Tag Archives: spoof

Hot Shots!

IMDB Rating: 6.30
16352 votes

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Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.
Actors
Lt. Topper HarleyCharlie Sheen
Lt. Kent GregoryCary Elwes
Ramada ThompsonValeria Golino
Also posted in 1991, Action, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (0)

Cry-Baby

IMDB Rating: 6.10
7903 votes

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Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.
Actors
Wade "Cry-Baby" WalkerJohnny Depp
Allison Vernon-WilliamsAmy Locane
Ramona RickettesSusan Tyrrell
Also posted in 1990, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (0)

Spaceballs

IMDB Rating: 6.70
23300 votes

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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Star, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.
Actors
President Skroob/YogurtMel Brooks
Dark HelmetRick Moranis
Lone StarrBill Pullman
Also posted in 1987, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Evil Dead II

IMDB Rating: 7.70
18441 votes

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Ash - the sole survivor of the original 'Evil Dead' - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor's wife...and they try to make sure Ash is...Dead by Dawn!
Actors
Ashley 'Ash' J. WilliamsBruce Campbell
Annie KnowbySarah Berry
JakeDan Hicks
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Gremlins

IMDB Rating: 6.80
17372 votes

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Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop--a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop's owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don't get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand's gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed 'Gremlins.'
Actors
Randall PeltzerHoyt Axton
Chinese BoyJohn Louie
Grandfather (Mr. Wing)Keye Luke
Also posted in 1984, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror | Comments (0)

Top Secret!

IMDB Rating: 6.80
9374 votes

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This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
Actors
Nick RiversVal Kilmer
Hillary FlammondLucy Gutteridge
Sven JorgensenPeter Cushing
Also posted in 1984, Action, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Spies Like Us

IMDB Rating: 5.70
7361 votes

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Two totally incompetent applicants, Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge, are chosen from a CIA recruitment program. They are parachuted into Pakistan and eventually end up in Afghanistan, chased by the Russians, where they learn they are being used as decoys to draw out the Sovet defenses. Two real spies are sent in. Their mission is to Hijack a soviet Missile launcher, launch the Soviet missile and test the new US orbital defence laser. The missile is fired and while heading for an American City, the laser system misses it's target. The contingency plan for this scenario, as set out by the Pentagon Nuts who planned it from deep within a secret underground bunker, is to let the 3rd World War happen anyway.
Actors
Bob Hope
Emmett Fitz-HumeChevy Chase
Austin MillbargeDan Aykroyd
Also posted in 1985, Comedy | Comments (0)

Airplane!

IMDB Rating: 7.80
34598 votes

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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.
Actors
MurdockKareem Abdul-Jabbar
McCroskeyLloyd Bridges
Captain OveurPeter Graves
Also posted in 1980, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Airplane II: The Sequel

IMDB Rating: 5.70
7554 votes

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Years have passed since Ted Striker heroically saved many lives by avoiding a plane crash. Working as a test pilot for a new Lunar Shuttle, he gets innocently sent into a mental ward after a crash of the badly constructed, computer-navigated spaceship. When he hears that the exactly same type of shuttle is scheduled for a moon flight soon, he breaks out to hinder the launch. Aboard, Ted finds his ex-ex Elaine Dickinson working as stewardess again and her fiancé Simon, a member of the committee that wants the Mayflower I to be launched. In flight, the ship's computer ROK 9000 takes control, killing the crew. Ted and Elaine manage to switch it off, and now it is up to Ted again to save the passengers' lives - if there only wouldn't be these flashbacks to the war and these people who know Ted and have no faith in his abilities at all.
Actors
David Paymer
Ted StrikerRobert Hays
Elaine DickinsonJulie Hagerty
Also posted in 1982, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Bugsy Malone

IMDB Rating: 6.20
2387 votes

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A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".
Actors
Bugsy MaloneScott Baio
Blousey BrownFlorrie Dugger
TallulahJodie Foster
Also posted in 1976, Comedy, Crime, Family, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)
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