Daft and sometimes very funny parody of
Star Wars, written and directed by Mel Brooks. The humour is so silly that it’s difficult to resist. For example,
Rick Moranis plays the Darth Vader character, but he’s so weedy that anything he does seems utterly ridiculous. There are parodies of Princess Leia (
Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa), Han Solo (Bill Pullman as the Winnebago-driving Lone Starr), Chewbacca (
John Candy as the half-man half-dog Barf) and C-3PO (Joan Rivers voicing he droid Dot Matrix). Mel Brooks himself plays the Emperor Palpatine-influenced President Skroob and the Yoda-like Yogurt. There are also references to
Star Trek,
Alien and
Planet of the Apes.
It’s extremely self-referential and post-modern. At one point the characters have to watch Spaceballs itself to find out what happens next.
The "story" is largely irrelevant. You just wait for the gags – some of them so basic and obvious that they can’t fail.
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