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FromAirplane!toBlazing SaddlestoThe Rocky Horror Picture Show , some parodies are so great and iconic that they outshine the movies they originally set out to charade . Usually , a parody picture show only gets made because the film it ’s place is a ethnic staple . As hilarious asSpaceballsis , it was never go to outdo theStar Warssaga . But some takeoff go for more obscure targets;not a lot of multitude have sex thatAirplane!is practically a shot - for - shot remake of a ridiculous disaster moving-picture show calledZero Hour ! , or thatThe Naked Gunborrows its premiss fromTelefon .
The lampoon tend to be more accessible ( and , plainly , a lot funnier ) than the pilot , so audiences gravitate towards them . This is Spinal Tapis more iconic than any of the “ rockumentaries ” it riffs on . Singin ’ in the Rainis more iconic than the glitzy Golden Age musicals it homages . Top Secret!is more iconic than the Elvis musicals and World War II thriller it peculiarly mix . The very unspoilt spoof movies are so big that they transcend the burlesque genre and become more well - be intimate as classics in their own right wing than the motion picture they ’re mock .
The Simpsons has parodied a variety of picture show for decades , and the most underrated parody is one of the darkest scenes in a Tarantino classic .
10Robin Hood: Men In Tights
Mel Brooks
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Robin Hood : Men in Tights is a comedic reimagining of the classic Robin Hood legend , lead by Mel Brooks . Cary Elwes star topology as Robin Hood , lead a radical of merry humans in a scrap against the tyrannical Prince John and the Sheriff of Rottingham . This pasquinade moving picture fuse humor and caustic remark , boast memorable performances and musical number that poke fun at the genre and various tonic cultivation constituent .
Mel Brooks take satirical object at every cinematic embodiment of the Robin Hood legend with his absurdist parodyRobin Hood : Men in Tights . But it was primarily a spoof of the then - late Kevin Costner - starringblockbusterRobin lens hood : Prince of Thieves . The patch ofMen in Tightsis loosely free-base on the plot ofPrinces of stealer , and the bill poster forMen in Tightsis a direct homage to the poster forPrince of Thieves(with a few extra arrows added ) .
Although it received sundry reviews from critic , Robin Hood : Men in Tightswas a box part success and remain a cult comedy classic to this day . Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves , on the other helping hand , has n’t really stood the trial of time . It was a huge commercial succeeder on its original release , but now , it ’s better remembered for Bryan Adams ’ theme song , “ ( Everything I Do ) I Do It for You , ” than the film itself .
9Top Secret!
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker And Jerry Zucker
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After the achiever of their first movieAirplane ! , the clowning team of Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brother had the pull to make whatever motion picture they require – and they took full vantage of that opportunity to make one of the cockamamie movies ever made . Top Secret!is a hybrid lampoon of World War II - era espionage thrillersand Elvis Presley - starring musicals . It was well - get by critics , but not everyone vex the trick .
These Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , Top Secret!is much more iconic than any of the ‘ 50s rock ‘n’ roll ‘ n ’ roll picture , ‘ LX beach film , or WWII undercover agent movies it parodies .
In the years since it underperform at the box office , Top Secret!has been reappraise as a classic drollery . There ’s a sharply scripted one - lining or masterfully constructed sight gag every few seconds , and Val Kilmer does a terrific line of skewer Elvis ’ on - screen persona . These days , Top Secret!is much more iconic than any of the ‘ 50s rock ‘ n ’ roll picture , ‘ sixty beach moving picture , or WWII spy movies it parodies .
8Dolemite
D’Urville Martin
After hear a regular at the criminal record store where he worked verbalise about a man named Dolemite , struggling standup comic Rudy Ray Moore decided to integrate the character into his enactment as a charismatic alter ego . The Dolemite part took on a life of his own and catapulted Moore to cult stardom . In 1975,Moore adapt the character into a feature cinema , Dolemite , parodying the blaxploitation celluloid that were democratic at the metre .
Dolemite Is My Name – which chronicles the beginning of Moore ’s calling
asunder from bona fide classics likeCoffy , Foxy Brown , andBlack Caesar , not a lot of those ‘ 70s blaxploitation picture show still hold up today . ButDolemiteremains a furore indie drollery collision . Eddie Murphy ’s applaud 2019 biopic , Dolemite Is My Name – which chronicles the beginning of Moore ’s calling and the make ofDolemite – memorialise Moore ’s comedic bequest and the influence ofDolemite .
7Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
Jay Roach
Austin Powers : International Man of Mystery is the first motion picture in Mike Myers ' James Bond travesty series . Myers plays both Austin Powers and Dr. Evil , archway - enemies who are freeze in time and brought back in the ' 90s . The film was followed by two sequels in 1999 and 2002 , with a 4th film stick in development hell .
Broadly , Austin Powersis a spoof of James Bond moving-picture show – Dr. Evil is a parody of Blofeld , Basil Exposition is a spoof of M , and Random Task is a spoof of Oddjob – and no one could argue thatAustin Powersis bigger than Bond . However , it is bigger than the very specific Bond movie it take to parody . Mike Myers set out to retake the natural language - in - cheek humor and spy movie satire of the comedic 1967 variation ofCasino Royale .
