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Sometimes a parody movie is so good that it in reality terminate up being a stronger entry in the genre it spoofs than most square incoming in that genre . Shaun of the Deadis good than most zombi motion-picture show , Paulis better than most alien visitant movies , andTop Secret!is well than any of Elvis Presley ’s rock candy ‘ n ’ roll musical theater . It ’s coarse for parody movies to not even make for as comedy , likeDisaster MovieorVampires Suck , but the very best are not only great comedies , but corking moving-picture show .
If a filmmaker sets out to satirize a genre , it ’s normally because they have a recondite affection for that genre , so the last affair they want to do is make a bad gain to it . They have it off what makes their chosen genre so great and what an entry in that musical style involve to do to deliver the goods . Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg knew what fan wanted from a enceinte “ buddy cop ” moving picture when they madeHot Fuzz . Wes Craven knew how to deliver a corking slasher underneath the foxy self - knowingness ofScream .
From Airplane ! to The Rocky Horror Picture Show , some parodies are so great and iconic that they outshine the moving picture they ’re making fun of .
10Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
When Funny or Die released a fake trailer for a satiric biopic of “ Weird Al ” Yankovic , the real Yankovic see a great chance to burlesque the onslaught of instrumentalist biopics . He team up up with the fake prevue ’s director , Eric Appel , to turn the imitation dawdler into a feature - length lampoon of music biopics . Weird : The Al Yankovic Storylambasts the biopic genre ’s simplism and melodramatization of musicians ’ lives , parodying music biopics the same way of life thatWeird Al ’s songsparody the hits .
9Kingsman: The Secret Service
After seeing the granulose realism ofCasino Royaleand theBournemovies , Matthew Vaughn set out to come in some old - fashioned play back into the spy music genre withKingsman : The Secret Service . Although it was broadly based on the Mark Millar funny book of the same name , Vaughn took theKingsmanfranchise in his own direction in the self-aggrandising - filmdom version . When it pip field of operations in 2014,Kingsman : The Secret Servicewas a breath of fresh air that revitalized the spy genre .
It ’s a uncivilized , bombastic , no - holds - bar spy adventure , but at its heart , it ’s a touching don - son account . The mentor - mentee relationship between Colin Firth ’s Harry Hart and Taron Egerton ’s Eggsy hit on an emotional stratum that most globetrotting spy thriller break down to make . Kingsmanis much more engaging than most late spy picture show , likeThe 355andRed Sparrow .
8Deadpool
In the Marvel cartoon strip , Deadpool is both a hilarious satirical subversion of the superhero genre and an iconic superhero in his own right . His first solo moving-picture show pulled off the same antic : it ’s both a spot - on spoof of modern superhero blockbusters and one of the greatest superhero movies ever made . Ryan Reynolds was perfectly puke as Wade Wilson , smash both the gamey - octane action - hero physicality and the fourth - wall - breaking hilarity for a auction pitch - sodding on - cover depiction of the case .
Most superhero root movies are trite and formulaic , butDeadpoolsubverts that rule by break up its parentage story with a present - solar day grinder - versus - villain storyline . Just when the origin story get going to become tedious , the movie races forward in clock time to show a fully - fledged Deadpool hunt down his arch - scourge , Francis . Deadpoolis botha great superhero movie spoofand a great superhero movie .
7Galaxy Quest
WhileSpaceballswill always be inStar Wars ’ shadow , Galaxy Questhas actually managed to transcend most of theStar Trekmedia it parody . The level sees the washed - up cast of an oldStar Trek - stylus sci - fi series being abduct by noncitizen who mistake the episodes of their TV show for historical records of their many triumph against intergalactic enemies . So , these ostentatious Hollywood thespian who resent each other are forced to come together and work as a team .
On top of being a great satire ofStar Trekand its impassioned buff base , Galaxy Questis a jolly compelling sci - fi flick in its own right . In fact , manyStar Trekfans consider it to be a betterStar Trekmovie than most of the officialStar Trekmovies . At the 2013Star TrekConvention in Las Vegas , a fan poll rankedGalaxy Questas the seventh bestStar Trekfilm ever made ( viaIGN ) .
6Airplane!
When the drollery dreaming team of Zucker , Abrahams , and Zucker madeAirplane ! , the disaster movie genre was really taking off ( no pun intend ) . Movies likeThe Towering Inferno , The Poseidon Adventure , and theAirportseries were blowing up the loge function with their star - studded cast of characters and special effects spectacle . Airplane!has an inflatable automatic pilot , a glitzy disco saltation succession , and a soldier with PTSD who thinks he ’s Ethel Merman – but it ’s still better than most tragedy movies .
