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one of my absolute favorites!

Just what I expected

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It is a difficult achievement to make a spoof comedy and not generate one single laugh or barely a smile but Spaceballs manages it.To think, Airplane still holds up today and even after 10 views, you still find hilarious gags for the first time. The sequel, Naked Gun, the Monty Python films, even Blazing Saddles all still work and are funny for adults or children watching them for the first time.There is absolutely nothing in Spaceballs. Even ignoring the complete lack of humour, the plot is tedious and makes no sense, the characters are dull, the acting dreadful and there is next to nothing to be gained from watching it.It may have dated, which good comedies do not, but it was not even funny first time around.

Version I saw: Netflix live streamActors: 5/10Plot/script: 5/10Photography/visual style: 7/10Music/score: 6/10Overall: 6/10Spaceballs is possibly the funniest film I have ever seen... that could have been written by an 8-year-old. His career as a director began with plaudits for The Producers and Blazing Saddles, and since then has become steadily more silly and, with some exceptions, less good ever since, and often actively dreadful. Incidentally, it has occurred to me that Woody Allen's career progressed in almost the opposite direction from a very similar start, becoming progressively less comedic and more refined.Spaceballs is pretty much a straight parody of the first Star Wars movie, although it draws on the others to a lesser extent, as well as other sources. The entire comedic register of Spaceballs, and indeed of his entire catalogue of genre parodies, is utterly juvenile, from the silly character names (Lone Starr, Princess Vespa, Barf, Yogurt) onwards. Don't get me wrong, it's mostly funny, and very funny at times, but films can be funny and also well-constructed, clever and insightful. It speaks to me of a distinct lack of ambition.There are a couple of aspects of the film that I would single out for praise. The first is the way it calls out Star Wars for its rampant commercialization, and specifically merchandising. This is a tired old joke now, but Spaceballs is the earliest instance of it that I know of. The second is the work on costumes, makeup, sets, props and models, which is genuinely impressive at times, enhancing the comedically bad examples of these things elsewhere in the film. As well as providing an exaggerated contrast for comic effect, it serves to prove that they are not just doing bad work because they are incapable of better.You could view Mel Brooks as a youthful spirit or as an immature prankster, but all that really matters is whether he is funny enough. Spaceballs is more than funny enough.

Oh my lord, my jaws are literally a little sore from laughing at this. It was great to see the well known stars in this like John Candy, Rick Moranis, John Hurt and Joan Rivers(RIP). I didn't expect that they made Joan Rivers into female C-3PO. You would wonder if shes wearing the costume or is it just a toy robot that moves its hands and feet? The movie really takes the p*ss out of both star wars and star trek. It is funny how they change the serious part into a more sarcastic theme. I think its a very good idea for a proper spoof movie. Nowadays, spoof movies that take the p*ss outta other films, they pretty much terrible. They don't have the proper funny side nor have proper legends in them as this one has! I think this is one of the best spoof movies I've ever seen and I'm sorry that I didn't get to see it before today!

"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate". "What does that make us?" "Nothing. Which is exactly what you're about to become"This is from the climactic fight scene between Dark Helmet and Lone Starr, echoing the iconic confrontation between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in "The Empire Strikes Back": also this is a joke viewers could see coming from a mile, but I'll use it to point out the main problem with "Spaceballs". Basically, the film is saying "I'm the official parody of the "Star Wars" saga". What does that make it? Well, not nothing, but not anything more than being the… official parody of the "Star Wars" saga.That's how we all remember "Spaceballs" and there are worse reputations, but it's very revealing when the funniest gags have nothing to do with "Star Wars". Take that hilarious moment when Helmet's right-hand man uses a VHS of the film to spot where the good guys are, they pause the film at the present time so that we see on the TV what happens in real time during the movie. It's just the most vertiginous and dizzying 'mise en abime' process ever used in a film, and the funniest too with a dialogue using the word 'now' like the famous 'Who's on first?' routine. It's for moments like these that "Spaceballs" should be appreciated. It's a shame that there are more smile-inducing little gags than creative hilarious bits like this. And I feel almost guilty to write that, because I used to love the film. Well, in fact, my history with "Spaceballs" was is in three acts.Act One: I'm eight, I discover the film on a Saturday afternoon, I can't stop laughing at Dark Helmet's antics and I really, really enjoy the film. My cinematic knowledge wasn't as extended as today, for what it's worth, and I don't even think I was familiar with the original "Star Wars", because when the real film was aired a few weeks later, I thought it was actually copying "Spaceballs", in an uglier way. Yup, "Spaceballs" introduced me to the "Star Wars" saga. And it was one of my favorite comedies. Act Two: I'm sixteen. I'm a comic-book nerd, I love Tex Avery cartoons and I adore parodies. I'm discovering the Zucker Abrahams Zucker movies and I'm looking for "Spaceballs". There was no Internet, no way for me to remember the title, so it's only by pure luck that I find the VHS in the video store. I finally discover Mel Brooks (although I was familiar with many of his films). I see the film with excitement, alone, in a dark room, expecting to have a Madeleine Proust sensation. I find the film enjoyable, amusing with some funny parts I didn't even get as kid, notably the Virginity alarm and the Valium yawning Prince. I realize this was John Candy as Barf, that Melrose Place girl (Daphne Zuniga) as Princess Vespa, Rick Moranis from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" and good old President Bill Pullmann as Lone Starr. Overall, the rediscovery adds to the enjoyment.Act Three: I'm thirty-four. I watch the film. I like it, but the pleasure relies more on the nostalgic effect. The film is as much about the 80's as "Star Wars" actually, no CGI, good old miniatures, even though a little cheap-looking. Of course, some parts have aged better, most of the good stuff involves Dark Helmet and his crew. But overall, you get some amusing jokes, that are so innocent and fun you don't feel like criticizing them. So, what exactly lacks in the film? I don't know, it's droll and funny but it has the appeal of TV sketches and never really tries to transcend its material, the film only exists for the sole mission of making as many references as possible to "Star Wars" and the Sci-fi genre.This is typical of Mel Brooks, either he tries to make a unique original film and you get "The Producers", "Young Frankenstein" or "Silent Movie" or it's a matter of parodying classics by the book and you get "Blazing Saddles", "High Anxiety" and "Spaceballs", funny movies that work because they know what they should remind you of, all the time. This is the problem with "Spaceballs", once you know "Star Wars", apart from a few original bits like Pizza the Hutt or the 'One Froggy Evening' homage, it's routine humor that makes you want to go directly on Youtube and check the best parts rather than see the whole film. The film has this biting Brooksian humor with the character of Yogurt whose main occupation is to work on the merchandising but that bit had already been used in the 'now' scene. And I guess Brooks might have sinned by being too confident that his film would be a sure hit and overestimated people's interest for "Star Wars" four years after the final opus. But this obsession for parody made the director lose his way, and the disastrous "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" proved that he was already slipping and the popularity of "Spaceballs" had more to do with the actors' performances, Moranis, Candy, and even Brooks himself as Yogurt and President Skroob. There was some potential for satire in this film, but it's so busy retelling the "Star Wars" story that it loses its time on cute gags, and some supposed to sound funny but, for some reason, don't really make you laugh. All right, "may the Schwartz be with you". Ha-ha.The saddest thing is that the parody genre stil had brighter days to come. One year later, ZAZ brothers' "Naked Gun" would make the box-office Top 10, and you know why it worked? Because it copied a genre, archetypes and situations, but not a specific target, so it could stand alone as a movie, and a classic. Sadly, "Spaceballs" comes across as a SNL sketch of epic proportions.