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  • Elaine. No, this is the cockpit, the bowling lanes

  • are in the back. You're a member of this crew. Can you face

  • some unpleasant facts? My doctor advised against it.

  • I think you ought to know what our chances are. The life of everyone onboard

  • depends upon just one thing. Reviewing these comedy spoofs, I know, I know!

  • But surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

  • Well, I'm a little rusty, but I'll see what I can do.

  • There's one thing I do know. You're the only chance we've got.

  • Then I better get to it... this is Movie Night!

  • Hello and welcome inside the TCL Chinese Theater for the sixth season of Movie Night. Bringing

  • you high-quality, in-depth reviews in four minutes or less... I'm your host, Jonathan

  • Paula. How about that all new intro? We've certainly come a long way since my first review

  • show premiered over ten years ago. Anyway, for part one of tonight's big premiere, we'll

  • be reviewing half of my ten favorite comedy parodies. As always, we begin in chorological

  • order, with, "Monty Python And The Holy Grail".

  • This cult-classic comedy film from the legendary English comedy trope Monty Python was a box

  • office success, earning more than twelve times its small $400,000 budget. With these sales

  • it became the most successful British film released in America following its April 1975

  • premiere. The 91-minute narrative is generally a parody of King Arthur's quest to find the

  • Holy Grail during the middle-ages, but the story bounces around quite a bit, and contains

  • more than its fair share of anachronistic jokes. Truthfully, the PG-rated story is amounts

  • to little more than a series of loosely connected sketches set in and around some English castles.

  • Weird animation inter-titles, a trademark of Monty Python's sketch-comedy TV show, are

  • sprinkled throughout the plot to fill in gaps left by this disjointed story. Fortunately,

  • the group of actors, that each play about eight separate characters, do an outstanding

  • job with the material. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones,

  • and Michael Palin, are experts at their craft; and their impeccable timing, sharp writing,

  • and brilliant delivery is what makes this film. The majority of

  • the laughs are derived from the extremely memorable and quotable dialogue, rather than

  • sight-gags, or pratfalls. Indeed, the film literally opens with a subtitle joke regarding

  • a Norwegian moose of some sort. Bookended by slow dips to black, each scene plays out

  • like a self-contained sketch, many of which have become rather famous since. There's the

  • hilarious question and answer session regarding the methods of proper witch-hunting, a rescue

  • effort that sees Cleese murdering everyone in sight with reckless abandon, a debate on

  • the airspeed of unladen African swallows, and of course... the Knights who say "ni".

  • The only such sequence that isn't quite on par with the brilliance of the others is a

  • drawn-out bit involving horny maidens locked away in a castle, that even breaks the forth-wall

  • to ask audiences if the scene should have been cut. And honestly, they probably should

  • have. I would be remiss however if I didn't mention my favorite scene, when Cleese dons

  • a suit of armor as the "Black Knight" who persists on sword-fighting even after losing

  • three of limbs, playfully defending, "Just a flesh wound." Unable to afford real horses

  • because of their shoestring budget, a recurring gag involving coconuts is used instead with

  • fabulous results. The lack of money wasn't always advantageous though, as there are notable

  • deficiencies with the lighting, making it hard to see the actors faces at times. An

  • oft repeated chunk of trumpet-laden music by Neil Innes does give the film a more regal

  • quality however. Although the movie's pace is very inconsistent (some scenes linger far

  • longer than they should) the laughs are plentiful, and the experience is a delightful one. Fans

  • of tongue-in-cheek British humor will absolutely adore this film, but I suspect most of them

  • have already seen this classic. "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" is a rewatchable collection

  • of hilarious moments from comedy legends. Now let's see what you had to say in the YouTube

  • comments.

  • With calling this one of the funniest British films ever made, your scores averaged to a

  • NINE out of ten. I similarly adore this picture, but there's also little semblance of a story,

  • especially with its rushed ending - so I can't quite award it my top score. I thought it

  • was AWESOME too. Next up tonight, "Airplane!"

