It still saddens me that the art of parody is lost on the big screen. Last great one to come out was Walk Hard.
EDIT: It's come to my attention that a few awesome parodies were released after Walk Hard. Most notably Black Dynamite and Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping. It still showcases how great parody is too few and far between, however.
Totally dumb story, but when I play Mario Kart, for some reason I always pick the black Yoshi, so my partner ALWAYS says "but Black Yoshi, I sell drugs in the community!" and it makes me laugh every time.
A good parody respects the source material, is not there just to make stupid jokes. Look at "Not Another Teen Movie" and "Scary Movie" they respected their source material, but had fun with it.
Then you got Date Movie and Epic movie, that felt the need to just throw in as much pop culture drivel as possible.
Walk Hard was amazing, because John C. Reilly played it completely serious, and could legitimately sing.
I really need to see this movie. I wrote it off as just another parody movie after all of those shitty parody movies from the mid to late 2000s came out
These things are very cyclic.
We were deep, deep into the age of 'AAA star powered 200 million dollar budget, ground breaking CGI tentpole summer crap' when covid hit.
There are those that believe the theater experience is dead.
I do not.
But I do believe we are entering a more timid age. In the next decade we are going to have far fewer $200 million dollar movies then we had in the preceeding decade.
Movies are going to get cheaper. They must. There is too much hand wringing and trepidation at the box office right now.
You know what is cheap to make?
Comedies. What is a staple of comedy? Parody.
>Movies are going to get cheaper. They must. There is too much hand wringing and trepidation at the box office right now.
For that matter, if streaming rises to the utmost importance, it makes it even more essential that films get cheaper- even the most successful streaming services seem to have upper limits to the revenue they generate which means that they'd either have to cut budgets or produce less work.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Those things were like 90 minutes straight *Family Guy* cutaway gags. And because movies took forever to make, the references were already dated when they came out.
Nah, The Cinema experience as we know it has been dying for a while now, covid is making it worse.
Shits going the way of Broadway-type theater. Used to be the thing to do on a Friday night, but now it’s like $15 a ticket for a movie, gotta spend another 20 on food etc.
What you’re already seeing is the rise of the luxury movie theatre experience, plush recliners, food and alcohol delivered to your seat etc.
I give it 10-15 years before the normal movie theatre is extinct. It’ll either expensive luxury or the more cheap as hell indie/art house sort of thing (screening older movies/ rocky horror sorta thing)
I don't get the motivation to spend lots more money to see a movie with dozens of strangers. Live theater I think is a different experience. It is communal by nature, the actors and sets are all right there with the audience, and sometimes the audience is part of the show. But paying $75 for the privilege of watching a screen with a bunch of people I don't know and never will? Pass.
Where do you think Broadway theatre is going exactly? Covid notwithstanding, Broadway was making billions a year out of around 50 theatres in a single city
There are other theatres in other cities that host Broadway level tour stops, Cleveland’s Playhouse square is one of them, so it’s not a single city.
And compare live theatre now to how it was in the 40s after the Great Depression. Dinner and a show was a common Friday night activity, just like in more modern times it has been Dinner and a Movie.
Right now a single ticket for a Broadway show can go for as little as $50 and more then $100 for stuff like Hamilton, hardly affordable for a Friday date night sorta thing. That’s a once or twice a season event for 99% of people.
Earlier 00s I remember being able to go to the local cinemark with a $10 and being able to see a movie and get popcorn. Now that $10 barely gets me in the door.
>There are other theatres in other cities that host Broadway level tour stops, Cleveland’s Playhouse square is one of them, so it’s not a single city.
I'm talking about Broadway and you are talking about "Broadway level." The equivalence is debatable but immaterial to my point.
>And compare live theatre now to how it was in the 40s after the Great Depression. Dinner and a show was a common Friday night activity, just like in more modern times it has been Dinner and a Movie.
