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Airplane 2 is a 2018 Robloxian animated horror-adventure film produced by Ponchokings Animation and released by Columbia Pictures. It is the second installment in the Airplane franchise and served as the sequel to Airplane (2000). The film was directed by Andrew Moss, produced by Toby Mason, Leon Francis, Billy Baker, Konnor Vaughn, Kendall Noble, Dariel Hart and Rory Figueroa and written by Reece Kennedy, Brodie Wilcox, Niko Riley, Samuel Rodriquez, Ibrahim Washington and Arjun Boone, based on a story by Ethan Hussain. Composers and songwriters Caleb Carr, Reece White, Trevon Padilla, Shaun Bright, and Chaim Mullen wrote and composed the music for the movie.

The film stars the voice cast of Aiden Robinson, Riley Walker, Glen Fletcher, Tyler Thompson, Caden Jenkins, Sidney Downs, Kerry Hines, Raylee Thomas, Gabe Chavez, Jo Everett, Nicky Holland, Rory Rees, Harley Hill, Rory Lowe, Ali Page, Sammy Ward, Mell Edwards, Gabby Porter, Phoenix Crane and Rene Fleming. In the film, set over eighteen years after the events of the first movie, then-President Donald Trumpblox gave his "savers" a huge plane that had everything they could possibly want. But when a monster decided to wreaked and completely ruined the plane into pieces, the gang had to stop it from destroying theirs.

After the original movie's home media video release in 2001, the idea for a sequel to Airplane was hatched, but shelved later that year. Airplane 2's official development started in March 2012, and plot concepts were created for the movie before director Andrew Moss joined the production in January of the following year. The movie underwent extensive rewrites and modifications at the studio. Under the working title Airplane: The Second Movie, the film was originally intended to be "as massive and huge", which was unlike the previous film. However, the planned original script was abandoned and its scope was greatly curtailed to concentrate on a new script that was written for the movie. June 2016 saw the start of the animation, which ran until November 2017. It was the first major motion picture production by Ponchokings Animation since the franchise's debut, as well as the first sizable production for general films in the history of the company since The Bacons (2009).

Airplane 2 was theatrically released in the United States and Canada on January 25, 2018. The film grossed over $639 million worldwide, becoming the second highest-grossing animated film of 2018, just behind Incredibles 2, the ninth highest-grossing film of that year and currently, the highest-grossing film in the franchise. Despite major controversy about Gabe's casting, the film received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with praise for its animation, storytelling, humor, musical score, character development and action scenes, with many calling it as the "best film in the franchise"; it had been also among of the most popular animated films from that year. In addition to winning Best Animation Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Voice Acting from the Annual Bloxy Awards, the movie took home several other honors.

Due to the second movie's success, a new franchise was created, which included a series of a prequel, a sequel and a spin-off, which were Airplane: The Prequel, Airplane: One Last Flight and Airplane World. A sixth installment is currently being planned as of February 2024.

Plot

Some time after takeoff, the pilot introduces himself and invites them onboard over intercom. After earlier saving a plane, the pilot introduces herself as Pilot Keilly and informs the Robloxians that they are aboard Blox Force One for a VIP party with the Donald Trumpblox. The Robloxians are instructed to take a seat after receiving the news so that they are prepared for turbulence. When the turbulence has passed, Keilly opens the door to the adjoining chamber and informs the Robloxians that a presidential agent is waiting there. After the agents leave, a door opens to reveal another agent who follows the Robloxians into the plane, congratulating them for their offer and guiding them to a conference place. The agent then encourages the Robloxians to follow their orders carefully and not make any disruptions on the voyage, warning them that the president has a very short fuse. He then offers the players glasses of water to drink while they wait for the President to finish his preparations. To the agent's dismay, one Robloxan unintentionally spills all of the glasses, which the Robloxians clean up in a montage.

