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Airplane II: The Sequel

1982. Directed by Ken Finkleman, written by Ken Finkleman and Mike Reiss.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    14 women characters. 4 of them speak.
  2. No 2. Who talk to each other
    Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
  3. No 3. About something besides a man
    Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.

Second opinion

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

Poster for Airplane II: The Sequel

The film

Still haunted by that fateful wartime incident and the nearly catastrophic events of Airplane! (1980), Ted Striker, the ex-fighter pilot who hates flying, escapes from the mental asylum. But as the first passenger space shuttle, the state-of-the-art but untested Mayflower One, is about to take off on its maiden flight, once more, an unforeseen malfunction forces Ted to take over the controls of the shuttle. Now, the traumatized commander is holding everyone's lives in his hands, and as if that weren't enough, Striker has to patch up his already complicated relationship with his engaged former lover, Elaine Dickinson, and confront an unhinged voyager bent on destruction. Can Ted Striker, the reluctant hero, save the day for the second time?

Released
10 Dec 1982
Genres
Comedy, Sci-Fi
Rated
PG
IMDb
6.2 / 10
Metascore
48 / 100
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Ted 156 lines, man
  2. Elaine 118 lines, woman
  3. Mccrosky 77 lines, man
  4. Simon 47 lines, man
  5. Oveur 46 lines, man
  6. Sfx 36 lines
  7. Mary 33 lines
  8. Stella 31 lines
  9. Kramer 30 lines, man
  10. Kruger 24 lines, man
Full cast, 68 people
  • Robert Hays as Ted Striker
  • Julie Hagerty as Elaine Dickinson
  • Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
  • Chad Everett as Simon Kurtz
  • Chuck Connors as The Sarge
  • William Shatner as Cdr. Buck Murdock
  • Rip Torn as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
  • John Dehner as The Commissioner
  • Raymond Burr as Judge D.C. Simonton
  • Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Oveur
  • Kent McCord as Dave Unger
  • James A. Watson, Jr as First Officer Dunn
  • Sonny Bono as Joe Seluchi
  • Stephen Stucker as Jacobs / Courtroom Clerk
  • John Vernon as Dr. Stone
  • Al White as Witness
  • Laurene Landon as Testa
  • Richard Jaeckel as Controller #2
  • Lee Bryant as Mrs. Hammen
  • John Larch as Prosecuting Attorney
  • Sandahl Bergman as Officer #1
  • David Leisure as Religious Zealot
  • Kitten Natividad as Moral Majority Woman (uncredited)
  • Monique Gabrielle as Woman at Topless Scanner (uncredited)
  • George Wendt as Ticket Agent (uncredited)
  • Jack Jones as Lounge Singer
  • HervĂ© Villechaize as Little Breather
  • Madeleine Fisher as Shuttle Agent
  • Sandy Ward as Defense Attorney
  • Louise Sorel as Nurse
  • Clint Smith as Scalper
  • Pat Sajak as Buffalo Anchorman
  • Pamela Guest as Woman with Baby (as Pamela Ann Rack)
  • David Paymer as Court Photographer
  • Ann Nelson as Airsick Woman
  • James Noble as Father O'Flanagan
  • Crystal Smith as Topless Model (uncredited)
  • Ilona Wilson as Woman at Topless Scanner (uncredited)
  • Ed Call as Information Agent
  • Richard Gilliland as Pervis
  • Howard Honig as Dave Walters
  • Lee Patterson as Phoenix Six Captain
  • Earl Boen as Doctor (uncredited)
  • Martin Garner as Old Man #2 (uncredited)
  • Rance Howard as Person #1 (uncredited)
  • Gregory Itzin as Young Man (uncredited)
  • Jim Staahl as International Inquirer Reporter (uncredited)
  • Leon Askin as Moscow Anchorman
  • Marcus K. Mukai as Tokyo Anchorman
  • George Sasaki as Passenger (uncredited)
  • Oliver Robins as Jimmy Wilson
  • Dan Cotter as Passenger in Terminal (uncredited)
  • James A. Watson, Jr as Dunn
  • Frank Ashmore as Controller #3
  • John Hancock as Controller #1
  • Louis Giambalvo as Witness
  • Sam Anderson as Man in White
  • Bruce French as Officer #2
  • Hugh Gillin as Texan
  • Floyd Levine as Hallick
  • Rick Overton as Clerk
  • Lars Hensen as Juror (uncredited)
  • Danny Nero as Passenger in Uniform (uncredited)
  • Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Lee Purcell as Mrs. Seluchi (uncredited)
  • Leoda Richards as Passenger (uncredited)
  • Hank Robinson as Passenger (uncredited)
  • Eddie Smith as Juror (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 6 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 26% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 260

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 610
7 to 1201
13 to 18011
19 to 24320
25 to 3006
31 to 36119
37 to 421546
43 to 481221
49 to 54014
55 to 6066
61 to 66123
67 to 7207
73 to 781217
79 to 8409
85 to 9025
91 to 961422
97 to 10209
103 to 108719
109 to 114126
115 to 12048
121 to 126612
127 to 1321725
133 to 13849
139 to 144125
145 to 150412
151 to 156613
157 to 162028
163 to 168217
169 to 174212
175 to 180535
181 to 18647
187 to 192436
193 to 198218
199 to 204713
205 to 210310
211 to 21625
217 to 22203
223 to 228013
229 to 234313
235 to 24005
241 to 24614
247 to 25223
253 to 25804
259 to 26012

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 20 are women's.

155 lines from women, 613 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

14 women and 54 men in the cast. 4 women and 29 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 3 of 1,039. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 49 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 17% of the words (1,291), men 83% (6,226). Women have 20% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit D: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Exhibit E: behind the camera

3 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Ken Finkleman (man)
Written by
Ken Finkleman (man), Al Jean (man), Mike Reiss (man)
Produced by
Howard W. Koch (man)
Shot by
Joseph F. Biroc (man)
Edited by
Tina Hirsch (woman), Dennis Virkler (man)
Music by
Elmer Bernstein (man)
Production design by
William Sandell (man)
Costumes by
Rosanna Norton (woman)
Cast by
Lisa Freiberger (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Production

    1 women, 3 men

  • Art

    0 women, 3 men

  • Costume & Make-Up

    1 women, 1 men, 1 not listed

  • Sound

    1 women, 2 men

  • Writing

    0 women, 3 men

  • Directing

    0 women, 2 men

  • Editing

    1 women, 1 men

  • Camera

    0 women, 1 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit F: how old the stars were

Women: 27 on average. Men: 56 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Julie Hagerty 27

Men

Robert Hays 35, Chad Everett 45, William Shatner 51, Rip Torn 51, Peter Graves 56, Chuck Connors 61, Raymond Burr 65, John Dehner 67, Lloyd Bridges 69

Exhibit G: the money

It made 1.8 times what it cost.

Budget
$15 million
Box office
$27.2 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 260 scenes and 1,039 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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