Spaceballs
Spaceballs is a 1987 science fiction spoof movie written, starring and directed by Mel Brooks.
Cast
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
Planet Spaceball has foolishly wasted all of their air, and is desperate to find more. President Skroob and his top military leader, Dark Helmet, devise a plan to kidnap Princess Vespa and extort Planet Druidia into giving Spaceballs all of their air.
Meanwhile, King Roland hires mercenaries Captain Lone Starr and Barf, who are desperate for money, to get Princess Vespa back to Druidia, so that she can marry Prince Valium.
The plot is kept simple so that the maximum number of jokes possible can be packed in. The majority of the scenes and characters are parodies of Star Wars, although it parodies other movies as well. The most notable are Star Trek, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wizard of Oz, Planet of the Apes, Rambo, and Alien (with John Hurt reprising his famous scene from that movie).
Some critics pointed out that since timing is the essence of comedy it was odd that Brooks should have waited ten years to spoof Star Wars, though his supporters say that he wanted to wait until the entire trilogy was available for mocking.
