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!
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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.
Some days are so long and frustrating, you just gotta say screw it and watch Spaceballs.
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.
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!
5.5 / 10
I can fully understand everyone who loves this, and I think the movie does great in his own way, but just like Family Guy, Simpsons, Rick and Morty or Southpark it's a humor you need to care for and with Meel Brooks, at least for me, it goes sideways.
I think the movie is way to long and fails do deliver the story and jokes with a good pacing. After a great opening it all does down and ends in a finale that somehow does not fit in.
Love this movie, but I watched it so many times I've had to put myself on hiatus for years. You can only have so much of a good thing.
One of my favorite comedies ever made and it's quotable too! Rick Moranis is phenomenal as Lord Helmet.
every time I watch a star war part of me kinda wishes I was watching this instead
I imagine it has real sentimental value for those growing up with this parody or the movies that it parodies. So without that, I look at the ratio of the jokes that land and it doesn't fare well either (though a few Jewish jokes here are funny). Everyone seems to have fun making it though and that really comes through.
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