Spaceballs

prime 80’s humor.

What’s not to like!! All time comedy classic

Movie was silly, it played, and we were happy to watch it.

Mel Brooks had already parodied everything else -- westerns, Hitchcock films, spies, silent movies -- by the time he got to science fiction. The result: "Spaceballs," a painfully punny and deliriously wacky little spoof of  Star Wars . It's probably Brooks' goofiest movie (it has a character called BARF!), but it's still loads of fun.The Spaceballs -- led by Colonel Sandurz (George Wyner) and Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) -- are planning to steal all of the peaceful planet Druidia's air. So they try to capture Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga), who has just run away from an arranged marriage to a narcoleptic prince (along with her faithful droid Dot Matrix). Their plan: blackmail the king into turning off the Air Shield, allowing them to suck away the atmosphere!But the princess and Dot are rescued by the rakish mercenary Lone Star (Bill Pullman) and his faithful mog, Barf (John Candy). The unlikely little group soon finds themselves on the sandy planet of Vega, where Lone Star begins to learn about the mystical Schwartz from the merchandising know-it-all Yogurt. But is his Schwartz enough to defeat Dark Helmet's?For the record, this is the least subtle movie Mel Brooks has made. I mean, he's never been a subtle director to begin with, but this movie has so many puns that you can literally see them coming a mile away -- when the President of the Spaceballs starts yelling that he wants them to comb the desert, you know exactly what you'll be seeing in two seconds.And it's pretty darn funny. Brooks takes hilarious pokes at "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Aliens" ("Oh no... not again!") and "Planet of the Apes," and there are plenty of fun in-jokes that reflect it (the transporter accident that causes the president to end up, um, facing the wrong way). It does have a few comedy scenes that fall flat, such as when Helmet and Sandurz watch a videotape of, um, their own movie.Brooks also has plenty of fun with the constant merchandising jokes, and he... well, "breaking the fourth wall" is too gentle a term. Smashing the wall to pieces and dancing on its remains would be more descriptive ("God willing, we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money").You pretty much know what to expect with the characters -- a Han Solo/Luke Skywalker amalgam, the rogue with a heart of gold and a mysterious past; the feisty (whiny) princess ("Ith her oyal igness' atched uggage!"); the annoying droid, and the shaggy sidekick, as well as slapsticky characters like Yogurt and Pizza the Hut. And of course, the villains -- Brooks has a smallish role as a frustrated president, and Moranis is loads of fun as a dweeby supervillain who still plays with dolls."Spaceballs" isn't Brooks' best work, but it is a hilariously goofy sci-fi farce that deserves plenty of watching. Use the Schwartz!

Childhood movie, great purchase not damaged

If you haven't seen this yet, do. Not appropriate for all ages but hilarious for those above the age.

Classic humor but - too many curses for young kids!

Young bill Pullman and daphne Zuniga. Fun movie.

Right up there with The Producers and Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs is one of Mel Brooks's best spoofs. Ripping Star Wars to shreds is red meat to Brooks, who casts the brilliant Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet, himself as Yogurt, Bill Pulman as Lone Star and John Candy as Barf. Throwing tonnes of good and bad jokes at the audience, the viewer is overwhelmed by the sheer madness of the enterprise.I think this has some outrageously memorable lines and performances. I love Dark Helmet and there are so many funny lines, it is almost impossible to remember them all. My favourite is his explanation to Lone Star in the middle of their fight that 'evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.'But Brooks saves the best for himself - as Yoghurt the wise, he announces to the audience, that the film is not about the Force (the Schwartz, he calls it) but 'merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made'. It is a brilliant and telling comment on George Lucas, true and cutting deeper than even the best, silliest jokes in this comedy.

This kind of comedy never gets old! To my shock my husband had never seen this before, I had great memories of watching it as a youngster so purchased so I could share the joy with someone who had never seen it before. Unfortunately he didn’t ‘get it’ haha. I very much enjoyed seeing it though. If you like parodies then you will like this too.

This ranks among my top ten films and have watched so many times.. So very, very funny, particularly if you like a film that pokes fun at just about every sci fi movie in history. Star Wars, Star Trek, transformers, Alien, Planet of the Apes...even The Wizard of Oz. Little is spared. Bill Pulman, John Candy and Rick Moranis as the hilarious "Dark Helmet" must have had such a blast when filming. There's even a brilliant cameo from the great John Hurt. Watch it. Watch it with your friends. Watch it over and over again. It's special!

I wasn't expecting a lot but this is neither funny nor even mildly amusing. A waste of time and money. AVOID!

while I love spaceball's as a film, I feel this lets it down. its in a flimsy case. as for its content I have been unable to watch it as amazon did not tell me it was not for use in my region, and I have been unable to get my money back as it is too expensive to return it.