Spaceballs (1987) - MOVIE REACTION - FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@robhazan5961]

George Lucas actually loved the idea of the movie and gave Brooks access to his VFX studio (Industrial Light & Magic) for the special effects. But he requested that he not dress Lonestar as Han Solo. So Brooks dressed him like Indiana Jones as a joke.

[@JeffKelly03]

Came here to note that in the comments. I absolutely love that. It's so good, and I never even realized it until relatively recently.

[@SonOfMuta]

Lucas also told Brooks that he could not make any Spaceballs merchandise, which led to the gift shop scene with Yogurt

[@RamblersInc]

🤣

[@aaroncoffman88]

Took me years to realize Lone Starr is a play on Han and Luke's names. Solo-Lone, Starr-Skywalker. Not sure if it's intentional or not but it wouldn't surprise me if it was

[@knowledge-girl]

They weren't saluting by grabbing their balls, they were protecting them from Dark Helmet. The salute was hitting the inner elbow and raising the hand in a way that people sometimes flipped each other off.

[@stevedavis5704]

Prince Valium and his family were dressed in the medieval style with the hair cuts in a nod to a comic that has been in the Sunday papers since the late 1930’s called Prince Valiant in The Days of King Arthur or commonly called Prince Valiant. After over four thousand installments the story can still be found in some papers. The strips are very ornately drawn but the story doesn’t move along very fast which is probably why it was parodied with the Prince Valium deal.

[@alalcoolj216]

The singing dancing xenomorph is an homage to a famous 1955 Warner Bros cartoon short, called One Froggy Evening, which is part of the Merrie Melodies / Looney Tunes cartoon series. The cartoon has a man finding a remarkable frog that does the same song and dance.

[@rccraig7580]

Michigan J. Frog

[@jrasicmark1]

@@rccraig7580 Who later became the mascot for the WB TV network in the US (which is now known as the CW network).

[@BigGator5]

"Before you die there is something you should know about us, Lone Starr." "What?" "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate." "What's that make us?" "Absolutely NOTHING!" Fun Fact: During his scene, Michael Winslow did most of the sound effects. In the DVD audio commentary for the movie, Mel Brooks jokes that they saved around $1,000 by letting him do this. Doll Balls Fact: The scene in which Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) is playing with his dolls was not in the screenplay. Writer, producer, and director Mel Brooks came up with the idea on the set one day and told this to Rick Moranis, who then improvised the entire scene. Star Wars Cameo Fact: The Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars saga makes a cameo appearance in this movie. Take a close look at the exterior shot of the Space Diner, and it can be spotted parked there among the other space vehicles. George Lucas got a chance to read the screenplay before production began, and loved it so much that he decided to have his special effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, help make this movie.

[@RamblersInc]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Stogie2112]

VIRGIN ALARM!! The late, very great Joan Rivers as Droid of Honor "Dot Matrix". Rivers was one of the bravest, funniest comedians of all time. 😆

[@RamblersInc]

Ok now I can see the voice matching the face.

[@TheUnfulfilledOne]

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[@Madonkadonk]

Getting the Valium and the Sanders jokes so late is so much funnier than the reactors who get it right away or don't get it at all.

[@RamblersInc]

I cant believe it took us THAT long 😂

[@deathcamel]

"Barfalemew!" is one of my favorite lines in any movie. The fact that the joke had been set up and sitting there for the entire movie, the expression on his face, just incredible.

[@RamblersInc]

😂

[@ThatCronus]

"Why is he dressed like Indiana Jones?" ... Han Solo, Indy both played by Harrison Ford.

[@MrTickleTrunk]

Love that the "Ford Galaxy" joke is actually 2 jokes in 1

[@RamblersInc]

Ooooooohhhh . Ok that makes sense now.

[@cesarv7685]

That and 1 of the exceptions for allowing the movie to be aired is that he shouldn't dress like Han Solo. Another exception was that they weren't allowed to merchandise their stuff, which is why they have it all over the movie.

[@MrTickleTrunk]

My favorite part of this entire video was at the start when they both keep saying "Rick MoreAnus" instead of his name "More-Ann-iss". lol love you guys.

[@RamblersInc]

We can't even get the name right ! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Andy-ju8bb]

Mel Brooks was allowed to make this but only after promising Lucas that he wouldn’t sell any merchandise, hence the merchandise jokes. Dark Helmet’s accent change was because when Vader wore the helmet it was James Earl Jones talking but when he didn’t have the helmet on it was the voice of the actor playing Vader.

