One thing about Rick Moranis' retirement. After his wife, Ann Belsky, died in 1991, Rick decided to step away from Hollywood to provide proper care for his two children. I find this very impressive. Here's a man who decided to step back from a brilliant career to take on the responsibility of single parent. Many would have simply hired others to do the job. But Rick knows the importance of being a father to his kids - particularly given the fact that their mother is gone. A real true gentleman, in every sense of the word!
@@BrushQuill All right, but that was 19 years later. I'm certain his kids were old enough by then that he could return to acting without it having an adverse effect on them.
@cjmarshall0221 oh yeah totally. Wasn't trying to detract from his amazing attitude towards family. Just updating that he has (sort of ) returned to acting. I think (the story goes) that his kids (no adults) told him to go back to it. Proper decent bloke by all accounts.
#9 is actually wrong. You don’t have to ask for someone’s permission to parody their work. Mel brooks asked George Lucas for his permission simply out of respect for him.
Lucas' own company Industrial Light & Magic even provided some of the special effects for the film! The scene where the bad guys are trying to find an escape pod: the shots of the pods flying out was actual cut footage from one of the Star Wars films. Lucas previewed the final film and laughed so hard he was afraid he would injure himself!
Im surprised they didn’t make a spaceballs movie during the early 2000s, while the prequels were receiving heavy criticism and the parody genre was at its peak.
I chuckled frequently at Mel's attention to detail. Princess Vespa's personal spaceship is a Mercedes-Benz! The logo is briefly visible when Dark Helmet captures it and looks inside. I was NOT expecting him to get hit by the gull wing door when he pounded the side in frustration after learning Vespa had escaped because of Lone Star.
One of my son's favorite films. I walked into the rec room one day and he had taken the VCR apart, he was 9 years old. I stood there shocked and without batting an eye he said, "Mom, my copy of SpaceBalls was stuck." I'm proud to say he put it back together perfectly. As soon as it came out on DVD I bought him a copy. I still have his.
He will always be great actor in any film he did he's Wagons East he died in Mexico on set of heart attack as big as he was through out his life never under a doctor's care
Mel putting the “Dink” commentary in the DVD is funny as hell. He was probably at home thinking to himself “I wonder how many idiots are going to watch the whole movie like this?” I got the joke.
That's the sequel we need. However, Mel Brooks type humor nowadays will offend everyone on every side of every spectrum enough to everyone banning the comedy and blaming the other side for it just as passionately. Most of the blame is the side that calls everyone "snowflakes", by the way... ironically being the biggest snowflakes relative to comedy.
@@That80sGuy1972 The Left is the side that gets offended by just about everything. Joke about the Left and they get offended, Joke about the Right, and the Right just laughs. The Left can't take a joke anymore.
- Prepare ship for light speed! - No, no, no, light speed is too slow. - Light speed too slow? - Yes, we're gonna have to go right to... ludicrous speed!
@@juanpabloperezgomez4349 Prepare the ship-- Prepare ship for ludicrous speed! Fasten all seat belts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall! Cancel the three-ring circus! Secure all animals in the zoo---!
I did my book report in third grade on the Spaceballs movie. When my teacher did not believe me because she said it was a movie. I showed her my Spaceballs book and got a 87 on my report.
I'm glad you mentioned it, because even though I've seen this movie dozens of times, and I also have an obscene love for Voyager, I literally only learned this fact a month ago.
Great lines from Spaceballs: "What's the matter Col. Sanders? Chicken?" "Prepare for Ludicrous Speed!!" "They've gone Plaid!!!" "We ain't found sh!t!!!" "I'm surrounded by Assholes!!" "Oh crap!! There goes the planet!!" Love that film!!
Yes, this strikes me as a very Mel Brooks thing to do, even if it is not singularly to lampoon commentaries in general. I'm not saying it's not, just that with everything Mel has done, it could be even more than that.
“I bet she gives great helmet” i will never forget when i actually knew what that meant. Saw this movie as a kid so many times, after that, it was a whole new adventure and loved it even more. Still a classic in my movie collection.
not just a genius, he is also the most gutsy producer/actor/director ever. think anyone else could use racial slurs and stereotypes so much (albeit all racial comments in Brooks's movie are ironic, and meant to show how idiot racism is) and not get excoriated.
Oh, you didn’t mention, Rick Moranis improvised his scene with the action figures. It really added to the pathos of the Dark Helmet character, don’t you think?
Spaceballs has a special place in my heart. Nothing will replace it. So many quotes, so much heart, I love this film. It will remain one of the best comedy films of all time.
