The makers of "Airplane II: The Sequel" simply took every joke from the first one and made it again. This gets boring after a while. People taking things too literally is so overused in this movie it's getting painful (like the "trip" scene - ouch!). There are one or two good moments, though (some William Shatner scenes and the 2001 waltz spoof) and it's a good thing that the main cast (excluding Leslie Nielsen & Robert Stack) from "Airplane!" returned for this one. All in all, "Airplane II: The Sequel" is watchable but I'm glad that they never made a third part. It only could have gone downhill from the original, anyway.

Sequel with similar elements and characters to the predecessor . 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 . The film refers about the first journey headed to the moon by means of the space shuttle ¨The Mayflower I ¨.

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 . 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 . The film is an ¨Airport¨ spoof , the parody is hilarious , surrealist , extreme and gross-out but is also clever and bald . There're gags each twenty seconds , from start to finish , humor and laughters are interminable . The picture will appeal to wacky and absurd comedy fans . This film was created with the obligation that its creative team return for a third installment . 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 . Rating : Average but entertaining and funny .

I will say right now, I love Airplane! It is a hilarious movie, endlessly quotable and entertaining and if there is a role and performance the late Leslie Nielson should be remembered by it is Airplane! Airplane II:The Sequel has its moments, but at the end of the day I felt rather lukewarm to it. I did like how it was made and the soundtrack, and there are some funny moments such as ET phoning home and getting in trouble with the operator and the one with the elevator. Although I did appreciate most of the cast returning, few of the cast maintain the energy and fun that was there in Airplane and Leslie Nielson, part of the reason why Airplane! worked so well, is sorely missed! William Shatner comes off best. Ken Finkleman writes much better than he did with that abomination Grease 2, but it comes to the direction and writing sadly neither are particularly good. The writing and a vast majority of the jokes have a certain over-familiarity to them, while the direction comes across as uneven. I didn't mind that the story in concept was more of the same, some sequels that follow that formula work, but this was a case where it didn't because the story is carried out in a predictable fashion and the film never feels secure in its pacing either. All in all, whereas Airplane! was a classic, the sequel was for me a shrug of a film. 4/10 Bethany Cox