What a sad little recycling machine Hollywood has become.
Are parody movies still a thing? I haven’t watched one since Airplane.
Oh man, if you haven’t watched one since then, you missed the whole run and eventual fall of parody movies that propped up in the late '90’s & early '00’s. Not that they were as good as Airplane, but it was a fun ride till it sucked. Personally I enjoyed the first few movies in the Scary Movie series, Not another teen movie, and Don’t be a menace to south central while drinking your juice.
But then we get to stupid crap like Epic Movie and Disaster Movie and Superhero Movie. All entirely forgettable and just trying to cash in on the success that the Wayans brothers had with the original Scary movies
Honestly you haven’t missed much, but there are a few movies in that genre I still go back to every now and then.
Still a thing? Not really. But as mentioned, there was definitely a lot worth seeing after Airplane!
Great:
- Police Squad! (TV)
- Naked Gun x3
- Hot Shots! x2
- Spaceballs!
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Young Frankenstein
- Top Secret!
- Scary Movie 3/4
- Airplane!
- Kentucky Fried Movie
Worth watching:
- Jane Austen’s Mafia!
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It
- Angie Tribeca (TV)
- High School High
- Not Another Teen Movie
- Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in The Hood
- Scary Movie 1
- Wrongfully Accused
- Repossessed
- Spy Hard (edit)
Garbage Tier:
- Anything ending with “Movie” that hasn’t been listed yet
- Anything with Leslie Nielsen that hasn’t been listed yet
Wait. Scary Movie 2 doesn’t count? Name a better banter than between David Cross and Chris Elliott.
I would also add Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as great newer parodies. The first, starring John C. Reilly is a spoof of Walk the Line and music biopics in general, the second a spoof of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and popstar documentaries in general, starring Andy Samberg. Both movies were box office bombs unfortunately, despite being really funny and also having actually great songs.
Interesting suggestions. They’re not what I typically consider in this particular style of parody movies because they’re a lot less slapstick and absurd but instead are very targeted mockeries of a single concept or style. Worth watching for sure, but I know they wouldn’t scratch the same itch for me.
What’s your problem with Spy Hard? It follows the same Leslie Nielsen formula as Wrongfully Accused.
On balance I reckon you should keep it that way. I somehow got dragged along to see Epic Movie when it first came out in cinemas and it is the worst film I’ve ever seen by a country mile.
Scary Movie 3 was my personal favourite. Not sure the Wayan Bros have a lot left in the tank (even if White Chicks was a guilty pleasure film).
“The Wayans Brothers was a good-ass show, Man! And we stab didn’t stab even stab get stab a final stab episode!”