The president invites the Robloxians to the aircraft's eating room and instructs them to "build that brickwall!" The president quickly apologizes and identifies himself as Donald Trumpblox. The Robloxians accept Donald Trumpblox's offer to dinner, but the agent in the region informs him that the meal is not ready due to a mistake by the chef. When Donald Trumpblox grows irritated, he orders the agents to expel the chef off the plane. Donald Trumpblox sat the Robloxians and served them lunch, which they appear to enjoy. The agent who stays behind instructs the Robloxians to walk to the computer room located down the corridor. When the Robloxians successfully breach the code, the agent is surprised and contemplates altering it. President Donald Trumpblox then welcomes the Robloxians once again, apologizing for having to leave early and allowing them to sleep in his bedroom—but not before asking them to find the misplaced keys.

After opening the door, the Robloxians fell asleep. A monster is then spotted in the corridor leading to the cockpit, as they see the bedroom curtain shift. The Monster summons a wall of lava and laughs at the Robloxians for forgetting him so quickly. The lava drives the Robloxians into the storage compartment at the back of the plane before disappearing, much to their dismay and terror. Then lava erupts from the floor, pushing the Robloxian to climb aloft. To their horror, the lava drives the Robloxians into the storage compartment in the back of the plane before disappearing. Pilot Keilly, on the other hand, welcomes the Robloxians into the cockpit so she may give them some information. After the Robloxians have left, Keilly begins working on unlocking the door. But the Monster refuses to let the Robloxians go, so he transforms one of them into himself. However, the transition is fleeting; as soon as Kelily opens the cockpit, the Robloxian reverses direction.

The Robloxians make a safe entry. Keilly then informs the Robloxians that she is also an agent and offers them with substantial information on the Monster's background. At beginning, the Monster was an outcast Robloxian who had an odd fixation with plane crashes. Finally, he sought to make a crash himself, but died of a heart attack before he could. In the afterlife, his ghost seeks for Robloxians, whom he blames for his death. After informing the Robloxians that the Monster may transform into any Robloxian there, Keilly places a handgun on the dashboard that any Robloxian can use to defeat the Monster. Then one Robloxian grabs the rifle. Following that, the Robloxians return to the office, where they are greeted by President Trumpblox and an agent, who demand that the gun be stored.

Voice cast

• Aiden Robinson
• Riley Walker
• Glen Fletcher
• Tyler Thompson
• Caden Jenkins
• Sidney Downs
• Kerry Hines
• Raylee Thomas
• Gabe Chavez
• Jo Everett
• Nicky Holland
• Rory Rees
• Harley Hill
• Rory Lowe
• Ali Page

Additionally, Sammy Ward, Mell Edwards, Gabby Porter, Phoenix Crane and Rene Fleming were credited as voice actors for some of the Robloxians in the group.

Production

Airplane 2 was produced by Ponchokings Animation and officially released by Columbia Pictures. The budget for the film was reportedly around $80+ million.

Background

Soon after Airplane (2000) was released on home video, Columbia Pictures started developing ideas for a sequel at the time of Airplane 2's first acquisition in 2001. That year, filmmaker Riley Mccarthy—who had been involved in the previous movie as a screenplay writer—was brought on to helm the sequel. By then, the movie was in the early stages of development. The initial script for the first version of Airplane 2, credited to Frankie Hughes, Zak Davidson, and Samuel Lewis, was reportedly written around June to August 2001. However, work on the then-planned sequel was put on hold, and the plot was subsequently abandoned later that year. Furthermore, the script was revised several times before it was abandoned, even before the September attacks.

Development

Animator Jefferson Mcdonald said in November 2011, that the company that worked on the first movie, Ponchokings Animation, was submitting new ideas for a new sequel to Airplane. One of the earliest ideas for the follow-up was to include a President, who served as the inspiration for most of the company's members. However, the notion was dropped out of fear of controversy, even though it was subsequently employed in the finished product. A number of concepts and ideas for a sequel started to emerge in January of the following year. Meadow Gentry stated that the sequel was "on active development" and that it "would be an amazing film when completed." When a number of producers and even animators (who worked on the previous film) started pitching narrative ideas, Eli Howard, the CEO of Columbia Pictures, decided to start early development but not to give the picture the go-ahead until they had the right story and script for a sequel. Eli Howard originally questioned filmmaker Brandon Armstrong about doing a sequel at that time. Armstrong said no, preferring to give "that chance" to someone fresh and "who respected the first film more." Kohen Harding, Maddox Willis, Gale Jordan, Brice Martin, and Danni Price were among the first people approached in February 2012 to take on the role of director or producer for the sequel. All of them declined, citing other projects they were working on at the time.

