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Airplane II The Sequel (1982)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1982
Running Times: 84m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Metrocolor
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Directed by: Ken Finkleman
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMLXXXII by Paramount Pictures Corporation
Production Companies: Paramount Pictures presents a Howard W. Koch production
Produced by: Howard W. Koch
Associate Producer: Mel Dellar
Unit Production Manager: Mel Dellar
SCRIPT
Written by: Ken Finkleman
DIRECTION
First Assistant Director: Jack F. Sanders
Second Assistant Director: Pamela Eilerson, Susan J. Bernay
Script Supervisor: Alvin Greenman
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Joe Biroc
Camera Operator: Fredric Smith
First ASsistant Camera: M. Todd Henry
Gaffer (What's a Gaffer?): Larry Gilhooly
Best Boy (Electric): Frank McKane
Worst Boy: Adolf Hitler
Key Grip: Pete G. Papanickolas
Video Technical Consultant: Rick Whitfield
Lenses and Panaflex Cameras by: Panavision
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Edited by: Dennis Virkler
Film Editor: Tina Hirsch
Assistant Film Editors: Michael Cipriano, David Handman
Apprentice Film Editor: Eric Strand
Colour by: Metrocolor
MUSIC
Original Music: Elmer Bernstein
Additional Music, Score Adapted and Conducted by: Richard Hazard
Music Editor: June Edgerton
SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
"Baby Love"
by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland
Performed by The Supremes
Courtesy of Motown Record Corporation
"Car Wash"
by N. Whitfield
Performed by Rose Royce
Courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.
"'Love Boat' Theme"
by C. Fox & P. Williams
Performed by Jack Jones
Courtesy of Aaron Spelling Productions, Inc.
"Think Music"
by J. Griffin
"Mission Impossible"
by L. Schifrin
"Theme from 'Battlestar Galactica'
by S. Philips & G. Larson
"Themes from 'Battlestar Galactica'"
by as S. Philips
"MacArthur Park"
by Jimmie Webb
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
by Hal David & Burt Bacharach
Performed by 101 Strings
Courtesy of Alshire International
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Thomas G. Overton
Re-Recording Mixers: Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Kevin O'Connell
Special Sound Effects: Alan Haworth
Sound Effects Editors: George Watters II, Cecilia Hall
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Rosanna Norton
Men's Costume Supervisor: George L. Little
Women's Costume Supervisor: Violet N. Cane
Make-Up Artist: Monty Westmore
Hair Stylist: Emma di Vittorio
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Robert N. Dawson
VISUAL EFFECTS
Miniatures Designed and Photographed by: Coast Special Effects
Special Visual Effects by: Phil Kellison
Supervisor: Joe Rayner
Camera: Bob Ryder
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Optical Effects by: Modern Film Effects, Master Film Effects,
Inc.
Titles: Movie Magic
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designed by: William Sandell
Set Decorator: Robert Gould
Property Master: Horst Grandt
OTHER CREW
Assistant to Mr Koch: Laurie Abdo
Assistant to Mr Finkleman: Lynn Oblinger
Secretary to Mel Dellar: Mauri Blumenfeld
Technical Advisor: Dennis Maguire
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special Thanks: Al Jean and Mike Reiss
LOCATIONS
Made in Hollywood, U.S.A.
