1987 Directed by Mel Brooks
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
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It was at this point, Cinema Peaked. We have yet to make a film this perfect again. I could, and have, seen this movie a million times and it has yet to get old for me. Each joke gets funnier each time I watch it and I always find something new to admire as time goes on.
Happy Birthday, Mel Brooks. And happy birthday to me.
May The Schwartz Be With You!
Letterboxd needs to add another check after "I've seen this film before" for "I've seen this film before A GABILLION TIMES."
I definitely didn't get the Kafka joke as a kid. Or the "Prince Valium" name. Or that John Hurt was reprising his role from ALIEN (which I hadn't seen at that point). Or the PLANET OF THE APES gag at the end (hadn't seen that yet, either). It's kind of amazing, frankly, how many of the reference jokes I DIDN'T get at that age -- and how much I loved this movie anyway. Now, I get the references AND the dumb dick jokes, so it's basically a masterpiece.
The screen is black, in complete silence. Shattering the lingering anticipation to pieces, the film's title zooms across the stars and vastness of space in a bold, triumphant font, as the booming score fills my ear drums with complete euphoria. As the title disappears, text rolls into frame, and our story begins...
What I just described to you above is how most people would describe their first experience with Star Wars. The epic 1977 space opera that changed blockbuster cinema and geek fandom forever. Well I am here to tell you that Mel Brooks' parodic sci-fi film is equally as epic, as the text above also exactly describes my experience every time I watch Spaceballs. Spaceballs is more than just…
I'm surrounded by assholes!
So unbelievably stupid that I can't help but love it. This is a prime example of parody done right.
If you're going to parody one of the biggest movie franchises ever, it would help to have the approval and support of the original's creator. Mel Brooks' Spaceballs got just that when George Lucas gave his blessing with just a couple of stipulations as he took the beloved Star Wars and turned it upside down for laughs. If you can't laugh at this film, then there's something wrong with you. From John Candy's Barf with those ears and that tail that creased me from the off, to Rick Moranis as Lord Dark Helmet and Brooks himself as both Yogurt and President Skroob, this brought the laughs thick and fast. Less near the knuckle than I was expecting, it still delivered…
A magical jaunt down memory lane! The greatest spoof to ever grace the big screen giving nods to all of our favorite sci-fi films!
Mel Brooks humor and style is truly one of a kind!
3 3/4 Stars. I watched this with my 8 yr old daughter who LOVED it and keeps asking to watch it again. I mean it is hard to review this movie. So many 80’s jokes. That are still kinda funny. I have so many fond feelings about it. When I was younger I probably would have given it 4 1/2 Stars. Now it is a solid 3 3/4.
Aged about as gracefully as a comedy can after 30+ years. Sure there are a few dates jokes, a few that don’t land, and some less-than-perfect moments, but overall it has that Mel Brooks charm that we all know and love, and who can fault it for that?
Not as good as something like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein or The Producers, but still a worthy addition to the Brooks legacy.
There's only Mel Brooks to create a comedy cult and Spaceballs is definitively his best comedy movie in the universe!
"Even in the future, nothing works!"
Like High Anxiety, this movie suffers a little from the subject matter being spoofed being more specific than Brooks' best parodies.
But I'm still gonna have a blast with any movie that has John Candy playing a half-man/half-dog voice of reason.
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