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One category movies I really enjoy are movies that parodies other movies.
So, I'd like to know if there are more good parody movies then those I know of.
Examples I've really enjoyed (except The Ice Pirates, bought that one today, still have to watch):

Fatal Instinct
parodies:

• Double Indemnity,
  
• Basic Instinct,
  
• Fatal Attraction.
  

Galaxy Quest
parodies:

• Star Trek (tv serie) and related programs.
  

Traumshiff Surprise
parodies:

• Star Trek,
  
• Star Wars (particularly The Phantom Menace),
  
• The Fifth Element,
  
• Back to the Future,
  
• The Time Machine,
  
• Independence Day,
  
• A Knight's Tale,
  
• Men in Black,
  
• Minority Report,
  
• High Noon,
  
• The Matrix,
  
• E.T.  the Extra-Terrestrial,
  
• Twelve Monkeys.
  

The Ice Pirates
parodies:

• Star Wars,
  
• Dune.
  

Covers:
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I highly recommend:

(http://emol.org/film/archives/spaceballs/spaceballs.jpg)

Great movie! Classic ;D

Snake beat me to it!  ;D

Hotshots (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102059/) was great as well!

Great:

Mony Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
a few of the Police Squad episodes
first 2 Naked Gun films
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' smarter brother
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Flash Gordon (1980)
Shaolin Soccer
Chinese Odyssey 2002
Maverick (the original series with James Garner in the lead)

Good:

Kung-Fu Hustle
Blazing Saddles
Airplane!

Liked it when I saw it at age 12:

Spy Hard

It's not considered one of the best, but I love National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon, takes the mick out of Lethal Weapon and a bunch of other action movies. Lots of cameos, Charlie Sheen, Bruce Willis... and if you don't laugh to at least one joke, you're a bit of a humorless bastard :P Another parody but non parody is Last Action Hero. Kind of up to you how far a parody you see it, I guess :) I see it as a genre parody rather than a parody of certain films.

'Shaun of the Dead'.  I loved that when it first came out... I can't stand Simon Pegg anymore though.

I second all the movies suggested as well. (Except the ones I haven't seen.)

Though whatever you do, stay the hell away from any "(Movie) movie", unless it's one of the Scary Movies which were funny when I was younger. Not sure if they're still funny though haha.

I second spaceballs, airplane, hotshots and naked gun.
And add:

Top Secret!
Robin Hood: Men in tights
Austin Powers

Quote from: Stupot on Sun 24/04/2011 01:49:04
'Shaun of the Dead'.  I loved that when it first came out... I can't stand Simon Pegg anymore though.

In case anyone doesn't know it: Spaced, Simon Pegg's pre-Shaun of the Dead sitcom is one of the best British sitcoms around. It's not a spoof of one genre, like Police Squad, but it's full of parodies. This compilation starts with the beginning of the second series, taking off Goodfellas/Manhattan and a tiny bit of Blade Runner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJ07k-cHqU

Quote from: Ali on Sun 24/04/2011 09:51:50

Quote from: Stupot on Sun 24/04/2011 01:49:04
'Shaun of the Dead'.  I loved that when it first came out... I can't stand Simon Pegg anymore though.

In case anyone doesn't know it: Spaced, Simon Pegg's pre-Shaun of the Dead sitcom is one of the best British sitcoms around. It's not a spoof of one genre, like Police Squad, but it's full of parodies. This compilation starts with the beginning of the second series, taking off Goodfellas/Manhattan and a tiny bit of Blade Runner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJ07k-cHqU

Spaced is my all time favourite Tv-Series. The amount of movie references is unbelievable. Always something new to discover.
If you like the Pegg/Frost combination you should definetely watch Shaun of the Dead which is a clever spoof of zombie movies and Hot Fuzz! which parodies buddy action movies 

Spaced is a transgressive masterpiece. However the Pegg/Frost combo is losing momentum. Their movie Paul doesn't come anywhere close on the lol-o-meter to SotD or Hot Fuzz.

