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Though most of the stars got back together for Airplane II: The Sequel, the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team passed the torch to new writer-director Ken Finkleman, who manages to reprise the style of the original quite well but is, as perhaps expected, more or less one-third as funny. The premise, alarmingly similar to the dead-straight contemporary Starflight One, is that the first commercial passenger shuttle to the moon has 2001-style computer hassles en route and finds itself headed straight through an asteroid belt into the sun. Cracked-up test pilot Robert Hays and promoted-from-stewardess technical expert Julie Hagerty have to save the day, despite panicking passengers, inept ground staff, complicated trauma flashbacks, deadpan one-liners and deliberately dodgy special effects. Leslie Nielsen is glimpsed only in footage from Airplane that sets up an extended slapping-the-hysterical-passenger gag redone (into the ground) here, but Lloyd Bridges and Stephen Stucker return as the overly-intense airport crisis controller and his happy-go-lucky gay sidekick. There are sterling cameos in the patented agonisingly serious mode from Raymond Burr (a judge), Chuck Connors (cigar-tossing fire chief), William Shatner (who gets the best sight gag) and Sonny Bono (impotent mad bomber). Back in the early 80s, it was still possible to do mild gags about paedophilia (not only Graves's chumminess with the cute kid who visits the cockpit, but also the priest looking at the centrefold of Altar Boy magazine) but aside from some incidental naked breasts, the humour is a touch cleaner than in the first film. Hays and Hagerty are better than the material, and it's all over swiftly enough--the film clocks in at 75 minutes before the slow, padded end credits--to avoid wearing out your patience. The end title promises an Airplane III, but we're still waiting. The 1.78:1 widescreen ratio of the DVD allows you to see gags in the corners of the frame that would be cropped in a full-screen transfer. --Kim Newman
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1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
German
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English German
Dolby Digital 5.1
Arabic\Bulgarian\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Romanian\Swedish
DVD 5
German
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English German
Dolby Digital 5.1
Arabic\Bulgarian\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Romanian\Swedish
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Class sequel. Despite the fact that the writers and directors of the first one arent involved with this one, this has just as many classic and quotable moments. Lloyd Bridges staggering around air traffic control drunk, William Shatner asking for Ted Striker's record and being given TED STRIKER'S POLKA FAVOURITES LP and the classic elevator music that deafens evetybody withing the lift except for two guys who carry on chatting and are able to hear each other over the din. Best bit for me is when Striker encounters a door on the space shuttle marked DANGER VACCUM and suddenly finds himself wrestling with a rampant hoover to the most dramatic of music. Its dumb humour but ar its very best.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Its accepted that its not as good as the first but it was inspired to have Shatner in it. Four stars because it has the best sight gag in cinema with Shatner behind the door.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is a more futuristic version of the original Airplane movie with A few different people and a few different jokes while keeping to the original formula.
The German dubbed version still has English subtitles available. I am not sure how the jokes translate but the dubbed voices as a new layer of fun.
Not as surprising as the first Airplane, but still worth watching. People who made their living being heroes including Lloyd Bridges (Sea Hunt), Leslie Nielsen (Forbidden Planet), Raymond Burr (Perry Mason), now let their hair down in this thought provoking sequel.
This may have contributed to the conversion of William Shatner from Captain Kirk (Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 28: The City on the Edge of Forever) to "The Big Head" on 3rd Rock from the Sun. I am waiting for the collection of his commercials to be published.
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