In March 2012, the sequel received the green light and Ponchokings Animation announced that a sequel to Airplane was "in the works," possibly with a 2016 or 2017 release date. This was despite the difficulties encountered in selecting a director. Eventually, as ideas for the sequel started to become fresh "in the studio" and because of the enormous fanbase and popularity of the original film, official development began around this time. It was disclosed the following month that the studio was still in the process of selecting a director, and that the initial storyboards for the sequel had started and were in the "works" for the movie. It was announced in July of that year that the movie's preparations had started, and the company had finally selected the writers and producers for the impending picture. One month later, in August, Eli Howard allegedly revealed that the title will be "Airplane: The Second Movie" with an October 24, 2016 release date, during an annual press conference discussing the next stages of the animated and live-action picture. The studio was "in the process" of generating "a big story" that wasn't included in the first movie and was "planned" as a massive picture with "a completely different cast of characters" at about the same time. The studio was also working on establishing numerous story concepts for the sequel.

The sequel's director, Andrew Moss, was brought on board by Columbia Pictures in January of 2013. Having directed or even contributed to an animated feature-film in more than eight years, Andrew Moss chose to apply for the position after learning of a follow-up to "his favorite film as a child" and expressing interest in a new animated picture. Its actual= title—"Airplane 2"—was discovered to be leaked online in March of that year, as opposed to the one Howard had previously disclosed. Reports surfaced in July of that year indicating that pre-production was about to start and that the movie's development was nearing "a end." Reece Kennedy, Brodie Wilcox, Niko Riley, and Samuel Rodriquez were revealed as members of the film's crew; the latter joining the project sometime in February. According to Columbia Pictures' December report, the movie was "in pre-production stages," with some members of the team contributing to the project and developing ideas for the sequel's plot.Since the whole story of the film took place in an aircraft and ran from April 5 to April 23, or roughly three weeks, at least 700 individuals in six different groups had separate journeys on around ten different planes to learn about the idea of the planes.

Writing and inspiration

Reece Kennedy, Brodie Wilcox, Niko Riley, Samuel Rodriquez, Ibrahim Washington, and Arjun Boone were among the authors and co-writers that contributed to the script that became Airplane 2. After the development on the sequel began in 2011, Samuel Lewis, the writer of the original script, wanted to work on the project after it was first developed in 2011 and the company was seeking for fresh writers. Lewis even "hoped to write the draft" but was fired by the studio. It was stated on April 6, 2012, that Samuel Rodriquez had joined the project and that he and the other "unknown" authors were "in the process" of producing the first draft. Ibrahim Washington organized a meeting known as "the writing team" throughout production, whereby they would frequently discuss fresh concepts and ideas for the follow-up. Following that meeting, the majority of the final ideas for the movie would be prepared and added.

Every Saturday, following the authors' departure from the studio or their homes, the meeting was held. After a few of the initial meetings, stay-at-home writer Brodie Wilcox decided to go in person to work on the project. Initially, he worked on it on his computer. One of the initial ideas for the script was to focus on the film taking place in one location—the plane itself—instead of introducing the audience to the entire series. For almost two months, the authors tried to grow the universe into a "massive" film. However, in the end, the final version didn't work, so they chose to cut the storyline. The "concept was like massive and could have been worked out, but the only problem was that [we] try very hard, like we were focusing mostly on the themes and message," said Arjun Boone in a 2019 interview. Adding to the "scale" of what the movie would have been, he said that China, the UK, the Philippines, and "a couple of some of the largest countries in the world" would have all been included in the movie. Reece Kennedy and Brodie Wilcox conversed via facecams after they were done scrapping the original plot, and although most of the authors were working on a new plot for the sequel, they would often discuss the abandoned plot while concentrating on at least adding details to the new one. After some time, an idea for the "Donald" plane emerged.