  • Released on July 2, 1980 - this satirical disaster comedy film was written and directed

  • by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker - a trio collectively known as "ZAZ". Primarily

  • parodying big-budget disaster ensembles like "Zero Hour!" and "Airport", this $3.5 million

  • dollar production was a huge success - earning $80 million in profit. When the crew of airplane

  • is taken ill, the only person capable of saving them is an ex-pilot traumatized by his service

  • in the war; but he overcomes his drinking problem, and personal demons to assist the

  • flight. Playing everything entirely straight, the mammoth group of dramatic actors take

  • their first swing at comedy, and absolutely nail it. The relatively unknown Robert Hays

  • and Julie Hagerty star as the romantic leads, and it's their perplexing chemistry that manages

  • to give the film a bit of emotional resonance, despite its overtly wacky delivery. The breakout

  • performance however is from longtime respected dramatic actor Leslie Nielsen, whose brilliant

  • turn as the flight's deadpan doctor marked a huge turning point in his storied career.

  • Remarking on his surprising talent for comedy, famed critic Roger Ebert remarked that he

  • was the "Olivier of spoofs". When he stoically lays out the exposition to Hays, the washed

  • up war vet can only muster a confused response, "Surely you can't be serious". Nielsen's straight-faced

  • reply, "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley" is one of the film's many excellent uses of

  • verbal pans, and perhaps "Airplane!"'s most iconic moment. Similarly, Robert Stack, of

  • "Unsolved Mysteries" fame, Lloyd Bridges, and Peter Graves contribute excellent performances

  • as well - who somehow manage to keep from cracking in even the film's funniest scenes.

  • The mile-a-minute 87-minute narrative is busting at the seems with sight-gags, verbal puns,

  • pratfalls, and absurd cutaways... including a hilariously contentious back-and-forth with

  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who ostensibly plays himself), an over-the-top flashback send-up

  • of "Saturday Night Fever" that includes a violet mid-song murder, a confusing conversation

  • involving the crew's surnames and flight-lingo, and a particularly clever fellatio joke with

  • the plane's auto-pilot. Supported by wonderful cartoon-style sound effects, the music from

  • Elmer Bernstien further helps the picture masquerade as a serious action-film: making

  • the juxtaposition of bouncing boob shots and hysterical passengers than much funnier. For

  • a collaborative effort, ZAZ still manages to maintain a consistent visual style for

  • the PG-rated film: keeping most shots locked-down and wide: punching in for close-ups only when

  • absolutely necessary. Inspiring countless comedies in its wake, including a decently

  • entertaining sequel of its own - "Airplane!" is an immensely funny and rewatchable comedy,

  • and if I absolutely had to pick one, is probably my all-time favorite comedy. Now let's see

  • what you had to say in the YouTube comments.

  • Both of us gave plenty of praise to the non-stop gags, and Nielsen's excellent role - you thought

  • this movie was AWESOME. An obvious classic, I happen to consider this film especially

  • fantastic, I'm rating it an AMAZING. Plenty of options to choose from, including tonight's

  • five movies: so for tonight's poll question: what is your favorite spoof comedy? Leave

  • your response below with the hashtag #PollQuestion to be eligible for a one-year "Pro-level"

  • account on Letterboxd.com - I'll be announcing a winner in part two of this episode. Our

  • third review tonight is for "This Is Spinal Tap".

  • This improvised mockumentary from director Rob Reiner was released nationwide in March

  • of 1984, where it doubled its $2.5 million dollar budget. The quick 82-minute experience

  • is an excellent send-up of rock culture, portraying the fictional British heavy metal band "Spinal

  • Tap" during a year on tour with hilarious results. The R-rated picture perfectly satirizes

  • everything from their wild debauchery, musical pretentiousness, performance blunders, and

  • general cluelessness. Perpetually teetering on the edge of realism, it's the extremely

  • subtle and true-to-life humor that not only makes this movie so funny, it also tricked

  • a fair number of audiences into believing this band actually existed. In their first

  • of many such parody-documentaries, veteran comics Christopher Guest, Michael McKean,

  • and Harry Shearer lead the picture as the titular group of cod-piece wearing narcissists:

  • ad-libbing a majority of their lines in the process. In an inspired bit of casting Reiner

  • appears as an ambitious film director within the film, often interviewing the band on-camera.