Although 1967’sCasino Royalefeatures an all - champion tout ensemble of legendary actors like Peter Sellers , David Niven , Woody Allen , and Orson Welles , it ’s been slated as one of the unfunniest comediesever made . Suffice to say , it ’s not very well - remembered today . Austin Powersis more well - make out thanCasino Royalebecause it ’s a much more successful put-on of the Bond mythos .
Robin Hood: Men in Tights is a comedic reimagining of the classic Robin Hood legend, directed by Mel Brooks. Cary Elwes stars as Robin Hood, leading a group of merry men in a fight against the tyrannical Prince John and the Sheriff of Rottingham. This parody film combines humor and satire, featuring memorable performances and musical numbers that poke fun at the genre and various pop culture elements.
6The Naked Gun
David Zucker
After his tragically short - lived police adjective spoofPolice Squad!was canceled , David Zucker adapted the series for the big screen under the titleThe Naked Gun . The deed of conveyance was designed to emulate old - school police noirs likeThe Naked City , The Big Combo , andThe Asphalt Jungle . But the plot was rip from a more recent effort : Don Siegel ’s 1977 undercover agent thrillerTelefon . LikeThe Naked Gun , Telefonrevolves around sleeper agents being unwittingly activated by phone call .
Panned by critics and dismiss by audiences , Telefonis best known today as a low period for both Siegel and his lead role player Charles Bronson . The Naked Gunis much more dear thanTelefonever was . WhereasTelefongets unintentional laughs with its ridiculous patch , The Naked Gungets intentional laughs with a knowing riff on that plot .
5Blazing Saddles
publish and direct by Mel Brooks , Blazing Saddles stars Cleavon Little as Bart , a black sheriff appointed in a small frontier town by Hedley Lamarr , a railroad track humans who believe Bart ’s date will destabilise the townsfolk enough to labour everyone out and allow him to build a fresh railway system line through it . Instead , with the help of hit man Jim the Waco Kid , Bart work to thwart Lamarr ’s schemes . Gene Wilder and Harvey Korman star alongside Little .
Mel Brooks satirized the western genre ’s longstanding tradition of whitewashing American account withhis parody masterpieceBlazing Saddles . While it ’s not a spoof of any special western picture and instead acts as a spoof of the integral genre , Blazing Saddlesis full of computer address to western classics . It has nods toStagecoach , Rio Bravo , High Noon , Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , andThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre . These are all great movies that are still well - regarded today , but they ’ve catch nothing onBlazing Saddles .
All these years later on , Blazing Saddlesstill bind up as a timeless comedy masterpiece . Its tale of a crooked politician hiring a Black sheriff to sabotage a town , then getting thwart when the sheriff turns out to be amazing at his job , is the perfect satire of the absurdity of racial discrimination . Blazing Saddles ’ inversion of the western genre ’s myth is still just as incisive and razor - penetrative today .
4Singin’ In The Rain
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Singin ' in the Rain is a 1952 romanticistic - clowning musical by director Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly . Centering on the 1920s era of Hollywood , Singin ' in the Rain follows two movie stars draw to conform to the talking pictures era of films . When the film ’s lead human race see his on - screen door partner ’s voice is less than pleasing , a young singer is brought in to dub her line of descent - include her tattle , causing a mix of joyousness and chaos behind the prospect .
coiffure during Hollywood ’s transition into the talkie epoch , Singin ’ in the Rainis a loving homage to the glitzy , beautifully choreograph musical theater of the Golden Age . It revive the colorful wonder of those movies so spectacularly that it ’s now become more iconic than any of them . Singin ’ in the Rainhas been praise as both a great homage to the melodious writing style and arguably the greatest picture melodious ever made .
A luck of multitude do n’t even realize thatmost of the songs ontheSingin ’ in the Rainsoundtrackare taken from other film . “Temptation ” is take fromGoing Hollywood , “ All I Do is Dream of You ” is taken fromSadie McKee , and “ Singin ’ in the Rain ” itself is require fromThe Hollywood Revue of 1929 . Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds made these numbers so iconic that they seem like the originators .
3The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jim Sharman
Originally establish on a leg play , The Rocky Horror Picture show is view one of the most significant countercultural film of all fourth dimension and assert a full cult following to this Clarence Day . The film asterisk Tim Curry , Susan Sarandon , and Barry Bostwick , and take after Brad and Janet , a young couple who , after experiencing car worry on a tempestuous night , are taken in by scientist Dr. Frank - N - Furter , an exotic transvestite who lives in a nearby castle with his equally colourful servants .
Jim Sharman and Richard O’Brien’sThe Rocky Horror Picture Showis one of the cornerstone of cult celluloid . Half a century after its initial dismission , it ’s still in limited acquittance and being show on a openhanded screen somewhere in the globe , with diehard fans attending in costume and singing along with the musical number . There are very few films as beloved or iconic asRocky Horror .
The Rocky Horror Picture Showis arguably more iconic than any one of them .
