Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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A spoof of the turmoil that afflicted the movie industry in the late 1920s when movies went from...
Dork_knight74 (881 KP) rated Knives Out (2019) in Movies
Jun 27, 2020
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
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Topper Harley is found working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA wants him to lead a rescue...
Spoof
The Private Eyes (1981)
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A spoof of the Sherlock Holmes stories finds Inspector Winship (Don Knotts) and Dr. Tart (Tim...
BeardyJim (611 KP) rated Galaxy Quest (1999) in Movies
Nov 2, 2021
If you're a star trek fan, it's excellent... If you're a science fiction fan, it's also excellent. Basically, just watch it, and enjoy.
By Grabthar's Hammer you won't be disappointed. 😁
You Can Stick it
Book
Finally, a sticker book for grown ups! The modern world is awash with stick-on signs telling us what...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Mars Attacks! (1996) in Movies
Jun 14, 2020
One of those bizarre mutants that should never really have got past the script stage, let alone received a $70m budget: the release schedule inevitably resulted in it being hailed as a spoof of Independence Day (hard to spoof something that wasn't meant to be taken seriously in the first place), but this is much more a send-up of classic 50s sci-fi B-movies (various spot-on parodies), as well as being a startlingly subversive black comedy. You can also sense Burton trying to do his version of Dr Strangelove, with Nicholson in a multiple role, but it doesn't have anything like the same sharpness or impact. A bit patchy overall - some laugh-out-loud moments and game performances, but also a lot of dead wood and characters and jokes that just don't work. On the whole, though, the fact that films like this still get made suggests hope is not yet lost for the world.
1941 (1979)
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Pandemonium erupts in Los Angeles after the WWII attack on Pearl Harbor in the wartime spoof, 1941,...
Young Frankenstein (1974)
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Respected medical lecturer Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) learns that he has inherited his...
Spoof