Fun fact and also a movie trivia. Did you guys know that the Dark Helmet playing with dolls scene was actually not in the original screenplay? It was once again another brainchild of the brilliant Mel Brooks who came up with it when he arrived at the set one day. He told Morranis about the idea and Morranis improvised it, and the rest, you can say, is history.
also, looking back, the Perri-Air joke has lost some of the humor. back then, bottled water was not as huge as today. a girl at college had once said bottled water is lame and Evian spelled backwards is Naive because you have to daft to buy water.
I lived in Japan for 6 years. You really have to buy bottled water sometimes. Granted, it was often for between 30 and 80 cents because it's water, so there's that.
One of my all-time favorite movies. I've seen it at least a dozen times and I still crack up watching it. I can almost quote the entire movie from start to finish.
Bill Pullman has always been underrated imo.He can do drama and comedy.I always thought he would have been perfect as Robert Langdon in The DaVinci code.
Personal trivia - I got a ZIP file of Spaceballs sound clips on floppy disk in the early 90's. Since then, a truncated "We ain't found Shit" that just says "Shit" has been my Windows Error sound on every computer - totalling 4 laptops, and 5 desktops.
I saw this at the theater when it came out. My daughter was born in 96 and it's one of our favorite movies. We watched it several times and quoted it even more (most recently just two days ago).
I was only 6 or 7 when this came out. I'm pretty sure we had a copy of it taped from HBO, and I must have watched it hundreds of times. It was the first movie that I could recite word-for-word (with comedic timing intact) on command. Spaceballs will always hold a special place in my heart and mind.
I wore out half a dozen VHS tapes watching this movie. It was even banned from church youth group trips after a weekend skiing trip. Where I watched it a total of 7 times between events. I know all the lines to the entire movie by heart❣
Absolutely one of my all time favorites! I never knew Spaceballs was a parody until I finally watched Star Wars 20 year's later lol.... I always thought it was it's own movie.
Mel Brooks is a very interesting man. He was a combat engineer and was one of the many that took part in the Battle of the Bulge. Who would imagine such a goofy guy in the military? It may have been a major part of his movie humor sources. He has my respect for pushing or just battering the limits of humor, like with Blazing Saddles, an all time great, and knowing of his, and many of the best actors of the 60's to 90's, and I see a new generation of actors and actresses that served their country getting into acting. My dad once said that the acting might offer a therapeutic effect for all of the bad stuff they lived through. I have this and several other movies in VHS and DVD.
I'm pretty convinced they could bring Spaceballs back if they could get Rick Moranis on board and make him the main character this time. It would be great to see the movie with him as some kind of anti-hero and the the other cast somehow gets roped into helping him do something or other. Many sequels seem so forced because they want to follow the formula of the original show but I really think if they ever did a sequel that it should be in the same universe but with a different point of view. That and I frickin miss Rick Moranis. That man is a national treasure. Even if the sequel was terrible, I'd love it if he was in it.
I love this movie!! I was allowed to first watch it with my Dad when I was far too young to fully appreciate it as the genius movie it is, but I loved it all the same. I remember being very disappointed that the Spaceballs action figures Dark Helmet played with didn't exist. 😞 Maybe for its 35th anniversary next year we'll finally have some released? Cripes I'm old.
If forced to pick a runner-up I would say "Robin Hood - men in tights" was his second best. It was a lot of fun and Cary Elwes did a fine job. I think he was the right person as he had experience with fantasy roles such as "The princess bride."
Father's brother's nephew's (uncle's nephew = likely you or your brother, or another cousin) cousin's (either your cousin, or you if the fater's brother's nephew is another cousin) former room mate. So, that would make him Lonestar's brother's roommate, Lonestar's cousin's roommate, or Lonestar's roommate.
I also had no idea there was a Spaceballs Animated Series, that was until I stumbled upon a true crime video about someone that happened to be a storyboard supervisor for that show.
Thank you for this. I was having a bit of a down today and randomly discovered this video. It's been a thing in my small circle of friends that any day where you can get a Spaceballs line in is a good day. Heck, we even had a Spaceballs themed birthday for my wife several years ago (I still have several rolls of toilet paper we managed to transfer inkjet prints onto, as well as cans of Perri-air!). Looking forward to trying to fit in a Spaceballs pun in somewhere tomorrow. Cheers mate~
Spaceballs had several scenes re-shot for the TV-Edited edition. While some might consider it a 'dumbing down' of the original I personally found the edited version to be more entertaining than the full version. It didn't remove any of the adult jokes, but 'bleeped' out most of the language (which I personally just find more funny than the words themselves). Two scenes in particular stand out as having been re-done. The whole 'asshole' scene was changed to 'moron' (which makes more sense to me, personally) as well as 'A $#!7load of money' was changed to a drawn-out "loooooooot of money". Note these are not just dubbed over. You can tell via intonation and lip synch that the scenes were entirely re-shot. These scenes are also entirely unavailable, as I have never been able to see them outside of the VHS Recording my family made back when I was 5 years old and they were not included in any DVD re-releases.