The two of them came up with the notion, and at first, they intended to concentrate on building a larger universe. Nevertheless, that idea was abandoned in favor of one that Brodie Wilcox had been working on, which called for the story to be concentrated on and told in a single location—the "Donald" plane. When the movie was first being developed, most of the writers were working on include Donald Trumpblox, who had attempted to become president of the United States but had failed. Working on multiple drafts of the film resulted in multiple openings. The first opening featured Donald explaining his plane's history; the second featured Donald boarding the aircraft but falling as a "joke"; the third featured the film introducing the Robloxians in a musical number, with the song purportedly being "Good Luck On Your Flight"; and the fourth featured Donald and Pilot Keilly conversing with each other.

After debating the opening sequence, the authors ultimately opted for a chilly start, concentrating on the Robloxians' attempt to board the plane and having the movie give a five-minute history of their current situation in life following their rescue of Donald from a plane crash. The writer's original plan was for the joke to remain a "joke"; however, the producer decided that it was funny and ordered that it be included in the movie. In the first part of the movie, Donald gives the agents orders to throw the chef off the plane. Though some members of the studio staff felt it was "showcasing on how Donald is evil" and did not display him in the manner they intended him to be, the notion was welcomed with criticism. Similar to the previous movie, the storyline takes place on a large plane. However, the authors' challenge was to develop the tale in only one area; apparently, some of them "regreted" erasing the original plot. Eventually, however, they came up with an idea that worked for the movie. The A380 aircraft served as an inspiration for the authors, who traveled inside three of them to gain a "idea" for the design of the "Donald" jet.

Casting and voice recording

On the official Columbia Pictures website, a casting call was posted in January 2013. Shortly after, a number of posters with information about the characters, story, and title were released. Online advertisements for other social media platforms also surfaced. The posters were physically positioned next to street poles and outside of buildings. Aiden Robinson was reportedly brought on board to play one of the "unclosed" roles in February. Aiden had previously appeared in the live-action television series The Adventure of Noob and Bacon, which is based on the same name and aired around 2010, so he had to practice his acting and scale down his hometown to a "different" level in order to be hired for the role. The casting call "listed for a strong and low-pitch character". Aiden Robinson allegedly entered the studio on January 30 to record his lines for a short screenplay that the authors had created specifically for him and the other performers. He said, "Well," after recording. One of them said, "You hired," to the question, "What, now?" It surprised Aiden much because he hadn't anticipated being selected. Riley Walker, Glen Fletcher, Tyler Thompson, and Caden Jenkins were among the other voice actors chosen in April, May, and June of that year.

Many actors were selected to play the voice of Pilot Keilly (who was named as Kelly in the original casting call), including Sophia Dean, Shannon Bradley, Kayla Black, Perla Ellison, Fiona Ayers, and Kaylie Rogers. Casting continued to grow throughout the course of the next two years, 2014 and 2015, and even into 2016. The company also considered the possibility of having Donald Trump voice his own part in the movie during the pre-production phase when the president Donald Trumpblox was being introduced to the picture. A number of performers were selected to provide the voices for Donald. The company allegedly tried calling to try and strike a deal regarding the movie, but neither the White House nor Donald personally answered. As a result, the studio changed course and abandoned its original plan. Finlay White, Harrison Perry, Archie Wells, Nathan Hughes, Jonathan May, Lyric Shaffer, Oakley Guerrero, Ivan Wardm, Aaden Cline, and Oliver Dean were supposedly cast by the studio during a five-month period, but all of them failed to live up to the expectations of their characters. After some time, Nicky Holland was chosen to be Donald Trump's voice actor.

May 2016 saw the start of voice recording, which finished in February 2017. When recording his lines as Donald Trumpblox, Nicky Holland planned to give Donald a different tone and voice scale, but the idea was abandoned because the studio felt it wouldn't fit Donald's voice well enough. Instead, he wanted to perfectly match his ascent and tone to the character. Several crew members believed that Donald Trump was speaking himself and that the studio was "hiding it" from them during the film's middle recording phases. However, Nicky was eventually revealed to be the voice actor. When questioned about his voice and performance in the role in a February 2018 interview, Nicky responded, "I think I did very well with Donald's voice." A tad excessive, but at the ideal tempo and tone.