[@Stogie2112]

27:31 Wilhelm scream!! 😱😆 And that was indeed John Hurt in the diner. He played Kane once again to have that wonderful xenomorph make him the greatest science fiction death of all time!

[@RamblersInc]

That scream is so famous 😂 I was not expecting the baby Xenomorph to put on a show 😂

[@I.Lostalim]

​@@RamblersIncalso, whilst he's not the only one, George uses the Wilhelm scream so much it almost isn't Star Wars without it 😆

[@RamblersInc]

Now I have to find other movies it's used in

[@TimL-nr4hr]

@@RamblersInc So many. I think there's a wiki

[@maddwitch]

20:28 Those are meant to be Jawas, the little scavengers/thieves from Tatooine that kidnap/capture R2D2 in A New Hope. 37:23 That's a reference to a WB cartoon character, named Michigan J. Frog, who does the same song and dance in a cartoon short titled "One Froggy Evening".

[@RamblersInc]

Jawaaaass. Ugh. Can't believe I messed that one up.

[@thomasbeauchamp3781]

In the text crawl at the beginning, in Star Wars: A New Hope it was Episode IV. This one said Chapter 11 which is another term for bankruptcy.

[@deathcamel]

Shit, I've seen this 100 times and I never got the bankruptcy part of that till now. 🤣😆🤦‍♂

[@RamblersInc]

🤣🤣🤣

[@robertmartin9029]

Lord willing, we'll all meet again in "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money!"

[@Stogie2112]

Best Scene: Dark Helmet gets caught playing with his action figures (and acting out his salacious fantasies). The terror on his face is pure Rick Moranis magic! 😆

[@RamblersInc]

🤣 and then the “did you see me?”

[@knowledge-girl]

What makes it funnier is that it was all improvised by Rick Moranis. He was handed the toys and told to make it funny. He delivered.

[@Stogie2112]

"Blazing Saddles" is an absolute must, and it must be viewed with all the "bad words" included. Mel Brooks knew that it was very important to include all the bad words. Omitting them would have weakened the film quite a bit.

[@thebradshreve]

Yes! Yes! Yes! One of the greatest films of all time and certainly Brooke's best.

[@jeremygeorgia4943]

By the time this movie had come out, all three of the original Star Wars films had been released. The reason Helmet's voice changed was because they were highlighting the fact that Vader was voiced by two actors. (and another actor played him in the suit ) When Vader was in the suit, he was literally a different person, than the one that said his final words to Luke Skywalker. Now, for the medieval home setting for Vespa: I think this was playing on the fact of borrowed ideas and themes. Star Wars itself, had been compared to a western. However, it's also a lot like a fairy tale. It features a princess, knights, a black knight in particular, and a "wizard". (a term used in the movie) A lot of sci-fi productions prior to the film's released borrowed familiar stories & just changed the setting to take place in outer space. Prince Valiant was a popular comic strip set in medieval times. I think he decided to borrow that theme, for Vespa's home planet. Leslie Nielsen worked with Mel Brooks in "Dracula: Dead and Loving it" If you like Brooks films, this is recommended. A lot of Brooks' films are more like plays than traditional films. The scenes are designed to be familiar and represent concepts from other films that people are familiar with. This contrasts with a film, like Naked Gun, where the film feels a bit more like it's telling a story, and the environments feel a bit less like sets. However, Blazing Saddles breaks from this mold. In many ways, it's a great recreation of a typical western film, but with some wacky comedy and societal commentary thrown in. It's also highly recommended. Like Alfred Hitchcok, Mel Brooks often appears in his productions.

[@RamblersInc]

Oooooh that's why the voice changed. Good catch. Mel Brooks and Leslie Nielson in one movie ? ! ? ! Dracula: Dead and Loving it immediately added to the watchlist.

[@skipmaloney2126]

Sorry that you missed the "Wizard of Oz" scene when we are introduced to "Yogurt".

[@Stogie2112]

Yogurt's final words: "What a world! What a world!" Straight quote from the Wicked Witch of the West when she melted.

[@RamblersInc]

DAMNIT ! We missed so much.

[@robertmartin9029]

@@RamblersInc Mel Brooks manages to pack so many jokes in to his movies. Some of them are hard to catch if you haven't seen the shows/movies they referrence (such as the alien parodying Michigan J. Frog) but he layers them so brilliantly.

