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Crap Parody Films

Started by Lisa Jesusandmarychain, April 22, 2020, 03:59:05 PM

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Andy147

Quote from: Lisa Jesusandmarychain on April 23, 2020, 05:58:22 PM
I think " Scary Movie 5" is famous for the way it outdoes the Police Academy films in having absolutely no original cast members whatsoever coming back for it, with even Anna Faris  saying " fuck that for a lark".

I don't think that's that unusual... Beethoven's 3rd has none of the cast from the first two films; the "Bring It On" films all seem to have completely different casts... (Scary Movie 5 does at least have a few actors from some of the earlier films, admittedly not in the same roles).

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Alberon on April 23, 2020, 06:17:05 PM
I never go along with the bashing Airplane 2 gets. It's not as good as the first Aiplane (but then again what is), but it does have some really good stuff in it. Maybe it's partly because I'm a Sci-Fi nerd that I like it so much. It's got William Shatner following Leslie Nielson into comedy, the view screen thing is gold, and it has Ted Striker's record.





It's a good film.

I'm 100% with you there, and am extremely fond of the film.

Tony Tony Tony

Can't believe there hasn't been a mention of blaxploitation parody I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Memorable for being a godawful parody of godawful movies.

Even Starsky and Hutch's Huggy Bear (Antonio Vargas) can't rescue this pile of ordure. My memory is of Vargas strolling down the street in perspex platform shoes having goldfish inside.

I couldn't find the goldfish clip on You Tube so maybe I dreamt it.

Instead 'enjoy' this.... https://youtu.be/4CVFOnmW6v8   

Egyptian Feast

I'd forgotten the always-brilliant John Vernon was in Airplane 2. I saw it as a kid a while before the first one came on telly again, so I'll always have a fondness for it. I've probably watched Airplane! too many times, but haven't seen the sequel for decades. Must add it to my quarantine list.

I know he gets on some people's nerves, but I always enjoyed Steven Stucker as the only character who realises they're in a comedy. I just checked on imdb to see if he'd done any other films aside from these and Kentucky Fried Movie (turns out he was in Trading Places and I've forgotten that bit) and was sad to see he'd died in 1986. That probably explains why I haven't seen him in much else.

Lisa Jesusandmarychain

" I'm gonna get you, Stucker." - The Grim Reaper, circa '86.

Autopsy Turvey

Carry On Emmannuelle - the spelling is the funniest bit - is such a deadeningly tragic way to end such a joyful and momentous franchise. It almost feels like concerted self-destruction. A Carry On spoof of a trendy French porno, written by a jobbing Australian TV gag man, it's a worse idea than a musical about Hitler.

Other than that, The Boys In Blue was basically a crap parody of Ask A Policeman, and does The Wiz count?

Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse

Quote from: Autopsy Turvey on April 23, 2020, 10:25:03 PM
Carry On Emmannuelle - the spelling is the funniest bit - is such a deadeningly tragic way to end such a joyful and momentous franchise. It almost feels like concerted self-destruction. A Carry On spoof of a trendy French porno, written by a jobbing Australian TV gag man, it's a worse idea than a musical about Hitler.
So then, would a movie about making a seventies-style comedy spoof of a trendy French porno written by a jobbing Australian TV gag man be funny?

Jim Bob

Quote from: Tony Tony Tony on April 23, 2020, 07:05:55 PM
My memory is of Vargas strolling down the street in perspex platform shoes having goldfish inside.

I couldn't find the goldfish clip on You Tube so maybe I dreamt it.

I don't know what particular words you typed into google when searching, but the relevant clip was the first thing which came up when I searched.

Hand Solo

I remember there being a few funny bits in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, like the 'obvious stunt double' scene that's been nicked in loads of other things. Think it was also Chris Rock's first film.

idunnosomename

those SM5 posters look like wimblemongs id spend an hour on. fuckin hell

Autopsy Turvey

Quote from: Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse on April 23, 2020, 10:30:59 PM
So then, would a movie about making a seventies-style comedy spoof of a trendy French porno written by a jobbing Australian TV gag man be funny?

Much better idea!

Yussef Dent

Does Churchill: The Hollywood Years fall under this bracket? It had the potential to be something really good, it was at that time when American cinema's depiction of the UK's involvement in WWII had got to the level that it had taken the absolute piss with U571. A glut of British comedy names and Christian Slater and Neve Campbell in the prominent roles should have really made this work. It just seemed that they'd come up with a good idea for a plot premise and then thought little more effort was required.

Chriddof

Quote from: studpuppet on April 23, 2020, 12:56:33 PM
I'm loathe to put it on here because I have a fondness out of all proportion with it's reputation, but The Big Bus is a crap parody of most 70s disaster movies. The performances in it are brilliant though from Larry Hagman, through to Stockard Channing and Murph from the Magictones ("We have a request!! *sings* Tangerine...."). I think it gets unfairly compared to ZAZ movies because of the disaster movie aspect, but it's a lot more gentle in its comedy.

