Was Airplane 2 the first movie "spoof"?

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Some people don't give any credit to Airplane 2. Why make a sequel when the original was so great? But I have to say, I love the flick. When I hear friends and coworkers quote movies, they think they're quoting Airplane!, but really some of the best lines come from Airplane 2. Something to think about...

Anyway, was this the first movie "spoof"? In Airplane 2, they spoofed Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Star Trek, The A-Team, 2001: A Space Odyssey, of course Airport '77, and even the original Airplane! film, plus some others that I'm sure I missed.

Was it the first? I can't really remember any spoofs in the original -- it was all just jokes and slapstick. As one member of these forums put it many years ago, "If they crammed any more jokes into one movie, time would stand still."

Great films, and always a laugh from me. :)
 
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He's serious, and don't call him Shirley.


I think Airplane was as much of a spoof, but slightly more themed generically around the movies of the day rather than specific stuff, whilst 2 was more over the top and a lot more obvious in it's direct spoofing.

Things like the slapping the hysterical woman in Airplane was iirc a nod to the fact dozens/hundreds of films from the start of cinema one of the ways often shown to stop hysterics was to slap someone.
The whole giving up stuff routine for the ATC being a reference to the numerous times in different films/tv series someone has been trying to give up something and things kept going wrong.
 
They are a pair of awesome movies and whenever I think about them I can always reel off a mass of funny lines. Its incredible to think that they are almost a third of a century old now, goes to show that good comedy stands the test of time. Wonder how many of the current comedy crop will still be funny in 33 years time.
 
Wait I don't get it. Was the sequel to a spoof movie the first ever spoof movie? Are you saying the original Airplane was not a spoof or am I having some sort of serious logical meltdown here?

I also think Airplane 2 is great. Danger Vacuum is a great visual gag.
 
How can a sequal be the first anything?

Shirley Airplane 1 was the first, and there are plenty of parody films before airplane
 
No. Blazing Saddles pre-dates the first one by a good six years and the second one by eight.
 
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia Airplane!
The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!.
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I think the problem here is that the films that the first Airplane! film parodied are just never shown on TV, and haven't been for years. If the OP is under 20 he's probably never seen (say) Airport, or Airport 75 etc. It could be reasonably argued that the two Airplane! films killed them.


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Meridian said:
I think the problem here is that the films that the first Airplane! film parodied are just never shown on TV, and haven't been for years. If the OP is under 20 he's probably never seen (say) Airport, or Airport 75 etc. It could be reasonably argued that the two Airplane! films killed them.


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They probably contributed a fair bit, but I think the genre just became over-done in the 70's and audiences got bored of them. The airplane films just confirmed how people were feeling. There were very few aeroplane disaster/thriller films like this in the 80's, but they came back in the 90's with stuff like Passenger 57, Airforce one, Diehard 2 and con air.
 
It appears use of the word "parody" is very loose here. My intentions were to determine what specific movies were made fun of, such as Scary Movie, Date Movie, Meet the Spartans and others like that spoofed specific movies, not just a generalisation of disaster films, westerns, or sci-fi films. If that makes sense to anyone.
 
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