STUNTS
Stunt Co-ordinator: David R. Ellis
CASTING
Casting by: Lynn Stalmaster, Toni Howard & Associates, Lisa Freiberger
CAST
starring
Robert Hays (Ted Striker)
Julie Hagerty (Elaine Dickinson)
Lloyd Bridges (Steve McCroskey)
Raymond Burr (the judge [D.C. Simonton])
Chuck Connors (the sarge)
Rip Torn (Bud Kruger/President Reagan)
John Dehner (the commissioner)
Chad Everett (Simon Kurtz)
Peter Graves (Captain Clarence Oveur)
Kent McCord (Dave Unger)
James A. Watson Jr (Dunn)
William Shatner (Commander Buck Murdock)
Stephen Stucker (Controller Jacobs/courtroom clerk)
John Vernon (Dr Stone)
Al White (witness)
and
Sonny Bono as the bomber [Joe Seluchi]
Laurene Landon (Testa)
Wendy Phillips (Mary)
Jack Jones (lounge singer)
Art Fleming (himself)
Frank Ashmore (controller #3)
Richard H. Jaeckel (controller #2)
Lee Bryant (Mrs Hammen)
John Larch (prosecuting attorney)
John Hancock (controller #1)
Oliver Robins (Jimmy Wilson)
Louis Giambalvo (witness)
Sam Anderson (man in white)
Leon Askin (Moscow anchorman)
B.J. Barie (video kid)
Hilary Beane (next woman in line)
Craig Berenson (shaving man)
Sandahl Bergman (officer #1)
Burke Byrnes (businessman #2)
Ed Call (information agent)
Michael Currie (businessman #1)
Patty Dworkin (young woman)
Gary Faga (guide)
Mary Farrell (Alice Wilson)
Madeleine Fisher (shuttle agent)
Bruce French (officer 2)
Richard Gilliland (Lieutenant Pervis)
Hugh Gillin (Texan)
Elisa Goodman (I Love Sanity nurse)
Laurie Hagen (Tad woman)
Maurice Hill (stock #2)
Steven Hirsch (Rorshack)
Howard Honig (Dave Walters)
Dennis Howard (John Wilson)
Marcy Lafferty (1st woman in line)
Stanley Lawrence (next man)
David Leisure (religious zealot)
Floyd Levine (Police Lieutenant Hallick)
Steve Levitt (creature #1)
Gail Matthius (Educational Network woman)
Pat McNamara (businessman #2)
Mary Mercier (Edith Walters)
Marcus Mukai (Tokyo anchorman)
Ann Nelson (airsick woman)
Steve Nevil (creature #2)
James Noble (Father O'Flanagan)
Kenneth G. O'Brien (Porter)
Rick Overton (clerk)
Lee Patterson (Phoenix Six captain)
David Paymer (court photographer)
Pamela Ann Rack (real name: Pamela Guest) (woman with baby)
Barbie Reade (interpreter)
Mary-Robin Redd (intellectual-looking woman)
June Sanders (cashier)
Pat Sajak (Buffalo anchorman)
Clint Smith (scalper)
Louise Sorel (nurse)
William Vaughan (worker)
Sandy Ward (defense attorney)
Ricky Powell (first young man)
Sean Peters (second young man)
Hervé Villechaize (little breather)
Allison Hanes (3rd stewardess)
Ronald E. House (smoking man)
UNCREDITED CAST
Lee Purcell (wife)
Martin Garner (old man 2)
Jack Bernardi (old man 1)
Jim Staahl (International Inquirer reporter)
William Porter (Rag reporter)
John Paragon (Economy flight attendant)
Alison Price (stewardess)
Earl Boen (doctor)
Joyce DeWitt (juror)
Monique Gabrielle (school girl)
Tom McGreevey (Karl Malden)
Kitten Natividad (woman in Moral Majority shirt)
Leslie Nielsen (Doctor Rumack (in archive footage))
George Wendt (ticket agent)
PLOT SUMMARY
Neurotic test pilot Ted Striker is implicated in the crash of a prototype
space shuttle and incarcerated in an asylum. Hearing of the engagement
of his true love Elaine to oily space captain Simon and the imminent
launch of Mayflower One, the first passenger carrying space flight,
Striker breaks out and determines to get aboard the maiden flight and
save the day.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Something of a sad reprise of all the best gags from the first film,
but delivered without any of the style and panache of the prototype
and sorely missing the deadpan delivery of Leslie Nielsen. New boy Ken
Finkleman adds few new wrinkles to the basic non-stop barrage of puns
and pratfalls other than the overtly SF setting - he clearly knows his
screen SF and has much fun sending up popular genre icons; ET tries
to phone home but doesn't have enough change; as Graves investigates
nasty goings-on in the hold, the Mission Impossible theme blares out;
Shatner and one of his crew discuss the possible uses of a machine that
just seems to have lights going back and forth along its length. There
are literally dozens of allusions to everything from 2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968) to Gojira (1954) and from The Hunchback
of Notre Dame to Rocky. But really, it's just
not enough. It's fun and mildly diverting, but it lacks the memorable
clout of its predecessor though enough of the groan-inducing verbal
trickery is carried through to raise a few smiles, even if Nielsen demanding
not to be called Shirley was infinitely funnier.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: CIC
DVD Distributor: Paramount (PHE8047)
USA
Video Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Laserdisc Distributor: Paramount (LV 1489)
DVD Distributor: Paramount (014894)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-12
Ireland
Rating: 15
Netherlands
Rating: AL
Norway
Rating: 11
Sweden
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: PG
Later releases were forced to remove the Battlestar Galactica
theme and a different song was used in the scene where the air traffic
controller poses as a DJ.
