# Spaceballs 3: The Search For Spaceballs 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740 "2004-09-29T22:37:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/21 "2004-09-30T03:32:09Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Why oh Why can’t Brooks and Wilder work together again? Brooks forced Wilder to be a bit more daring, and Wilder damped down a lot of Brooks’ tendency towards over-the-top slapstick. Together they were far greater than the sum of their parts! > > Lets face out, after their Holy Trinity together (The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein), neither of them were all _that_ funny! Young Frankenstein is Brooks’ funniest (I haven’t seen The Producers), and it’s very funny. Nothing else I’ve seen of his is very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/22 "2004-09-30T04:08:55Z")
Sorry, **Cisco** , but that’s just the way it is. _High Anxiety_ was about half as funny as _Young Frankenstein,_ and nothing Brooks has made since then has been funny at all. _Spaceballs_ itself is one of the least funny “comedies” I’ve ever seen. Its jokes weren’t just puerile and cheap; they were also obvious. Also, memo to Mel: a parody of ONE movie (as opposed to a whole genre) works better if you don’t wait 20 years after that movie was a pop-culture phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/23 "2004-09-30T04:08:58Z")
Spaceballs isn’t among Mel’s classics, but its far better than Robin Hood & Dracula (I do recall enjoying Love Stinks but it’s been years since I’d seen it.) After many years hiatus, I finally saw The Producers again a couple of years ago. I loved it when I was a kid, but alas, it did not hold up for me at all. I’m so hoping this will be good! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/24 "2004-09-30T04:14:43Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > Young Frankenstein is Brooks’ funniest (I haven’t seen The Producers), and it’s very funny. Nothing else I’ve seen of his is very funny. I heartily agree, Young Frankenstein is one of my favorite movies. It’s probably the only movie I have ever watched over a dozen times. I had already owned the VHS but I also bought the DVD. Anytime I see it on TV I have to stop everything and watch it (even though they cut out all the good parts). I liked Spaceballs, just for the corny silly comedy, but I love Young Frankenstein. _Frahnkensteen_ ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/25 "2004-09-30T04:20:49Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > Also, memo to Mel: a parody of ONE movie (as opposed to a whole genre) works better if you don’t wait 20 years after that movie was a pop-culture phenomenon. Spaceballs was 1987 - 10 years after Star Wars and only 4 years after Return of the Jedi. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/26 "2004-09-30T07:43:21Z")
Me and a friend got this out the other week. I’d seen it when I was little, and I thought that it might be funnier now that I’m older and would get more of the references and stuff. Nup. The only thing I didn’t ‘get’ as a kid was the ‘Drewish princess’ bit and that wasn’t really funny. I felt kinda let down - I remembered it being so funny… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/27 "2004-09-30T08:54:36Z")
> [@manx](#): > > ‘Drewish princess’ Funny. She doesn’t look druish. How can you guys think this movie is unfunny?! What about jamming the radar? What about Michael Winslow? What about damn near everything Dark Helmet says or does? I feel like I’m taking CRAZY PILLS! ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/28 "2004-09-30T09:48:51Z")
You over there, have you found anything? We ain’t found _shit_! Watched this again on DVD a couple of weeks ago. Too funny. I don’t hold out much hope for a sequel though, as other people have rightly pointed out, Spaceballs was a blip in a career that was otherwise hurtling towards the ragged rocks of suckitude ever since Young Frankenstein. We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/29 "2004-09-30T10:56:55Z")
Oh man, I can’t wait! Spaceballs ranks up there among my all-time favourite movies… “Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb” ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/30 "2004-09-30T12:42:25Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > (I do recall enjoying Love Stinks but it’s been years since I’d seen it.) The movie was called _Life Stinks_. Spaceballs was all right. NOt great, not awful. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/31 "2004-09-30T12:59:08Z")
Dammit! His timing’s all off. I told Mr. Snicks at the time that it’d be the opus of Brooks’s career if he rereleased _Spaceballs_ at the same time Lucas released the “Special Editions.” The best part would be that he’d play up _Spaceballs_ has “new and improved - digitally enhanced!” but in reality, nothing would’ve been done to the picture at all. Now that woulda been funny. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/32 "2004-09-30T13:18:46Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > How can you guys think this movie is unfunny?! A giant vaccuum cleaner? “comb the desert” oh look, its a giant comb. Seriously, That’s like one of the sight gags from the Munsters. “I see your scwhartz has grown.” These are high school kid jokes, really on the level of a movie like “Club Dread” and probably even less funny. They’re all delivered in that “borsch belt schtick” style. Here’s the set up. Here’s the punchline. Druish Princess? What’s the joke? They’re saying Druish instead of Jewish? What can we expect in the sequel, someone called a Druslim? This is NOT a funny movie. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/33 "2004-09-30T14:10:00Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > This is NOT a funny movie. No, the word is hilarious. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/34 "2004-09-30T14:18:56Z")
Fuck! Even in the future nothing works! One of the best. lines. ever. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/35 "2004-09-30T15:10:18Z")
Damn funny movie. I can’t _breathe_ in this thing! ^ :dubious: ^ ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/36 "2004-09-30T15:20:03Z")
This is the best damn movie news that I have heard in a loooooong time! Hopefully it will be out around the same time that the new musical “The Producers” is released. I could use a good double dose of Mel Brooks at the cineplex. School your teenagers now about “Spaceballs”. LOL. ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/37 "2004-09-30T15:27:18Z")
“She’s gone from suck to blow!” I love this movie… ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/38 "2004-09-30T15:55:22Z")
“Spaceballs: The Flame Thrower!” _FWOOOOOOOSH_ “The kids love it.” Now that the obligatory quote is out of the way, would a sequel to _Silent Movie_ be too much to ask in this day and age? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/39 "2004-09-30T16:41:40Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > I feel like I’m taking CRAZY PILLS! I feel like I’M taking crazy pills. “she’s gone from suck to blow.” “I can’t _breathe_ in this thing.” “I’m surrounded by assholes.” Colonel Sanders and Major Asshole? Read those things, people. They’re not jokes. They’re obvious. They’re uncrafted. They’re unoriginal. “Even in the future nothing works.” is one of the best lines ever??? Am I in Bizarro World? Who ARE you people? ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740/40 "2004-09-30T17:05:18Z")
I **LOVE** Spaceballs! I hope this one is a prequel with a new cast. You have to be in the right mindset for Mel Brooks. You know he’ll make obvious, cheap, crude, stupid high school jokes. Cornball, pop culture references that sound like your father good-naturedly picking on your kid sister. Then he’ll resolve the story neatly at the end of it. _That’s_ why his formula works. You know what you’re going to get with Mel Brooks. And I thought that _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ had it’s moments. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceballs-3-the-search-for-spaceballs-2/266740.md?page=3)