Animation and design

An whole year and a half was spent on the animation and production of Airplane 2, almost twice as long as it took to make the original movie and even longer than the movies' subsequent sequels. In order to acclimate to the new visual style for the sequel, the studio created a lot of character face tests in 2016. This was because the realistic design and the film's animation quality had significantly improved. The process of creating CGI and 2-D animation took "a while" in addition to the animation of Airplane World, which was released in 2023. In total, over 1,000 animators worked on the sequel, with some funding coming from the studio to keep the sequel in production and enough to pay its animators and workers on the film. In order to create the plane that served as the single location, the animators referred to live-action movies like Camping (1992) for inspiration when creating the sequel. They also added many camera movements to the film in an effort to make it "look like an action movie." Initially, the animators intended to create a 2-D animation for the lava scene. However, due to the challenging nature of the procedure and the way the lava was utilised in the scene, they ultimately opted to create a 3-D animation. Using lava effects from many animation websites, the animators created the scene using an animation website, mostly focusing on the sequel.

The end scene, in which the plane is almost about to crash into the ground, was one of the most notable scenes in which Jenson Davidson, Nathan Dean, Oscar Jackson, Riley Davis, Evan Nicholson, Jaden Leon, Broderick Brown, Anton Diaz, Kaiden Wells, and Walter Sullivan designed and rendered the smoke and fire effects. The animated sequence featuring the plane crash was completed by over 200 animators and was originally scheduled to take two years to complete. It was added at the last minute, in July 2017. The animation's plane was designed to crash into the ground when it struck an object—in this case, the grass—and destroy the model. To achieve realism in the animation, the animators employed real-life settings that highlighted the "blue" sky for the sky animation effects. The remainder of the movie is animated in two dimensions, with around 80% of it using computer-generated imagery.

Music

Composers and songwriters Chaim Mullen, Trevon Padilla, Reece White, Shaun Bright, and Caleb Carr wrote the music. In order to better grasp the songwriter's perspective and skill set, Columbia Pictures started seeking songwriters in 2014, when the movie was still in its early stages of development, to create songs or compose music for the intended sequel. Columbia Pictures announced in January 2016 that Trevon Padilla, Reece White, Shaun Bright, Caleb Carr, and lyricist and composer Chaim Mullen will be working on the sequel. When they were creating the soundtrack at the studio, they aimed to create a "action-film" vibe that was reminiscent of most of the live-action movies that had come out at the same time as the movie's creation.

The songwriters initially intended to turn the movie "into a musical-type" with a number of songs, including the catchy musical number "Good Luck On Your Flight." However, the studio and the company didn't like this idea, believing that a horror film and a musical wouldn't work together "as well." As a result, the majority of the songs were removed from the movie; however, one song had already been included in the storyboards before it was eliminated. It was announced in February 2017 that the composers were "working in creating the best score that they could make" and that the film's score has started. A week before the movie's premiere, on January 18, 2018, the album Airplane 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was finally published to the public for digital release. The soundtrack had been confirmed to be in development since July of that same year.

Marketing

In contrast to the original movie, Airplane 2 had a lot more marketing support. Columbia Picture struck deals with a number of airlines, including SkyLink, Air Redcliff, Robloxian Airways, BloxFly Airlines, Cyprus Air, Endless Airways, Lemonde Airlines, and ZoomAir, in order to market the movie and create merchandise for the sequel. Almost all of the airlines agreed to put the movie's logo on their aircraft, with the exception of a small number that declined for unspecified reasons. In November 2016, the teaser poster was released, showcasing a white airplane in the middle of the logo, which was entitled "2", highlighting the "purpose", but without the release date, in which the poster released around the time that the release date was also revealed to the public that was released just last month. Its "true" function was highlighted by several critics, who also appreciated the poster's overall design and the unique way the emblem looked, giving "some fans" hope for a sequel. On January 5, 2017, the film's teaser trailer was made available online. It had previously aired on NBC during commercial breaks for a television series, and in just one day, it had amassed 100 million views on social media, ranking ninth overall and third among trailers for animated movies. Exactly one month after its first release, on February 5, 2017, the teaser trailer was re-released and re-edited. This choice was seen to be "off-putting".

