Airplane 2-Movie Collection

Original Airplane movie is the best, and one of the funniest movies ever made. Airplane 2 is just a nice little addon.

Airplane! is one of the best comedies of all-time. This Blu-ray transfer looks great and I found myself noticing a lot of things in the background that I'd never noticed before on other watches. Both of the movies look great and star the same 2 main characters played by Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. If you're like me and you're too young to know who they are otherwise, they're Ted & Elaine on both journeys. In the first film, there's a relentless onslaught of jokes. To me, the majority hit still to this day, and of course it becomes obvious how much humor there is the more you watch it. There's also an extended cameo by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar which is really funny as a basketball fan, and even the great talent Leslie Nielsen plays the Doctor charged with saving the flight mid-way through the film. Overall, this comedy classic holds as much potential for laughter as it did almost 40 years ago and it's amazingly rated PG. The second film is not so great, and almost tries way too hard to keep the pace of its predecessor. It does get some jokes right, some of which are repeats or rehashes of jokes from the first film. But many fall flat, and that leaves this movie feeling empty compared to the first. I'd recommend watching it once, but otherwise it's a hard pass. It's really funny to see the influence Star Wars and other science fiction stories had on this movie as it appears to be catering to a particular point in time during the 80s... Special features are slim, and only in the first film, but I do like the choices presented to you for commentary. There is a director's commentary which features Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker telling stories about the actors, creating their jokes, being on set, and much more. It's really quite a riot and by the end they've completely devolved into constant laughter. They state something at the end of the commentary about calling and giving it another go, and it seems they may have done so via the Long Haul Version which is the feature film spliced with interviews from them and other cast members. Additionally, there is a trivia track that you can play along with the feature film as well, giving you three options in consuming relatively the same information about the behind the scenes of the movie. I did find my edition of this Blu-ray listed under Multi-Format at the time of review, which in my case did not include DVD or digital copies of either film. Whether or not intentional, this Blu-ray release is well worth the investment for new and old fans of Airplane! alike. I now plan on grabbing a copy of Zero Hour (frequently referenced by the directors in the commentary as an influence for this film) and giving that a spin. The case for this purchase came in excellent condition. No digital copy included.

Funny movie series and parodies of the Airport franchise from a few years earlier

Why so few reviews? Because we haven't stopped laughing yet! The original Airplane is still my favorite of the pair. This was the first big hit from the Zucker (x2) and Abrahams team that would continue to tickle our funny-bones into the nineties with genre homages like Top Secret, The Naked Gun, and Hot Shots. I think Hot Shots was where they finally managed to top the home run hit they scored with Airplane, but I enjoyed their other parodies too. Airplane is a send up of the classic airline disaster movies (such as The High and the Mighty and the Airport series). Along the way, other Hollywood classics and genres get the treatment as well (such as Saturday Night Fever). Airplane II then takes the airline disaster genre into "the future," with a space shuttle being the featured craft in jeopardy. Airplane is a mixture of movie buff in-jokes, razor sharp wit, goofy puns, and sight gags. What takes things over the top is the stellar cast that is involved in the shenanigans, including golden age Hollywood stars Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen who would go on to become gut-busting Zucker-Abrahams regulars. Also on board for Airplane are Robert Stack, Peter Graves, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Barbara Billingsley, of "Leave It To Beaver" fame, has a hilarious and unexpected cameo, and somehow California tax activist Howard Jarvis even makes it into the mix! Airplane II has similarly inspired casting, with Bridges and Graves returning, joined by Chuck Connors, Sony Bono, Raymond Burr, and John Vernon. Plus there's William Shatner who shows up as the perfect candidate to play the commander of a lunar base. The star-studded casts of both movies reflect how disaster movies of the seventies used a cavalcade of stars as a selling point. This is a welcome, bargain priced set for fans and newcomers alike. Here you get two hilarious movies on blu-ray for under ten bucks -- who can gripe about that? Perhaps only someone who hasn't gotten over Macho Grande... UPDATE: I eventually saw the movie Zero Hour, and was amazed how closely Airplane followed the story of that fifties film -- and directly incorporated its dialogue as well! If you are an Airplane fan, then Zero Hour is not to be missed, because it will bring to mind scenes and lines from Airplane as you watch it!

New blurays . Movies are still lots of laughs and fun .

Great older movie

Funniest move ever, at least top 5!

Classic movies .... I still laugh when I watch them.

Es bueno tener estas películas juntas para la colección de este género y con buena calidad

I like all the old actors in these movies. The first movie didn't like as much. The second movie was much better not all the same actors in this one. A couple comedy movies.

La caja de fuera hecha polvo. La descripción del producto insuficiente, doy por sentado que incluye algo tan normal como que tenga ALGO en español, sino audio, por lo menos subtítulos. Y nada. El segundo idioma mas hablado del mundo y nada. Señores... pongan algo de detalle sobre lo que incluyen, como los demás vendedores.

Absolutely loved theses videos, having seen them when they were initially released in theatres.

アメリカで観た念願のAir Planeの１と２、めっちゃ面白いです。もう何回見たことでしょうか。毎回新鮮な笑いに満たされます。 この映画の魅力は英語がわからなくても、楽しめること。といいつつ、英語ネイティブ並のわたしが言うのでは、説得力ないかもしれませんが、先ずは観てみて下さい。そうそうジャッキー・チェンの酔拳のようなものですよ。酔拳観るのに、字幕要らないでしょ（^^♪ 一見の価値ありです。すごくバカバカしい映画です。