/me launches into the room and fingershoots Ali will tossing a grenade in mode7 and Atelier's general direction

Yeah I loved Spaced.  It was the best thing coming out of Britain at the time.
But I think Pegg got a bit too big for his boots after America discovered him.   Just don't find him funny anymore.

Having said that though, the trailer for Paul looks alright.  Has anyone seen this yet?  And is it good?  It looks like a kind of parody of an American road trip movie, with a bit of light sci-fi thrown in.

I've seen paul on the sneak a few weeks ago so i didnt have any expectations. It was an ok movie I guess but you only caught a glimpse of the old spirit in very few scenes. The rest was quite standart amercan comedy that didnt hurt anyone.

Guilty pleasure, I admit, but I have a soft spot for Kung Pow! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240468/) - it's utterly retarded yet some scenes makes me almost choke from laughing. But my favorite spoof film is Top Secret! as also suggested by tzachs.

Without a clue (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096454/) is arguably a spoof of Sherlock Holmes, except Watson is the real brains and Holmes is a drunken idiot he hired to front for him.

Oh, stephurhan, you just made me remember Murder by Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/). I love that movie!

So many great actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Alec Guinnes, Peter Falk, and great dialog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNzcbCrNHg) by Neil Simon.

Edit: And even though it's not a parody (strictly speaking), I'll use any opportunity to pimp the hilarity that is Clue (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/), even just for the sake of Tim Curry's amazing performance (the whole thing is up on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_akJecM43KA) - not the best image quality though, but I'm still gonna rewatch it now :))

Quote from: stepurhan on Sun 24/04/2011 19:07:32
Without a clue (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096454/) is arguably a spoof of Sherlock Holmes, except Watson is the real brains and Holmes is a drunken idiot he hired to front for him.

Ah yes! I love the Watson/Holmes duo in that one. :D

Quote from: GarageGothic on Sun 24/04/2011 19:14:30
Oh, stephurhan, you just made me remember Murder by Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/). I love that movie!

So many great actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Alec Guinnes, Peter Falk, and great dialog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNzcbCrNHg) by Neil Simon.

Edit: And even though it's not a parody (strictly speaking), I'll use any opportunity to pimp the hilarity that is Clue (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/), even just for the sake of Tim Curry's amazing performance (the whole thing is up on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_akJecM43KA) - not the best image quality though, but I'm still gonna rewatch it now :))

Clue is a pleasure to watch as well.

PEOPLE PEOPLE.

There's one amazing parody film.

Yes. that one.
Yes.

Dualnames sings:

"WE'RE MEN, WE'RE MEN IN TIGHTS!!!"

Quote from: Dualnames on Sun 24/04/2011 21:29:58
PEOPLE PEOPLE.

There's one amazing parody film.

Yes. that one.
Yes.

Dualnames sings:

"WE'RE MEN, WE'RE MEN IN TIGHTS!!!"

Robin...?

You either know the movie or you don't!  :D

If you like film noir, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083798/) is hilarious. (Even the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAyGhUgr0E) is great).

Quote from: GarageGothic on Sun 24/04/2011 19:14:30
Oh, stephurhan, you just made me remember Murder by Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/). I love that movie!

Me too!

And I love Spaceballs and Men in tights.

I don't know if it qualifies as a movie parody, maybe more a parody of movies and tv in general: The Kentucky Fried Movie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kentucky_Fried_Movie).

Also, Silent Movie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Movie) comes into my mind, though I don't really remeber what it was about, I've only seen it once, ten or so years ago.

While I was watching scenes from parody movies on YouTube yesterday thanks to this thread, I found Young Frankenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein), which I think I've never seen before, and which is a parody of Frankenstein, obviously.

And was it mentioned yet? Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriek_If_You_Know_What_I_Did_Last_Friday_the_Thirteenth). I think I don't have to say what it's parodying.