Pulmovox, A little off track here, but I know what you mean. I saw "Halloween" in the theater in 1978, but missed the verson that was televised a year or so later. This was where some laguage, violence and nudity were cut by the network and Carpenter was asked to re-shoot extra scenes to pad out the running time. Thanks to youtube, I was lucky to see the fillers, but they were out-of-context, plus, they were never added to the dvd releses. You can only find these filler scenes on certain "special" VHS versions. Who knew such love for a movie could be so confusing. 🙂🫠😄
Space balls 3: search for space balls 2 is literally the perfect title if they ever go for a sequel...but they kinda made those last 3 movies spoof proof by making them as terrible as possible
Minty- this is your best work, I have liked this movie for over 20 years, and I can only hope your video turns more people onto this timeless classic! I am afraid the most recent generation just won't understand the jokes, just like how in men in tights they FOX a message- kids today dont get the pun because they have never heard of a FAX machine... -keep up the good work, mate!
I've always LOVED this movie! The thought that it was too late given the last Star Wars movie didn't apply to me. I was too young to appreciate the Star Wars movies when they came out, but my older brothers were still such fans. They had so many toys, and even Star Wars wallpaper in their room. I just didn't get it. But! Every time Spaceballs came on HBO I watched it, eventually taping it on a VHS so I could watch it whenever I wanted. I, of course, didn't get all the spoofy jokes, but that didn't matter to 10 year old me. This movie will always have a place in my heart! Thanks for the vid! Lastly, now that I'm an adult, and I hear about all the space trash in earth's orbit you know what my inner child envisions as a remedy. 😆
I’m glad I’m in the universe where it was called Space Balls. I can’t imagine a better title. 1987 was the year I was born, so I’m glad to share the year 😏
A friend of mine loved movies but not so much SF. He had been untouched by Star Wars but he liked Space Balls. So a couple of years later we watched the 1st Star Wars movie together. He had never seen it before but as soon as you watch it you get the jokes. That was one entertaining evening.
Brilliant Minty, love this film. Can we have 10 things we didn't know about The Fog (1980), Close Encounters Of The Third Kind or Kingpin next please. Keep up the good work mate 👍
The only non-Brooks spoof I can think of which worked as well as this was Shaun of the Dead. Certainly a different level of silly, but equally brilliant. Essentially a spoof of a zombie outbreak movie which did the zombie outbreak movie genre better than most (if not all?) serious zombie outbreak movies.
One of my favorite Mel Brooks comedies from my childhood and that still makes me laugh as an adult. I know it sucks we couldn’t have legit Spaceballs merchandise for the time because George Lucas not wanting any merchandise made so kids or the toy marketers wouldn’t confuse them for Star Wars merchandise. But if it meant we got that hilarious merchandising scene out of it, then I’m fine without having Spaceballs merchandise.
One thing about Rick Moranis' retirement. After his wife, Ann Belsky, died in 1991, Rick decided to step away from Hollywood to provide proper care for his two children. I find this very impressive. Here's a man who decided to step back from a brilliant career to take on the responsibility of single parent. Many would have simply hired others to do the job. But Rick knows the importance of being a father to his kids - particularly given the fact that their mother is gone. A real true gentleman, in every sense of the word!
That's Canadians for you. Always being polite and wholesome. Boring.😊
lol
Well Rick came out of retirement in 2020 to do Honey I shrunk the kids 4... so...
@@BrushQuill All right, but that was 19 years later. I'm certain his kids were old enough by then that he could return to acting without it having an adverse effect on them.
@cjmarshall0221 oh yeah totally. Wasn't trying to detract from his amazing attitude towards family. Just updating that he has (sort of ) returned to acting. I think (the story goes) that his kids (no adults) told him to go back to it.
Proper decent bloke by all accounts.
#9 is actually wrong. You don’t have to ask for someone’s permission to parody their work. Mel brooks asked George Lucas for his permission simply out of respect for him.
Yeah, I was gonna say that I don’t think you necessarily need permission when it comes to parody. But then I’m not up on the legal side of things.
