Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1987)

 

This movie was in the draft section for months. For some reason I never seemed to find the right moment to write about it. And today, that I'm feeling less humorous than any other day, I decided that is the day that I'm going to write about Spaceballs. The first thing that comes into my mind when I hear about this movie, is the first time that I watched it, which was back in 1987. It was in a packed theater. I mean literally you couldn't breath in there. There was so much noise before the screening, because we were mostly kids in there and their hysterical parents, that I had a fucking headache. I was grumpy and ill-tempered and my mom was trying to relax me. (I never liked many people in one place). Finally the movie started and I still remember the moment when Rick Moranis shows his face under that Darth Vader-like mask. The theater fucking exploded and so did I. I and all the other kids couldn't stop laughing. The movie was moving on but nobody paid attention to it. Everyone had stayed in that fucking awesome face of Rick Moranis.   

Spaceballs (and I'm not a particular fan of parodies) is a great movie, hands down. If you are even a moderate fan of Star Wars movies, science fiction films and inspiring jokes then this your today's specialty. Spaceballs has a boldness in its humor (that reminds me of Seth Rogen's humor at moments) that you rarely can find. Although is not filled with curses or heavy sex jokes it's still an extremely clever and in its own distinctive way, naughty, comedy. Although a film made to appeal to children it has the charm to get you even if you are 100 years-old. The creativity that this movies has to offer, even if it's a parody, meaning that it works upon an already made recipe, it's totally hilarious. There are tons, literally tons of jokes, that I remember like I saw them yesterday, that make me feel so uplifted, so genuinely happy and excited. And truth is that even for that, for the fact that Spaceballs has been making such a huge impression on me from the age of eight till the age of forty five, it's a great, immortal movie.