# Is Airplane 2:The Sequel generally considered to be really bad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572 "2012-11-20T02:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slitterst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@slitterst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slitterst)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572/21 "2012-11-20T19:24:38Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > “The Des Moines Institute?” We’re familiar with it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572/22 "2012-11-20T19:24:48Z")
It seems that it only suffers in comparison with the first, because it was _that_ good and groundbreaking. “Ever since Reagan fired the air traffic controllers, he’s gone completely senile!” “Yes, but what about McCroskey?” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572/23 "2012-11-20T19:39:44Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Okay, like Monty Python films, my friends & I have always loved and constantly quote lines from the first _Airplane!_ film. We went and saw the sequel in the theater and loved that one too. I know it not only didn’t have Leslie Nielson in it, but that the original creators (Abrahams & Zuckers) weren’t involved. Yet, unlike almost every sequel made by others, we’ve always found Airplane 2 to be almost as funny as the first. It certainly has as many quotable lines as the first. And a self-parodying William Shatner more than made up for Leslie Nielson. > > I’m not so interested in box office figures or professional reviews, but do diehard fans of Airplane! (and say Police Squad) find the sequel to be almost as good, just ok, or terrible? Like most sequels, it wasn’t as good as the first one, but was still an amusing way to spend the viewing time. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572/24 "2012-11-20T19:49:29Z")
Tell your boys on the board for me that the second was almost as funny as the first. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572/25 "2012-11-22T07:11:34Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The whole “Macho Grande” court scene, with its constant running jokes switching phrases with names, could’ve come ftom the first “Airplane” film. Not sure why, but one of my most quoted lines is from the courtroom scene when Elaine says to the judge, “…do you know what it’s like to just laugh & laugh?” and big, burly, gruff, Ironsides Raymond Burr replies deadpan, “Yes, yes I do”. That and when they ask the psychiatrist (John Vernon) “Doctor, please give us your impression of Ted Stryker” and he says, “I’m sorry I don’t do impressions, my training is in psychiatry”. Both of those would have fit perfectly in the first one! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572/26 "2012-11-25T06:23:57Z")
The sequel is not quite as good as the first. It would be **vastly** inferior but for the bravura performance of William Shatner. “I want a complete file on everyone who’s seen _The Sound of Music_ more than four times!” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572/27 "2012-11-25T10:59:06Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I’m somewhere between good as the orginal and just okay. I think the sequel mostly suffers due to comparision to the original. If the orginal didnt exist the sequel would take its place among the funniest movies ever. I agree with this. It’s way better than “Just okay,” but is somewhat less than “Almost as funny as the original.” I suppose that makes it a really good comedy, but it could never approach the brilliance of the original. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-airplane-2-the-sequel-generally-considered-to-be-really-bad/641572.md?page=1)