Spaceballs! An oldie but still funny as hell!…
September 28, 2007 · Print This Article
If you havn’t seen Spaceballs, you need to go out right now and rent it, better yet, buy this movie!! This has got to be one of the funniest parody’s ever created. This is definitely a classic that everyone should see at least once.
With a classic cast including: John Candy, Rick Moranis and Mel Brooks, the budget for Spaceballs was $22,700,000 (estimated). The film grossed $38,119,483 during its run in the United States, taking in $6,600,000 on its opening weekend.
Planet Spaceball, led by President Skroob (Mel Brooks), has foolishly wasted all of its air and, desperate to find more, aims at extorting the peaceful Planet Druidia into giving them all of its air. They devise a plan to kidnap the Druish Princess Vespa, who is about to marry the narcoleptic Prince Valium. Resenting this marriage, Vespa runs off from the altar and escapes into space, where she is attacked by the Spaceballs (commanded by Dark Helmet, played by Rick Moranis).
Vespa’s father, King Roland, hires Captain Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his mawg Barf (John Candy) (who are desperate for money to pay back their debts to the Mafioso Pizza the Hutt), to rescue his daughter. They manage to rescue her and escape the Spaceballs, but have to crash-land on a desert planet. There, they meet the sage Yogurt, who introduces Lone Starr to the mysterious power called the The Schwartz. However, the Spaceballs trick Vespa into leaving her hiding place and capture her again. Lone Starr and Barf rescue the Princess, but not before the Spaceballs have succeeded in forcing King Roland to reveal the entry code to Druidia’s atmosphere (which is simply 1-2-3-4-5). Their spaceship Spaceball One transforms into Mega Maid with a vacuum cleaner, which starts to extract the air from Druidia. Lone Starr uses his Schwartz ring to reverse the procedure, defeats Dark Helmet in a duel using lightsaber-like weapons emanating from their Schwartz rings, and causes Mega Maid to self-destruct.
Lone Starr returns the Princess to Druidia and, since his creditor Pizza the Hutt “ate himself to death”, leaves without taking the agreed payment, a million spacebucks, instead taking a much smaller amount of only 248 spacebucks for food, gas and tolls. Shortly afterwards, on finding out that he is a “certified Prince”, he returns just in time to interrupt the marriage and marry Vespa himself.
Her are some of the best parts of the movie.
















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