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?
Mel Brooks Rick Moranis Bill Pullman Daphne Zuniga John Candy George Wyner Joan Rivers Dick Van Patten Michael Winslow Lorene Yarnell Jansson John Hurt Ed Gale Stephen Tobolowsky Sandy Helberg Dom DeLuise Phil Hartman Tress MacNeille Corey Burton Michael York Rick Ducommun Rudy De Luca Ken Olfson Denise Gallup Dian Gallup Jim Jackman Jim J. Bullock Sal Viscuso Ronny Graham Brenda Strong
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Broke: nature is healing
Woke: It’s Mega-Maid! She’s gone from suck to blow!
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…
A lot of this is dick humor, but some of it can actually be clever. My personal favorites are the self-awareness that they’re in a silly movie, and that Star Wars has mad merchandising game. Although, the best scene has got to be the Alien reference gag. What can I say, I’m a simple man; if I see John Hurt and an alien puppet, I immediately applaud.
It may not be Mel Brook’s most acclaimed parody film, but it certainly deserves a watch for all sci-fi fans alike.
A hilarious, fun comedy that on the surface is a spoof on star wars but really is criticising the blockbuster and merchandising. Some excellent moments of forth wall breaking in this film. The humour is so on the nose and silly but I love how mel.brooks knows this and keeps going with the obvious joke which makes me laugh
The scene where they are literally combing the desert always cheers me up. I know that a lot of people dont get this film and think its stupid but I think it's a genius,happy film. I love mel Brooks type of humour. Rick Moranis is brilliant in this film. This film will never get old.
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.
Maybe my sense of humor sucks now that I’m older. Sorry Spaceballs fans, after a few light chuckles here and there, I couldn’t bring myself to get a good laugh out of this one even though I've enjoyed Star Wars movies. Spaceballs never quite made that jump to light speed for me. C'est la vie.
While I've become known in certain circles here on Letterboxd for being an almost Airplanes zealot level fan who gets somewhat mad on people not loving that masterpiece of a spoof movie - movies like Spaceballs, funnily enough, gives me a glimpse into the mind of those individuals as this is by far among Mel Brooks' weakest films, and yet, when it hits, boy oh boy, it punchs you down to no surrender. K-O, hasta la vista. Its damn hysterical. I mean from the meta humor with the iconic instant tape scene, the pop culture references (Colonel Sandurz, the dancing alien outburst scene), the one-liners ("What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?"), the visual gags (soldiers literally combing the desert with…
Listen, I’m not saying a Star Wars spoof is a better Star Wars movie than the most recent one....
but.....
"We ain't found shit" -Combing the Desert Guy,
That Spaceballs theme song is a banger.
I kind of liked it despite not finding it funny and I don't know how that makes any sense. There is a quality to Mel Brooks films that just feels comfortable, warm and cozy... I guess it's just nostalgia but there is a pleasant and kind nature to what he does that I admire. Even with all that I struggled some during Spaceballs. The jokes are primarily just puns or pun adjacent quips. Hey we're supposed to comb the desert.... oh man look at that they're using real combs... hysterical. In Star Wars they have Yoda so let's call a character Yogurt.... HA BOOM POW. Another big part of the film is fourth wall breaking that is amusing one or two times but eventually just wears thin.
I think I'd still recommend this to fans of screwball comedies and/or Star Wars because
This whole movie is a comedic parody goldmine of Star Wars & I love it. I'm not even a fan of Star Wars either.
Ah, back in the days when parody movies didn't suck.
This movie has aged spectacularly well - some of the jokes in it hit better now, in the post Disney Star Wars era. I don't think it's Brooks absolute best movie (Blazing Saddles) or the one that makes me laugh the hardest (History of the World: Part 1), but it's absolutely one of his most quotable films.
A hilarious, fun comedy that on the surface is a spoof on star wars but really is criticising the blockbuster and merchandising. Some excellent moments of forth wall breaking in this film. The humour is so on the nose and silly but I love how mel.brooks knows this and keeps going with the obvious joke which makes me laugh
The scene where they are literally combing the desert always cheers me up. I know that a lot of people dont get this film and think its stupid but I think it's a genius,happy film. I love mel Brooks type of humour. Rick Moranis is brilliant in this film. This film will never get old.
I think that if you missed a Mel Brooks movie when it first came out and never saw it when you were 12 then it just absolutely doesn’t work because every time I watch one of his movies it’s painfully unfunny. I made it 15 minutes in this before I just gave up.
Not quite at the same level as some of Mel Brook’s bests, but still pretty good.
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