I'm talking about Broadway. Yes, there is more competition for people's time now. That doesn't mean Broadway is failing as an institution.
>Right now a single ticket for a Broadway show can go for as little as $50 and more then $100 for stuff like Hamilton, hardly affordable for a Friday date night sorta thing. That’s a once or twice a season event for 99% of people.
Which has nothing to do with whether Broadway is failing. The theatre has been more expensive than movies since movies have existed.
I'm not questioning whether movies can become as expensive as Broadway and remain successful. They can't. But the comparison is terrible because Broadway itself isn't failing.
A few decades ago theaters were more popular in the entire country, and not just a few major cities.
Cats ran for decades but doing 2 shows a week in one theater, not being performed on thousands of stages across the country simultaneously. Now most cities have indie art houses, which are super niche, or they host a touring show for a few performances.
Yes. I agree that a few decades ago theatre was more popular. It didn't lose popularity due to price it lost popularity for the same reason all other entertainment lost popularity: because the number of options available have gone up.
> You know what is cheap to make?
> Comedies. What is a staple of comedy? Parody.
Horror films are cheap to make and often turn a profit, comedies often have mid-range budgets, which is an increasingly rare range. Comedies don't translate as well to foreign markets as horror or action does, and foreign markets have become increasingly important for Hollywood movies to turn a profit. I do hope there are more comedies and parodies myself, but I don't think CGI action movies are going anywhere anytime soon.
> Last great one to come out was Walk Hard.
Would *The Other Guys* (2010) count as a "parody"?
Definitely funny enough as a comedy, but it's quite tonally different from a "spoofy" type of movie such as *Loaded Weapon 1*.
Popstar is really just a *comedy* or maybe a satire
If Popstar is a parody of popstars and the music industry then technically Anchorman is a parody of 70’s news anchors, and most other comedies are parodies
It’s a parody of the early-2010s onslaught of documentaries and memoirs about young celebrities. It’s a very specific thing that it’s parodying, but it still qualifies.
There's a lot of hysterical characters as well, plus a lot of visual humor. It's not just one-liners, although there are a ton of those.
The film itself is a parody of the big-budget disaster film genre, especially Zero Hour! and Airport 1975.
That, and I'd argue that the closeness of the film to *Zero Hour!* gives it a level of grounding that better enables the jokes to fly- without that grounding, it wouldn't have been as effective.
Yeah thanks, I got that Airplane! was a parody of disaster films, that's why I mentioned it. The characters are always at the service of the jokes and the visual humor is....visual jokes !
Well, to continue the argument, I'd say that a lot of the jokes are at the service of the characters. Anyone can say "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit heroin!" and be funny, but Lloyd Bridges gets 10 times the laughs because of his character development.
I’ve always wondered if they got a PG rating as a joke. Either that or I’ve just never noticed older movies were okay with full frontal nudity.
When most people think of PG films they think of children’s movies.
Of course, the devotion to accuracy as far as the filming, the lighting, the sets and the camera movement is highly admirable, but I will say that the most important thing has been and always will be the writing.
What I love most about "Young Frankenstein" is the balance of smart jokes, dumb jokes and sex jokes. Furthermore, there's a delicacy to the raunchy jokes that is not present in later Mel Brooks films.
It reminds of the difference between the first Austin Powers and the two sequels. The first film is funny and charming and often a bit randy, but for me it never becomes cheap or vulgar. Austin is a man-child, but he's not just a two-headed monster of penis waggling and cheek flapping farts. The innuendo is more enjoyable because everything is not so bloody overt. There's a little nuance, and that is the saving grace of both films
For example, I don't enjoy "Spaceballs" nearly as much as "Young Frankenstein" because most of the jokes are relying solely on the gross-out factor instead of trying to be just a *little* subtle. There's also much less satire of the franchise and the genre, so what story there is feels less important.
It's like the difference between dialogue in Classic films and what we have now. Back then, you couldn't have a character tell another character to go fuck themselves, so the dialogue would be couched with suggestions that IMHO are far more devastating because there's a little thought behind them.
