William Shatner hams it up wonderfully as the Commander of 'Moonbase Alpha Beta' ( a reference to 'Space: 1999' ), and the presence of Peter Graves ( once more 'Captain Oveur' ) allows for a dig at 'Mission: Impossible'. trying to phone home and getting trouble from the operator, an elevator plays 'MacArthur Park' incredibly loudly, Stryker escapes from the asylum, and a searchlight picks out Jack Jones singing the theme from 'The Love Boat', a dog-owning family is told that 'Scraps' must have his shots, and then the customs officer pulls out a gun and shoots the animal, and a boy plays with a computer navigation system thinking it to be a game and almost kills a plane's passengers.
#Airplane 2 movie
Some gags are lame - when someone says 'this panel is so hot you could fry eggs on it', we next see just that! But there are absolute corkers the poster on the in-flight movie is 'Rocky 38' starring an elderly Sly Stallone in boxing gloves, a topical gag has E.T. Many gags are recycled the hysterical woman being slapped by a long line of people, the 'what is it?' exchanges, MacCroskey ( Lloyd Bridges ) leaning on his desk and mimicking the pose on the picture behind him, someone throwing away a cigarette and causing an explosion etc. I would imagine that the people who found this really funny in 1982 were those who never saw the first. The original's freshness was bound to be lost - and was. But who can bring the craft down? Guess who? The problem is that 'Airplane!' did not need a sequel. Luckily a passenger ( Sonny Bono ) had the foresight to bring along a bomb in a briefcase. A faulty computer sends the craft hurtling towards the Sun. After the events of the original film, Ted Stryker ( Robert Hays ) became a moon pilot, but got incarcerated in a lunatic asylum ( named after Ronald Reagan ) following a major screw-up, while the love of his life, the beautiful Elaine ( Julie Hagerty ) is stewardess aboard the maiden commercial space shuttle flight to the Moon. He retained most of the original's characters ( except for Leslie Nielsen's 'Dr.Rumack' ). Ken Finkleman, writer of 'Grease 2', served in the dual capacity of writer and director. But when it finally appeared two years later, it was called 'Airplane 2: The Sequel' and neither Abrahams nor Jerry and David Zucker had anything to do with it. Interviewed at the time, Jim Abrahams said a sequel was in the offing, to be provisionally entitled 'The 747 Strikes Back'. This wild spoof of '70's disaster movies did not, as some believe, kill the genre ( it had burned itself out well before then ), but certainly made a fitting headstone. 'Airplane!', the funniest film Mel Brooks never made, came out in 1980, and became one of the year's biggest hits. Rating : Average but entertaining and funny. Expectations were so high that the next film was promised at the end of the credits of this one, when the film was released to mediocre box office, plans for Airplane III was doomed. This film was created with the obligation that its creative team return for a third installment. The picture will appeal to wacky and absurd comedy fans. There're gags each twenty seconds, from start to finish, humor and laughters are interminable. The film is an ¨Airport¨ spoof, the parody is hilarious, surrealist, extreme and gross-out but is also clever and bald.
As always, the cinematic references are numerous : ¨2001, space odyssey ¨ with a computer type ¨Hal¨, ¨Star Trek¨ with the intervention of William Shatner, ¨Mission impossible¨ with the acting by Peter Graves and the musical theme composed by Lalo Schifrin, ¨ET¨ with the likable creature made by Carlo Rambaldi doing a home phone call, ¨Star Wars¨ that since introducing titles the mentions are continued and, of course, ¨ Airport I ¨¨ which the allusions are sometimes copied. 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. The film refers about the first journey headed to the moon by means of the space shuttle ¨The Mayflower I ¨. Someone roles repeat their craziness, thus, Julie Haggerty as the hostess, Robert Hays who's at the beginning in the ¨Ronald Reagan psychiatric hospital¨, Peter Graves with his children' desires and the nutty air controller Lloyd Bridges. Sequel with similar elements and characters to the predecessor.
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