Spaceballs
(1987)
Rating:
PG
Runtime:
96 minutes
Box
Office (in today’s dollars): 78 million (approximately)
Characters:
Captain Lone Star, Barfolomew, Princess Vespa, Dot Matrix, Lord Dark Helmet,
Colonel Sandurz, President Skroob, Pizza the Hut, Yogurt
Cool
Stuff: Eagle 5
Cool
Music: “Spaceballs”
Cool
Quote: “May the Schwartz be with you.”
This
movie is full of puns, which is what I spend most of my day trying to come up
with ... so of course I laughed a lot. It is also full of language and innuendo,
which I try to stay away from in my
puns ... so this movie (although rated PG) is probably not for kids. I wonder
how other Star Wars fans feel about
this movie (it being a parody and all). I think the characters in this are
great; Lone Star, Barfolomew, Princess Vespa, Dot Matrix, Dark Helmet, and
Yogurt are all funny.... Pizza the Hut is pretty gross, but possibly delicious.
The opening to the movie has the Star Wars crawl and a ridiculously big ship
called Spaceball 1 doing the flyby.
Lone
Star’s ship: the Eagle 5 is the Millennium Falcon of its time, and by
that I mean it’s a Winnebago with wings. It’s pretty cool and allows plenty of
room for dancing to any of Bon Jovi’s greatest hits. Speaking of great hits, the
song “Spaceballs” is fun. It’s no “NeverEnding Story” or “Ghostbusters”, but I
would put it on a CD and breakdance to it. Like I said before, there are a lot
of great puns in the movie, so coming up with coolest quote took some time. I
had to sort through classic lines like “Your helmet is so big” and “I bet she
gives great helmet” and “I see your Schwartz is as big as mine”. I’ll skip the
naughty and go with the classic “May the Schwartz be with you.”
It
seems strange that I have only seen one other Mel Brooks movie (the other being
Robin Hood: Men in Tights); I should—and
probably will someday—see Blazing Saddles
and Young Frankenstein. But it isn’t
so weird because there are a lot of movies I haven’t seen that I probably
should have at this point in my life: The
Godfather, The Godfather II, and Smokey and the Bandit. But since none of
those movies came out in the eighties, Salty Chewbacca won’t be watching any of
those for a while.
Next
movie to review: The Princess Bride
Huh, not often you see Godfather I & II in any way compared to Smokey and the Bandit. Well done!
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, you need to get on some Mel Brooks. The man is a national treasure!