[@johnmaynardable]

The music that the sand people were singing while they marched along with their prisoners was actually from the classic film The Bridge On The River Kwai, which you should watch. The Alien spoof with the dancing alien chestburster is a play on a classic Looney Tunes cartoon called One Froggy Evening I believe. It's about a man that finds a singing and dancing frog. You also can't go wrong with any Mel Brooks movie. Airplane was directed by Zucker-Abrams-Zucker who also made the Naked Gun movies.

[@RamblersInc]

I thought that Alien dance looked familiar 😂

[@randalthor741]

Transformers was HUGE in the 80s! The cartoon, the toys that the cartoon was specifically made to sell, and of course the first and best Transformers movie in 1986!

[@stormingelysium1996]

I don't know how you two managed to not see this for so long, but I'm glad you're finally getting to enjoy it. Such an amazingly silly film.

[@RamblersInc]

And I'm betting it needs a rewatch because we missed so many jokes 😂

[@tempsitch5632]

John Candy and Rick Moranis were homies. They came up together in Canada on the very successful SCTV tv show.

[@tempsitch5632]

Daphne Zuniga (princess vespa) had a sleeper hit with John Cusack a few years before this called The Sure Thing that is pretty good, but if you’re going to go for a John Cusack 80’s hit, Better Off Dead (insane comedy) and Say Anything (teen romcom drama) are also special.

[@tempsitch5632]

The princess’ father was played by Dick Van Patten who was the father on the TV show Eight Is Enough starting in the late 70’s. He was an iconic american dad figure, for a while.

[@tempsitch5632]

Hope for more ZAZ movoes too, like Top Secret!

[@tempsitch5632]

@27:47 You recognise him from Groundhog Day, Silicon Valley, Sneakers, about 200 other films or TV maybe……even an episode of Community.

[@RamblersInc]

Groundhog Day !! Thaaank You 👍

[@andyjustandy8721]

15:15 It took me a long goddamn while to find out that plaid is the result of repeating patterns within the fabric's "warping".

[@RamblersInc]

😂😂😂

[@Rising_Pho3nix_23]

This movie will always be funny. That scene where they watched themselves on TV is exactly what I did with my first camera. It came with an HDMI connector

[@RamblersInc]

Ahem……………same.

[@billsimonis]

John Hurt was unaware that his cameo would consist of a reenactment of the Alien chest bursting scene Lucas also refused Mel to release a toyline to promote the movie. so the merchandising scene was added. There was also an animated series called Spaceballs: the Animated Series which ran for 1 season. a few actors reprised their roles. Mel Brooks (of course), Daphne Zuniga (vespa), and joan rivers (dor matrix). Dot matrix was voiced by joan rivers but was performed by mime artist Lorene Yarnell (of Shields and Yarnell fame). They were talks about a sequel when Lucas released the prequels but nothing came of it.

[@llanitedave]

Long ago, there was a long-running newspaper Sunday strip in the comics section called "Prince Valiant," a fantasy about the days of King Arthur. It took itself very seriously. The Prince Valium sendup was funny, and well deserved.

[@tysoncromwell2684]

You've got to watch Blazing Saddles, it's Brooks' best (and most controversial) movie. It's even in the library of Congress here in the good 'ol US of A.

[@JeffKelly03]

It's a toss up for me between Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (and The Producers is, obviously, great as well). But yeah, when Mel Brooks is cooking... oh man, is he ever cooking. And it's wild to think that he made Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in the SAME YEAR.

[@RamblersInc]

Controversial because……?

[@flarrfan]

@@JeffKelly03 Those three are the best of Mel...Spaceballs is hilarious as a parody of so many movies, but Producers, Saddles and Frankenstein are his greatest.

[@flarrfan]

@@RamblersInc No spoilers!

[@tysoncromwell2684]

@@RamblersInc because of the copious amounts of racial slurs

[@RoGueNavy]

The actor playing the Spaceball who said, "Man, we ain't found shit!", was Tim Russ. He went on to play the character of Tuvok, on "Star Trek: Voyager". The actor playing the plastic surgeon, is the father of actor Simon Helberg, who plays Howard Walowitz on "The Big Bang Theory".

[@RamblersInc]

Wow. It has more famous actors than we thought it did.

