Best movie of this year hands down!

Thanks for the memories!

Excellent but underrated film

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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?

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.

The first Airplane movie was a classic comedy. A spoof of airplane disaster movies, and a great one. This, the sequel, is not as good as the first movie - the novelty has worn off somewhat. The structure and formula of the jokes is set, and the same as the first movie. Makes some of the jokes quite predictable.Still a good movie though. Hilariously funny at times. 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. As do Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves.Some famous faces in minor roles: Raymond Burr, William Shatner, Sonny Bono.

If you've seen "Airplane!" than you've seen this. "Airplane II: The Sequel" is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed parody film from 1980 with many of the same elements. For the most part, the story, characters, and jokes are all the same, only this time the film is set in space and is parodying movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey".For the most part, the comedy style for this film was the same one that was used in "Airplane!" using lots of play-on-words jokes to keep the tone of the first film and did not fall victim to other comedy film sequels where it is nothing but juvenile humor. I did find myself getting annoyed at the fact that there were jokes recycled from the first film like the little boy (Oliver Robins) and Captain Oveur (Peter Graves) and the mix-up with the pilot's names. Another problem was that when a joke happened occasionally, I had thought of a funnier punchline in my head, which took me out of the movie a little and sometimes, the jokes just didn't work."Airplane II: The Sequel" brought back a number of characters from the first film including Striker (Robert Hays) and Elaine (Julie Hagerty), McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges) and Johnny/Jacobs (Stephen Stucker) and featured some new characters like Murdock (William Shatner) and Simon (Chad Everett). The problem is that the returning characters are the only ones who are really funny while the new characters, almost all the time, fall flat. Also, while the characters from "Airplane!" were funny and memorable, the only memorable characters from this movie are the ones that were brought back from the first film.In the long run, "Airplane II: The Sequel" is a less funny "Airplane!" set in space. The film had some good jokes that the writers thought up of themselves and the returning characters were good in it, but the same can not be said for the new characters. The jokes, for the most part, were either mediocre or the audience could think of better punchlines for them in their heads, and it did have to borrow a lot of jokes from its predecessor. When it comes down to it, though, "Airplane II: The Sequel" is a comedy sequel that is not as funny as the original, but it manages to make you laugh enough times to make the viewing worthwhile.