Favorite Steroetype Spoofe movies

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In GD I once promised to e-mail my list of favorite movies of this type to participants of the debate, I never got around to doing it so I’m doing it here.

Blazing Saddles One of my favorite movies of all times. I dount it could be made now, but totally terrific, and the stereotypes are heavy.

Airplane For sheer numbers of the stereotypes attacked is a must on the list.

I’m Gonna Get You Sucka A spoofe of blacksploitation films.

And recently I saw:

Don’t be a menace to the hood while drinking your juice in south central A sppofe of the “hood” movies form the nineties. Hilarius, and makes fun of all the ghetto stereotypes.

I’ll add more as they come to mind. Anyone else want to contribute?

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All the above, (except Don’t be a menace… only because I haven’t seen it, so I can’t count it)

plus Young Frankenstein, Top Secret and Hot Shots, 1 and 2.

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Let’s start with Mel Brooks:

Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles – the best of the Brooks spoof genre. If you haven’t seen these movies yet, why not ?

Spaceballs - decent spoof of science-fiction movies in general, Star Wars in particular.

High Anxiety – just saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. Send up of Hitchcock movies. About middle-of-the-pack for Brooks.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights – could have been better. But Cary Elwes (sigh!) did a great send-up of Costner…

Dracula: Dead and Loving It - ugh. The less said, the better.

Zucker & Zucker & Abramson:

Leslie Nielsen and the Zuckers – what chemistry! : Airplane I & II , and the Naked Gun movies (just out on DVD, by the way!)

Top Secret (“Skeet Surfing”! :smiley: ) Val Kilmer before he lost his sense of humour.

Kentucky Fried Movie - rather dated at this point, but still has its moments.

Others to keep an eye out for:

Groove Tube - a spoof of KFM…?

Spy Hard - I would have sworn the Zuckers had a hand in this… plus a title song by Weird Al Yankovic!

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth - better than Scary Movie IMHO.

This is Spinal Tap – it goes to eleven, what else can I say?

Fear of a Black Hat WHEN is this coming out on DVD!?!?

I could go on…

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I thought Not Another Teen Movie was well done in this respect. The token black dude was pretty hilarious.

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes.
The Killer Tomatoes go to France (Well, they didn;t make that one…yet)

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I’ll have to second “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”. There is a scene where a bunch of scientist are talking about the threat, and the Asian scientist’s lines are dubbed in badly.

“Fistful of Yen” in Kentucky Fried Movie is pretty good as well. “This is not a shawade!”

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Don’t forget the newly released Undercover Brother (“he’s so well-spoken”)

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Groove Tube was before KFM.

The Zuckers didn’t do Airplane 2.

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Anyone remember “Amazon Women On The Moon?” Kind of uneven, but the “Son of the Invisible Man” segment was hilarious!

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Dracula: Dead and Loving It. The only movie I laughed less at was Schindler’s List.
There was one good gag in that movie. Lots and lots of blood!
Does UHF count? That movie ruled my 11 year old mind.

Amazon Women on the Moon was pretty funny just to see guys like Arsenio Hall and Andrew Dice Clay so young.

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They did make it, it was actually called Killer Tomatoes Eat France. It was kinda funny, but nowhere near as funny as Return of the Killer Tomatoes- the product placement gags were hilarious.

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Return of the Killer Tomatoes also has George Clooney and Gary Condit!!!

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Woody Allen’s Sleeper and Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex are both spoofs.

Casino Royale, which he didn’t write, is another one.

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I thought SPOOFE’s favorite stereotype movies were the Star Wars movies.

Oh! You meant “spoof”, in lower case, without the “e.” Never mind. Airplane! it is.

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The Rutles – All You Need Is Cash

Neil Innes is a genius.

Here’s a nice dry essay about some of the musical parody.

Although I suspect it’s their trousers that account for the film’s success.

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I’ve seen most of the movies listed here, and everything I’ve seen, I’ve liked.

I notice no one’s mentioned Loaded Weapon 1, Scary Movie, or High School High.

Also, the Wayne’s World movies do a lot of random spoofing.

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Not Another Teen Movie is my current favorite, and I love spoof movies. Every time I pull my hair into a ponytail when I’m wearing my glasses, I remember the whole “She’s got a ponytail and glasses!” thing.

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You wanna spoof?

Let’s go back to 1964 when a particular group was gathered to spoof everything they’d done to that point. The picture may be dated and silly today, but it’s a picture.

A Comedy of Terror

Vincent Price is an undertaker trying to drum up business.
His assistant, Peter Lorrie spoofs himself.
Boris Karloff delivers the eulogy for the (mysteriously) slain landlord, Basil Rathbone.
Joe E. Brown is the frightened cemetery watchman.

If you recognize these names from older films it’s worth a chuckle.

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A Comedy of Terror is fabulous!

Price and Lorre as undertakers trying to do the job as cheaply as possible only use one coffin, when no one’s looking they dump the body out. Karloff as the senile father-in-law that Price keeps trying to poison but his wife won’t let him. Rathbone keeps falling into catatonic states where everyone thinks (hopes) he’s dead but he keeps waking up shouting “What place is this?”
It’s the funniest horror movie you’ll see.

I also must mention Price, Karloff, Lorre and amazingly enough, Jack Nicholson (very young) in The Raven. Also a very amusing horror spoof.

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Yes? Yes?!? You called?!? Someone actually cares about me?!? Oh, happy day! I had given up all hope! My heart is shining again, knowing that somebody actually cares about me! I…

Oh.

It’s about movies.

::sigh…::