So right off the bat I'll say I think Airplane 2 is one of the most underrated comedies of all time. I won't go as far as to say it was as good as the first, but it's not far behind. Yeah it was the same basic plot as the first but it had a lot of original and funny moments of its own and I think was almost lock step in the sprit of the original. It's even more impressive when you realize that almost no one involved in creating the first was involved. I think it gets a bad rap because the Zucker Brothers weren't involved and they've publicity aired their displeasure over it and people have bought into it.
It's certainly more funny than 99% of the comedies made in the last 20 years.
Anyway my wife is having a family issue and she asked how she should handle it and to make her laugh I said she could just ignore it, which is a scene Shatner is in. So a little later I find the clip to show her, then I watch other clips....he has at least 10 laugh out loud moments. I won't spoil it but one is particularly funny when they talk about some lights that are blinking out of sequence.....and the prop is one that was actually in TWOK and TNG.
I think the most brilliant and funny thing about the Airplane films is they got all these actors like Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Raymond Burr and Shatner who known as tough no nonsense characters and had zero comedy recognition, then they put them in these outlandish situations where absurd things are going in and they sometimes say and do crazy things themselves, yet they do it totally straight and they rarely break character that this is a serious situation and they are all tough and in charge. Hell Nielsen made a whole second and much more successful career in comedy because of the films.
Shatner plays a bit more loosely than guys like Stack and Graves did but it's still hilarious because he's clearly trying to be Captain Kirk despite the fact everything around him is complete lunacy.
If you've never seen it. You really should.
It's certainly more funny than 99% of the comedies made in the last 20 years.
Anyway my wife is having a family issue and she asked how she should handle it and to make her laugh I said she could just ignore it, which is a scene Shatner is in. So a little later I find the clip to show her, then I watch other clips....he has at least 10 laugh out loud moments. I won't spoil it but one is particularly funny when they talk about some lights that are blinking out of sequence.....and the prop is one that was actually in TWOK and TNG.
I think the most brilliant and funny thing about the Airplane films is they got all these actors like Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Raymond Burr and Shatner who known as tough no nonsense characters and had zero comedy recognition, then they put them in these outlandish situations where absurd things are going in and they sometimes say and do crazy things themselves, yet they do it totally straight and they rarely break character that this is a serious situation and they are all tough and in charge. Hell Nielsen made a whole second and much more successful career in comedy because of the films.
Shatner plays a bit more loosely than guys like Stack and Graves did but it's still hilarious because he's clearly trying to be Captain Kirk despite the fact everything around him is complete lunacy.
If you've never seen it. You really should.
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