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| AIRPORT ’77 |
Shortly after Jack Lemmon’s character is knocked out, his co-pilot
takes control of the private Boeing 747 and crashes it in the Atlantic Ocean in
the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.
So begins “Airport ’77,” the second sequel to the 1970 film “Airport”
– the original blockbuster disaster potboiler about a day at an airport and the flight threatened
by a man with a bomb.
But “Airport ’77” is cheesier, more unbelievable and incredibly more melodramatic than “Airport” and its first awful sequel “Airport
1975.”
As the 747 sinks in the Atlantic and lands perilously on the edge of an abyss, the film becomes a sloppy, unintentionally
funny riff on the disaster classic “The Poseidon Adventure.”
