I call them “movies made up of random, non-sequitur gags that have nothing integrally to do with the plot.”
They also happen to be parodies of specific cliche genres, so you could call them genre parodies.
How does long format, live action Looney Tunes sound?
Jim {I know, I know, someting like this. }
PLEASE don’t post direct links to soundfiles without a warning. Thanks.
Between hovering over the link and it saying http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Music/ltmu_001.wav and the content of my post, I did not perceive a problem with the link I used.
My apologies,
Jim
That’s why it’s not a rule; just a politeness. Are *you * in the habit of hovering and reading every single link that is posted here? Since 999 of of 1,000 direct links do NOT immediately make you wonder where the hell that noise is coming from, one tends not to habitually assume the need to check first; one assumes that the poster is polite enough to make this clear proactively.
(Sorry; writing at work; my above post has a harsher tone than I meant. Just meant to suggest that, personally, I believe it’s always better to err on the side of proactive politeness in such a situation. No harshness intended.)
End of hijack.
I vote for farce. Takes the skeleton of reality and does obviously non-reality things with it without even the slimmest pretense of trying to be realistic, in order to be funny.
Except that “farce” has a well established definition in movie-talk, and *Airplane * ain’t it. You’ll have to come up with a word or phrase that doesn’t already mean something else.
Random house says a farce is: “a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.”
That’s pretty specific. I suppose, with some pretzel logic, you could find a way to include the Airplane-type parodies under that definition, but that would still leave us without a term that referred to them specifically.
Actually, duh, that’s exactly what I usually call them: “Airplane-type parodies.” How’s that?
I’d use “Naked Gun-style” as an adjective, seeing as although there might be confusion about Airplane!-style films being actually about airplanes, there have been no films made about naked guns.
Hmm. Except wasn’t *Airplane * pretty much the first one? I mean, **Airplane ** can hardly be called a Naked Gun-style movie if that’s the case. I personally don’t think anyone would be confused by “Airplane-type parody” into thinking you were talking about just any movie that had an airplane in it.
I don’t think there’s necessarily a single descriptor for it (unless we invent one like “Airplane-style comedy”; they combine a number of different styles; farce, absurdism, parody, satire, caricature and probably a number of other related or overlapping styles I can’t think of.
Leslie Nielsen-esque?
Shirleyujesters?
I find it amusing that your link redirects to “Surreal humor.” Which was exactly what I was going to suggest.
Looks like I picked the wrong weekend to stop sniffing glue.
It didn’t re-direct the day I posted. Wiki is shaking things up, constantly.
Absurdist/surrealist genre satires.
Or, since I’m an engineer, the appropriate shortened acronym would be “Absurgesat”.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over Macho Grande…those wounds run pretty deep.
I’ve always said, “Zucker-esque.”