| RATING: | 40% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Flat-Footed Parody
Intermittently-funny spoof of Star Wars (Planet of the Apes & Alien) which is just an excuse for a succession of weak gags betraying no real love for what is being parodied.
The reason Mel BROOKS’ earlier films Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were as good as they were was because they were informed by a deep-seated affection for what they were parodying. Here, instead, we get a would-be vicious satire on the profitability obsessions of Hollywood producers not only intent on making movies like the ones parodied here, but making money from the merchandising most big budget films need to engage in to defray their enormous production costs. However, the presence in the movie itself of said merchandise merely serves as a repeated gag that reveals a once-great comic imagination sadly run out of steam. References to other works are not, in themselves, funny and can never be the sole basis for parody.
This should have been the Jews in Space promised at the end of History of the World Part 1, but it never comes anywhere near the deft cleverness of Galaxy Quest - which at least had believable characters. Fortunately, SPACEBALLS II: The Search for More Money was never made.
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