Spaceballs

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Summary: MEL BROOKS' BEST MOVIE
Review: I first saw this movie when I was 5 and I never got tired of watching it. In my opinion, this is Mel Brooks' best movie! It parodies sci-fi greats from Star Wars to Star Trek and much, much more. One of the best parts is the part with ludicrous speed. Don't get me wrong. I love '"Blazing Saddles" and "History of the World Part 1", too but this doles out more laughs. Unlike BS and HOTWPO, this is rated PG so gather some friends or family around and watch this hilarious sci-fi parody! WHAT YOU GOT IS WHAT WE NEED AND ALL WE DO IS DIRTY DEEDS, WE'RE THE SPACEBALLS!!!!!!!!! WATCH OUT, CUZ WE'RE THE SPACEBALLS!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Funny movie, special features a little lacking
Review: I think this movie is so funny...I was a little disappointed with the special features...not much going on there: theatrical trailer, commentary, behind the scenes footage; no cool game or deleted scenes. It doesn't matter, though...you buy the DVD for the movie, not the features.

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Summary: I though this was a great movie,
Review: I thought this was a very funny movie. Of course when you watch it enough you can watch is in a foreign language and you still know what they are saying. This is what my family does. It is funny in different languages. I think its just all around a cool movie.

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Summary: Nice Fade, Great DVD
Review: I can still remember the first time I watched Spaceballs. I was about 9 years old, at a friend's house for a sleepover. I'd already eaten an enormous bag of potato chips, and drank so much Coke that my joints were aching from the sugar and caffeine. After laughing so hard it hurt for an hour and a half, I threw up and had to go home. To this day, I cannot eat plain potato chips without getting nauseous, and I have Mel Brooks and Spaceballs to thank for it.

Spaceballs, like Brooks' other movies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights) is a spoof of all things SciFi - and the ridiculous (ludicrous?) marketing blitz surrounding movies like Star Wars. Plot is unimportant: Lone Star, a kind of space cowboy who drives around in a Winnebago with wings, has to rescue Princess Vespa, a snob who ran away on her wedding day, and save her planet from the Spaceballs, an evil race that wears gigantic Magic 8 Balls on their heads (and rear ends, too). The movie is a collection of scenes and jokes from different science fiction and action movies popular in the 1970s and 1980s, some of which border on the inanely stupid and some of which (Pizza the Hut comes to mind) are still funny today.

It's a good and funny movie, if your idea of good is what a 9-year-old boy at a sleepover would find good and funny. It's also a great retro-piece for us children of the 1980s, and is a relatively inexpensive DVD for the fond memories it elicits. The DVD itself is great: a tight-as-nails video transfer and a solid 2.0 sound track to match. Brooks' commentary can be funnier than the movie, although his Jewish jokes get a little old after a while (especially if you're seen them done over and over in his films.)

At this price, it's a hard disc to beat. There is a rumor that MGM plans to revisit this movie along with several of Brooks' other films sometime in mid-2002; if you can't wait that long, 12 bucks is a pittance for a transfer this good and a commentary track this entertaining, even if the movie has lost a little of its shine as we've grown up.

Let the Schwartz be your guide, if you can't decide.

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Summary: !
Review: This classic of Mel Brooks is truly taking the mickey out of the Star Wars Trilogy,Star Trek and Planet Of The Apes.Some of the jokes could be improved,but the rest make this film a definite must see.Starring Mel Brooks(President Scrube and Yoghurt),John Candy(Barf the mog) and Bill Pullman(Lonestar).But the greatest perfomance of all was from the hilarious Rick Moranis(Dark Helmet).His acting really livens up the plot of this exellent film.
See it NOW!

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Summary: Good for insomniacs...
Review: This is the best proof that Mel Brooks had completely lost his touch in the 80's. After making some of the funniest movies ever through the mid-70's, he really stalled in the 80's. This movie has bad writing, bad perfomances, and is one of the dullest movies I've seen.

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Summary: Off the wall comedy
Review: Only buy this movie if you just want to laugh and not have to think at all. John Candy heads up a hillarious cast that pokes fun at everything and everybody.

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Summary: One of the best spoofs
Review: Ok, one major flaw made by the MPAA. They rated this movie PG when Sh** was said 10 times and F**k was said once. Common references to the groin area was made ( I see your shwartz is as big as mine). Now to the movie. The jokes were right, the acting was right, and it was just right. Any fan of star wars would love this movie and any fan of spoofs too. Another great comedy of the 80's. Recommended to teenagers and adults.

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Summary: BEWARE!!
Review: This movie contains ALOT of profanity, every word imaginable. It should be rated R, so parents beware!

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Summary: Good Mel Brooks humor, but a little too silly for me.
Review: You definitely have to be in the right frame of mind when you watch this one. At times it is hilarious, but at others it is just a little too silly for me. If you enjoy the Mel Brooks style of humor though, you will not be disappointed. It's also kind of cool seeing an actor like Bill Pullman (of Independence Day fame) in one of his earlier roles. As for family viewing, younger kids may not get the jokes which spoof even earlier movies such as Saturday Night fever. And although this movie is rated PG13, the characters cuss just a little too much for it to be appropriate for younger viewers.