Spaceballs
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 34 Ratings
- Starring: John Candy, Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis
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- Director: Mel Brooks
- Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy
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Positive: 4 out of 14
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Mixed: 5 out of 14
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Negative: 5 out of 14
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75Spaceballs has the happy air of a comic enterprise that knows it's going right. It just keeps spritzing the gags at us, Borscht Belt-style, confidently and rightly sensing that if we don't laugh at this one, we'll laugh at the next. And so we do. After a long dry spell, Brooks is back on the money with Spaceballs. [24 Jun 1987, p.33]
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60A lot of the gags are pretty good. It's not that Star Wars is less worthy of satire than horse opera or gothic horror. It's not that Mel Brooks has lost his cunning, though he does need a freedom of speech not to be found under a PG rating. What's missing is that zany old gang of his. There is simply nobody like them on this trip. [13 July 1987, p.68]
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60Mr. Brooks's vision of ''Star Wars'' and its underlying silliness cannot help but wear thin. But Spaceballs has none of the aggressively unfunny humor that has marred some of Mr. Brooks's other recent efforts, and its spirits remain consistently high.
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38Candy and Moranis are real talents, but they're completely wasted, like everyone else here, sacrificed to the grade-school inanities of that self-indulgent script. [26 Jun 1987, p.D6]
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Positive: 10 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 4 out of 14
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