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Last Updated: October 17th, 2008
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A B O U T

Spaceballs is a 1987 science fiction spoof movie written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks. Opening on June 24th of that year, it earned only modest returns, but later became a cult hit among sci-fi enthusiasts and Star Wars fans. Its plot and characters contain numerous parodies of elements from Star Wars and other popular films. G4 Aired a short-lived sequel of sorts, Spaceballs: The Animated Show, in September of 2008.

Summary/Spoilers: On Planet Druidia, Princess Vespa (a parody of Princess Leia) is about to get married to the boring and narcoleptic Prince Valium (who is the last prince in the galaxy, and thus they have to marry despite his characteristics). She runs off from the altar with her droid-of-honor, Dot Matrix (a parody of C-3PO), and escapes into space.

Planet Spaceball has foolishly wasted all of its air and is desperate to find more. President Skroob (an anagram of "Brooks" and pun on "screwball", and a parody of Emperor Palpatine), played by Mel Brooks, and his top military leader, Dark Helmet (a parody of Darth Vader), along with his aide Colonel Sandurz (a pun on the creator/mascot for Kentucky Fried Chicken: Colonel Sanders, as well a parody of Imperial Officers like Veers, Tarkin, and Piett), devise a plan to kidnap Princess Vespa and extort Planet Druidia into giving all of its air to the Spaceballs. If they do not comply, they will reverse Vespa's cosmetic surgery, thus restoring her hooked nose.

Meanwhile, Vespa's father, King Roland, hires two rogues: Captain Lone Starr (a parody of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker) from the Ford Galaxy (in reference to a car of the same name, as well as Harrison Ford, the actor who originally played Han Solo) and Barfolomew, aka "Barf" (a mawg, or man-dog halfbreed, who is a parody of Chewbacca), who are desperate for money to pay back their debts to a big, fat, pizza faced Mafia boss, Pizza the Hutt (an obvious parody of Jabba the Hutt, and a pun on the Pizza Hut restaurant chain)—to get Princess Vespa back to Druidia so that she can marry Prince Valium. They are helped by the wise alien sage known as Yogurt (A parody of Yoda) and the mysterious power he possesses, called the Schwartz (parody of the Force; "Schwartz" is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname). The Light and Dark sides are parodied by being called the "up side", and the "down side".

The movie features a lightsaber duel between Dark Helmet and Lone Starr, but instead of "lightsabers" as in Star Wars, they create a light beam emanating from their Schwartz rings. With their rings initially held in front of their pants, the light beams form an obvious phallic image. A further pun depicts Dark Helmet saying, "You have the ring, and I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!"

In the end, Lone Starr and Barf are able to rescue the princess, destroy the Spaceballs' spaceship (Spaceball One), and get the Druidian air back. Lone Starr finds out that he is a prince, and returns to Planet Druidia to marry Princess Vespa. Pizza the Hutt ends up trapped in his car and eats "himself to death". As for Skroob, Dark Helmet, and Colonel Sandurz, they survive a crash-landing on the Planet of the Apes.

Fun Facts: On the gas station platform towards the end of the movie, the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars can be seen parked....George Lucas gave his approval to Mel Brooks to make the film after reading the script, as he was a big fan of Brooks' previous films....The name President Skroob an anagram of "Brooks"....George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic constructed the Schwartz effects for the film....It took Mel Brooks six months to write the script....The scene in which Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) is playing with his dolls was not in the script. Mel Brooks came up with the idea on the set one day, and told it to Moranis, who then improvised the entire scene, including the dialogue.....John Candy ad-libbed the line, "Oh, that's gonna leave a mark," after standing up without undoing his seat belt...The movie has several jokes about Spaceballs merchandise, which is a reference to George Lucas' making of millions of dollars in his owning of merchandise rights for the Star Wars movies. Yogurt said "Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the picture is made!" -wikipedia.org

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