Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Lloyd BridgesSteven McCroskey
- Raymond BurrJudge D.C. Simonton
- Chuck ConnorsThe Sarge
- Rip TornBud Kruger / President Reagan
- John DehnerThe Commissioner
- Chad EverettSimon Kurtz
- Peter GravesCapt. Clarence Oveur
- Julie HagertyElaine Dickinson
- Robert HaysTed Striker
- Kent McCordDave Unger
Recommendations
- 80
IGN
I really like the sequel. No, I'll go one step further – I love the sequel. It's missing some major players, both in front and behind the camera. But really, Airplane II has some seriously funny gags. - 60
Empire
Very hit and miss and not a patch on the first spoof but when a joke strikes home it'll have you going for a while. - 60
The New York Times
Even though most of the gags are too familiar or too dumb to be hilarious, Airplane II is too good-natured to be a serious irritant. - 60
Washington Post
While Airplane II, proves to be a breezy and tolerably consistent follow-up to its successful prototype, a parodistic copy that relied less on jokes from the original might have seemed a shade fresher. [11 Dec 1982, p.C1] - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The first five or 10 minutes of Airplane II -- The Sequel are genuinely funny -- so funny I thought maybe this movie was going to work. That turned out to be a premature hope. The new inspirations quickly run out, and Airplane II turns into a retread, plundering the same situations and characters that made the original Airplane so funny. - 40
Variety
It can’t be said that Airplane II is no better or worse than its predecessor. It is far worse, but might seem funnier had there been no original. - 40
Time Out London
Granted the producers wanted to repeat their success, but taking the same stars and copying the same jokes merely makes for a thin rehash. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
This sequel to AIRPLANE! is just as crammed with sight gags and sophomoric humor as its predecessor, but the novelty has worn off and the humor worn thin. A cast of mainly Hollywood has-beens and unknowns enjoys itself in this spoof of disaster movies, this time centering around a space shuttle headed for a crash. The various bits and cameos flash past without providing the laughs AIRPLANE! delivered.
