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Kino Releasing Spaceballs On 4k UHD!
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Of all the Mel Brooks films they could have put out... Actually this is like a masterpiece compared to every other film he subsequently did.
Still, I agree, more UHDs = good. I just watched Yellowstone on Channel 5's streaming service and there was an advert for Studio Canal's UHD discs at the start! Thought I'd overdone the port and cheese and it was some kind of fever dream.I'm bitter, I'm twisted, James Joyce is fucking my sister.
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When this Mel Brooks came out it was dubbed as being outdated and 'too late' to cash in on the Star Wars craze (a whole four years after RETURN OF THE JEDI!). Of course, at the time nobody, including Brooks knew that Lucas would eventually revive the original series some 12 years later with the prequels. Now, SPACEBALLS plays more nostalgically, if not exactly improving with age - same goes with the aforementioned prequels!
There's a lot of low-level buffoonery, a number of the gags don't work and it never really lands as a specific Star Wars spoof. Still, some of the bits are amusing, Brooks has fun winking at the camera about the filmmaking process (the whole 'let's see how the movie is progressing' in-joke is terrific and well played) and marketing parodies work. And, yes, we are surrounded by a-holes!
The cast is game, especially John Hurt and George Wyner. But, it's Rick Moranis who steals the show as Dark Helmet. Brooks was in the midst of a career funk, but, like our intrepid heroes Lone Star (Bill Pullman) and Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) -- he has persevered.
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