Lucas' own company Industrial Light & Magic even provided some of the special effects for the film! The scene where the bad guys are trying to find an escape pod: the shots of the pods flying out was actual cut footage from one of the Star Wars films. Lucas previewed the final film and laughed so hard he was afraid he would injure himself!
no one cares about any of your opinions on the subject haha
Like Weird Al does for his songs.
@@keithlangman2081 you seem to not understand what the word "opinion" means.
"Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2" is a brilliant title. I'm glad they didn't make another, though. This is a stand-alone classic.
Im surprised they didn’t make a spaceballs movie during the early 2000s, while the prequels were receiving heavy criticism and the parody genre was at its peak.
@elgusaniiiodeljuego6823 true
I knew that I was going to like this movie when Princess Vespa takes off her princess Leia hair buns and they're head phones.
I chuckled frequently at Mel's attention to detail. Princess Vespa's personal spaceship is a Mercedes-Benz! The logo is briefly visible when Dark Helmet captures it and looks inside. I was NOT expecting him to get hit by the gull wing door when he pounded the side in frustration after learning Vespa had escaped because of Lone Star.
One of my son's favorite films. I walked into the rec room one day and he had taken the VCR apart, he was 9 years old. I stood there shocked and without batting an eye he said, "Mom, my copy of SpaceBalls was stuck." I'm proud to say he put it back together perfectly. As soon as it came out on DVD I bought him a copy. I still have his.
Kimberly I used to have this on dvd bit not anymore I wrecked it acxedtnly thou I don't know orbremger how I think I.like scratched a disc
You are awesome!
I just hope he unplugged it first!
I just don't think a sequel would work without John Candy.
"The Ship is too Big, If I walk the movie will be over" haha One of my favorite lines.
He will always be great actor in any film he did he's Wagons East he died in Mexico on set of heart attack as big as he was through out his life never under a doctor's care
And also without Joan Rivers too.
@@alc8114 plus Yarnell she too was Matrix in the film
Gabriel Iglesias could be the son of Barf...
Bill Pulman also passed several years ago.
Mel putting the “Dink” commentary in the DVD is funny as hell. He was probably at home thinking to himself “I wonder how many idiots are going to watch the whole movie like this?” I got the joke.
Yeah, I think its funny too ! so ya not alone Dink !
I would have to agree.
Mel Brooks an absolute legend.
I think it’s funny too. His sense of humor is awesome
That was probably the one fact I hadn't heard of before. That's some Python level trolling.
I wonder if u turned on the closed captioning if the dinks would translate to words
Spaceballs 3: the Search for Spaceballs 2 is legiit a hilarious title.
Agreed
o...m...g.... you are an absolute genius. you MUST at least email this mel...
That's the sequel we need. However, Mel Brooks type humor nowadays will offend everyone on every side of every spectrum enough to everyone banning the comedy and blaming the other side for it just as passionately. Most of the blame is the side that calls everyone "snowflakes", by the way... ironically being the biggest snowflakes relative to comedy.
Still waiting
@@That80sGuy1972 The Left is the side that gets offended by just about everything. Joke about the Left and they get offended, Joke about the Right, and the Right just laughs. The Left can't take a joke anymore.
- Prepare ship for light speed!
- No, no, no, light speed is too slow.
- Light speed too slow?
- Yes, we're gonna have to go right to... ludicrous speed!
Ludicrous speed?! Sir we've never gone that fast before! I don't know if the ship can take it!
@@Jayjay-qe6um What's the problem, Coronel Sanders. Chicken?!?!
@@juanpabloperezgomez4349 Prepare the ship-- Prepare ship for ludicrous speed! Fasten all seat belts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall! Cancel the three-ring circus! Secure all animals in the zoo---!
Oh.... they've gone plaid
We passed them stop the ship
I did my book report in third grade on the Spaceballs movie. When my teacher did not believe me because she said it was a movie. I showed her my Spaceballs book and got a 87 on my report.
You should have mentioned that the "We ain't found s***" guy is Tim Russ, who played Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager.
Omg that is him seen a ad for a show the resident thought he was permanent cast was gonna watch it but it's only one episode
WOW
Holy crap
@@terranovarain6570 02:12
I'm glad you mentioned it, because even though I've seen this movie dozens of times, and I also have an obscene love for Voyager, I literally only learned this fact a month ago.
Great lines from Spaceballs:
"What's the matter Col. Sanders? Chicken?"
"Prepare for Ludicrous Speed!!"
"They've gone Plaid!!!"
"We ain't found sh!t!!!"
"I'm surrounded by Assholes!!"
"Oh crap!! There goes the planet!!"
Love that film!!
This is an unlisted wall!
And many more!!! 😂😂😂
Dink Dink Dink! Dink Dink! Dink Dink Dink Dink! Dink Dink Dink!
