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1987 American science fiction parody film by Mel Brooks

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Spaceballs
Spaceballs.jpg

Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Directed by Mel Brooks
Written by
  • Mel Brooks
  • Ronny Graham
  • Thomas Meehan
Produced by Mel Brooks
Starring
  • Mel Brooks
  • John Candy
  • Rick Moranis
  • Bill Pullman
  • Daphne Zuniga
  • Dick Van Patten
  • George Wyner
  • Joan Rivers
Cinematography Nick McLean
Edited by Conrad Vitrify Four
Music by John Morris

Production
companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Brooksfilms
Distributed by MGM/UA Communications Co.

Release date
  • June 24, 1987 (1987-06-24)

Running time

 96 minutes[i]
Country Usa
Language English
Budget $22.7 million[2]
Box role $38.i meg[iii]

Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It is primarily a parody of the original Star Wars trilogy, but also parodies other sci-fi films and popular franchises including Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001, and the Planet of the Apes. The film stars Pecker Pullman, John Processed and Rick Moranis, with the supporting cast comprising Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the flick also features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appearances.

In Spaceballs, heroic mercenary Lone Starr (Pullman) and his alien sidekick Barf (Candy) rescue Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) of Druidia and her droid, Dot Matrix (Yarnell, voiced by Rivers), from being captured by the Spaceballs, led by President Skroob (Brooks), who desire to use Vespa as ransom to obtain Druidia'due south air for their own planet. However, the heroes get stranded on a desert moon, where they run across the wise Yogurt (also Brooks), who teaches Starr near the metaphysical power known as "the Schwartz". Meanwhile, Spaceball commanders Nighttime Helmet (Moranis) and Colonel Sandurz (Wyner) atomic number 82 the search for them, only are hindered by their own incompetence.

The motion picture was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 24, 1987. Despite initially getting a mixed reception from critics and audiences, it has since go a cult archetype,[4] and is now i of Brooks's near popular and well-known films.

Plot [edit]

Planet Spaceball, led by the incompetent President Skroob, has squandered all of its fresh air. Skroob schemes to strength King Roland of the neighboring planet Druidia to give them the code to the shield that protects Druidia, allowing them to steal all their air, by kidnapping his daughter Princess Vespa on the twenty-four hours of her arranged union to the narcoleptic Prince Valium. Skroob sends the villainous Nighttime Helmet to complete this job with Spaceball One, an impossibly huge transport commanded by Colonel Sandurz. Before they tin arrive, Vespa abandons her hymeneals and flees the planet in her Mercedes spaceship with her droid of honor, Dot Matrix.

Roland contacts mercenary Lone Starr and his "mawg" (half human being, half dog) companion Barf, offering a lucrative reward to recollect Vespa before she is captured. Lone Starr readily accepts, every bit he is in major debt to gangster Pizza the Hutt. In their Winnebago spaceship, Eagle 5, Lone Starr and Barf are able to reach Vespa before Spaceball Ane, rescue both her and Dot, then escape. Spaceball One tries to follow at lite-speed, but Helmet orders the send to "ludicrous speed", causing it to overshoot the escapees by a large altitude.

Out of fuel, Lone Starr is forced to bump on the nearby "desert moon of Vega". The grouping travels on foot in club to evade the Spaceballs, but they eventually pass out under the blazing sun. They are establish past the Dinks, a group of atomic sparkly brownish-clad aliens, and are taken to a cave occupied by the sage Yogurt, who introduces the group and the audience to the film's merchandising entrada. Yogurt afterward teaches Lone Starr about the metaphysical power known as "the Schwartz", and gives him a ring which can be used to command the "Upside" of the Schwartz. During this fourth dimension, Lone Starr and Vespa develop romantic feelings for each other, only Vespa insists she can only ally a prince.

