Well, we've recently talked about Airplane. I figured, well now we jumped, down this rabbit hole I figured we might as well talk about the sequel to Airplane, that is titled Airplane II: The Sequel. And you know there comes a time when you feel the need to do a sequel to a highly successful disaster spoof comedy, you, probably should just say no in terms of those situations although this is Hollywood and the spend their money like crazy in my opinion on Hookers and cocaine. Also, this movie is technically a Christmas movie and since all stores are already putting up their Halloween decorations we might as well talk about Christmas films, right?
Like the movie’s predecessor. Ted Striker (Robert Hays) agrees to return to the cockpit to man the controls of Mayflower One, America's first commercial spacecraft. But, as soon as Mayflower One lifts off, an electrical malfunction sends the ship veering off course. A shaken Striker struggles to guide the shuttle through a treacherous asteroid belt, tames its failing computer and stops a disgruntled Sonny Bono from detonating a deadly bomb on board.
To be truthfully honest this movie reminds me a lot of Major League II, where the film is the same as its predecessor but the jokes are just so flat that you feel so bored and sometimes disgusted at the jokes you chuckled at, granted the joke is this movie are more funny than Major League II, but then again chuckling at some of these jokes just make me want to take a shower. And this was one of these movies like Major League II where I remember watching on TV and though that this was amazing and funny but then watching the film now, I begin to realize that this hasn't aged well, not even close. The trio of ZAZ were in talks to do a sequel although, I'm assuming through a ton of talks with producers they were just tired of suggestions from the studio execs that they decided to just focus on their TV show of what would be The Police Squad with Leslie Neilson. With the trio not returning to directing the first film Paramount decided to turn to a first-time director in Ken Finkleman who later written Grease 2 and basically, I guess Paramount was running out of options and were trying in the best of their ability to get this film out and running for the Christmas season. In all fairness I like to say that the film isn't all bad like, compared to Major League II, is this good? But then when you continue to watch the movie you begin to see yourself bored out of your mind and continue to have this face of disgust on your face that again you'd like to say sure it's funny but it's just not moreover you just want to fix the movie but then you can't fix this movie at all in your mind. For which in all honesty what made the first Airplane movie great was because the film was based on Zero Hour! and the fact that majority of the plot and dialogue are in the movie but that's what makes the movie great and memorable. Airplane 2, you're basically rehashing the same jokes and telling the same story and that's just lazing writing, and really, it's not all Finkleman's fault because he had to write the script with limited time but could at least give some effort in making the jokes funny at least. And that's what makes the Naked Gun films so, entertaining that there's so many cop movies out there you can make ton of jokes, but with Airplane, you only need just one movie and call it good. I think that if your bored or have a lot of house cleaning to do at your house then you can watch this movie while you work mainly just to get things done while there's sound in the air so, really that would be the safe bet in terms of wanting to watch this movie on Hulu, although you don't need to watch this movie sitting down, all the way through because that's when you'd feel bored and in needs to take a shower.
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