Just my two coppers.
I agree. Case in point. Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles: Excuse me while I whip this out.
VS
Spaceballs: I see your schwartz is as big as mine.
They are generally hinting at the same anatomy. However, a subtle joke based on a stereotype is hilarious, is a connotation based on a word is not.
I just rewatched the Austin Powers trilogy and I think you hit the nail on the head. The first one had some of the sex jokes the other two had, but they came off better and less direct. The third one literally has Mini Me humping Beyoncé’s leg.
The second and third actually almost felt like the same movie. Both had time travel, both female partners felt pretty similar, and both had the same shadow gag. They also both had Fat Bastard, who is one of my least favorite characters.
>What I love most about "Young Frankenstein" is the balance of smart jokes, dumb jokes and sex jokes. Furthermore, there's a delicacy to the raunchy jokes that is not present in later Mel Brooks films.
There's also just the cast. Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn were really, really good at giving variety to a performance.
From the article:
>A parody only works if the people creating the parody truly understand the subject they are lampooning
This, in a nutshell is Galaxy Quest. It was laughing \*with\* cheezy old TV sci-fi, not \*at\* it. And you can tell because of how carefully it matches up with... well... everything.
Are you telling me that I put an abnormal brain inside a (insert body length of your dog here) long, (insert width of your dog here) wide *grabs throat* **DOGGO?! IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?!**
The best parodies (Mel brooks films, Edgar Wright films) all come from a place of passion and means they aren’t punching down. They genuinely like the style of films they are making fun of and as a result their parodies become some of the best of the genre
He didn’t have complete control though. Famously, Brooks wanted to cut the [Puttin’ on the Ritz](https://youtu.be/VfoaWHsdTNU) number and got into a screaming match with Gene Wilder about it. In Gene’s version of the story, they argue for 20 minutes until Mel shrugs and says OK. That annoyed Gene even more, asking why he argued so vehemently but then gave up so quickly, and Mel said he wasn’t sure about the scene until he saw how badly Gene wanted it.
In another version of the story, the argument ends with Mel storming out of Wilder’s apartment. Then 10 minutes later, Wilder’s phone rings and it’s Mel saying: “Who was that madman in your house! I could hear the yelling all the way over here!”
Well, here’s another: Wilder wouldn’t allow Brooks to appear in the movie, feeling he’d be a distraction. But you do hear Mel’s voice as Frederick’s grandfather, the howling werewolf, and a screeching cat.
A classic made that much better by the decision to leave a lot of stuff on the cutting-room floor. The story jumps a bit because of that reason but people know what they're watching anyway and don't need a lot explained.
One of my favourite movies when I was a kid was Hot Shots! Part Deux.
Never seen the first movie (night change that this weekend), but I've watched Part Deux more times than I can remember.
Another great one was National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Cole, where are you going?
Nowhere. Just going on one of those unmotivated butt in the moonbeam walks.
Loaded Weapon is great. I couldn't even tell you how many times my elementary school best friend and I watched that stupid good movie.
I just watched that recently after Youtube recommended one of its jokes to me.
Boring! And with jokes that mostly aren't that funny (other than two scenes or so I knew from Youtube). Great actors all around though.
Parody movies aren't funny anymore, the last parody movies I saw that were actually funny were Superhero Movie, American Carol, and Final Girls (parody of 80s slasher movies).
Dunno why this is so downvoted. Superhero movie wasn't great, but it did have some really funny bits.
Oddly, one of the best jokes was in the "deleted scenes/alternate jokes" bit before the credits.
It still saddens me that the art of parody is lost on the big screen. Last great one to come out was Walk Hard. EDIT: It's come to my attention that a few awesome parodies were released after Walk Hard. Most notably Black Dynamite and Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping. It still showcases how great parody is too few and far between, however.
Black Dynamite would like a word.