The Rocky Horror Picture Showisn’t a spoof of any one movie in particular ; it ’s a blanket homage to the sci - fi and horror B - flick of the ‘ XXX , ‘ 40s , ‘ 50s , and ‘ 60s . It has credit toFrankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , King Kong , Flash Gordon , Tarzan the Ape Man , The Day of the Triffids , Tarantula , When Worlds Collide , andIt Came from Outer Space . They ’re all fan - favorite B - movie classics , butThe Rocky Horror Picture Showis arguably more iconic than any one of them .
2This Is Spinal Tap
Rob Reiner
This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 mockumentary that follows fictional heavy metal circle Spinal Tap , compose by real - life comedians Christopher Guest , Michael McKean and Harry Shearer , as they go on tour of duty with a picture show crew that immortalise their eccentricities . It is one of the most influential mockumentaries of all time and the source of the common saying " dial it up to eleven " .
Rob Reiner ’s Hellenic mockumentary about England ’s cheap stria , This is Spinal Tap , was conceived as a take - off of the rock docudrama ( or “ rockumentaries ” ) that were popular in the 1970s . These movie admit the Led Zeppelin concert filmThe Song Remains the Sameand Martin Scorsese ’s documentary about The Band ’s parting performance , The Last Waltz . While these films remain popular and revered among fans of the careen genre , they ’re nowhere near as iconic as Reiner ’s laugh - a - minute satire .
It would become more famous than any square documentary about the same national affair
Like all the good comedies , This is Spinal Taphas adeep understanding of its satirical mark . Christopher Guest , Michael McKean , and Harry Shearer ’s spontaneous improvisations , paired with the authenticity of Reiner ’s portrait of the medicine industry , had some viewer convert thatThis is Spinal Tapwas a straightforward documentary . And ironically , it would become more illustrious than any aboveboard documentary about the same field subject .
1Airplane!
David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker
Airplane ! is a 1980 clowning moving-picture show directed by Jim Abrahams , David Zucker , and Jerry Zucker . It burlesque cataclysm films , center on on Ted Striker , a former fighter fender dealing with a veneration of fly . When an in - flight emergency strikes , Striker must present his fears to save the passengers and gang . The film stars Robert Hays , Julie Hagerty , and Leslie Nielsen , employing a mixing of slapstick humor and rapid - flak put-on .
David Zucker , Jim Abrahams , and Jerry Zucker’sAirplane!is wide regarded to be one of the funniest movies ever made . But most of its fans are n’t even aware that it ’s a spoof of the 1957 cataclysm filmZero Hour ! . ZAZ’sAirplane!script rip so many plot points , character reference , and argument of dialogue fromZero Hour!that they had to secure the remaking right field just to protect themselves from sound action . The story of a escape being doomed by dodgy Pisces seemed inherently hilarious to ZAZ , so they made very small change in the parody procedure .
These days , Zero Hour!has been almost all forget , whileAirplane!endures as a timeless clowning classic . Airplane!also spoofs theAirportseries , which was the closest thing to the MCU in the 1970s . But even theAirportseries ca n’t fit how iconicAirplane!has become .
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is the first film in Mike Myers' James Bond parody series. Myers plays both Austin Powers and Dr. Evil, arch-enemies who are frozen in time and brought back in the ’90s. The film was followed by two sequels in 1999 and 2002, with a fourth film stuck in development hell.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a comedy film directed by David Zucker, featuring Leslie Nielsen as Detective Frank Drebin. Following the antics of Drebin, the film parodies the police procedural genre with slapstick humor and absurd situations. Supported by performances from Priscilla Presley and Ricardo Montalbán, the film is based on the short-lived television series Police Squad!.
Written and directed by Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles stars Cleavon Little as Bart, a black sheriff appointed in a small frontier town by Hedley Lamarr, a railroad man who believes Bart’s appointment will destabilize the town enough to drive everyone out and allow him to build a new railroad line through it. Instead, with the help of gunslinger Jim the Waco Kid, Bart works to thwart Lamarr’s schemes. Gene Wilder and Harvey Korman star alongside Little.
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 romantic-comedy musical by directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Centering on the 1920s era of Hollywood, Singin' in the Rain follows two movie stars forced to adjust to the talking pictures era of films. When the film’s leading man realizes his on-screen partner’s voice is less than pleasing, a young singer is brought in to dub her lines - including her singing, causing a mix of joy and chaos behind the scenes.
Originally based on a stage play, The Rocky Horror Picture show is considered one of the most significant countercultural films of all time and maintains a wide cult following to this day. The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick, and follows Brad and Janet, a young couple who, after experiencing car trouble on a stormy night, are taken in by scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, an alien transvestite who lives in a nearby castle with his equally colorful servants.
This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 mockumentary that follows fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap, composed by real-life comedians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, as they go on tour with a film crew that records their eccentricities. It is one of the most influential mockumentaries of all time and the source of the common saying “dial it up to eleven”.
Airplane! is a 1980 comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. It parodies disaster films, centering on Ted Striker, a former fighter pilot dealing with a fear of flying. When an in-flight emergency strikes, Striker must confront his fears to save the passengers and crew. The film stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, and Leslie Nielsen, employing a mix of slapstick humor and rapid-fire jokes.
