I worked in nuclear power, yet the first time I saw a self checkout line I stood there slack jawed like some fucking hillbilly who never experienced electricity or indoor plumbing.
I think its absolutely hilarious the evacuation stations are located on the bridge routing every single sector on board the ship to forward command all at once in an emergency absolutely disrupting everything and fucking with the ships operational staff. I'm in stitches every single time.
If I ever design a spaceship I might want to design it with as many escape pods as possible to ensure things like this doesn't happen in fact I might even say that you can never have too many escape pods
generatorx PG-13 would have been fine, as they only drop the F-bomb once. Strangely enough, PG-13 existed for three years by the time Spaceballs hit theaters in 1987, so there should have been no excuses.
It was released with a PG rating, but i remember renting this from Thrift Drug (drug store in Pennsylvania in the 80's) and the movie poster had a PG-13 rating.
1:49 Fun Fact; that shot of the escape pods ejecting is actually unused footage from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, that was provided to Mel Brooks from Lucasfilm.
@@rawhidelamp Another fun fact, the very same company that did the special effects of Star Wars also worked on Spaceballs, so it was, at the time, one of the films with the best Special Effects, with, if I remember correctly, a budget of over 4 million $.
@@rawhidelamp Mel Brooks, the director of the film, also contacted George Lucas directly, to get permission to do the film, and the only condition that I know was that there wouldn't be any Space Ball merch, due to potential resemblances with normal Star Wars merch.
@Larry Kreiger some coats are reversible meaning that you can wear it with the lining being the shell and vice versa. It's not some super clever line just a little throwaway gag
This could have been really funny if they showed the perspective of a camera man getting into a escape pod and one of those three guys says “Wait! You’re supposed to stay and film the rest of the movie!”
i love how after believing the self-destruct is irreversible, once they find out theres a cancellation button they all somehow know exactly where it is.
Cretinous Jester Ehhh no big deal. It's a cult classic now. It's one of the greatest comedies of all time..and definitely the best parody. Haha..it's a hilarious and amazing film. 😀
It didn't fail. It just wasn't a 100 million dollar blockbuster. It came out in the summertime and there were a lot of movies out. I did catch this in the theater though.
At the time, people were saying Mel Brooks was starting to run out of steam, saying that while it was hilarious, it was not as good as his previous movies. But the bigger problem is that this was a Star Wars parody...in 1987! It was way too late to make one, ten years after the original and four years after Return of the Jedi. Had it come out in the early 80s, it likely would have been far better received.
@@thematt523 I think Mel Brooks was waiting for the next Star Wars movie to come out (which could have been expected in 1986, based on the 3 year gap between the previous 3 movies). When that didn't happen, he just thought: "F*** it, I'll make a parody of it anyway." In the long run, it was the right decision. Star Wars has only grown in popularity over the years, and Spaceballs has certainly become quite profitable by now.
This single sequence has some of the movie's best lines. "I can't make decisions I'm a president!", "I'm the bearded lady, who are you one of freaks?" and of course "Even in the future nothing works!"
“YEAH! I’m one of the freaks! I’m the freak with an abnormally large head that I need a big helmet to cover it! So back away from *my* escape pod, you fat bearded b*tch!” *Pushes Bearded Lady aside and laughs and gets in the escape pod, blows raspberry at Bearded Lady and pod blasts off into space* 😂 That’s what I would have done if I was in Dark Helmet’s position.
There was no PG-13. Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones (original trilogy), Spaceballs, and many others were all PG. Uncensored. It was a glorious time to be a kid.
I think one of the things that makes this particular parody so timeless and endearing, aside from the clever witty writing and send-up of a classic film series, is the awesome visual effects. So many parody flicks look so obviously cheap, but this one has some rather impressive effects shots. Eagle 5 hauling ass away from Mega Maid as it's exploding still looks brilliant, worthy of anything from ILM.