Helmet and Sandurz break the fourth wall by using a VHS copy of Spaceballs to discover Vespa'south location, and Helmet orders Spaceball One to go to the moon of Vega. When Helmet discovers Yogurt's lair, he lures Vespa out past pretending to be Roland and captures both her and Dot, taking them dorsum to planet Spaceball. He then threatens to opposite Vespa's nose job, forcing Roland to reveal the code to Druidia's shield. Helmet and Sandurz take Spaceball One to Druidia, while Lone Starr and Barf rescue Vespa and Dot from the Spaceballs prison house circuitous. When they arrive at Druidia, Spaceball One transforms into Mega Maid, a Statue of Liberty-like colossal robot maid with a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum is activated and begins sucking the air off the planet. When the vacuum handbag is well-nigh full, Lone Starr uses the Schwartz to reverse the vacuum, blowing the air back onto the planet.

The group and so enters Mega Maid and attempts to destroy it. Lonely Starr and Helmet fight using lightsaber-like weapons created past their Schwartz-rings, until the former loses his band. Yogurt speaks to Lonely Starr, telling him that the ring was a Cracker Jack box prize and that the real Schwartz is inside him. Lone Starr defeats Helmet, causing him to involuntarily strike the self-destruct push button. Lone Starr and his friends escape the send, while Skroob, Helmet, and Sandurz fail to reach any escape pods in fourth dimension, trapping them in the robot'due south head every bit the ship explodes.[5] They subsequently crash-land on a nearby planet, much to the chagrin of its Planet of the Apes-like population.

With Lone Starr's debt to Pizza nullified past the gangster's untimely expiry, he returns Vespa to Roland and leaves, taking only enough money to cover his expenses. After a dejeuner break at a diner and a strange incident involving an alien and an astronaut similar to the events in Alien, Lone Starr finds a terminal bulletin from Yogurt, informing him that the medallion necklace Lonely Starr has been wearing reveals that he is a prince, and thus eligible to marry Vespa. He reaches Druidia in time to terminate her wedding to Valium, announces his royal lineage, then marries Vespa.

The final scene shows Hawkeye 5 flying off into the stars, its glowing exhaust revealing a message to the audience: MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU.

Cast [edit]

  • Pecker Pullman as Lone Starr, mercenary who travels the milky way in his flying 1986 Winnebago Chieftain 33, Hawkeye 5. He is a parody of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo.
  • John Processed as Barf, Lone Starr'southward "mawg" (half-man, half-dog) sidekick. He is a parody of Chewbacca.
  • Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa, the spoiled princess of Planet Druidia. She is a parody of Princess Leia.
  • Joan Rivers as the voice of Dot Matrix, Princess Vespa's droid of honor and guardian. She is a parody of C-3PO.
    • Lorene Yarnell provided Dot Matrix'south on-screen concrete operation.
  • Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet, the Spaceballs' brusk-statured, bratty, and oftentimes childish master enforcer, who can wield the "downside" of the Schwartz. He is a parody of Darth Vader.
  • Mel Brooks as:
    • Yogurt, the wise and powerful keeper of the Schwartz. He is a parody of Yoda.
    • President Skroob, the incompetent leader of Planet Spaceball. He is a parody of Emperor Palpatine, with his "Skroob" being an anagram of "Brooks".
  • George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz, the commander of Spaceball Ane. He is a parody of G Moff Tarkin and his proper name is a reference to Colonel Sanders.
  • Dick Van Patten as Male monarch Roland, the ruler of Planet Druidia and Princess Vespa's father.
  • Michael Winslow every bit a radar technician on Spaceball One who tin can re-enact the radar'south sounds.
  • Ronny Graham equally the minister.
  • Jim J. Bullock as Prince Valium, a narcoleptic prince.
  • Leslie Bevis equally Commanderette Zircon.
  • Sandy Helberg as Dr. Irving Schlotkin.
  • Brenda Potent as Nurse Gretchen, Dr. Schlotkin'due south banana.
  • Dom DeLuise equally the vox of Pizza the Hutt: A Hutt crime lord made out of pizza. He is a parody of Jabba the Hutt and his name is a reference to Pizza Hut.
  • Rudy De Luca as Vinnie: Pizza'south robotic subordinate. He is a parody of the 80's Television receiver personality Max Headroom.
  • Rhonda Shear every bit a waitress.