MPAA: 26862
West Germany
Rating: 6
TIMELINE
1982
December
10: USA - theatrical release
1983
April
15: Sweden - theatrical release
July
1: Finland - theatrical release
1991
December
18: USA - laserdisc release (Paramount (LV 1489))
2000
October
24: USA - DVD release (Paramount (014894))
2001
March
15: UK - DVD release (Paramount (PHE8047))
POSTER TAGS
Just when you thought it safe to go back into the departure
lounge.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Airplane 2002! - early title
Airplane 2 - early title
Flying High II
Vi flyver endnu højere - Danish title
Die Unglaubliche Reise in einem Verrückten Raumschiff -
German title
Aterriza como puedas, 2ª parte - Spanish title
¿Il y dónde está el piloto? - Venezuelan title
Hei, taas me lennetään! - Finnish title
Y a-t-il enfin un pilote dans l'avion? - Frence title
L'aereo più pazzo del mondo... sempre più pazzo - Italian
title
Hjelp, vi flyr igjen! - Norwegian title
Spokojnie, to tylko awaria - Polish title
Aeroplano II: A Loucura Continua - Portugese title
Nu flyger vi ännu högre - Swedish title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Airplane! (1980)
SEE ALSO
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Gojira (1954)
Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Logan's Run (1976)
Mission: Impossible
(1966)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
(1977)
INCLUDE FOOTAGE FROM
Star Trek (1966-1969)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
American Cinematographer vol.64 no.3
(March 1983) pp.63-67 (USA)
illustrated article (Special effects for Airplane II by R. Patterson)
Films March 1983 p.28 (UK)
review
Films and Filming no.341 (February 1983)
pp.37-38 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.50 no.589 (February
1983) p.37 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review (by Tim Pulleine)
Motion Picture Product Digest vol.10
no.14 (22 December 1982) p.55 (USA)
review
New Musical Express 22 January 1983 (UK)
review
Screen International no.378 (22 January
1983) p.64 (UK)
review
TV Times 20 December - 2 January 1987
p.17 (UK)
review
TV Times 19 December 1987 - 1 January
1988 pp.12, 79 (UK)
review, credits
TV Times 1 - 7 July 1989 p.51 (UK)
credits
Vanity Fair no.457 (September 1998) pp.38,
40, 42-43 (USA)
illustrated article (O funny man by James Wolcott
Variety 8 December 1982 (USA)
review
Variety 9 May 1984 p.508 (USA)
review
Video the Magazines May 1984 p.17 (UK)
review
NEWSPAPERS
Southampton Evening Echo 22 January 1983
(UK)
review
BOOKS
Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction p.372
credits, review
Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.12
credits, review
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.17
credits, review
Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume III pp.5-6,
230
credits
Psychotronic Video Guide p.9
credits, review
Video Source Book (13th Edition) p.52
credits
Virgin Film Year Book Volume 2 p.7
credits, review
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
sequels; space travel; comedy; space shuttles; disasters; psychiatric
hospitals; psychiatrists; aircraft; bombs; courtrooms; asteroids; computers
Last Updated:
12 April, 2009
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