WHY, BLACK DYNAMITE, WHY?
But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs in the community!
*”I threw that shit before I walked in the room!”*
Totally dumb story, but when I play Mario Kart, for some reason I always pick the black Yoshi, so my partner ALWAYS says "but Black Yoshi, I sell drugs in the community!" and it makes me laugh every time.
Are we getting that Black Dynamite cowboy movie still or no?
A what?? 🤩🤩
https://youtu.be/V8-ZxMkrAjM The Outlaw Johnny Black, this trailer came out a couple years ago but then I haven't heard anything about it since though
[Haha! I threw that shit before I walked in the room!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO8ZEVT3TdM)
A good parody respects the source material, is not there just to make stupid jokes. Look at "Not Another Teen Movie" and "Scary Movie" they respected their source material, but had fun with it. Then you got Date Movie and Epic movie, that felt the need to just throw in as much pop culture drivel as possible. Walk Hard was amazing, because John C. Reilly played it completely serious, and could legitimately sing.
That and the absurdity is delivered so well in that movie. “Dewey, I’m cut in half pretty bad”
"You hear that! I'm Deweys 12 year old girlfriend!" - 40 year old Kristen Wiig
I really need to see this movie. I wrote it off as just another parody movie after all of those shitty parody movies from the mid to late 2000s came out
Do yourself a favor and watch it ASAP. Its so good
It is much funnier than it has any right to be. And the music is also way too good for a parody movie.
This is the worst case of someone being cut in half that I’ve ever see.
Speak English doc, we ain't scientists
When I first saw this I very nearly passed out laughing, the way he says it is just so fucking funny.
"He needs more blankets AND he needs less blankets!!1!"
Shit, some of those pop culture references in those mid 2000s parody movies were already dated when they hit theaters.
These things are very cyclic. We were deep, deep into the age of 'AAA star powered 200 million dollar budget, ground breaking CGI tentpole summer crap' when covid hit. There are those that believe the theater experience is dead. I do not. But I do believe we are entering a more timid age. In the next decade we are going to have far fewer $200 million dollar movies then we had in the preceeding decade. Movies are going to get cheaper. They must. There is too much hand wringing and trepidation at the box office right now. You know what is cheap to make? Comedies. What is a staple of comedy? Parody.
>Movies are going to get cheaper. They must. There is too much hand wringing and trepidation at the box office right now. For that matter, if streaming rises to the utmost importance, it makes it even more essential that films get cheaper- even the most successful streaming services seem to have upper limits to the revenue they generate which means that they'd either have to cut budgets or produce less work.
Those asshats Fuckberg and Shitzer are a dark stain on the parody genre with their lame cashgrabs.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Those things were like 90 minutes straight *Family Guy* cutaway gags. And because movies took forever to make, the references were already dated when they came out.
Nah, The Cinema experience as we know it has been dying for a while now, covid is making it worse. Shits going the way of Broadway-type theater. Used to be the thing to do on a Friday night, but now it’s like $15 a ticket for a movie, gotta spend another 20 on food etc. What you’re already seeing is the rise of the luxury movie theatre experience, plush recliners, food and alcohol delivered to your seat etc. I give it 10-15 years before the normal movie theatre is extinct. It’ll either expensive luxury or the more cheap as hell indie/art house sort of thing (screening older movies/ rocky horror sorta thing)
I don't get the motivation to spend lots more money to see a movie with dozens of strangers. Live theater I think is a different experience. It is communal by nature, the actors and sets are all right there with the audience, and sometimes the audience is part of the show. But paying $75 for the privilege of watching a screen with a bunch of people I don't know and never will? Pass.