I bet she gives great helmet
I'm just plain yogurt
I’d say the “Dink” commentary is a parody of movie DVD commentary tracks in general.
For sure! Just subtly saying they are all a bunch of useless hot air haha
Yes, this strikes me as a very Mel Brooks thing to do, even if it is not singularly to lampoon commentaries in general. I'm not saying it's not, just that with everything Mel has done, it could be even more than that.
@@McAwesomeReaper No this are the Ewok "Fakes"
John Hurt: Oh, no! Not again! - as the alien bursts from his chest.
He really should stay away form face grabbing aliens.
@@langbo9999 And diner food apparently,
"Hello m-baby, hello my-darlin'..." 🎩
I got a warm fuzzy feeling after reading the comments. So many people love this movie as much as I do 🥰
I like it more than the movie it parodies!
“I bet she gives great helmet” i will never forget when i actually knew what that meant. Saw this movie as a kid so many times, after that, it was a whole new adventure and loved it even more. Still a classic in my movie collection.
Still Waiting for spaceballs 2, the search for more money.
It's coming right after History of the World Part 2. I am looking forward to seeing the segment Jews In Space!
Not just more money! A Shit-Ton of money!.. :)
Actually I think the title got switched to "The Schwartz Awakens"
@@projectmayhem6898 Want to have your mind blown? The music from Jews in Space is the exact same music from the dance number in Men in Tights.
@@r.l.royalljr.3905 I saw Men in Tights first and the MOMENT Jews in Space started playing I started laughing my ass off
"Spaceballs 3: The search for Spaceballs 2" made me laugh out loud. Rick Moranis was a comedic gem.
Mel Brooks is a genius... That is all.
not just a genius, he is also the most gutsy producer/actor/director ever. think anyone else could use racial slurs and stereotypes so much (albeit all racial comments in Brooks's movie are ironic, and meant to show how idiot racism is) and not get excoriated.
He is a genius in hollywood spoofs
Yep👍
what happened to part 2?
He's a spineless propaganda pushing
anti-White merchant.
And he's unfunny.
Loxism is insidious.
"No sir! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!"
The Dink commentary.
Your reaction was exactly why they did it 😆
Dink DINK DINK💯 💓 LUV❣️ IT ‼️DINK DINK 🤣
I still find myself quoting this movie. 80's comedy classic.
@Cherokee Blood Sigma Soul "I'm surrounded by assholes."
We are jammed!
Yup, me too. Still my favorite parody.
There's no way they can do a sequel without John Candy.
@Kitanai Koneko I don't think they should make a sequel at all
Well as a mog it's possible he'd age in mog years...
exactly, plus most of the actors are too old and they looked like they're in their retirement status so it would be pointless to make a movie
He comes back as a Swartz ghost.
@@maximo8066 A lot of them are dead, too.
This is a comedy masterpiece along side with Young Frankenstein
"These are not them! You've captured their stunt doubles!"
That would also be a funny line in the sequel, if they presented some unknown cast first.
Dam kids lol
@@juopotski That would be the way to open the sequel.
And one of the camera crew gets seriously injured during the light-sabre duel ...
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Ahhhh.... HE DID IT!!! (points at Lone Starr) LOL:) Genius! OL J R :)
Oh, you didn’t mention, Rick Moranis improvised his scene with the action figures. It really added to the pathos of the Dark Helmet character, don’t you think?
I would absolutely watch an elderly Spaceballs sequel. This is still one of my favorite movies of all time.
Yeah it worked for the original Star Trek crew clean through to Star Trek 6! OL J R :)
Colonel Sanders should be a General by now !!😎😎😎
That line you delivered is exactly why they had that commentary. “I’ve had enough of all these dinks”
"we aint found shit!" said Tuvoc from Star Trek Voyager lol.
02:12
Yup. Trekkies know it's Tim Russ, and love Spaceballs all the more for it XD
It’s really not that surprising once you watch the bloopers for Voyager.
One of the few movies UA-cam Movies has with no ugly dumb edits. Worth re-watching so many times.
I quote this movie so much at work. The kids that work there never know what I'm saying.
This is one the younger generation has missed, that's sad.
Spaceballs has a special place in my heart. Nothing will replace it. So many quotes, so much heart, I love this film. It will remain one of the best comedy films of all time.
I Knew It! I'm Surrounded By A**Holes."😆
Fun fact and also a movie trivia. Did you guys know that the Dark Helmet playing with dolls scene was actually not in the original screenplay? It was once again another brainchild of the brilliant Mel Brooks who came up with it when he arrived at the set one day. He told Morranis about the idea and Morranis improvised it, and the rest, you can say, is history.
