Spaceballs

Now I'm not a huge fan of Mel Brooks. Sure I enjoy some of the movies he's directed like The Producers and Blazing Saddles. But when people ask me who are the greatest comedic minds, Mel Brooks doesn't come to mind... ever.

Now, this review is going to be pretty short because Spaceballs is a comedy. In fact its a satire. Or a "satire". There's only so much I can say because comedy is mostly subjective. I may find it really stupid but you may find it hilarious. I can't tell you its bad, all I can do is give my opinion based on the story, how it satirizes the original source, and how the actors deliver their comedy.

So unless you're an idiot, you can probably guess that Spaceballs is a parody of Star Wars. And I use that term lightly because... its not really a parody at all. Yeah its set in a science fiction world and the characters are "similar" to Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, C3PO, Darth Vader, Yoda... and that's about it.

In many ways, it reminds me of a really high budget porn parody of course without the porn.

The story follows Captain Lone Starr (played by Bill Pullman) and his partner, a Mog (half dog half man) named Barf (played by John Candy). Why is his name Barf? ... I don't know.

Anyway, they're... smugglers? Random ass guys? Who are in debt to Pizza the Hut... (ha... ha... ha) So they need a lot of money.

In the meantime, planet Spaceballs (why is it called planet Spaceballs? I don't know) has a deficiency of air so they want to steal it from a planet called Druidia.

On Druidia, Princess Vespa is being forced to marry a Prince... who yawns a lot and is sleepy. Why? I don't know. So the Spaceballs want to kidnap the Princesss in order to force the king to give them their air.

Now I'm not going to go into full length about the logic of this movie because again, its a comedy. But I can discuss the subject in which its suppose to be parodying but did a horrible job doing.

Making fun of Star Wars is not hard.