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      4 hours ago

      Right?!

      The failure to grab this 40 year old payoff makes me nervous about the new movie

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      I’ve been saying for years it should be Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money

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      That would be wasting their title to repeat a joke they already told 40 years ago. Instead they went with something timely, poking fun at requels that don’t differentiate themselves from the original.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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            While that was hilarious, I must humbly - yet strongly - disagree.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvblGCD7qM - 1m40s in when Dark Helmet throws the mic away does it for me. But my favorite joke - not the best, but my favorite - because I didn’t catch it the first hundred times I saw - is also in this clip at 2m20s where Dark Helmet taps Colonel Sandurz on the chest - who looks at the hand, the camera, realizes it’s coming in, and backs out of the shot. That’s just… oh man, that is like the pinnacle of the detailed thought that went into a very very silly movie.

            So many movies just throw actors out there and get them to improv, and that can be great. But the sheer density of hilarity in Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstien and others… it’s just a beautiful thing. When it feels like 75% of the movie is quotable. lol

            So I don’t disagree that the Virgin Alarm was great, but I think the above clip is ten times better. But you’re allowed to reverse that rating for you, of course. Long as you and I love the movie, I’m satisfied. :)

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      That was the only acceptable title. How did they screw that up? Makes me have even less hope for the movie.

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        I’m okay with this, since Mel Brooks already found the money! Turns out, it was in his basement all along!

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          “The Quest for more Money” happened offscreen and the heros should complain that such an important event was only communicated through some obscure Event in a totally unrelated medium after being flabbergasted that Money for a Mission was somehow found.

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            “Wait, what about the money? Aren’t we supposed to be on a search for money?”

            “They found the money. Didn’t you watch the title announcement video?”

            “The what?”

            “Was that on Fortnite?”

            “Fortnite? What kind of a stupid idea is that? It was on YouTube!”

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        It is a joke from the first movie that the sequel would be named The Quest for More Money. This minute long video explains why they used The New One instead.