Drop Dead Gorgeous is hysterical. It’s a mockumentary. The mother of the star comes in, sees the film crew, and says “oh cripes - are we on Cops again?”
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Shodan
Is Zombieland a parody? I don’t remember.
I tried watching 21 because it was filmed at the high school I graduated from. Fails the “decent” requirement, IMO.
Of course it’s all an opinion but to me every “Joke” in Scary Movie and its sequels was either painfully easy and obvious or just repeating dialogue verbatim from another, better movie, and calling that “parody”.
NATM: 2001
DDG: 1999.
(Coming to early for the OP’s criterion aside, it is really an hysterical movie. Great cast. “The swan ate my baby.”)
Walk Hard is hilarious if you’re a fan of the musical biopic genre.
Or movies in general, really.
There are a bit in Scary Movie II I recall fondly, but I’m a sucker for cheap irony:
Cindy Campbell (Faris): [reading from the diary of a woman who was the wife of the haunted house’s former owner] “I’m starting to suspect my husband is having an affair with the nanny. That must be why he keeps her around, because we have no children.”
The worst parody movie I’ve seen (though I’m sure there are worser still) was Epic Movie, which wasn’t even a parody of other films, but a parody of the trailers of other films.
I can’t remember if it was Vampires Suck or another similar vampire parody, but but I thought it was okay. Not at NATM’s level, but that’s right up there with Airplane! in my opinion, and I haven’t even seen more than half the movies it (natm) was parodying.
Spy Hard I liked, but mainly remember it for it’s Weird Al title theme.
I remember really liking Loaded Weapon and Hot Shots back in the day but haven’t seen them recently enough to tell if they hold up or not.
Kentucky Fried Movie is great, if a bit dated.
They made a whole series of them: Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, The Starving Games, Superfast, and Vampires Suck. They all have pretty much the same formula; watch the trailers for some upcoming movies and then stitch together a movie from re-enacted scenes in those trailers. I guess the target audience is people who like recognizing things.
Hey, it keeps Big Peekaboo running.
Black Dynamite (2009) was a fun parody of the 70s Blaxploitation genre.
This is the one I thought of first. Cabin in the Woods is both a brilliant satire and scathing critique of the horror genre. Even using the REO Speedwagon refrain of ‘So if you’re tired of that same old story’ during the too-early celebration it challenges the viewer to acknowledge that they’re just going through a formula.
Plus, hey…
Director: The survivor is the virgin.
Girl: Um, but…
Director: We WORK with what we’re given, ok?
If Andy Samberg is your cup of tea, “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” has some mindbogglingly funny moments. I mean, the “Bin Laden” song, holy crap…
The fake songs in this are very funny.
Heck, there’s also [*The Hebrew Hammer"][URL=“The Hebrew Hammer - Wikipedia”]The Hebrew Hammer](The Hebrew Hammer - Wikipedia) (2003), basically a Hasidic version of Shaft.
You don’t have to be Jewish to get most of the jokes, but it couldn’t hurt.
Undercover Brother had its charms, too.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls054484229/ is a list on IMDB that might give you a check list of movies you’ve seen or maybe, after reading reviews, a film or two that you might want give a shot.
I would consider the “Cornetto Trilogy” by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End to be pretty good parodies of zombie, cop, and alien apocalypse movies, respectively.
Kung Fury. Every time. It’s not very long, but it’s a pitch perfect pastiche of dumb 1980s action movies. It had me helpless with laughter. Astounded that it hasn’t been mentioned before. Go and watch it, now.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m watching it now and honestly, it’s a lot funnier than I think anyone expects.
Bin Laden was a hilarious song.
A silly movie, but a movie that is silly in a way I found funny, not annoying.