It take its narration fromZero Hour ! , which play the story of a flight being doom by dodgy fish altogether straight , andAirplane ! ’s satirical lampooning is a much more effective telling of that story . It ’s a lot more compelling than any of the disaster movies it burlesque – especially the mediocreAirportfilms , which have aged jolly badly . Airplane!is both a ludicrous comedy and a gripping disaster film .
5Shaun Of The Dead
Inspired by a zombie - infested episode of their rage hit sitcomSpaced , Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg localize out to save their own zombie movie . Shaun of the Deadis a charade of zombie films , setting a Richard Curtis - style romantic comedy against the background of a zombie apocalypse , but it would also work just as well as a straight zombie film if all the jokes were dispatch . From the ominous early warning signs of the end - time to the many jump scares and gore sequences on “ Z - Day,”Shaun of the Deadnails the zombie music genre .
Orville Wright transplants the familiar George A. Romero zombie movie formula into a British place setting . The survivors barricade themselves in a public house to waitress out the remnant of the world . Shaun of the Deadis funny than most comedies , but it ’s also scarier than most zombi motion picture .
4The Incredibles
Pixar combine the action - pack thrills of the superhero literary genre with the relatable idiosyncrasy of a folk sitcom inThe Incredibles . Set in aWatchmen - like world in which superheroes have been outlawed , The Incrediblesrevolves around a sept of superheroes hiding out in the suburban area . Not only isThe Incrediblesa sport , insurgent drollery combine the gamy stakes of superhero funnies with the low post of family life-time ; it ’s one of the great superhero picture ever made .
There have been a grand total of three attempts to bring the Fantastic Four to the big covert , andThe Incrediblesis a much good Fantastic Four movie than any of them . Its action sequences utilise the character ’ great power more creatively than most superhero moving picture . The emotion of the house dynamics land more effectively than most superhero team movies . Unlike most superhero films , The Incrediblesis a masterpiece .
3Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks satirized the western literary genre ’s penchant for gloss over American history with hisgroundbreaking western spoofBlazing Saddles . Up to that compass point , most western moving-picture show had glorified white gunslingers and vilified everyone else . blaze Saddlesrevolves around a crooked white politico who hires a Black sheriff in the hope that he ’ll launch the Ithiel Town into the primer and allow him to pave over it with a railway . But the sheriff turn out to be so heavy at his Book of Job that he keep the town and brings the crooked pol and his pal to justice .
Not only is this a arrant travesty of the westerly genre ’s whitewashing and the ridiculousness of racism ; it ’s also a keen westerly story in its own rightfulness . Sheriff Bart is an sluttish hero to steady down for and look up to . Before it demolishes the fourth wall in its third act , Blazing Saddlesis a authoritative western .
2Scream
AfterHalloweenandThe Texas Chain Saw Massacreestablished the slasher writing style in the ‘ 70s , slashers dominated revulsion cinema throughout the ‘ LXXX . By the early ‘ 90s , the genre had seemingly been whole dog-tired ; its formula was familiar to audiences and the kills could n’t get any more gruesome . And then Wes Craven came along to helmScream , which revitalized the slasher genrewith a healthy dose of postmodern self - consciousness .
Screamacknowledged how intimate the slasher recipe had get with a casting of type who acknowledge the rules of the variety of revulsion movie they ’re in . When a masked killer starts pick them off , they ’re savvy enough to fend off all the usual traps . ButScreamisn’t just a meta meditation on the slasher genre ; Craven ’s focusing of the horror succession is so razor - penetrative that it also order as one of the bully slashers ever made .
1Hot Fuzz
After spoofing the zombi genre inShaun of the Dead , Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg tackled the “ buddy cop ” genre inHot Fuzz . Like many chum cop classics before it , Hot Fuzzpairs up two uneven detective as they reveal a baleful criminal conspiracy . Pegg ’s big - city fuzz Nicholas Angel is team up up with Nick Frost ’s bumbling small-scale - town cop Danny Butterman when he ’s transferred to the sleepy village of Sandford .
Hot Fuzzsatirizes all the familiar image and conventionality of sidekick cop moving picture , but it ’s also a strong launching in the action , comedy , and secret musical genre than most of its peers . Its activity is more thrilling , its persona are more well - rounded , and its plot is more compelling than 99 % of the chum copper movies out there . It stands alongside the very adept the writing style has to offer , like48 Hrs.andLethal Weapon .
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