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Spaceballs (Special Edition) [DVD] [1987]

DVD ~ Mel Brooks
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga
  • Directors: Mel Brooks
  • Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Dubbed, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 9 May 2005
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007NBJRI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,681 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Mel Brooks's 1987 parody of the Star Wars trilogy is a jumble of jokes rather than a comic feature, and, predictably, some of those jokes work better than others. The cast, including Brooks in two roles, more or less mimics the principal characters from George Lucas's famous story line, and the director certainly gets a boost from new allies (Rick Moranis and John Candy) as well as old ones (Dick Van Patten, Dom DeLuise). Watch this and wait for the sporadic inspiration--but don't be surprised if you find yourself yearning for those years when Brooks was a more complete filmmaker (Young Frankenstein). --Tom Keogh


Synopsis

Space-Bum-For-Hire Lone Starr and his sidekick Barf (half man, half dog, he's his own best friend) must rescue a spoilt Druish Princess from evil sniveller Dark Helmet in time to pay off Pizza the Hutt. May the 'Schwartz' be with them...

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars absurd and very funny, 28 Aug 2006
By J. H. Davies (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Yes the humour is a little obvious at times and the continuity is a little dodgy, but this doesn't detract from Spaceballs being a very funny film. It doesn't pay to think too hard whilst watching - it's childishness is really it's appeal. I haven't had such a good time watching a film in ages - a little similar to watching the Muppet show, just switch off and enjoy the absurdity. It's a nostalgic ride in a way too, 1980's rock music (back when Bon Jovi was 'cool'), The ever-warm and sorely missed John Candy, and Rick Moranis being truly humourous. Clearly a long time ago now!
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars may da schwartz be with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, 27 Jan 2006
one of mel brooks greatest movies. it is starwars , startrek , flash gordon. every sci-fi movie ever rolled into one with great characters including yougurt , barf , lonestar and dark helmet. it has the occasional swearing but it only adds to the humor if you havent seen this movie you havent lived. filled with many jewish puns every one will personaly wet themselves. "it is like the temple of doom" "well it sure isn't the temple beth din"! buy it today you wont regret it may the schwartz be with you !!!!!!!!!!!!
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2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A battle of spaceballs under the sun, 8 April 2008
By Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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A parody of Star Wars, and Aliens, and some other films of the type (space science fiction) is of course welcome because we like taking things un-seriously, non-seriously, serious-ness-less-ly. So it is funny and that is not a surprise. Mel Brooks knows how to make things both funny and silly so that we can gargle with giggles and barf with laughter. But the film has the main defect all Mel Brooks's films have. The humor is essentially punctual, so we have one joke after another, one smile after another, one pleasant moment after another, but there is no structural derision of the models. The final birth of an alien is funny both because of the situation in which it happens and it surprises us then, and because the alien is turned into some kind of long-tailed Fred Astaire or Zizi Jeanmaire. With a few bananas it could have impersonated Josephine Baker. The River Kwai song is funny because it surprises us too especially since we were expecting seven dwarves and their song when going down to the mine. But that is all. Beyond this fun nothing, zilch. And that's a shame because the subject could have been a real mine of structural humor against these big space sagas that process the audience into some kind of slightly, and even at times a lot, intellectually and culturally retarded people. The only attempt at this structural humor is to make the king of the good ones regress beyond some kind of constitutional monarchy to look like an old feudal monarchy in the absurd way they dress, a King Lear comic clown. But that does not shoot the moon down from the sky. In the same way the transformation of the bad spaceship into the statue of Liberty is pure derision but the transformation of her beams of light around her head into escape routes that defecate the wrecked soldiers does not really provides the film with some structural meaning, like the satire of American democracy and liberty that are at times quite dark in their general functioning. Funny for sure in the absurd line of definition of this term, funny too when you can read most of the allusions, but the fun is scattered and sprinkled all over, as if the millions of stars could be compared to the unique and sole sun.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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