Parody film
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A parody film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or films. Although the genre is often overlooked, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office. Mockbusters are another type of genre for parody films.
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Examples
1940s
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
1950s
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
- Beat the Devil (1953)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
1960s
- Carry On Spying (1964)
- The Great Race (1965)
- Carry On Cowboy (1965)
- Help! (1965)
- Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
- Casino Royale (1967)
1970s
- Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
- Carry On Henry (1971)
- Carry On Dick (1974)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Flesh Gordon (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- The Groove Tube (1974)
- Love and Death (1975)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
- Silent Movie (1976)
- Murder By Death (1976)
- Queen Kong (1976)
- The Big Bus (1976)
- High Anxiety (1977)
- The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
- The Cheap Detective (1978)
- Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
1980s
- Galaxina (1980)
- Wholly Moses! (1980)
- Airplane! (1980)
- History of the World, Part I (1981)
- Student Bodies (1981)
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
- Young Doctors in Love (1982)
- Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
- The Man With Two Brains (1983)
- Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
- Johnny Dangerously (1984)
- Surf II: The End of the Trilogy (1984)
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- Top Secret! (1984)
- When Nature Calls (1985)
- Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
- Reform School Girls (1986)
- Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
- Spaceballs (1987)
- Back to the Beach (1987)
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
- Leonard Part 6 (1987)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
- Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989)
- UHF (1989)
- Ricky 1 (1989)
1990s
- A Man Called Sarge (1990)
- Repossessed (1990)
- Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1990)
- If Looks Could Kill (1991)
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
- Hot Shots! (1991)
- Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1991)
- Evil Toons (1992)
- Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
- CB4 (1993)
- The Naked Truth (1993)
- Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
- Fatal Instinct (1993)
- The Silence of the Hams (1994)
- Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
- Spy Hard (1996)
- High School High (1996)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Plump Fiction (1997)
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
- Wrongfully Accused (1998)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Galaxy Quest (1999)
- The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
2000s
- 2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
- Scary Movie (2000)
- Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
- Scary Movie 2 (2001)
- Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
- Kung Pow (2002)
- Undercover Brother (2002)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Scary Movie 3 (2003)
- Johnny English (2003)
- Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Freak Out (2004)
- Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
- My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
- Date Movie (2006)
- Scary Movie 4 (2006)
- Another Gay Movie (2006)
- Epic Movie (2007)
- Farce of the Penguins (2007)
- Hot Fuzz (2007)
- The Comebacks (2007)
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Meet the Spartans (2008)
- Superhero Movie (2008)
- The Onion Movie (2008)
- Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)
- An American Carol (2008)
- Disaster Movie (2008)
- Extreme Movie (2008)
- Dance Flick (2009)
- Black Dynamite (2009)
- Stan Helsing (2009)
- Spanish Movie (2009)
2010s
- MacGruber (2010)
- Vampires Suck (2010)
- The World's End (2010)
- The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It (2010)
- Thamizh Padam (2010)
- Three Kings (2011)
- Breaking Wind (2012)
- Scary Movie 5 (2012)
- The Biggest Movie Of All Time 3D (2012)
- Movie 43 (2012)
- Frankenweenie (2012)
References
- ^ Johnson, Andrew (2009-08-30). "Spoofs? Don't make us laugh". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/spoofs-dont-make-us-laugh-1779377.html. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
- ^ Gilbey, Ryan (2009-08-06). "Spoofs: the films that ate Hollywood". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/06/spoof-airplane-scary-movie. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
- ^ Welkos, Robert W. (1998-07-25). "What Keeps Spoofs From Being Box-Office Jokes?". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jul/25/entertainment/ca-6833. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ Booker, Keith M (2010). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. xxiv.
- ^ a b c Lee, Aaron (2008-01-27). "Surely you can't be serious". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/27/entertainment/ca-spoof27. Retrieved 2010-12-25. "Spoof films are routinely snubbed by Oscar and are even looked down upon by other comedies. But the genre's producers often just laugh all the way to the bank."
- ^ "Scary Movie 5 for 2012 release". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a325632/scary-movie-5-for-2012-release.html. Retrieved 2011-06-18.
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