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Mel Brooks Says 'Spaceballs' Sequel In The Works
BlueDino writes "Several news sites are reporting that Mel Brooks will release a sequel to Spaceballs. As far as a release date, Brooks says, 'Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: a year after the new star wars opens.'"
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If ever there was a series that needed mocking, it's the new starwars series. Anyone who's willing to throw a pie at lucas and his giant ego has got my vote.
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I was just thinking that if they named the sequel anything BUT The Search for More Money it'd be disappointing...
If this movie is as good as the original, then all those horrible Star Wars prequels would not have been made in vain. They will at least be source material for another new classic. It will bring some measure of closure to my violated childhood memories. I hope Mel Brooks will throw a bone out to Star Wars fans and have a Jar-Jar + Ewoks massacre scene so we can at least pretend it really happened. J/K.
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If anyone but Mel was doing it I'd agree with you 100%.
After "dracula dead and loving it" and "robin hood, men in tights" I don't have the trust in Mel Brooks to think that way, personally.
The fact that he's rehashing a semi-successfull outing makes me more nervous, in fact (of course he couldn't pick something too obvious, such as blazing saddles two or sth).
As it is I think it has the possibility of being even better than the first one.
No, that is highly, highly unlikely. A rehash is a rehash, wether it's parody or not.
I can see the "Son of Barf" being a decent character replacement that doesn't really need explaining
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That's quite a long jump, 1974 (Fankenstein) to 2001 (Producers).
Isn't it more fair to say that he's had his hits and misses over his 65+ year career?
I'm still waiting for "History of the World Part II" that he promised so long ago :)
So this is entirely appropriate.
I never found Spaceballs especially funny. It's more of an ethnic comedy than anything else - like most Mel Brooks movies. The jokes - like in most Mel Brooks movies - are racial, sexual and excretory. Blazing Saddles was not popular because it was an incisive parody of the western genre, it was popular because it was packed with crass and/or puerile humor. There's no difference between Mel Brooks and the Zuckers, or the Farrellys.
I'd far prefer to see a real parody of Star Wars done, ala Galaxy Quest for Star Trek, as opposed to one that merely takes the trappings and stuffs them with dick+fart jokes.
In all likelihood, Brooks will (among other things) be spoofing the concept of movie sequels. He's always been very willing to poke fun at the "meta" aspect of the films he parodies (that being, the moviemaking process itself), and Spaceballs was probably the best example of that out of all his movies.
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Artie Lang would be great as Barf Jr. (From Mad TV, Dirty Work, etc...)
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>If only Lucas had that excuse.
Maybe THAT's the reason he's going back and F*&#ing up Star Wars. He doesn't want his current movies to be compared to such a high standard, so he's lowering the standard. It has a twisted genius about it.
Newsflash buddy, there's a LOT of people out there who loved Men in Tights.
Yet another ignorant person who assumes that their opinion is fact...
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>The jokes - like in most Mel Brooks movies - are racial, sexual and excretory. Blazing Saddles was not popular because it was an incisive parody of the western genre, it was popular because it was packed with crass and/or puerile humor. There's no difference between Mel Brooks and the Zuckers, or the Farrellys.
You ought to give "Young Frankenstien" a try. Sure, it contains a bit of low-brow humor, and some of it is over the top, but overall it is a very incisive parody of a monster movie.
Of course, It might not be that way if Gene Wilder didn't have his hand in it, but that's beside the point.
I dont think the shift in comedy has anything to do with "attention spans," which is at best a ham-fisted word used as a generic complaint about modern times.
I think the best commentary on modern humor I've seen was the Simpsons episode in which Krusty retires. Krusty's old-school brand of Brooks-like comedy simply grew old and hackneyed. The comedians in this episode were of the typical genx-stock irreverant kind, but also the kind who would look down upon the old Brooks/Don Rickles ethnic-type jokes.
This commentary is even more interesting as its a Simpsons episode, a show which pretty much defines post-modern humor. Things simply grow old and change. I don't see how the attention span complaint applies here. Its not like Don Rickles was ever known for his long drawn out monologues or anything and a lot of Brooks' gags and movies are pretty far from sophistication. If anything Brroks is a versatile performer/writer/director who can do anything from vaudville-esque comedy to today's postmodern stuff. Although his attempts at the latter do seem to suffer and his best work tends to lean on the "silly, simple gags" side.
"Uhh, I brought a chick to the Producers, what part of that didn't you understand? Would you like me to describe in detail the rest of the evening, after she came back to my apartment?"
Not classy, dude. If you did have sex, just be happy you had sex, why do you feel the need to defend yourself on Slashdot of all places? You went to see a broadway musical, that opens the door to gay jokes. Methinks he doth protest too much!