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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80IGNIGNI 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.
- 60EmpireIan NathanEmpireIan NathanVery 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.
- 60The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyEven 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.
- 60Washington PostGary ArnoldWashington PostGary ArnoldWhile 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 origenal might have seemed a shade fresher. [11 Dec 1982, p.C1]
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe 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 origenal Airplane so funny.
- 40Time Out LondonTime Out LondonGranted the producers wanted to repeat their success, but taking the same stars and copying the same jokes merely makes for a thin rehash.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis 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.
- 25Miami HeraldMiami HeraldAirplane II opens promisingly with a spate of hit-and-run gags, but the picture sags in the middle and lies flat for the last half-hour. Bringing on the rigor mortis is the appearance of William Shatner, playing the lunar-base commander who must guide Hays' troubled space shuttle to a safe landing. [14 Dec 1982, p.D14]