One of my favorite comedies... nay! movies, of all-time 😁
"You see, Lonestar, evil will alway's triumph over good. Because good... is... dumb."
Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money just rolls off the tongue
also, looking back, the Perri-Air joke has lost some of the humor. back then, bottled water was not as huge as today. a girl at college had once said bottled water is lame and Evian spelled backwards is Naive because you have to daft to buy water.
Yet my workplace has an entire aisle dedicated to it, in purified, spring, alkaline, and flavored varieties...
Remember the original IT series? Tozier said just back in Derry breathing in all that old Derry Air? LMAO
I lived in Japan for 6 years. You really have to buy bottled water sometimes. Granted, it was often for between 30 and 80 cents because it's water, so there's that.
@@ScooterinAB oh today in america we buy tons. and have filters. and everything. but in the 80s it was not as huge and people mocked it.
We'll be buying 'bottled air' soon!
I watched this movie so many times that I finally had to watch the director’s commentary version. Brooks cracks me up even more with his commentary.
Mars Attacks has the same type of silly audio track with the martians language, "Ack, ack. Ack, ack ack."
One of my all-time favorite movies. I've seen it at least a dozen times and I still crack up watching it. I can almost quote the entire movie from start to finish.
Bill Pullman has always been underrated imo.He can do drama and comedy.I always thought he would have been perfect as Robert Langdon in The DaVinci code.
He fit perfect in Independence Day
Also in another brilliant comedy film from the eighties, 'Ruthless People'
If you haven't watched Serpent and the Rainbow, drop everything and watch it right now.
Independence day anyone
Personal trivia - I got a ZIP file of Spaceballs sound clips on floppy disk in the early 90's. Since then, a truncated "We ain't found Shit" that just says "Shit" has been my Windows Error sound on every computer - totalling 4 laptops, and 5 desktops.
Minty, you better return that movie to the video store, or else, “pizza, will send out, for you”
Daphne Zuniga doesn’t look like she’s aged a day!
I love Mel Brooks movies, I think my fauvrite scen is the one in "To be, or not to be" where he enters a pub dressed as Hitler asking if it's England.
I saw this at the theater when it came out. My daughter was born in 96 and it's one of our favorite movies. We watched it several times and quoted it even more (most recently just two days ago).
Oh shit, there goes the planet!
I was only 6 or 7 when this came out. I'm pretty sure we had a copy of it taped from HBO, and I must have watched it hundreds of times. It was the first movie that I could recite word-for-word (with comedic timing intact) on command. Spaceballs will always hold a special place in my heart and mind.
Ahhh ...I love the old classics 👌🏻😁🇦🇺🍻🍻🍻
Your statement makes me feel old.
@@miniontm69 Right? I remember watching it thinking the special effects were incredible. Lol
@@miniontm69 yeah to me “the old classics” are stuff like North By Northwest or The Wizard of Oz, or Psycho...NOT something from 1987 lol...
They love you too
classic
I wore out half a dozen VHS tapes watching this movie. It was even banned from church youth group trips after a weekend skiing trip. Where I watched it a total of 7 times between events. I know all the lines to the entire movie by heart❣
"There is only one man who'd dare give me the raspberry..... MINTY!"
*camera smashes into Dark Helmet’s face and Dark Helmet falls over*
"Scotty beamed me last night! It was wonderful!" LMAO
Beamed me twice last night.
Snotty, not Scotty
Absolutely one of my all time favorites! I never knew Spaceballs was a parody until I finally watched Star Wars 20 year's later lol.... I always thought it was it's own movie.
😂😂😂
I used to watch this almost every weekend my grandma would watch me. What a childhood! 😂
May the Schwartz be with you.
(S) use the Schwartz.
your channel is a gem, thank you
Rick Moranis' deep voice makes him sound like David Prowse. At least I believe it was a nod to him.
Mel Brooks is a very interesting man. He was a combat engineer and was one of the many that took part in the Battle of the Bulge. Who would imagine such a goofy guy in the military? It may have been a major part of his movie humor sources. He has my respect for pushing or just battering the limits of humor, like with Blazing Saddles, an all time great, and knowing of his, and many of the best actors of the 60's to 90's, and I see a new generation of actors and actresses that served their country getting into acting. My dad once said that the acting might offer a therapeutic effect for all of the bad stuff they lived through. I have this and several other movies in VHS and DVD.
