Spaceballs

The movie Spaceballs was created in 1987 and was written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan. Mel Brooks also self directed along with starring in this film with John Candy and Rick Moranis. The premise of the movie that Planet Spaceball, home of the wicked Spaceballs, is almost completely out of oxygen. Their faithful leader President Skroob thought up a brilliant plan that would replenish his planet’s air supply for many years to come. He planned to steal air from planet Spaceball’s neighboring planet, Druidia. Throughout the galaxy the Spaceballs are consider complete fools because they are none too bright and their leaders are absolute morons.

The President of Druidia, King Roland, was aware that his planet was a prime target for an oxygen theft so he ordered a protective barrier to be built around their planet that would only open if the correct password was given. President Skroob kidnaps the Kings daughter, Princess Vespa, as she leaves her husband to be alone at their wedding ceremony. Once the Spaceballs think that Princess Vespa is as good as theirs they call the Druidians and demand a ransom that consists of all the air from Druidia to be transferred to planet Spaceball. Unfortunately for the Spaceballs their arrogant-ness was premature as King Roland was extremely upset that his daughter was kidnapped so he hires a heroic pilot by the name of Lone Star to go and save her from the daft Spaceballs.

This film is a hysterically funny movie that always kept me laughing from either the hair brained jokes or the ridiculous special effects. The various jokes told almost always are meant to make of fun or spoof. For instance Star Wars has clean, cut empire troops while the Spaceballs have an old, beat up military that is almost completely incompetent. The special effects appear cheesy and corny and in most other movies that would hurt the movie, but not in Spaceball’s. The simple plot and funny jokes are complimented by the cheesy special effects because they take the movie to a whole other level of crude, simple humor that everyone can enjoy no matter what their mood might be.

Also the actors and actresses are very good because they execute their roles almost effortlessly. Every character is meant to be a bit rough around the edges and each and every actor and actress did it perfectly by pretending to do only a mediocre job. All of this “average” acting along with the simple, crude humor script and the cheesy special effect make “Spaceballs” a time-less classic that everyone show see at least once in their life.

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