[@Stogie2112]

3:52 "Look at the size of that thing!" That's what Wedge said! Red Leader: "Cut the chatter, Red Two." 😆😆😆

[@RamblersInc]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jeffl9167]

I love watching movies with you guys! Thank you for making these.

[@RamblersInc]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@SonOfMuta]

2:45 Because Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic did the effects for this movie

[@RamblersInc]

The over use of the blasters though 🤣

[@Thane36425]

Something that just clicked with me after many viewings was the graphic for the ship flying in Mega Maid's ear. In the early 80s there were a couple of side scrolling spaceship games for consoles. At least one had the space ports between levels down tunnels, tunnels that got increasingly difficult as the game went on. I don't remember the name, but the game that comes to mind was on a Texas Instruments game console. Hard to be believe but there were a lot of consoles then, those two, Colecovision, Intellivision, and others. The TI consoles actually had some really fun games.

[@RamblersInc]

I just googled "TI gaming console". Now that's some vintage gaming.

[@Thane36425]

@@RamblersInc A friend of mine had the TI, I had an Atari 2600, and another had Intelivision. I though the TI had slightly better graphics and some good games. Atari graphics weren't as good but they had a LOT of games. I don't remember much about the Intellivision though. We had these around 1980 and on.

[@RamblersInc]

I remember going to a much older cousins house who was into retro gaming when I was a kid and playing on his commodore 64. Some simple games but I had so much fun at the time.

[@Missy-24]

You guys are delightful. ❤ I'm so glad you hadn't seen this movie before!!

[@RamblersInc]

It's so good ! 😂

[@I.Lostalim]

I forgot how nuts this movie is, as a big Star Wars fan in my teens in the 90s, I also remember loving Spaceballs as well 😆 In regards to Transformers, the original cartoon series were maybe a couple of years old at this point. Transformers being one of the other big influences of my childhood, lol.

[@osumarko]

Love this movie. My favorite Mel Brooks movie.

[@taneshah.1260]

This movie is so ridiculous and I love it, LOL. Been watching it since I was a kid.

[@athens_1psvr31]

“Fanboys” is a true Star Wars fan movie. About OG Star Wars fans driving to steal a copy of Ep. 1 before it hits theaters. So many references and cameos. 👍🏾😂

[@RamblersInc]

Oh wow. It's got a few big stars in it as well. First I've heard of this.

[@julieharden2433]

I knew you guys would love this!

[@adrianonhilton]

We could see your soul die a little when you got the Colonel Sanders joke.🤣

[@RamblersInc]

🤣

[@pleutron]

it was such a pleasure watching this reaction. absolutely brilliant. If you haven't seen Men In Tights yet, then please watch Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves first. The Rocky joke is the same as the Back To The Future joke about Jaws. In the mid-80's, it was not common to have so many sequels. Rocky and Jaws had 3 sequels by the time this came out.

[@RamblersInc]

JAWS HAS 3 SEQUELS ???

[@pleutron]

@@RamblersInc There's at least 4 Jaws movies

[@RamblersInc]

😱

[@mwhyte1979]

Hey thanks guys, its been years since I watched this movie. It was fun watching it thru watching your reactions and made me appreciate even more. By the way, it was fun watching to see if you were ever going to get the Prince Valium joke.

[@RamblersInc]

Took us soooo long 😂

[@drigerdranzer7514]

28:55 "The ship's too big! If I walk the movie would be over!"

[@RamblersInc]

😂

[@boqndimitrov8693]

best star wars episode ever!dark helmet is an absolute legend!! 😅

[@RamblersInc]

How does it not echo in there ?😂

[@JAYWALKER1000]

Lucas couldn't get any of the studios to finance his idea for Star Wars so he financed the movie himself. He then shopped the finished movie to the studios for distributiion - the deal he cut with Fox was enough to cover his expenses and the merchandising rights - he made his fortune on the merchandise.

[@RamblersInc]

Wow. Lucky that it did so well then. I had no idea he did that. The amount of faith he had in Star Wars to succeed.

[@danielsubelka4275]

@@RamblersInc Well....kind of? In 2015, during a Tribeca Film Festival panel, Lucas said that he never thought it was going to be a success. He went on vacation to Hawaii instead of going to the premiere.

[@RamblersInc]

🤣

[@genkigirl4859]

Nobody ever understands the price Valium joke lol..Valium is a prescription drug that helps you sleep

[@Stogie2112]

Nobody? Are you sure? Diazepam (Valium is a brand name) is a depressant, which is used to treat many different medical conditions such as anxiety, seizures and muscle spasms. It is not primarily a sleep aide.

