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.
It was more of a joke - I have seen those 90s-2000s parodies. They were somewhat funny at the time but I don’t think there’s an audience for them today. But I guess we’ll see?
Nah, they watched Airplane! on DVD the night before.
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
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.
Airplane! is also a parody of one particular movie that is mostly forgotten now, Zero Hour, and spoofs a then popular subgenre of airplane catastrophe movies.
Walk Hard in particular is very much in the ZAZ vein.
Fun fact: Zero Hour is so unintentionally funny they lifted a lot of it verbatim and Airplane! is technically a remake. They had to buy the rights.
Wait. Scary Movie 2 doesn’t count? Name a better banter than between David Cross and Chris Elliott.
This is the most offended I’ve ever been by a snub
Omitted because I haven’t seen it, not explicitly as a snub.
I actually haven’t seen it. Didn’t care much for the Wayans brothers’ humor, so I sat that out until Zucker took over.
What’s your problem with Spy Hard? It follows the same Leslie Nielsen formula as Wrongfully Accused.
Couldn’t remember it well enough but I’d let it slide on the list based on what I do recall.
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.
The first one was good, the second is also pretty good. The third has some moments but they pretty quickly nosedived in budget and quality. I don’t think a single one of the other genres was worth even revisiting out of morbid curiosity.
What a sad little recycling machine Hollywood has become.
Truly no original ideas left, just regurgitate the familiar brand over and over.
The series went to shit when hollycreeps took over…
Hopefully these guys can get at least another banger. So much toncover since 2000s
Honestly I want them to make a whole new concept. Reboots and remakes are just over played at this point.
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).
I loved 3, liked 4, and was really disappointed by 1. Skipped 2 and anything after 4.
Turns out, after 2, the Wayans brothers stepped away and David Zucker directed with Pat Proft co-writing, which gave it a lot of DNA from the glory days of Naked Gun and Hot Shots!
“The Wayans Brothers was a good-ass show, Man! And we stab didn’t stab even stab get stab a final stab episode!”
