Mel Brooks Says 'Spaceballs' Sequel In The Works 427
BlueDino writes "Several news sites are reporting that Mel Brooks will release a sequel to Spaceballs. As far as a release date, Brooks says, 'Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: a year after the new star wars opens.'"
How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:5, Insightful)
I disagree. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:We knew this.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Bring Closure (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:3, Insightful)
If anyone but Mel was doing it I'd agree with you 100%.
After "dracula dead and loving it" and "robin hood, men in tights" I don't have the trust in Mel Brooks to think that way, personally.
The fact that he's rehashing a semi-successfull outing makes me more nervous, in fact (of course he couldn't pick something too obvious, such as blazing saddles two or sth).
As it is I think it has the possibility of being even better than the first one.
No, that is highly, highly unlikely. A rehash is a rehash, wether it's parody or not.
Re:Jon Candy is dead... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:goody (Score:5, Insightful)
That's quite a long jump, 1974 (Fankenstein) to 2001 (Producers).
Isn't it more fair to say that he's had his hits and misses over his 65+ year career?
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:1, Insightful)
Mel Brooks, like George Lucas, is vastly overrated (Score:2, Insightful)
I never found Spaceballs especially funny. It's more of an ethnic comedy than anything else - like most Mel Brooks movies. The jokes - like in most Mel Brooks movies - are racial, sexual and excretory. Blazing Saddles was not popular because it was an incisive parody of the western genre, it was popular because it was packed with crass and/or puerile humor. There's no difference between Mel Brooks and the Zuckers, or the Farrellys.
I'd far prefer to see a real parody of Star Wars done, ala Galaxy Quest for Star Trek, as opposed to one that merely takes the trappings and stuffs them with dick+fart jokes.
Re:I disagree. (Score:5, Insightful)
Doesn't Lucas realize that Empire Strikes Back, with screenwriters Who Aren't Named Lucas and a director Who Isn't Named Lucas, was the best of the Star Wars movies? The awful acting out of Mannequin Skywalker and Amidala good have been hammered out with somebody capable of writing good dialog and a director capable of recognizing stale delivery.
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:3, Insightful)
"Spaceballs the Flamethrower!
Re:Jon Candy is dead... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:2, Insightful)
(Classic like "Airplane!," not classic like "It's A Wonderful Life")
Re:goody (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe THAT's the reason he's going back and F*&#ing up Star Wars. He doesn't want his current movies to be compared to such a high standard, so he's lowering the standard. It has a twisted genius about it.
Re:goody (Score:5, Insightful)
Newsflash buddy, there's a LOT of people out there who loved Men in Tights.
Yet another ignorant person who assumes that their opinion is fact...
Re:Mel Brooks, like George Lucas, is vastly overra (Score:5, Insightful)
You ought to give "Young Frankenstien" a try. Sure, it contains a bit of low-brow humor, and some of it is over the top, but overall it is a very incisive parody of a monster movie.
Of course, It might not be that way if Gene Wilder didn't have his hand in it, but that's beside the point.
Krusty retires (Score:5, Insightful)
I think the best commentary on modern humor I've seen was the Simpsons episode in which Krusty retires. Krusty's old-school brand of Brooks-like comedy simply grew old and hackneyed. The comedians in this episode were of the typical genx-stock irreverant kind, but also the kind who would look down upon the old Brooks/Don Rickles ethnic-type jokes.
This commentary is even more interesting as its a Simpsons episode, a show which pretty much defines post-modern humor. Things simply grow old and change. I don't see how the attention span complaint applies here. Its not like Don Rickles was ever known for his long drawn out monologues or anything and a lot of Brooks' gags and movies are pretty far from sophistication. If anything Brroks is a versatile performer/writer/director who can do anything from vaudville-esque comedy to today's postmodern stuff. Although his attempts at the latter do seem to suffer and his best work tends to lean on the "silly, simple gags" side.
Re:goody (Score:1, Insightful)
Not classy, dude. If you did have sex, just be happy you had sex, why do you feel the need to defend yourself on Slashdot of all places? You went to see a broadway musical, that opens the door to gay jokes. Methinks he doth protest too much!
Re:How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:4, Insightful)
Ah-ha, caught you! You can't be a one-trick pony "sometimes," you either are or you aren't.
To only be a one-trick pony sometimes implies the existance of more than one trick, existing outside the time period refered to. Thus, the question is moved to, how are you defining the one-trick period?
Anyway, seriously, it's not an uncommon tune structure, and Brooks has written enough other songs that I think he can be forgiven for repeating a melody once in a while. After all, he gave us Springtime for Hitler....
My god, I just realized what that sounds like to the uninitiated. Um, er... I'm not a Nazi!!