The weirdest thing about it is that it though it feels like an attempt at making a rip off of Airplane, it actually came out four years before!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/

I like it well enough myself, although as you say it's a fair bit tamer in its humour than your average ZAZ movie. I think I saw this showing of it on BBC1 in the London region. (I remember it being early 90s-ish, an overcast afternoon...) Looking at the Genome search results I was surprised to see that it had been on telly so much - seems to have regularly came round on either BBC1 or 2 over a twenty year period.

I saw Carry On Emmanuelle on (I think) Sky Movies once, in the late 90s. I tuned in out of sheer curiosity to see this thing that had killed the franchise stone dead - I bailed way before the ending. Around the same time I saw Gonks Go Beat on Bravo (when that channel was still halfway decent) and I managed to watch all of that, and that's pretty trying, early performances from the likes of Ginger Baker notwithstanding.

SavageHedgehog

Prime seems to be a haven for crappy parody movies from the dying days of the genre, so I gave Superfast!, Friedberg and Setzer's 2015 Fast and Furious parody, a shot. I watched the first half-hour or so and in fairness it's a considerable improvement over their earlier movies. It's almost a scene for scene parody of the first Fast movie, which seems odd as it presumably was trying to cash in on the far flashier later sequels, but does stop them from just randomly cutting to other movie scenes and thinks that's their work done. There's a weird running joke that not-Michelle Rodriguez is in the closet (because the real one is a tough gjrl?) but on the whole it's just silly rather than gross or nasty as per their earlier films. I didn't laugh but I did smile a couple of times. I don't think I'll bother to go back and watch the rest, but I can see how it would be a decent third film at a sleepover if you're 12.

samadriel


dissolute ocelot

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on April 23, 2020, 03:47:32 PM
I strongly dislike Date Movie because of how fat phobic it is, some of the jokes in the opening ten minutes are truly abhorrent, and though the rest of the movie is relatively inoffensive it's still a movie I found painful to watch, and I'm normally fond of parody movies unless they're truly lazy shit.

Fair enough. It helps if you stumble upon these things on Comedy Central 30 minutes in, so it's a long time since I've seen the start.

I was a big fan of The Big Bus as a child. It's not much sillier than Poseidon Adventure or many of the other 70s disaster movies, but there's a general feeling of a bunch of amiable actors having a good time and doing very silly things (similar to Airplane! and the early 80s car race movies). Being from 1976 it actually precedes Airplane! by a few years, and might be the first spoof disaster movie (although some of the Airport films come close to parody).

We seem to have strayed a bit from crap parodies into good parodies, so I may mention The Return of Captain Invincible the literally incredible 1983 Australian superhero musical movie starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee, which is a lot of fun (and significantly better than the thematically similar Buckaroo Banzai).

Shaky

Quote from: Yussef Dent on April 24, 2020, 05:58:16 AM
Does Churchill: The Hollywood Years fall under this bracket? It had the potential to be something really good, it was at that time when American cinema's depiction of the UK's involvement in WWII had got to the level that it had taken the absolute piss with U571. A glut of British comedy names and Christian Slater and Neve Campbell in the prominent roles should have really made this work. It just seemed that they'd come up with a good idea for a plot premise and then thought little more effort was required.

The main problem with that film (aside from it not being funny) is Peter Richardson lifted the idea from his own Comic Strip stuff, so it's like he thought, "This was funny 15 years ago when I did it in The Strike and GLC, it'll be good now."


Lisa Jesusandmarychain

Johnny Dangerously ( Dir. Amy Heckerling, 1984) With a stellar cast ( Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner- " Hey, kid, did you know your surnames an adverb? " ) spoof of Jimmy Cagney- type gangster fims- crap or not?

Not seen it since its original release, but I don't  remember it being all that bad.


Btw, I like how the somewhat obscure Gonks Go Beat gets a mention on 'ere, that's another one with a stellar cast list. I wonder if Terry Scott shared a joke with Ginger Baker between takes?

The Return Of Captain Invincible is not great, but any film which stars Alan Arkin when he still ( just about) had dark hair  and could still play " manic"really well and features Christopher Lee singing " there's nothing sicker in society/ than a lack of liqueur and sobriety" can't be * all* bad.

Won't have a word said against The Big Bus.   There's some great stuff in there. 
Not least this bit.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC92wx86z84

Brundle-Fly

The Horror Of Frankenstein (1970) was supposed to be a semi-parody of the studio's own The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957), but hardly a single funny moment in the entire film. Great cast though.

Jerzy Bondov

How about Mafia!, directed by Jim Abrahams on his own? With Jay Mohr and Lloyd Bridges? Parody of The Godfather? Bit where there's a little boy running, and he works in a flower stand, and a girl shouts 'Run florist run!'? No?

There's also Superhero Movie, directed by the writer of The Hangover II and III, and, umm, Chernobyl??