  • Later, he sets up the picture's most iconic moment when he questions Guest's decision

  • to label all of his amps with an "11", asking, "Why don't you just make ten louder and make

  • ten be the top number and make that a little louder?" ... the drawn out beat before Chris

  • answers, "These go to eleven" is one of the most legendary examples of comedic timing.

  • Joined by some cameos from before-they-famous actors like Bruno Kirby, Billy Crystal, Fran

  • Drescher, and Ed Begley Jr. - the core group of players make their biting improvisation

  • and witty banter look effortless, but their heavy accents, and talking over one another

  • sometimes makes it hard to follow their conversations. This is one picture that definitely benefits

  • from having the subtitles turned on. Structurally, the movie could really be arranged in any

  • order... each scene works well by itself, but when assembled together, there's very

  • little cohesion or over-arching story here. The fly-on-the-wall visual style lends credence

  • to the picture's unscripted nature too, consistently cutting away to Spinal Tap's many shortcomings

  • and humorous issues during their on-stage performances, like when Shearer gets stuck

  • in a cocoon-like apparatus, forcing him to wail out his bass-solo in the cramped compartment.

  • Indeed, the movie is littered with dozens of little gags like this, including the group's

  • unexplained herpes, difficulties with their overly simplistic album cover, and overtly

  • misogynistic song lyrics. When Guest waxes poetic on a romantic ballad he's been arranging

  • influenced by Mozart and Bach, he then shares that the song's title is "Lick My Love Pump".

  • Despite the absurd and lewd material, their music is actually rather catchy - and should

  • appeal to most rock fans. U2 guitarist, The Edge famously said of the film, "I didn't

  • laugh, I wept. It was so close to the truth." And that is perhaps my biggest issue with

  • the movie: there's plenty of great concepts and jokes, but much like a great "The Onion"

  • article, it often induces more of a soft chuckle than true laughter. Still though, as the only

  • movie on IMDb to be rated out of eleven, "This Is Spinal Tap" is wonderful satire of rock

  • culture worth watching more than once, I thought it was COOL. Now let's check out some of your

  • reviews.

  • Opinions were a bit mixed on this one, but you enjoyed the sharp writing and silly music,

  • scoring this an EIGHT out of... "Eleven". Not quite as strong as remember, I'll score

  • this a COOL myself. Next up, "Spaceballs".

  • This sci-fi parody film written, produced, directed, and starring Mel Brooks was released

  • in June of 1987 - where it earned back slightly less than double its $22-million dollar budget.

  • Primarily functioning as a spoof of "Star Wars", this goofy and joke-filled 96-minute

  • movie also riffs on "Star Trek", "Alien", "Planet Of The Apes", and other Hollywood

  • classics. Functioning as a sort of Indiana Jones meets Han Solo analog, Bill Pullman

  • is featured in the lead role, who attempts to rescue Daphne Zuniga, a beautiful princess

  • from the supposedly evil Rick Moranis, as "Dark Helmet". Pullman's trusty sidekick is

  • a half-man, half-dog played charmingly by the late John Candy, while Zuniga's sidekick

  • is a female C-3PO-like droid voiced by the late Joan Rivers. This core group of five

  • players, plus Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, and Brooks himself handle the quick and sarcastic

  • dialogue perfectly - with top marks going to Moranis as the nerdy Darth Vader-type villain.