[@genkigirl4859]

@@Stogie2112 I don’t care dude that’s not part of the joke…just move along 🙄

[@Stogie2112]

@@genkigirl4859 ... Move along? I'm here all week and twice on Sunday! 😁

[@RamblersInc]

We got it…………..right at the end of the movie 🤦‍♂️

[@TarossBlackburn]

Also he is a riff on "Prince Valiant", a popular mideval comic at the time.

[@pierrevaillancourt1803]

Jawa not ewok the tune they're whistling is called Colonel Bogies March . You might recognize it from the Great Escape

[@Otokichi786]

Sorry, old bean, "The Colonel Bogie" march is associated with "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957). "The Great Escape" (1963) had a rousing Elmer Bernstein march.

[@danieldunlap4077]

The guy who said "We ain't found shit" played Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager

[@aaroncoffman88]

I heard that there was an actual sequel planned that was to be called, "Spaceballs 3 The search for 2"

[@RamblersInc]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wasabishake4649]

"Yogourt... I hate Yogourt!" Favorite line.

[@RamblersInc]

😂

[@MrTickleTrunk]

This reaction was great because you got so many of the jokes (especially getting some late lol).

[@RamblersInc]

And now I'm thinking we missed so many 😭

[@MrTickleTrunk]

@@RamblersInc It's actually amazing how much you picked up considering this is all American references!

[@StevesFunhouse]

😂🤣😂🤣😂 Love your reaction, as always. However, no, they weren't saluting, they were protecting their balls ... knowing how Dark Helmet ⛑ might respond when upset (though I think you might have gotten it later on). They saluted with a more traditional (although sort of Nazi) salute, but since they spent more time on the "balls" thing, it's easy to overlook/forget. The "Dink Dink" song was the tune in The Bridge on the River Kwai ... the song they whistled when working.

[@0okamino]

Mainly a _Star Wars_ parody, but of course, they couldn’t resist throwing in everything else along those lines. After all, why settle for less? I couldn’t tell if you got the Chapter 11 joke. It’s a bankruptcy filing. 😄

[@RamblersInc]

We didnt 😂. Damn. It was right there.

[@SonOfMuta]

2:55 Chapter 11 is a bankruptcy joke. No reactor ever realizes that.

[@RamblersInc]

Daaaaaaaamnnn. We missed that one.

[@alucardbloodream2013]

if you dont know prince valium, valium is also a pill which also makes you very tired. thats why he's always yawning

[@RamblersInc]

We finally got it.....right at the end

[@SethBrower]

Only in the intro, but I got a chuckle about the mispoken bit about Liam Neeson & Leslie Nielsen, as ... Liam is actually about to be doing a NEW Naked Gun film.

[@RamblersInc]

Neeson? Doing deadpan comedy? Weird choice but I hope he does well.

[@lonesavior]

I like how this movie has retroactively become a better Star Wars parody. Like Vespa being a better Padme parody than of Leia

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

There's another parody of Star Wars. It is called Thumb Wars. There is also a parody comic strip called Sev Wars (along with Sev Trek, Fraud of the Rings)

[@athens_1psvr31]

After escaping the wedding and before the Princess reveals her hairbun headphones Dot says “We all know Prince Volume is a Pill”. Things I didn’t get until I was older.

[@RamblersInc]

🤣

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Thanks for checking out Spaceballs! :) Great movie, great reaction! Have you seen "Loaded Weapon 1", yet? < It's a paradoy of "Lethal Weapon" with some references to other movies/shows. It has a great cast, too. Samuel Jackson, Emilio Estevez, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, Kathy Ireland, beside some cool guests actors cameos like William Shatner, Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Willis, Charlie Sheen, etc.

[@RamblersInc]

They made a parody to Lethal Weapon ? 🤣 It's going on the watchlist.

[@P-M-869]

Most people seem to miss the Valium and Vespa references. There was several gags from other Mel's movies.

[@Stogie2112]

Most people I know who watched Spaceballs got the Valium joke right away.