I'm pretty convinced they could bring Spaceballs back if they could get Rick Moranis on board and make him the main character this time. It would be great to see the movie with him as some kind of anti-hero and the the other cast somehow gets roped into helping him do something or other. Many sequels seem so forced because they want to follow the formula of the original show but I really think if they ever did a sequel that it should be in the same universe but with a different point of view. That and I frickin miss Rick Moranis. That man is a national treasure. Even if the sequel was terrible, I'd love it if he was in it.
Should definitely do a Moranis as Palpatine/Jarjar next time.
I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
Can you please do "Weekend at Bernie's" 😎
I love this movie!! I was allowed to first watch it with my Dad when I was far too young to fully appreciate it as the genius movie it is, but I loved it all the same. I remember being very disappointed that the Spaceballs action figures Dark Helmet played with didn't exist. 😞 Maybe for its 35th anniversary next year we'll finally have some released? Cripes I'm old.
One of Mel's best movies.
If forced to pick a runner-up I would say "Robin Hood - men in tights" was his second best. It was a lot of fun and Cary Elwes did a fine job. I think he was the right person as he had experience with fantasy roles such as "The princess bride."
While a sequel MIGHT have been amusing, the time to do it has long since passed!
Time to just be happy with what we got.
“I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.”
So they are cousins.
"What does that..make us?"
"ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!"
This was my favourite line from the movie! 🤣
@@detriotman fathers brother is lone stars uncle 's cousin his cousins room mate so hes lone stars 2ns cousins room mate
Father's brother's nephew's (uncle's nephew = likely you or your brother, or another cousin) cousin's (either your cousin, or you if the fater's brother's nephew is another cousin) former room mate. So, that would make him Lonestar's brother's roommate, Lonestar's cousin's roommate, or Lonestar's roommate.
@@vladyvhv9579 😂😂😂
I also had no idea there was a Spaceballs Animated Series, that was until I stumbled upon a true crime video about someone that happened to be a storyboard supervisor for that show.
Love ur work my guy, SpaceBalls is a favorite of mine.
The Dink commentary makes me laugh so hard. It's hilarious on so many levels.
Minty saying "Schwartz" is cracking me up...
@Red Dogg - Rebel4Truth I know! and it has been driving me nuts. Has he not seen the movie??
So many quotable moments in Spaceballs! Thanks for the Reload, Minty!
FUCK! Even in the future, this video is awesome.
One of my favorite PG fucks... EVER!
💚😂😂💚
Thank you for this. I was having a bit of a down today and randomly discovered this video. It's been a thing in my small circle of friends that any day where you can get a Spaceballs line in is a good day. Heck, we even had a Spaceballs themed birthday for my wife several years ago (I still have several rolls of toilet paper we managed to transfer inkjet prints onto, as well as cans of Perri-air!). Looking forward to trying to fit in a Spaceballs pun in somewhere tomorrow. Cheers mate~
Thanks for carrying on through The Lockdown !! Cheers Mate.
"What are those things coming out of her nares?"
"Spaceballs?"
"Well shit! There goes the planet."
"nose"
“Spaceballs The Re-Upload!”
Spaceballs had several scenes re-shot for the TV-Edited edition. While some might consider it a 'dumbing down' of the original I personally found the edited version to be more entertaining than the full version. It didn't remove any of the adult jokes, but 'bleeped' out most of the language (which I personally just find more funny than the words themselves). Two scenes in particular stand out as having been re-done. The whole 'asshole' scene was changed to 'moron' (which makes more sense to me, personally) as well as 'A $#!7load of money' was changed to a drawn-out "loooooooot of money".
Note these are not just dubbed over. You can tell via intonation and lip synch that the scenes were entirely re-shot. These scenes are also entirely unavailable, as I have never been able to see them outside of the VHS Recording my family made back when I was 5 years old and they were not included in any DVD re-releases.
Pulmovox,
A little off track here, but I know what you mean.
I saw "Halloween" in the theater in 1978, but missed the verson that was televised a year or so later. This was where some laguage, violence and nudity were cut by the network and Carpenter was asked to re-shoot extra scenes to pad out the running time.
Thanks to youtube, I was lucky to see the fillers, but they were out-of-context, plus, they were never added to the dvd releses.
You can only find these filler scenes on certain "special" VHS versions.
Who knew such love for a movie could be so confusing. 🙂🫠😄
Space balls 3: search for space balls 2 is literally the perfect title if they ever go for a sequel...but they kinda made those last 3 movies spoof proof by making them as terrible as possible
If anybody thought Spaceballs would tarnish the memory of Star Wars, it's nothing compared to what Disney did.
Would be hilarious if they did a spoof of the sequel SW trilogy, and the spoof was better written.
@@furiouskaiser9914 I get the impression that all That would take is for the writer and director to actually be competent, and not hate the franchise.
