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Still a thing? Not really. But as mentioned, there was definitely a lot worth seeing after Airplane!

Great:

  • Police Squad! (TV)
  • Naked Gun x3
  • Hot Shots! x2
  • Spaceballs!
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Top Secret!
  • Scary Movie 3/4
  • Airplane!
  • Kentucky Fried Movie

Worth watching:

  • Jane Austen’s Mafia!
  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It
  • Angie Tribeca (TV)
  • High School High
  • Not Another Teen Movie
  • Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in The Hood
  • Scary Movie 1
  • Wrongfully Accused
  • Repossessed
  • Spy Hard (edit)

Garbage Tier:

  • Anything ending with “Movie” that hasn’t been listed yet
  • Anything with Leslie Nielsen that hasn’t been listed yet
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I would also add Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as great newer parodies. The first, starring John C. Reilly is a spoof of Walk the Line and music biopics in general, the second a spoof of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and popstar documentaries in general, starring Andy Samberg. Both movies were box office bombs unfortunately, despite being really funny and also having actually great songs.

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Interesting suggestions. They’re not what I typically consider in this particular style of parody movies because they’re a lot less slapstick and absurd but instead are very targeted mockeries of a single concept or style. Worth watching for sure, but I know they wouldn’t scratch the same itch for me.

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Airplane! is also a parody of one particular movie that is mostly forgotten now, Zero Hour, and spoofs a then popular subgenre of airplane catastrophe movies.

Walk Hard in particular is very much in the ZAZ vein.

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Wait. Scary Movie 2 doesn’t count? Name a better banter than between David Cross and Chris Elliott.

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This is the most offended I’ve ever been by a snub

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Omitted because I haven’t seen it, not explicitly as a snub.

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I actually haven’t seen it. Didn’t care much for the Wayans brothers’ humor, so I sat that out until Zucker took over.

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What’s your problem with Spy Hard? It follows the same Leslie Nielsen formula as Wrongfully Accused.

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Couldn’t remember it well enough but I’d let it slide on the list based on what I do recall.

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