[@RamblersInc]

Phew. At least we got Valium......at the end lol

[@rogerlundstrom6926]

.. This movie is very good. I love it.. and I love watching people react to it, and you really were good to watch. There ARE some things that I realize come from how well things.. "aged".. as in.. WHY this movie start by saying it's chapter eleven. You kind of noted it but didn't.. "explore" it. I can say that.. as a kid born in -76.. in a family that didn't waste money on letting their kids go to the movie or rent movies (and didn't have a vcr) and it was a VERY small community that was a BIT.. behind.. when it comes to technology and socio-cultural development. So.. The FIRST time I saw a starwars movie was when me and a neighbour kid POOLED our resorted to rent a "movie-box" (a vcr.. or.. rather vcp.. it couldn't record just play-back) AND the actual "film".. and.. MY initial thought when I read the start of this movie was.. "Chapter 4".. seriously.. the FIRST starwars movie EVER made.. with NO plan to make ANY others.. said it was the fourth one in a series.. and when I saw this.. I SERIOUSLY couldn't abandon the IDEA that we SHOULD rent the FIRST three first.. but.. they didn't exist.. at all.. and this literall made the "Chapter 11" gag a SHITLOAD more humorous when I saw this spoof movie.. They call it prequals, but TECHNICALLY!! It is part OF the actual saga.. they ARE the one to three episodes OF the saga.. the fact that they didn't record them until a few decades later doesn't make them prequels, They just fulfill the part of the series that ALREADY was being portrayed as if it really already.. "Existed". I don't.. Dislike Spielberg OR his movies.. or even that he sold this to Disney, but I absolutely agree with a lot of the criticism about any and all of those things. but.. when it comes to movies that literally is satirising things?.. I THINK a lot of jokes will not quite "hit" the way it would IF you weren't part of the culture AS it happened. and when it comes to this movie, I THINK a lot of people MAY recognize a lot of the spooks done in this flick, such as references to.. Indiana Jones.. The Wizard of Oz.. THOSE two were kind of represented in a way where they also were MERGED!!.. also.. .. "an evening at the opera" and "Alien" was merged by the end.. there is no actual validation to think of them as kind of representing the same thing, it's more of a "Juxtaposition".. and.. even the reference to the planet of the apes won't mean the SAME thing to younger generations.. I watched the original movies.. this was made when those were the ONLY ones in existence.. I don't dislike the new one, but how this movie.. "hits".. will be slightly different if you watched the original movies and watched this movie when it came out.. instead of.. having experienced a lot of what happened AFTER.. and then watch it again. but.. I think (and am really happy) that this movie.. EVEN if you wouldn't think of it and experience the jokes the SAME way I did as a kid when I FIRST got the opportunity to see it.. It still seriously make sense.. it's not even the "same" jokes when you actually DO have the prequels.. which is WHY "chapter 11" was a joke that.. didn't "bring you back".. and just seemed.. not interesting and non-sequiteur in nature.. so.. you didn't get it.. but.. a LOT of the jokes that came later you DID get.. BUT!.. because of remakes of planets of the apes, and so on.. you probably didn't experience (and think about) those jokes the SAME way as I did when ~I~ was exposed to them. Which.. is just me thinking about perception and angles.. narratives.. as in.. I KIND of think "You missed the point" while ALSO thinking that.. Well. but you DID see the HUMOUR in it.. and that is LITERALLY the actual point if you boil it down.. so.. this didn't age well.. if talking about whether you.. "get it" the way people would've thought about it who watched it WHEN it came out.. BUT!.. it really DID age well because.. the things that changes the perception of the viewer really STILL leave it.. Quite funny.. it IS a decent satire of all forms of sci-fi.. isn't it?.. you may not get the "reference" as INTENDED.. but the JOKES still stand.. well.. most of them.. perhaps NOT the one "dig" with the "chapter 11"... That was a bit TOO specific to stand the test of time.. or more importantly: AFTER someone actually DID make a movie out of chapters one through three.

[@RamblersInc]

That's a really good point about jokes hitting you differently if you weren't a part of the culture at the time. This was absolutely hilarious and we enjoyed it, but probably not as much as those who watched it at the time because of certain references.

[@rogerlundstrom6926]

@@RamblersInc .. Right now I just had a thoughht: I PROBABLY shoud at some point used the term.. "Topical".. This is NOT a topical video.. but.. SOME jokes.. are. I really wish I was better at being succinct and.. IF people realized what I was talking about withoume having to explain what I explaied in my first comment then.. that short text SERIOUSLY say the same thing.

