Country of Origin: USA
"Spaceballs" is a light hearted parody comedy, which is homage of George Lucas’ famous earlier epic ‘Star Wars’. With the opening scene mimicking Star Wars, you find out the light premise of the movie. At times it seems to be a movie within a movie, but the movie they refer to in Spaceballs is in fact Spaceballs itself, adding to the hilarity.
It stars Bill Pullman as orphaned Lone Star and his trusty side kick Barf (John Candy) as they try and save a runaway princess (Daphne Zuniga) and her android, Dot Matrix (voiced by Joan Rivers), from the evil Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis).
This movie could easily be considered a cult classic. Wherever there is Star Wars or even Star Trek (“Snotty… beam him down”), there is this classic parody behind it. Its knock-off of Star Wars is so blatant, that a person who watches this before Star Wars might actually believe this was the real deal (it is far fetched, but if it happened to me it could happen to any naïve person). Lone Star and Barf mimic Han Solo and Chewbacca’s characters raggedness perfectly; Princess Vespa could easily be seen as Princess Leah; and Dark Helmet is clearly in place of Darth Vader. Humor never dies down in this comedic epic, making every little thing literal (recounting when Lone Star jams Dark Helmet’s radar using raspberry jam, or when Dark Helmet literally “combs the desert”). You are left laughing until the very last moment with an exasperated priest. This is a movie that will be remembered as long as Star Wars is remembered; at least it will be by me.
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2 comments:
This movie never seemed interesting to me so I never watched it! After reading your take on it I think I may have to rent it!
-Amy
I think I recall seeing this along time ago and watching the trailer brought back a some memories of it. John Candy is hilarious so it's sure to be a descent movie.
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