Julie Hagerty

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ted Striker

Original Name : Robert Hays

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dave Unger

Original Name : Kent McCord

Gender : Male

Character Name : First Officer Dunn

Original Name : James A. Watson, Jr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cdr. Buck Murdock

Original Name : William Shatner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jacobs / Courtroom Clerk

Original Name : Stephen Stucker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Stone

Original Name : John Vernon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Witness

Original Name : Al White

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joe Seluchi

Original Name : Sonny Bono

Gender : Male

Character Name : Testa

Original Name : Laurene Landon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Controller #2

Original Name : Richard Jaeckel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Hammen

Original Name : Lee Bryant

Gender : Female

Character Name : Prosecuting Attorney

Original Name : John Larch

Gender : Male

Character Name : Officer #1

Original Name : Sandahl Bergman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Religious Zealot

Original Name : David Leisure

Gender : Male

Character Name : Moral Majority Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Kitten Natividad

Gender : Female

Character Name : Woman at Topless Scanner (uncredited)

Original Name : Monique Gabrielle

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ticket Agent (uncredited)

Original Name : George Wendt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lounge Singer

Original Name : Jack Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : Little Breather

Original Name : Hervé Villechaize

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shuttle Agent

Original Name : Madeleine Fisher

Gender : Female

Character Name : Defense Attorney

Original Name : Sandy Ward

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse

Original Name : Louise Sorel

Gender : Female

Character Name : Scalper

Original Name : Clint Smith

Gender : Male

Character Name : Buffalo Anchorman

Original Name : Pat Sajak

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman with Baby (as Pamela Ann Rack)

Original Name : Pamela Guest

Gender : Female

Character Name : Court Photographer

Original Name : David Paymer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Airsick Woman

Original Name : Ann Nelson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Father O'Flanagan

Original Name : James Noble

Gender : Male

Character Name : Topless Model (uncredited)

Original Name : Crystal Smith

Gender : Female

Character Name : Woman at Topless Scanner (uncredited)

Original Name : Ilona Wilson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Information Agent

Original Name : Ed Call

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pervis

Original Name : Richard Gilliland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dave Walters

Original Name : Howard Honig

Gender : Male

Character Name : Phoenix Six Captain

Original Name : Lee Patterson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : Earl Boen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Old Man #2 (uncredited)

Original Name : Martin Garner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Person #1 (uncredited)

Original Name : Rance Howard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Gregory Itzin

Gender : Male

Character Name : International Inquirer Reporter (uncredited)

Original Name : Jim Staahl

Gender : Male

Character Name : Moscow Anchorman

Original Name : Leon Askin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tokyo Anchorman

Original Name : Marcus K. Mukai

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-07-09

Well I suppose a sequel was bound to happen after the success of the first film, but sadly this isn't a patch on that. Essentially, this is exactly the same film only we substitute a lunar space shuttle for the aircraft. "Ted" (Robert Hays) has been certified (by "Perry Mason" himself - Raymond Burr) after his wartime PTSD finally got the better of him - or, perhaps because he was just aware of flaws in the systems of the shuttle that the big bosses wanted to overlook. Anyway, he manages to escape custody and get a black-market ticket for the flight that duly goes awry. Can he stop it from crashing into the moon-base and thereby really irking William Shatner's "Murdock"? Most of the cast from the first outing have stuck with this, and there are quite a few entertaining parodies for the likes of Burr, Shatner, Chuck Connors, Bono and Rip Torn but the comedy ship had already sailed. This is a feeble imitation that struggles right from the start to find that sweet spot; the humour is more crass and vulgar delivering more emphasis on the disjointed box office cameos rather than providing us with a decent plot. It's watchable but quite forgettable.

Filipe Manuel Neto

@FilipeManuelNeto

2024-05-04

**A sequel that should never have been made because the first film did everything there was to be done.** After the success of “Airplane”, there was an immediate desire to make a sequel. However, the creators of the first film had serious doubts about this because they felt that they had run out of jokes about airplanes, that the film had done almost everything it could do and that there wasn't really a logical continuation for that work. And I think that feeling had a strong impact on the way this film was imagined: we are no longer on a plane, but on a space shuttle heading to a human colony on the Moon, somewhere in a future where the technologies and clothes are the same as from the period in which the film was made. It is Ken Finkleman who directs and scripts, due to the refusal of the original creators to embark on this new project. New direction, new creatives, new team, but the “recipe” used was virtually the same as the previous film: situational comedy, sometimes quite mischievous, in a succession of jokes that may or may not work well and resemble a kind of collage of humorous sketches united by a common thread. The film's humor is reasonably good and I think there was a substantive effort to match the quality of the initial film. However, I believe that the directors/writers of the first film were right when they said that the basic premise was tired, and that it would not be a good idea to make a new film that was too identical. In fact, the film's atmosphere is very warm, the ideas surrounding space travel are very far-fetched, the dialogues are excessively identical to those of the first film and even some of the best jokes are recycled and reused, in an effort to copy and paste that demonstrates a certain mental laziness. The pacing is decent enough, but the film, in general, doesn't give us an experience that could be said to be satisfactory. In addition to all this, I felt that the film also reuses part of the environments and settings from the first film. That is, if the story is set in the future and inside a lunar shuttle, why on earth does it continue to resemble the interior of a common plane? Once again, laziness, lack of investment in the project and, perhaps, lack of a decent budget. The cast is, to a large extent, the same as what we saw in “Airplane” with the same characters and saying the same jokes, in the same situations. I can't say that the actors didn't try to make an effort and give us a job well done, but I'm sure they received bad material and were part of a project that should never have gotten off the ground. One of the most obvious absences is Leslie Nielsen, an actor veteran enough to have certainly realized that it would be a bad idea to take part in this new film. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are back, but they are not that interesting and the work they do is very weak. William Shatner is one of the few actors who deserves a positive rating, and who manages the job well enough.