Movie genres that haven't been spoofed?

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Was thinking about movie parodies… Seems almost every genre has been spoofed at one time or another. Airplane movies, slasher flicks, blacksploitation movies, documentaries, summer camp movies, romantic comedies, teen movies, alien invasions, Star Wars, Star Trek, Westerns, etc.

Started to wonder what there was left to satirize.
So I ask: How about the giant monster movie genre? I know the genre’s almost a spoof unto itself, but I can’t think of any movie that has satirized it.

Other movies certainly have made jokes about Godzilla and his over-sized comrades. One Crazy Summer has a memorable scene, for instance. But I know of no full-length films that were devoted to turning the genre on it’s head.

So has one been made? Are there other movie genre’s ripe for the picking that have remained unscathed?

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Has there ever been a feature movie that spoofed the action movie genre; the whole Arnold/Willis/Stallone/Rock/Seagal/Van Damme “big man with a bigger gun” type movie?

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Now I remember: Hot Shots and Hot Shots Part Deaux

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The Hot Shots movies, maybe.

I’ve never seen a real parody of an epic. There was a recent thread where this was touched on, but there were few definitive answers. I think a parody of ‘new epics’ (LOTR, Gladiator, Troy) would be really timely since they’re back in fashion.

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Wouldn’t History of the World, Part I qualify as a parody of an epic?

There were some truly horrendous films put out by a company called Sunn Classic Pictures, such as In Search of Historic Jesus and In Search of Noah’s Ark. These pictures actually had theatrical releases. :rolleyes: I don’t think this type of Scriptural archeology documentary has ever gotten the parody treatment it deserves.

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The Holy Grail?

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Actually… Kaiju Big Battel

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Has there ever been a parody of the “chick flick”?

There are a bunch of versions of Cinderella coming out this summer, but none of them features Ella as a gun-crazed ex-marine partnered with Janeane Garofalo to fight crime and terrorists in LA. And dammit, that’s a movie that needs making!

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Or, how about a parody of disaster films? I don’t think that’s been done, has it?

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Airplane?

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Well, yes, I suppose you’re right.
Though I was thinking more along the lines of “natural” disaster films like Twister, Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, Volcano, etc.

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It may not count, but check out Disaster '76, the movie playing at the drive in in Drive-In. It parodies all the Irwin Allen/Airport disaster movies popular when the film came out…

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Hmmm. Merchant-Ivory-type period dramas?

Biopics?

Disney cartoons? (or would the Shrek movies count?)

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Attack of the 60-foot centerfold?

And for disaster movies, there’s also The Big Bus.

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This is Spinal Tap.

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It predates Merchant-Ivory, but the historical drama within Singin’ in the Rain perhaps…I might be reaching, though. Definately trying to avoid a writing prject past a deadline, though!

Maybe Lisztomania? Although I’m not entirely sure how anyone would categorise that film!

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Zelig (and to a lesser extent, Sweet and Lowdown) spoof biopics, and The Last Remake of Beau Geste spoofs epics.

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Zelig

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I can’t imagine anyone even trying to do a parody of a Holocaust movie (Schindler’s List, Life is Beautiful, etc.).

…Though Mel Brooks might be able to take a stab at it…

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Are you kidding? What about the relevant sections in Everything You Always Wanted to KNow About Sex? Or American Tickler? Or virtually all of Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, or a dozen others?