"For the ride of your life... All you need for Christmas are your two front seats!"
Banking on the success of the first Airplane spoof film, the hijinks's arise with this sequel. Returning are Lloyd Bridges and Robert Hays as main characters to create a proper transition from the first film. However, because of how much critical acclaim Airplane received the first time around, the sequel was filled with a larger influx of celebrities.
Added to the sequel cast were brief cameos of William Shatner, Peter Graves, Raymond Burr, Robert Stack, Rip Torn, and even Sonny Bono.
Similar to many of the recent spoof movies, Airplane II was far worse than the first film. Although the plot is as ludicrous, the jokes seem contrived and out of place from the get go. 26 years after this film was produced, we are still riddled with crappy spoof films - unfortunately, they aren't even cleverly done anymore... relying strictly on loose references to hit movies that the majority of the population should have seen.
Basing the content of current spoof movies on the success of others is a cop out and should not be continued. The new movies should go back to the classic storytelling of this spoof franchise such as Airplane. In time, we shall see if there will be more movies like Airplane again - the only ones that I have seen that might have come close are the comedic films of the 80's and 90's - but even those films are close to 15-20 years old themselves. So its truly few and far between.
As long as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have anything to say about it, they will never stop making such crap films as Epic Movie or Meet the Spartans. If we could only convince Jim Abrahams and David Zucker to take control of this genre again, we can easily enjoy a good spoof again!
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