Spaceballs Review by Joe (5 Stars)

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Starring:
Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, John Candy, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, John Hurt, George Wyner, Joan Rivers, Sal Viscuso, Stephen Tobolowsky, Dom DeLuise, Michael Winslow, Ronny Graham, Leslie Bevis, Tony Cox, Dom DeLuise, JM J. Bullock, Lorene Yarnell

Directed By:
Mel Brooks

Written By:
Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Thomas Meehan

Spaceballs (1987)

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Movie Review by Joe
August 23rd, 2006

As moviegoers today are all abuzz about Snakes on a Plane, back in the 80s a little-known movie known as Spaceballs hit theaters to less than stellar box office dough.

Today Spaceballs is considered as one of the classics of slapstick satirical comedy. It is a cult classic that joins the ranks of Monty Python & the Holy Grail, the Police Academy series, the Naked Gun series and the Hot Shots! series.

Written, directed, and starring legendary comedian genius Mel Brooks, Spaceballs takes the spoof of the Star Wars movies (the good ones, not the George Lucas-needs-more-money-let's-make-three-crapper-Star Wars-movies), as well as other science fiction movies (including Planet of the Apes).

Planet Spaceball has lost all of their oxygen, and defunct president Skroob (Brooks) enlists the help of Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) to kidnap the Druid princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and hold her ransom until her father, King Roland (Dick Van Patten) will surrender the code to get to the Druidian planet's air supply.

King Roland enlists the help of renegade rebel Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his trusty sidekick, Barf (the late great John Candy), who is neither a man nor a dog, but a mog...he's his own best friend. They rescue the princess and her robot Dot Matrix (voiced by Joan Rivers). As they're escaping Dark Helmet, they meet up with the intellectual genius and owner of the "Schwartz", Yoghurt (Brooks, once again).

This movie has so many hilarious one-liners and slapstick comedy that it will have any avid comedian fan in stitches throughout the film. You can clearly see the similarities to Star Wars, and Brooks makes no bones about it. If you're an avid Star Wars junkie who holds to Episodes 4-6 as the holy gospel, then you might be offended, otherwise you'll be laughing.

Princess Vespa: What's going on?
Dot Matrix: It's either the 4th of July, or someone's trying to kill us!

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