Spaceballs


Spaceballs is a 1987 American parody film cowritten and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy and Rick Moranis. It also features Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers. It was released by MetroGoldwynMayer on June 26, 1987, and was met with a mixed reception. It later became a cult classic on video and one of Brooks most popular films. Its setting and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other scifi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, and the Planet of the Apes films. The plot mirrors that of the 1934 film It Happened One Night.158

Planet Spaceball, led by the incompetent President Skroob, has wasted all of its air. Skroob schemes to steal air from the neighboring planet Druidia by kidnapping Princess Vespa, the daughter of King Roland on the day of her prearranged wedding to the narcoleptic Prince Valium. Skroob sends the villainous Dark Helmet to complete this task with Spaceball One, an impossibly huge ship helmed by Colonel Sandurz. Before they can arrive, Vespa herself abandons her marriage and flees the planet in her personal Mercedes spaceship along with her Droid of Honor, Dot Matrix.King Roland contacts mercenary Lone Starr and his mawg halfman, halfdog sidekick, Barf which is short for Barfolomew, offering a lucrative reward to retrieve Vespa before she is captured. Lone Starr readily accepts, as he is in major debt with the gangster Pizza the Hutt. In their Winnebago space ship Eagle 5, Lone Starr and Barf are able to reach Vespa before Spaceball One, rescue both her and Dot, then escape. Spaceball One tries to follow, but Dark Helmet foolishly orders the ship to ludicrous speed, causing it to overshoot the escapees, who land on the nearby desert moon of Vega. The escapees travel on foot in a blazing sun and pass out. They are found by The Dinks, a group of redclad little people, and are taken to a cave occupied by Yogurt, who is old and wise. Yogurt introduces Lone Starr to the power of The Schwartz. Yogurt also introduces the audience to the films merchandising campaign. Lone Starr and Vespa begin to flirt, but Vespa insists she can only be married to a prince. ........

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