A 30-second commercial with the phrase "Build that wall!" was created for the 2017 Super Bowl in response to the event that was taking place at the same time the commercial was published. The media criticized the advertisement, citing concerns that "it was revealing Donald True's power" and that the sequel was now "mostly focusing on children's audience" rather than adults. Regarding the backlash, Kayden George said, "Sometimes, the media can get a little crazy over three words that a random president". Voice actor Aiden Robinson debuted a one-minute teaser of the sequel, which centers on the Robloxians lounging with Donald Trump, during the 2017 Bloxy Awards. The video also drew harsh criticism and some negative publicity from the media. On June 24, 2017, the official trailer was unveiled, giving viewers a closer look at the setting and their first glimpse at some of the then-unknown characters, such as Pilot Keilly and The Chef. It also revealed the revised release date. With 129 million views across all social media platforms, the trailer surpassed the views of the original teaser to become the second-most viewed trailer for an animated movie. Dominik Hewitt of CNN commented on the subject, stating: "This movie has been receiving a lot of negative attention for a while now. Furthermore, I believe that the inclusion of Donald Trump in the film should be the only reason the media are criticizing it".

Release

Theatrical

Airplane 2 had its world premiere at RC Cinema in RoCity, near Bloxington Ocean on January 15, before being releasing in the United States and Canada on Thursday, January 25, 2018 in IMAX, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D and 4D formats. Airplane 2 was delayed several times throughout its production's history: Columbia Pictures had intended and believed that Airplane 2 would be released somewhere in Q1 or Q2 of 2016. However, the company revealed in January 2015 that the film will now be released at an unspecified later date. The release date—November 24, 2016, which fell around Thanksgiving Day—was revealed months later in April 2015. But after just two months around June of that same year, the film had to be delayed for an unspecified date in the following year, apparently because of serious issues with the team and crew. The alleged reason for the delay was creative disputes about whether the film would be mostly set outside or exclusively on an airplane; several producers appeared to concur that the film should be filmed outside.

Even though there were suspicions that the film will be released in 2017, the revised release date of "sometimes around 2018" was eventually revealed. Before the company decided to release the movie on its current date, it was first delayed once again, in December 2017, after a new release date of January 2, 2018 (the day after New Year's Eve) was made public around June 9, 2017.

Home media

On March 26, 2018, 60 days after its theatrical debut, Airplane 2 was made available for streaming services. The movie was originally scheduled to be released on February 21, 2018, however due to its commercial success, the release date was pushed back to provide for additional time for the movie to be seen in cinemas. On January 24, 2019, the official Columbia Picture published the complete film on BloxTube for a two-week period, over a year after the release of the sequel. The closing credits feature a paragraph that states, "Airplane: The Prequel is coming to theaters." Seek further information on the upcoming movie." In addition, the movie was made available online by the studio in an effort to publicize Airplane: The Prequel, the next installment in the franchise, which was scheduled for release in February.

5th anniversary re-release

The Columbia Pictures corporation said on December 21, 2022, that the movie will be re-released in cinemas, starting with the RC Cinema location (which, sometime in November 2021, was changed the name to Marcus Cinema), where the original world premiere took place back in 2018 and was planned for a release around January of the following year. The re-release was eventually scheduled to debut on February 8, 2023, which was beyond the sequel's January release date. However, due to the 25th anniversary re-release of the 1997 movie Titanic, the original date was pushed back to January 26, 2023, which was two weeks later than planned.

Reception

Pre-release

Gabe Chavez controversy

On December 9, 2015, Gabe Chavez was cast as Pilot Keilly. Gabe was viewed as a "regular human" during the time of her casting, wearing relatively few shirts and pants and maintaining her original design for many years following her significant metamorphosis, which occurred supposedly approximately 10 years prior to her casting in the film. Shortly after her casting announcement was made public, many people began to condemn Gabe as a "noob" and began to despise her for "being nowhere near as special" as the other cast members who were chosen to voice characters in the sequel. Regarding the criticism of her appearance around February 2016, she responded, "I deal with it on a regular basis. My pain was lessened by it. And that's it for now".

