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I have several friends who have given me no end of grief about my never having seen this movie. I got around to it over the weekend.

I can give it a 3 word review:


It's . . . NOT . . . funny.

I generally like Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1, and The Producers spring immediately to mind), but this movie was dreck.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I have several friends who have given me no end of grief about my never having seen this movie. I got around to it over the weekend.

I can give it a 3 word review:


It's . . . NOT . . . funny.

I generally like Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1, and The Producers spring immediately to mind), but this movie was dreck.

I think Mel Brooks hit his peak in 1974 with Blazing Saddles and especially with Young Frankenstein. IMHO, nothing he has done since then has been nearly as funny as those two movies (although my kids love watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights).

danielh41 wrote:

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I have several friends who have given me no end of grief about my never having seen this movie. I got around to it over the weekend.

I can give it a 3 word review:


It's . . . NOT . . . funny.

I generally like Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1, and The Producers spring immediately to mind), but this movie was dreck.

I think Mel Brooks hit his peak in 1974 with Blazing Saddles and especially with Young Frankenstein. IMHO, nothing he has done since then has been nearly as funny as those two movies (although my kids love watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights).

I would agree with that, as well. While The Producers is my favorite of his movies, his 1974 duo was on the same level. Silent Movie was not much of a falling off, and High Anxiety had its moments, but Spaceballs had no more than a few funny lines. (To Be or Not to Be doesn't count since Brooks didn't direct it.)

Still, if you judge someone's career by its peaks, Mel's Big Three keep him on a pretty high level.

Side note: My father went to junior high school with Anne Bancroft.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I have several friends who have given me no end of grief about my never having seen this movie. I got around to it over the weekend.

I can give it a 3 word review:


It's . . . NOT . . . funny.

I generally like Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1, and The Producers spring immediately to mind), but this movie was dreck.

For the most part, I agree with you. Spaceballs is very hit-or-miss, and mostly miss.

Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1, and Blazing Saddles for me, in that order...

You can have Dracula: Dead and Loving It and Robin Hood: Men In Tights (other than Amy Yasbeck )

your friends have good taste

1.high anxiety
2.spaceballs
3.young frankenstein

Mel Brooks movies are ongoingly not funny.

Spaceballs is best experienced for the first time at a younger age, and with numerous friends who will continue to quote lines from it ("She's gone from suck to blow!" "Comb the desert!") for years to come.

tubadave wrote:Spaceballs is best experienced for the first time at a younger age, and with numerous friends who will continue to quote lines from it ("She's gone from suck to blow!" "Comb the desert!") for years to come.

Those lines weren't funny, so I see no reason why anyone would want to quote them for years to come.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:

tubadave wrote:Spaceballs is best experienced for the first time at a younger age, and with numerous friends who will continue to quote lines from it ("She's gone from suck to blow!" "Comb the desert!") for years to come.

Those lines weren't funny, so I see no reason why anyone would want to quote them for years to come.

The only line I can even vaguely recall from the movie had something to do with going to Ludicrous Speed, whereas we often quote from Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles...

Come back you fat bearded bitch!!!!!!!

tubadave wrote:Spaceballs is best experienced for the first time at a younger age, and with numerous friends who will continue to quote lines from it ("She's gone from suck to blow!" "Comb the desert!") for years to come.

Spaceballs rules. Me and the Beast sisters used to watch it all the time back in the day. I guess I think that way since me and Dave are the same age, but if I came across it on TV, I'd watch it....

Though my favorite quote was provided by my MM (or is it a MW?) last night.....

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TheCalvinator24 wrote:

tubadave wrote:Spaceballs is best experienced for the first time at a younger age, and with numerous friends who will continue to quote lines from it ("She's gone from suck to blow!" "Comb the desert!") for years to come.

Those lines weren't funny, so I see no reason why anyone would want to quote them for years to come.

As Dave was tryign to point out, some things are inherently funny- others have to be experienced in the proper context in order to be funny.

Spaceballs is one of those movies to me- I first experienced it in much the same way Dave experienced it- so it's funny to me.

I can see why it wouldn't be to you.

It is to, funny.



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