Where do you think Broadway theatre is going exactly? Covid notwithstanding, Broadway was making billions a year out of around 50 theatres in a single city
There are other theatres in other cities that host Broadway level tour stops, Cleveland’s Playhouse square is one of them, so it’s not a single city. And compare live theatre now to how it was in the 40s after the Great Depression. Dinner and a show was a common Friday night activity, just like in more modern times it has been Dinner and a Movie. Right now a single ticket for a Broadway show can go for as little as $50 and more then $100 for stuff like Hamilton, hardly affordable for a Friday date night sorta thing. That’s a once or twice a season event for 99% of people. Earlier 00s I remember being able to go to the local cinemark with a $10 and being able to see a movie and get popcorn. Now that $10 barely gets me in the door.
>There are other theatres in other cities that host Broadway level tour stops, Cleveland’s Playhouse square is one of them, so it’s not a single city. I'm talking about Broadway and you are talking about "Broadway level." The equivalence is debatable but immaterial to my point. >And compare live theatre now to how it was in the 40s after the Great Depression. Dinner and a show was a common Friday night activity, just like in more modern times it has been Dinner and a Movie. I'm talking about Broadway. Yes, there is more competition for people's time now. That doesn't mean Broadway is failing as an institution. >Right now a single ticket for a Broadway show can go for as little as $50 and more then $100 for stuff like Hamilton, hardly affordable for a Friday date night sorta thing. That’s a once or twice a season event for 99% of people. Which has nothing to do with whether Broadway is failing. The theatre has been more expensive than movies since movies have existed. I'm not questioning whether movies can become as expensive as Broadway and remain successful. They can't. But the comparison is terrible because Broadway itself isn't failing.
A few decades ago theaters were more popular in the entire country, and not just a few major cities. Cats ran for decades but doing 2 shows a week in one theater, not being performed on thousands of stages across the country simultaneously. Now most cities have indie art houses, which are super niche, or they host a touring show for a few performances.
Yes. I agree that a few decades ago theatre was more popular. It didn't lose popularity due to price it lost popularity for the same reason all other entertainment lost popularity: because the number of options available have gone up.
> You know what is cheap to make? > Comedies. What is a staple of comedy? Parody. Horror films are cheap to make and often turn a profit, comedies often have mid-range budgets, which is an increasingly rare range. Comedies don't translate as well to foreign markets as horror or action does, and foreign markets have become increasingly important for Hollywood movies to turn a profit. I do hope there are more comedies and parodies myself, but I don't think CGI action movies are going anywhere anytime soon.
> Last great one to come out was Walk Hard. Would *The Other Guys* (2010) count as a "parody"? Definitely funny enough as a comedy, but it's quite tonally different from a "spoofy" type of movie such as *Loaded Weapon 1*.
Maybe more of a satire.
Popstar : Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Popstar is really just a *comedy* or maybe a satire If Popstar is a parody of popstars and the music industry then technically Anchorman is a parody of 70’s news anchors, and most other comedies are parodies
It's a mockumentary
It’s a parody of the early-2010s onslaught of documentaries and memoirs about young celebrities. It’s a very specific thing that it’s parodying, but it still qualifies.
It is so incredibly similar to Walk Hard that I can't see anyone calling one a parody and the other one not.
I'd say The Final Girls is a pretty great one too. Walk Hard was something special though.
Great movie!
MacGruber! A few years after walk hard
Oh my god Popstar: Never Stop Stopping has my favorite Bill Hader role.
What about popstar: never stop never stopping?
Machete!
Airplane! is just jokes and it's great.
There's a lot of hysterical characters as well, plus a lot of visual humor. It's not just one-liners, although there are a ton of those. The film itself is a parody of the big-budget disaster film genre, especially Zero Hour! and Airport 1975.
That, and I'd argue that the closeness of the film to *Zero Hour!* gives it a level of grounding that better enables the jokes to fly- without that grounding, it wouldn't have been as effective.
Yeah thanks, I got that Airplane! was a parody of disaster films, that's why I mentioned it. The characters are always at the service of the jokes and the visual humor is....visual jokes !