Quote from: TomatosInTheHead on Mon 25/04/2011 09:12:50
Also, Silent Movie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Movie) comes into my mind, though I don't really remeber what it was about, I've only seen it once, ten or so years ago.

While I was watching scenes from parody movies on YouTube yesterday thanks to this thread, I found Young Frankenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein), which I think I've never seen before, and which is a parody of Frankenstein, obviously.

Young Frankenstein is wonderful. And I just remembered one other Mel Brooks film - High Anxiety (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Anxiety) - which is a quite excellent parody of Hitchcock movies, in particular Vertigo.

U.H.F. with Weird Al Yankovic is very funny imo. it makes fun of Indiana Jones and Rambo. But it's not centered around making parody of other movies but still a very nice film. Michael Richards (Kramer in Seinfeld) has a roll in it as a half retarded janitor. It's about Goerge Newman (Weird al) he's always daydreaming and gets fired from one job after another. His uncle wins a small uhf station and George gets to manage the place...so they have to work hard to make the station profitable and produce good tv shows while fighting against channel 8, the biggest station in town...owned by a tyrant. Oh well...maybe that didn't sound extremely interesting but I love that movie :D

Aahhh, I love this kind of film so much. I wish the market for spoofs wasn't so saturated with those horrible Seltzer And Friedberg movies so new talent that that could get off the ground.

Young Frankenstein's a clear winner for me; but I also loved Naked Gun, Airplane, Blazin' Saddles, Top Secret (doesn't quite have the hit rate of Naked Gun but more than enough moments of genius to make it a classic), Toxic Avenger 4, Team America: World Police and Freaked.

In TV terms I highly recommend the show Community which has entire episodes dedicated to parodying movies; the best I've seen being the paint ball episode which takes the initial premise of Battle Royale  then essentially manages to brilliantly send up a different film every few seconds for the rest of it's twenty minutes. Also if you've ever seen an educational video or an episode of Tomorrow's World then Look Around You is bound to entertain. Also,  FRANK DREBIN CIDER ADVERTS! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmhwTxosYU4)

I have to say, though, though I love the genre dearly; it's also given me some of my least favourite films. Namely anything by the previously mentioned Seltzer and Friedberg and the Trey Parker abomination Orgasmo.

Quote from: EHCB on Mon 25/04/2011 12:57:19it's also given me some of my least favourite films. Namely anything by the previously mentioned Seltzer and Friedberg and the Trey Parker abomination Orgasmo.

Gotta speak up behalf of Orgazmo and Trey Parker. Just watched it last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. Great stoner/hangover movie for a day on the couch. Add Parker and Stone's Cannibal! The Musical for a nice double feature.

Leslie's Nielsen parody films are also great. And young frankestein is amazingly amazing.

Not actually a movie, but you can't miss Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Quote from: ddq on Tue 26/04/2011 17:57:28
Not actually a movie, but you can't miss Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Haha, me and a friend were reminiscing about this a few days ago.  Crazy shit. The golden era of 'what-the-fuck?' television.

Ah, my favourite kind of movies! := RIP, Leslie Nielsen...

In addition to movies mentioned above, i can reccomend  Jane Austen's Mafia  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120741/), a Godfather parody from Jim Abrahams (The director of Hot Shots!).  Wrongfully Accused  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120901/) is an underrated Leslie Nielsen Spoof making fun of such movies as The Fugitive. In addition,  Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841046/) from 2007 was a pleasant surprise as a music movie spoof, mainly following the story of the Johnny Cash movie Walk The Line.

Ah, yes.  Walk Hard was awesome.
Which reminds me, This is Spinal Tap has to be seen if you haven't already.

Quote from: Stupot on Mon 02/05/2011 14:10:45
Which reminds me, This is Spinal Tap has to be seen if you haven't already.

And it's not as funny/famous cousin mockumentaries A Mighty wind and Waiting for Guffman. But Spinal tap is definitely a classic.