Lisa Jesusandmarychain

I didn't mind " Mafia!".
There's a scene where one of the mafia family members gets " taken out", as it were, and the ' hit takes the form of them being consumed by " Jurassic Park"- like raptor creatures. As they're running up to do their scoffing, you can see them wielding knives and forks, and tying napkins round their necks, while licking their lips in anticipation.
Another scene makes goodly reference to " The English Patient", involving another mafia member attending a funeral , with his face all burnt and unappealing. A well- choreographed vomiting scene takes place.
Both of these scenes are very silly, stupid indeed, but they're done well, as opposed to the stupid scenes in the likes of " Meet The Spartans", which are staged in a crass and inept manner.
Stupid and silly * can* be funny, if done well is the message to be taken from this post, I suppose.

steveh

Recently watched Young Doctors in Love, a spoof of hospital soaps made by ABC TV's film division in 1982, which I'd never heard of before. Very obviously influenced by Airplane if not at that level of inspired silliness but it has a reasonable gag rate. Michael McKean and Harry Dean Stanton among the actors too.

SavageHedgehog

I've never seen that one but it's sometimes grouped with Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again a sort of unofficial spin-off from SNL-wannabe Fridays starring their third of fourth most talented cast member Mark Blankfield. It's an attempt to meet somewhere in the middle between the frantic pacing of Airplane and the slow paced burned out sub-Cheech & Chong drug humour of Fridays. From memory it's not an easy sit but does have some good gags and feels fairly unique.

Gulftastic

Aside from the fish tank shoes and obvious stunt doubles, the only gag I remember from 'I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!' is the reveal of how one of the guys lost his eye in 'Nam, when it turns out he never left HQ, and one of the other clerks pinged a paper clip at him.

evilcommiedictator

Everyone's forgotten about Johnny English then?

I'd argue that Clerks 2 and The Jay and Silent Bob Reboot were pretty crap parodies of their prior versions, but that's another thread. (Also Police Academy 5 shits all over 3 and 4, again with Guttenberg leaving)

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: Lisa Jesusandmarychain on April 24, 2020, 03:26:59 PM
The Return Of Captain Invincible is not great, but any film which stars Alan Arkin when he still ( just about) had dark hair  and could still play " manic"really well and features Christopher Lee singing " there's nothing sicker in society/ than a lack of liqueur and sobriety" can't be * all* bad.

I'm with dissolute ocelot when it comes to TROCI, there's not enough songs given it's partially a musical but as a whole I found a lot to like about it, and the end song you quote from where Lee tries to make our hero relapse is a gorgeously funny one.

Quote from: Jerzy Bondov on April 24, 2020, 04:07:27 PM
There's also Superhero Movie, directed by the writer of The Hangover II and III, and, umm, Chernobyl??

Despite hating Hangover II with a passion I didn't mind Superhero Movie. I mean, it's very silly, and some of the jokes are painful but the supporting / cameo-ing cast is fairly okay (with Tracey Morgan, Ryan Hansen, Leslie Nielsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Brent Spiner and Keith David turning up at various points), though I was drunk when I watched so maybe shouldn't be trusted.

SavageHedgehog

Quote from: evilcommiedictator on April 25, 2020, 12:28:33 PM
Everyone's forgotten about Johnny English then?

I'd argue that Clerks 2 and The Jay and Silent Bob Reboot were pretty crap parodies of their prior versions, but that's another thread. (Also Police Academy 5 shits all over 3 and 4, again with Guttenberg leaving)

If we're talking post-Guttenberg Police Academy I'm a staunch City Under Siege guy. They actually try out some new jokes, and the increased cartoonishness is fully appropriate and welcome at this point.

Shaky

Quote from: Lisa Jesusandmarychain on April 24, 2020, 04:18:03 PM
I didn't mind " Mafia!".
There's a scene where one of the mafia family members gets " taken out", as it were, and the ' hit takes the form of them being consumed by " Jurassic Park"- like raptor creatures. As they're running up to do their scoffing, you can see them wielding knives and forks, and tying napkins round their necks, while licking their lips in anticipation.
Another scene makes goodly reference to " The English Patient", involving another mafia member attending a funeral , with his face all burnt and unappealing. A well- choreographed vomiting scene takes place.
Both of these scenes are very silly, stupid indeed, but they're done well, as opposed to the stupid scenes in the likes of " Meet The Spartans", which are staged in a crass and inept manner.
Stupid and silly * can* be funny, if done well is the message to be taken from this post, I suppose.

There are a handful of excellent gags which demonstrate the old ZAZ magic (eg: the American Indian family getting turned away from customs then uttering, "We had reservations!") but overall I think it's not a great film. Abraham's Hot Shots Part Deux from a few years earlier is far, far better.

thenoise

Quote from: Autopsy Turvey on April 23, 2020, 10:25:03 PM
Carry On Emmannuelle - the spelling is the funniest bit - is such a deadeningly tragic way to end such a joyful and momentous franchise. It almost feels like concerted self-destruction. A Carry On spoof of a trendy French porno, written by a jobbing Australian TV gag man, it's a worse idea than a musical about Hitler.

It was a title I was very excited to see as a young teen, as I discovered my willy watching Carry on films in the early 90s, and this looked to be even more exciting than eg Carry on girls or that bit in Carry on Camping.  Daftness aside, some of those mid/late-period Carry ons did have a playful sexiness about them.  Then my parents got MTV and I never looked back.

Judging by the trailer, it looks about as sexy as my Dad's Y-fronts.