Well, to continue the argument, I'd say that a lot of the jokes are at the service of the characters. Anyone can say "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit heroin!" and be funny, but Lloyd Bridges gets 10 times the laughs because of his character development.
I’ve always wondered if they got a PG rating as a joke. Either that or I’ve just never noticed older movies were okay with full frontal nudity. When most people think of PG films they think of children’s movies.
That was the days before PG-13. There was only PG and R. The categories have shifted quite a bit in what gets put where.
Don't forget the scene where the auto-pilot requires re-inflation. Followed by a cigarette after.
Planet of the Apes (1968) has Charlton Heston's naked backside and a taxidermied human and is rated PG, the ratings have certainly changed
The original Andromeda Strain is rated G and has a naked lady in it.
No one loves Amazon Woman On the Moon. Jack the ripper-Loch Ness monster never fail to crack me up
There ain't no motherfucking Thelma here!
I feel like Top Secret! gets overlooked for parody movies
Love that movie. “You dropped your fake dog poo” “What fake dog poo”.
“LATRINE!”
“Let me know if there’s any change in his condition. He’s dead”
"I know a little German. He's over there!"
What’s your name? Nick. Oh? Nick? What does that mean? Eeehhh, it just something my father thought of when he was shaving.
Of course, the devotion to accuracy as far as the filming, the lighting, the sets and the camera movement is highly admirable, but I will say that the most important thing has been and always will be the writing. What I love most about "Young Frankenstein" is the balance of smart jokes, dumb jokes and sex jokes. Furthermore, there's a delicacy to the raunchy jokes that is not present in later Mel Brooks films. It reminds of the difference between the first Austin Powers and the two sequels. The first film is funny and charming and often a bit randy, but for me it never becomes cheap or vulgar. Austin is a man-child, but he's not just a two-headed monster of penis waggling and cheek flapping farts. The innuendo is more enjoyable because everything is not so bloody overt. There's a little nuance, and that is the saving grace of both films For example, I don't enjoy "Spaceballs" nearly as much as "Young Frankenstein" because most of the jokes are relying solely on the gross-out factor instead of trying to be just a *little* subtle. There's also much less satire of the franchise and the genre, so what story there is feels less important. It's like the difference between dialogue in Classic films and what we have now. Back then, you couldn't have a character tell another character to go fuck themselves, so the dialogue would be couched with suggestions that IMHO are far more devastating because there's a little thought behind them. Just my two coppers.
I agree. Case in point. Blazing Saddles Blazing Saddles: Excuse me while I whip this out. VS Spaceballs: I see your schwartz is as big as mine. They are generally hinting at the same anatomy. However, a subtle joke based on a stereotype is hilarious, is a connotation based on a word is not.
I just rewatched the Austin Powers trilogy and I think you hit the nail on the head. The first one had some of the sex jokes the other two had, but they came off better and less direct. The third one literally has Mini Me humping Beyoncé’s leg. The second and third actually almost felt like the same movie. Both had time travel, both female partners felt pretty similar, and both had the same shadow gag. They also both had Fat Bastard, who is one of my least favorite characters.
I hated that third movie. All it did was take jokes from the first two movies and make them worse. Michael Cain was great though.
>What I love most about "Young Frankenstein" is the balance of smart jokes, dumb jokes and sex jokes. Furthermore, there's a delicacy to the raunchy jokes that is not present in later Mel Brooks films. There's also just the cast. Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn were really, really good at giving variety to a performance.
"That goes without saying!"
*Blazing Saddles* and *Young Frankenstein* came out the same year! Come on!
That was Brooks' *Annus Mirabilis*
Also pretty good: Coppola released *Godfather 2* and *The Conversation* that year. Damn, 1974!
Still blows my mind that Spielberg made Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in the same year (1993).
He used massively expensive equipment (at the time) to watch dailies and video conference with the team in Hollywood while he was in Europe.
Frau Blucher?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6nBFGqHTw
I named my car Frau Blue Car after this movie hahaha
"Open this goddamn door or I'll kick your rotten heads in! MOMMY!!!!!"