John Hurt makes a cameo appearance credited as himself, parodying his character Gilbert Kane'south decease in the moving-picture show Conflicting (1979).[half-dozen] Various actors and comedians appear in unnamed roles, with Sal Viscuso, Michael Pniewski, Stephen Tobolowsky, Robert Prescott, Tom Dreesen, Rick Ducommun, Rob Paulsen, Tommy Swerdlow, and Tim Russ all appearing as soldiers of Dark Helmet. Additional unnamed appearances include Dey Young as a waitress, Jack Riley as a newsman, Ken Olfson as the head usher, and Bryan O'Byrne every bit an organist. Denise and Dian Gallup as Charlene and Marlene. Ed Gale, Felix Silla, Tony Cox, Antonio Hoyos, Arturo Gil, and John Kennedy Hayden announced every bit the Dinks (based on the Jawas).[7]

Product [edit]

When Brooks developed Spaceballs, he wanted his parody to be as close to the original as possible. Even though the Yogurt graphic symbol (Mel Brooks) mentions merchandising in the flick, Brooks's deal with George Lucas on parodying Star Wars was that no Spaceballs action figures exist made. According to Brooks, "[Lucas] said, 'Your [action figures] are going to look similar mine.' I said OK."[viii] [9] However, this agreement inspired Mel Brooks to write Yogurt's "Merchandising" scene.

Brooks also had Lucas's visitor handle the post-production, saying, "I was playing ball with the people who could have said no." Lucas later sent Brooks a note saying how much he loved the film, including its story structure,[x] and that he "was agape [he] would bosom something from laughing".[9]

Pullman got the role of Solitary Starr when Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft saw him in a play—he had never seen Star Wars prior to filming.[eleven] Brooks had been unsuccessfully trying to sign on large-name actors such as Tom Prowl and Tom Hanks for the film. Pullman said,

I think [Mel] was injure that they didn't accept him up on information technology ... but and then it concenter[ed] two of the large comics at that time: John Candy and Rick Moranis. Once that was secured, then he said, "Heck, I'll become somebody nobody knows!" And I got a chance to practice it.[12]

Zuniga initially found Brooks's movie parodies "too crass and not too funny", but later working with Brooks, she said, "I have this image of Mel every bit totally wacko and out to lunch. And he is. Simply he's besides really perceptive, real sensitive in ways that brand actors respond."[xiii]

Music [edit]

An official soundtrack was released on Atlantic Records on LP, CD, and cassette, featuring many of the songs heard in the flick, equally well as three score cues by frequent Brooks collaborator John Morris. The track listing is as follows:

  1. "Spaceballs Main Title Theme" – John Morris
  2. "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" – Jeffrey Osborne and Kim Carnes; the song was made into a hit in 1990 past Emerge Moore (U.Due south. AC #42).[14]
  3. "Heartstrings" – Berlin
  4. "Spaceballs Beloved Theme" (Instrumental) – John Morris
  5. "The Winnebago Crashes"/"The Spaceballs Build Mega-Maid" – John Morris
  6. "Spaceballs" – The Spinners
  7. "Hot Together" – The Pointer Sisters
  8. "Good Enough" – Van Halen
  9. "Wanna Be Loved By You" – Ladyfire

"Enhance Your Hands" past Bon Jovi is besides used prominently in the film.

In 2006, La-La Land Records released Spaceballs - The 19th Anniversary Edition CD of the movie's score, with bonus tracks of alternate takes and tracks not used in the film.[15]

Release [edit]

Box part [edit]

The film had an estimated $22.vii million budget, and ultimately grossed $38,119,483 during its run in the U.s., taking in $vi,613,837 on its opening weekend, finishing behind Dragnet.[16]

Critical reception [edit]

