Airplane, of course. I mean, it had Leslie Nielsen in it.
Mil Milion Gracias! That movie isn’t my favorite, but I love it a lot. This is a really wonderful scene; I love the “facial acting” – the mugging! – these guys are pulling off here.
In the genre, I guess Top Secret is my fave.
If you liked any of these films, you’ll love the new “Police Squad”-like series, Angie Tribeca, on TBS. The first season was pretty consistently hilarious, the second not so much.
I tried, but there’s just something about it that isn’t clicking with me the way the Zucker films or the original Police Squad series did. I’m not entirely sure what it is, but I watched two episodes and haven’t gotten back to it. Maybe it gets better?
Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon were going to be my two suggestions. And, of course, Hot Shots.
There’s really only ever been two people that can pull these types of movies off, or two families, more accurately:
- The Zuckers + Jim Abrahams
- The Wayans
And there’s a huge gulf between the two, and an even bigger gulf below them. I can’t think of a single well received absurdist comedy that wasn’t made by one of those two families.
The Zuckers and Jim Abrahams IMO are up there with Cameron, Spielberg and Nolan. Not so much because their output has been as brilliant, but because the type of movie they make has been tried again and again and only they’ve pulled it off. BEtter than pulled it off, actually, Airplane has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.8 on IMDB. Naked Gun is almost as highly rated. Until someone else can do that, they have to be in the conversation when talking about the greatest of all time.
I read somewhere that when Robert Stack got the script for Airplane he thought it was the worst thing he’d ever read. And after I thought about it for a while, I decided he was probably right. Try to imagine you haven’t seen the movie, and then read this:
STRIKER: Surely you can’t be serious.
RUMACK: I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.
As words on a page, they just lie there like a dead dog. That’s how great Abrahams and the Zuckers were; they knew that if they could be that silly, but play it absolutely serious, that it would be hysterical. And then they managed to get the perfect actors for it, and got great deadpan performances from them.
Yes. I’m surprised this thread isn’t called the “Favorite Airplane-type movie.”
The Wayans have strangled their version of it to death, but they did do one of the original good ones:
“I’m gonna get you sucka”
I think I lost bladder control when a joke involving a leg happened.
It’s a pity they went so bad afterwards. Their Scary Movie stuff was actually saved by the involvement of a Zucker (director and writer) and Jim Abrahams (writer).
Johnny Dangerously. 
QFT.
Blazing Saddles for a western. Anything with Mel Brooks involved. If you’re just talking parodies, there’s Galaxy Quest.
“apart from the classic Airplane and Naked Gun movies what other examples in the genre would you recommend?” 
I actually saw The Naked Gun before Airplane so its what leaps to mind for me first.
Thanks for the recommendations everyone, I didn’t realise the Wayans brothers had made other similar movies in particular, so I’ll have to check those out.
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka is probably my favourite of the non-Naked Gun, non-Airplane tier. Antonio Fargas running away in his crazy shoes, Chris Rock buying one rib, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, John Vernon, etc.
Black Dynamite is awesome, too.
I love Top Secret and Rat Race, but I’ll second the vote of Johnny Dangerously as my favorite outside of Airplane and Naked Gun themselves.
I kinda figured they could never do another straight 007 movie after Austin Powers.
“Begin the unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism, and close the tank!”
“Wait, aren’t you even going to watch them? They could get away!”
“No, no, no; I’m going to leave them alone and not actually witness them dying.”
“…”
“I’m just gonna assume it all went to plan. What?”
“I have a gun, in my room; give me five seconds, BOOM, I’ll blow their brains out.”
“Scott, ya just don’t – get it, do ya? Ya don’t.”
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I think Galaxy Quest is up there in the genre spoof type comedies.
Not Another Teen Movie was good. You could tell the people who made it actually knew the genre they were parodying.
No love for Undercover Brother?
Does Kung Fu Hustle fit into this genre?
It’s a favorite of Weird Al Yankovic, too.
Speaking of whom, UHF isn’t exactly a spoof movie per se, but it has a lot of the same kind of humor & appeal as the movies listed in this thread.