[@PuffyCloud_aka_puffeclaude]

You guys caught plenty. Your biggest miss was probably the Wizard of Oz stuff, but great catches on most. What I missed from the edit was probably my favorite movie line ever. "Nice dissolve" gets me every time.

[@RamblersInc]

Damn it. I knew we missed some.

[@TimL-nr4hr]

There WAS a Transformers movie in 1984. It was a cartoon. It was Orson Welles' last movie role. Also they killed off all the famous transformers in the first 15 minutes.

[@Roller-Ball]

Mel Brooks got George Lucas's blessing to make this movie. However Mel had sign a contract that he would never make or sell any merchandise from Spaceballs.

[@MarshaLove0723]

❤️ this film

[@phtevenj]

i love the merchandising joke, since Lucas only stipulation to having so much star wars adjacent stuff was that they were not allowed to sell spaceballs merch

[@RamblersInc]

I had no idea George Lucas did that. I mean that’s one way to make sure everyone buys your stuff.

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

The double mint twins.

[@kpcraftster6580]

Welcome to the wonderful wacky world of Mel Brooks film...please enjoy your stay

[@cuyvaldar72]

"Superfast" is a fast and furious parody. Probably the last parody movie that I enjoyed

[@RamblersInc]

Wow. 2015. So the parody genre isn't totally dead. There's hope 🤞

[@cuyvaldar72]

@@RamblersInc That's true, I haven't really been paying much attention to movies lately so there might be some gems in the genre I haven't heard of. Thank you for the content!!

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

Prince Valium is a pill (you know what kind of pill).

[@EdmundKempersDartboard]

No merch. One rule Lucas had before he let the movie happen.

[@athens_1psvr31]

I just realized that the escaping Princess had to get through the shield. There was only one way out. Planet Security sucks.

[@RamblersInc]

🤣

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

Have you guys watched Police Academy?

[@RamblersInc]

We haven't. It's on our watchlist though. Hopefully soon.

[@athens_1psvr31]

I enjoyed your reaction. I had to turn off another reaction to it prior. Some people can ruin a good movie experience with nonsense.

[@RamblersInc]

Thank You 🙂

[@cianog]

You missed the end credits!

[@RamblersInc]

Thanks for that. Went back to watch the actors "introductions" at the end, stayed for the theme tune 😂

[@cianog]

@@RamblersInc I was referring to the Planet of the apes parody scene 😀

[@RamblersInc]

38:33 This bit ?

[@cianog]

@@RamblersInc My bad👌 I missed that part of your reaction!

[@Lunarbob19]

If you must put some kind of in a box logic to names... Vespa and Roland are from Druidia, others are from different planets. It is not all homogenized, its a very diverse galaxy.

[@johncampbell756]

Mel Brooks did not do Airplane! The makers of Airplane! fid the possibly funnier and definitely crazier Top Secret! I highly recommend it.

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

The funniest thing about top secret is that the ZAZ team didn't even know about Blue Lagoons existence when they made the film. Some other great scenes are the bookshop and underwater bar fight scene.

[@johncampbell756]

@WilliamScavengerFish I didn't want yo give any of the scenes away as there is no way to possibly guess they are coming. That's crazy about The Blue Lagoon. "It's like the creature from The Blue Lagoon." "The creature from The Blue Lagoon was Brooke Shields." - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[@WilliamScavengerFish]

@@johncampbell756 fair enough. What can I say, spoofs are are my favourite kind of movies...when done right.

[@tempsitch5632]

@31:13 Cut the hardwire to the mainframe !!!!

[@RamblersInc]

😂

[@joshuabarnett88]

Rick More -WHAT??

[@Aeroldoth3]

I love ur ...

[@RamblersInc]

😳

[@JeremyAustin-hw1qy]

No mel brooks didn't do airplane

[@SonOfMuta]

6:45 He's always yawning because valium is a sedative

[@RamblersInc]

Yeh. We got it…….super late 🙃

[@gailseatonhumbert]

It's a farce of the whole industry. William Pullman has been in a number of movies the other one I like him in is Independence Day. That also has Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith. Not a comedy but a good guys win romp.

[@RamblersInc]

He was definitely hilarious in this.

[@fiveoctaves]

Saw this for the first time last week. Wow, what a horrible movie! I wonder if I would have liked it had I seen it in the eighties as a child.

[@Stogie2112]

BOOOOO!!! 😉

[@RamblersInc]

Gotta love parodies.