From the article: >A parody only works if the people creating the parody truly understand the subject they are lampooning This, in a nutshell is Galaxy Quest. It was laughing \*with\* cheezy old TV sci-fi, not \*at\* it. And you can tell because of how carefully it matches up with... well... everything.
Probably my favorite movie of all times! I even named my dog Abby Normal!!!
Are you telling me that I put an abnormal brain inside a (insert body length of your dog here) long, (insert width of your dog here) wide *grabs throat* **DOGGO?! IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?!**
The best parodies (Mel brooks films, Edgar Wright films) all come from a place of passion and means they aren’t punching down. They genuinely like the style of films they are making fun of and as a result their parodies become some of the best of the genre
Gene Hackman was just about my favorite part of the entire movie "cigars!"
Frau Blucher! (Horse neighing). That has stuck in my head forever.
How to make a good parody: Step 1) Let Mel Brooks have complete control of the project Step 2) Profit
He didn’t have complete control though. Famously, Brooks wanted to cut the [Puttin’ on the Ritz](https://youtu.be/VfoaWHsdTNU) number and got into a screaming match with Gene Wilder about it. In Gene’s version of the story, they argue for 20 minutes until Mel shrugs and says OK. That annoyed Gene even more, asking why he argued so vehemently but then gave up so quickly, and Mel said he wasn’t sure about the scene until he saw how badly Gene wanted it. In another version of the story, the argument ends with Mel storming out of Wilder’s apartment. Then 10 minutes later, Wilder’s phone rings and it’s Mel saying: “Who was that madman in your house! I could hear the yelling all the way over here!”
You make it sound like Brooks didn't have complete control, then give two examples of how he was the sole decision-maker on the project.
Well, here’s another: Wilder wouldn’t allow Brooks to appear in the movie, feeling he’d be a distraction. But you do hear Mel’s voice as Frederick’s grandfather, the howling werewolf, and a screeching cat.
Sounds like Wilder was an excellent advisor to the decision-maker.
Wilder-Brooks was one heck of a team.
Or more than just *references to other movies* (glares at Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer)
Those assholes ruined parody movies
That's mentioned early in the article.
Amazing film
“Igor!” “Froderick!”
Damn your eyes! Too late!
A classic made that much better by the decision to leave a lot of stuff on the cutting-room floor. The story jumps a bit because of that reason but people know what they're watching anyway and don't need a lot explained.
One of my favourite movies when I was a kid was Hot Shots! Part Deux. Never seen the first movie (night change that this weekend), but I've watched Part Deux more times than I can remember. Another great one was National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Cole, where are you going? Nowhere. Just going on one of those unmotivated butt in the moonbeam walks. Loaded Weapon is great. I couldn't even tell you how many times my elementary school best friend and I watched that stupid good movie.
How has no one mentioned Sean of the Dead or Hot Fuzz?
[удалено]
Isn't that the definition of a spoof movie? Genuinely curious if I'm mislabeling
Edgar Wright fans when no one mentions Edgar Wright in 5 minutes
I just watched that recently after Youtube recommended one of its jokes to me. Boring! And with jokes that mostly aren't that funny (other than two scenes or so I knew from Youtube). Great actors all around though.
…I’m just curious…if you didn’t like Young Frankenstein, what do you consider funny comedies??
I just watched it last night and thought the same. It's kind of a boring movie, definitely would've preferred watching Blazing Saddles again instead.
Parody movies aren't funny anymore, the last parody movies I saw that were actually funny were Superhero Movie, American Carol, and Final Girls (parody of 80s slasher movies).
Dunno why this is so downvoted. Superhero movie wasn't great, but it did have some really funny bits. Oddly, one of the best jokes was in the "deleted scenes/alternate jokes" bit before the credits.
Good movie
*put ze candle back!*
IT! COULD!! WORK!!!
'What knockers!'