An Honest Trailer for Spaceballs

Jul. 1st, 2025 10:34 am
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Posted by Miss Cellania

We know exactly why Screen Junkies has gone back to 1987 to review Spaceballs. Spaceballs 2 has only recently been announced, to be released sometime in 2027. Sure, you went to see Mel Brooks' Star Wars parody, and you laughed, but you might not recall the plot. This Honest Trailer goes over it, even though it doesn't make sense and it doesn't really matter. The point of the film was to make fun of the Star Wars franchise's merchandising and generally cashing in while the iron was hot. Little did we know then that the money-making machine that is Star Wars would continue for the next 50 years at least. Spaceballs'  constant stream of jokes, self-deprecation, double entendres, and random crashing of the fourth wall only made us laugh more, and yeah, you had to go see it a second time because you missed a lot of jokes while you were laughing the first time around. Did Screen Junkies like Spaceballs? You betcha!  

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Posted by Miss Cellania

You've seen many lists of the funniest films, and the writers behind them know that a good way to keep people from arguing about #1 is to let Blazing Saddles top the list. The 1974 movie had a problem during the filming, though- the crew would break out in laughter, ruining take after take. The lighting guys and the production assistants may have read the script, but Brooks encouraged the actors to improvise when they could, so you never knew what would come out of their mouths when the time came. 

The chaos on the set was a glimpse into how successful Blazing Saddles would be in theaters. If the crew broke up, that meant whatever they heard was really funny. But laughter slowed the process down, and Brooks was well aware that every extra minute cost money on an already-tight budget. So he came up with a workaround, an on-set rule that apparently worked well enough to get the shooting done each day. Read what Brooks did to keep the crew from cracking up at Cracked.   

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