A helmet from the picture show at a convention in Stockholm

The moving picture has received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that, as of 2021, 56% of critics have given positive reviews based on 43 reviews with an average rating of 6.four/10. The site's consensus reads; "There's fine spoofery and amusing characters in Spaceballs, though it's a far cry from Mel Brooks's superlative era."[17] At another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 height reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 46%, based on xiv reviews.[18] Many critics agreed that, while it was funny, doing a Star Wars parody x years later on the original movie had been released seemed pointless. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.v stars out of 4, and remarked "I enjoyed a lot of the movie, but I kept thinking I was at a revival…information technology should have been made several years ago, before our appetite for Star Wars satires had been completely exhausted."[19]

The film won Worst Motion-picture show at the 1987 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.[twenty]

Domicile media [edit]

Spaceballs was first fabricated bachelor on VHS and LaserDisc in February 1988; they were re-released in the late 1990s. The VHS edition was issued twice; the latter edition was presented in widescreen. Meanwhile, the laserdisc also gained a commentary rail with Brooks; this was transferred over to the DVD and Blu-ray releases. The motion picture was first released on DVD on April 25, 2000. This version also contained "the making of..." documentary and a collectible "making-of" booklet. The moving-picture show was and then released in the "Collectors Edition" on May 3, 2005. This edition contained more extras including the documentary and the video chat almost the making of the picture show with Brooks and Thomas Meehan. On August vii, 2012, the "25th Anniversary Edition" was released on Blu-ray containing many of the same bonus features every bit the 2005 DVD release with the addition of a new featurette.[21] An Ultra HD Blu-ray edition of the motion picture was released on April 12, 2021 past Kino Lorber, with all of the special features from previous domicile video releases included.[22]

In other media [edit]

  • A novelization for the movie was released on June one, 1987.
  • Spaceballs was adult into an blithe television show which debuted in September 2008 as Spaceballs: The Animated Series on G4 (US) and Super Channel (Canada).[23] [24]
  • Moranis claimed in a 2013 interview that he and Brooks had discussed a potential sequel, with Moranis pitching the title Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs Two. However, he and Brooks were unable to structure a deal that would allow the project to move forward.[25] In February 2015, Brooks said that he would like to make a sequel to be released after the next Star Wars moving-picture show and hopes that Moranis would reprise his function. This proposed moving-picture show, Brooks said, may be called Spaceballs 2: The Search for More than Coin.[26] All the same, in February 2020, Pecker Pullman said during an interview with Daily Blast Live, "It's up to Mel. Inquire him if he has too much money and that's why he doesn't practise it."[27]
  • In the episode Robot Chicken: Star Wars of the American adult sketch comedy television series Robot Chicken the segment George Lucas At The Convention features a Star Wars fan wearing a Barf costume from Spaceballs.
  • Moranis vocally reprised his office every bit Dark Helmet in the episode "Spaceballs" of the American sitcom The Goldbergs.[28]

Affect [edit]

Spaceballs has made an touch on on popular culture and been used as a referent and inspiration in other properties.

Tesla Motors has used Spaceballs' starship speeds (Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed, Ludicrous Speed, Plaid Speed) as inspiration for naming their acceleration modes. In homage to Spaceballs, Tesla has Ludicrous Mode for acceleration beyond its Insane Mode, and Plaid Manner, overtop Ludicrous.[29] [30]

As function of its merchandising, The Dull Company sold 20,000 "flamethrowers" in 2018[31] inspired by the Spaceballs merchandising scene.[32]

Props [edit]

A 1⁄12 -scale model of the Winnebago, Hawkeye five, was auctioned on Dec 11, 2018.[33] The model was created by film special furnishings designer Grant McCune, who likewise created models for Star Wars and Star Trek.[33] The model makes an appearance early in the flick with the introduction of Barf and Lone Starr.[34] The model, along with other special effects artifacts from then-current films such as Masters of the Universe and Jaws: The Revenge, was displayed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in the summertime of 1988.[35]

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External links [edit]

  • Spaceballs at IMDb
  • Spaceballs at AllMovie
  • Spaceballs at the TCM Motion-picture show Database
  • Spaceballs at Box Office Mojo
  • Spaceballs at Rotten Tomatoes

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