Spaceballs makes me feel like the only sane man in the world
I love Mel Brooks - Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are among my favourite movies - but Spaceballs is horribly, awfully, painfully unfunny. Why do people like it?
It's the only DVD I've ever returned to the shop for being rubbish.
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Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:28,
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I guess they love to see the piss get taken out of Star Wars by something that isn't a special edition or prequel
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I like Spaceballs, in a stupid and corny way.
Could barely watch most of Blazing Saddles though. The humour just didn't compute.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 30 Aug 2012, 14:53,
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Brooks is hit-and-miss a lot of the time for me
Some absolute gems swimming in a vat of overused cheap gags.
Robin Hood was good. (How much of that is down to Cary Elwes being able to deliver a line I'm not sure).
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:24,
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A lot of the main characters are pretty well played in that, which helps.
The Sheriff of Rottingham is a lot of fun.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:32,
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History of the World Part 1 is his best work I think,
especially as Spike Milligan was in it.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:44,
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