Despite the fact that the film was animated, Gabe Chavez began to receive severe backlash from the animation community, as well as a group, and as a result of the attention, news of her reached out to a funding group known as the Robloxian Character Characteristic Groups Organization. The Robloxian Character Characteristic Groups Organization began to despise Gabe for the "way she looks" and how he was "able to be hired into the film without any issues," while also blaming the animation studio that produced the film as "stupid" and "not well-trained" to "actually hire good voice actors." During her voice acting career, Gabe "usually" blamed the criticism on the intrent, exacerbating the situation.

The topic worsened by 2017, when Gabe began to receive more hostility since "Guests" were being taken from the nation while "weird ones" like Gabe were still free to reside there without incident. The criticism was apparently so fierce and harsh toward Gabe in the weeks leading up to the film's release that Gabe did not attend the global premiere in January of the following year, citing "safety concerns" and a desire not to make a "scene". It was discovered that at least 10 persons were arrested for plotting to attack and assassinate Gabe during the film's premiere, resulting in a significant increase in the event's security. Three days later, Gabe Chavez changed her for the first time in years, and as a result, the reaction slowed and then halted. Numerous new channels reported in February 2019 that The Robloxian Character Characteristic Groups Organization had attempted twice to boycott the film and delay its release, with the company's plans to postpone until Gabe was "replaced with a different voice actor," but Columbia Pictures refused and mostly ignored the backlash, instead "focusing more on the positive." In the aftermath of the significant scandal, Gabe was believed to have blamed Columbia Pictures for employing her in the first place, and that she would have resigned the movie as soon as the reaction began. The backlash also caused her to have very few panic attacks, and despite the uproar being ended, Gabe allegedly feared that a group would attack her.

Box office

Airplane 2 grossed over $639 million worldwide ($419 million in the United States and Canada and $200 million in other territories), becoming the highest-grossing animated film of 2018, the ninth highest-grossing film of that year and the highest-grossing film in the franchise, above Airplane World (2023).

Due in large part to the extensive promotion and the large number of "fans hyping" the movie online, Airplane 2 was predicted to make over $30 million in the US and Canada over the course of its four-day weekend. The movie ultimately made over $50 million on its opening day worldwide, earning praise for being "as perfect" as an animated movie. As a result, the weekend's box office totals increased to about $100 million globally. The movie became the top movie in America and other nations by the third day, having already made over $90 million in international box office receipts. With tickets mostly from the US, Airplane 2 made over $121 million on the fourth day. Over the course of the weekend, the movie brought in over $130 million, which was considered "likely possible" and "gonna happened." Before Incredibles 2 surpassed it in June 2018, the movie was the highest-grossing premiere for the studio and the highest-debuting animated picture of that year.

Critical reception

The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with praise for its animation, storytelling, humor, musical score, character development, and action scenes; many called it the "best film in the franchise"; it was also one of the most popular animated films that year.

Sequels

• Main article: Airplane: The Prequel

Airplane: The Prequel was released in the United States on February 28, 2019. The plot revolves mostly around government authorities on a manhunt, but it also provides a wealth of background material that occurred before to the events of the first two films.

• Main article: Airplane: One Last Flight

Airplane: One Last Flight was released in the United States on January 26, 2021. The plot focuses around a group of Robloxians who are flying to the Bloxhamas for a holiday. Things take a turn for the worse, however, as a giant hooded skeleton gathers an army and attempts to curse and infect the Robloxians.

• Main article: Airplane World

Airplane World was released in the United States on November 1, 2023. The plot, which is set on the fictitious Roblox planet, a reinvented version of the 2010s, revolves around fourteen and sixteen-year-old Alex (Luke) and Sophie (Laura), as well as a group of roughly eight individuals and a parent. The government is determined to eliminate them, so they must run and stop all of the villains from the previous films, including Monster, from taking over the earth.

See also

• Airplane (franchise)