Airplane Director's Hilarious Justification For Never Watching Airplane 2 — cinemablend.com

In an interview with Yahoo!, David Zucker, one of the comedic directorial trio behind classics like the original Airplane! as well as the The Naked Gun series, fielded a question about the sequel that he and his collaborators thought was "unnecessary." Quoting one of his fellow directors, Jim Abrahams, Zucker explained, The original Airplane!, which borrowed heavily from 1957’s Zero Hour and the Airport franchise from the 1970’s, was essentially the birth of the "genre parody" type films, and was extremely revolutionary at the time - leading to a flood of similar attempts to varying degrees of success over the following decades. We do still see scattered remnants of it in contemporary releases with the Scary Movie films and the various other projects brandishing flavor-of-the-month tropes laced with an array of lowbrow, super-obvious jokes for a quick, timely parody turnover. However, there may be some hope for this genre in the future, as a reboot of The Naked Gun films starring Ed Helms looks to recapture that dry-witted magic that the Zuckers utilized so well in the past.

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