It's like how Mel hired them (IIRC) to do the effects for his 'Jews in Space' skit. SFX work on par with the top Sci-fi films of the time, for a joke sequence less than 2 minutes long, is just one of the reasons Mel Brooks is an utter legend.
The bear ended landed in Japan and adopted by MISHIMA zaibatsu and change his/her name to Kuma😂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LM0gJwLJc_A.html
I know, and it took me hearing the Spaceballs song itself to realize that laughter you hear when the bear's waving isn't the bear. It still could be but either way it's funny.
“If you're livin' in a bubble and you haven't got a care Well, you're gonna be in trouble 'cause we're gonna steal your air 'cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds We're the Spaceballs! Watch out, 'cause we're the Spaceballs”
"We're the masters of space Don't mess around with the Spaceballs" "Goin' cruisin' in our spaceship, we're so good at being bad" "We'll destroy your little planet, if you ever make us mad" "We're mothers of the galaxy "You better scatter when you see... The Spaceballs" "Watch out, we're the Spaceballs"
"I'm the bearded lady who are you one a' the freaks" "come back here you fat bearded bitch!!!" gets me every time. "out of order" "fuck even in the future nothing works"
Lol Nick, even if Trump saved a hundred orphans from a flaming building it would be a bad choice. The flaw in your logic is astonishing if you really can take that as fact.
I'm good with his decisions. Way bigger tax return coming my way, markets are at an all-time high, manufacturing jobs are returning in huge numbers and there has never been more confidence in the economy since Reagan!
...it's taken me decades to realize this fun escape sequence full of silly one-second jokes is itself an *insane* joke; the song is bragging about how scary and powerful the Spaceballs are... while every Spaceball shown is running around like a headless chicken.
No doubt. Mel Brooks inherited the comedic genius of Grocho Marx. I pray Mel Brooks is doing well now and through eternity. Remember The God of Love is real. He sends me miracles like he did with Moses: www.goodnewsjim.com Check out old Get Smart episodes too.
The Spaceballs are cooler than any other villains in any other space story ever made... They have a zoo on their ship... (not to mention seat belts, a three-ring circus, and shopping malls)
The evil laugh at the close up on the bear (As it waved goodbye) really killed it for that scene. For years, I honestly thought it was the bear laughing until one day when I heard the entire song on the soundtrack.
@@danacarter9147 All personnel, proceed to escape pods! Close down the circus! Evacuate the zoo! The self-destruct mechanism has been activated! Abandon ship!
2:09 Skroob: what the hell's matter with this seatbelt? *Turns around sees a black bear* AHHH! *Runs out of the pod and joins the others* LoL. I almost died laughing when I Saw this.
Sanders: Out of Order!? Helmet: Fuck! Even in the Future, nothing works! Computer: This Ship will Self Destruct in EXACTLY 10 Seconds. Counting Down. 10, 9, 8, 6 Skroob: SIX!? What Happened to Seven!? Computer: Just Kidding! Six, Five Vespa: THERE'S THE OTHER END FASTER! Computer: Four, Three, Two, One. Have a Nice Day! Skroob, Sanders, and Helmet: THANK YOU!
You know, there’s actually going to be a Spaceballs prequel that explains how the cancellation button got out of order. It’s called “Winabego One: A Spaceballs Story”
Oh yeah, tell that to our people he's left in Afghanistan, to our troops, who's hard work he's letting go to waste. YOUR FALSE PRESADENT IS A FOOL AND A COWARD!
Definitely screams Biden or any democrat President. Hell, it might even work on the Governors too, except they say "I can't make decisions! I'm a Governor!"
If you honestly had me sit in a room and put this movie on I would watch it , I don’t know how many times I’ve watched it but it’s one of those movies I’ll never get sick of ☺️
dark helmet: knock next time sanders: sorry sir dark helmet: did you see anything sanders: no sir i did not see you playing with your dolls again dark helmet: good