Minty- this is your best work, I have liked this movie for over 20 years, and I can only hope your video turns more people onto this timeless classic! I am afraid the most recent generation just won't understand the jokes, just like how in men in tights they FOX a message- kids today dont get the pun because they have never heard of a FAX machine... -keep up the good work, mate!
May the Schwartz be with you!
I've always LOVED this movie! The thought that it was too late given the last Star Wars movie didn't apply to me. I was too young to appreciate the Star Wars movies when they came out, but my older brothers were still such fans. They had so many toys, and even Star Wars wallpaper in their room. I just didn't get it. But! Every time Spaceballs came on HBO I watched it, eventually taping it on a VHS so I could watch it whenever I wanted. I, of course, didn't get all the spoofy jokes, but that didn't matter to 10 year old me. This movie will always have a place in my heart! Thanks for the vid! Lastly, now that I'm an adult, and I hear about all the space trash in earth's orbit you know what my inner child envisions as a remedy. 😆
How about 10 things you didn’t know about Willy wonka and the chocolate factory
10 things you didn’t know about around the world in 80 days
10 things about:
Twister
Meatballs
Apple Dumpling Gang
Alan Smithee films
Bad News Bears
@@skaetur1 Apple Dumpling Gang! Love it!
Mel Brooks got paid big, by writing, directing, producing and acting in his movies genius.
Can we please have a 10 things on 3 o’clock high (released the same year as this movie albeit a couple months later)
Classic! 🤘
The bully in Three O'clock High also played Crisp in Kindergarten Cop.
@@chuckmckendry194 Holy Chit! I love The Kevin Bacon game. I always look up the cast of things i watch and connect dots.
@@chuckmckendry194 that’s right Buddy Revell was a precursor to the Cullen Crisp character
I’m glad I’m in the universe where it was called Space Balls. I can’t imagine a better title. 1987 was the year I was born, so I’m glad to share the year 😏
There are times when I watch this movie and I say to myself this is way better than Star Wars!
It is
Better than the prequels and Disney lame trilogy
A friend of mine loved movies but not so much SF. He had been untouched by Star Wars but he liked Space Balls. So a couple of years later we watched the 1st Star Wars movie together. He had never seen it before but as soon as you watch it you get the jokes. That was one entertaining evening.
I like it more
As a kid this movie was all I knew of Star wars. Still haven't watched Star wars.
“There is only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. Lonestar!”
"One way or another Star Wars will always be with us." Not if Kathleen Kennedy has anything to say about it.
Great movie. John Candy will forever be a legend and Rick M made the best dark helmet I can imagine
Brilliant Minty, love this film. Can we have 10 things we didn't know about The Fog (1980), Close Encounters Of The Third Kind or Kingpin next please. Keep up the good work mate 👍
I bet he's Never done an Ed Wood film.. how about to 10 things you didn't know about Ed Wood's Orgy of the Dead. Now That was a film!
@@DivergentDroid Plan Nine From Outer Space. Schlock classic.
"Not Another Teen Movie" was the greatest spoof movie ever.
Also with Michael Winslow still being alive and still working, I definitely feel he would make a great addition to the next Spaceball movie. 🎤😁🤘
Love the dark layout on your shooting location man
Well done Minty, this is one of my favorites too.
The only non-Brooks spoof I can think of which worked as well as this was Shaun of the Dead. Certainly a different level of silly, but equally brilliant. Essentially a spoof of a zombie outbreak movie which did the zombie outbreak movie genre better than most (if not all?) serious zombie outbreak movies.
I’ve always considered Mel Brooks one of the best trolls to ever troll... and if the Dink commentary doesn’t prove that to everyone idk what will.
No wonder he plays Yogurt. 😆
So I’ve watched your channel for a while , but never subscribed... this one did it bro , very well done 👍
I've heard that you can purchase a "Spaceballs: the mask" face mask
Can confirm. I have a Dark Helmet "I'm surrounded by assholes" mask.
Yup. I bought one. Spaceballs the face mask.
One of my favorite Mel Brooks comedies from my childhood and that still makes me laugh as an adult. I know it sucks we couldn’t have legit Spaceballs merchandise for the time because George Lucas not wanting any merchandise made so kids or the toy marketers wouldn’t confuse them for Star Wars merchandise. But if it meant we got that hilarious merchandising scene out of it, then I’m fine without having Spaceballs merchandise.
Hunter well think now you can get a spaveballs t ahjrts th we days
I love Spaceballs and to this day is still one of the funniest films ever made
My brother and I watched this constantly as kids. We would endlessly quote it at each other