  • His initial entrance, revealing a helmet six times larger than his head is a tremendous

  • sight-gag, and one that had me literally hit "pause" the first time I saw this movie because

  • I was laughing so hard. When attempting to catch up to the escaped heroes, Moranis orders

  • his comically large spaceship to immediately jump to "ludicrous speed"... to which Candy

  • surprisingly exclaims, "They've gone to plaid!". A quote I loved so much, I had it printed

  • on a T-shirt you buy now at Jogwheel's all-new merchandise store, ThatReference.com! Speaking

  • of shameless plugs, a running gag involving "Spaceballs" merchandise, including toilet

  • paper, action figures, and even flamethrowers - is particularly amusing. Although Brooks

  • breaks the forth wall to hock some of these products, they sadly never existed in real

  • life: as this was the singular condition George Lucas requested when allowing the funnyman

  • to spoof his work. No doubt though, the standout sequence occurs when the bad guys resort to

  • watching a VHS cassette of the film itself to gain information. Seeing them interact

  • with the video loop in real-time is a wonderfully hilarious moment, and one my friend Riley

  • and I even poorly recreated in one of my earliest YouTube uploads. Despite containing a number

  • of swears, including the F-word, this movie is somehow still rated-PG, and I have fond

  • memories of this one when I was younger - but upon rewatching this recently, it honestly

  • didn't hold up that well. The adequately-paced story is supported by a disco-theme provided

  • by longtime Brooks collaborator, John Morris that overtly incorporates space-sound effects.

  • It works well enough, but more than anything, it dates the movie as a 1980's production.

  • The visual effects are competently handled by Apogee, Inc - who utilize some great model

  • and compositing work to bring the space adventure to life. Like most of Mel's work - this is

  • a goofy and harmless movie that should easily entertain younger audiences, and all fans

  • of Star Wars. "Spaceballs" is a quirky send-up of space fantasies with plenty of inspired

  • gags. Here's what you had to say in the YouTube comments.

  • A double EIGHT for "Spaceballs"... obvious praise goes to Mel Brooks and the endlessly

  • quotable dialogue, with both of us scoring this a GREAT. Even though I took most of the

  • summer off from my film reviewing duties, I was still hard at work over on the Movie

  • Night Archive channel, uploading various commentaries on recently released trailers - including

  • my most recent thoughts on the "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" teaser. So please subscribe

  • to that channel for more exclusive content, and a full library of every movie we've reviewed

  • so far. Finally tonight, here's my review of "Naked Gun: Files From The Police Squad!"

  • Another satire written by the ZAZ trio, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker - this

  • PG-13 rated film earned over $65 million in profit following its December second release

  • in 1988. Based off the short-lived television series, "Police Squad!", the plot follows

  • a bumbling and generally incompetent LAPD cop as he attempts to foil a plot to assassinate

  • the visiting Queen Elizabeth II. Lelsie Nielsen stars in the lead role, as perhaps his most

  • famous character: and is a true master of slapstick... including my favorite sequence

  • when he masquerades as an ostentatious baseball umpire for an unsuspecting ball game. Priscilla

  • Presley, Ricardo Montalbán, George Kennedy, and O.J. Simpson round out the supporting

  • cast with equally capable performances: delivering all of the brilliant word-play and gags with

  • ease. Having missed the chance to spoof himself in "Airplane!" years earlier, Kennedy reportedly

  • campaigned to be cast in this film - and is a great fit for the deadpan police Captain.

  • The quick 85-minute plot delivers these excellent verbal puns and malapropisms with such high

  • frequency, multiple viewings is almost mandatory if you want to catch them all. Interesting

  • in taking their relationship a step further, Presley invitingly asks Nielsen if he'd be

  • interested in a "nightcap", to which he quickly replies, "No thank you, I don't wear them."

  • On paper, it's not neccesarily anything special - but his perfect timing and delivery is what

  • makes every aspect of his performance so excellent - and still funny these 25+ years later. The

  • wider 16:9 frame allows for plenty of room for the picture's awesome sight-gags, like

  • when one fleeing criminal repeatedly careens into larger and larger explosively ordinances,

  • culminating with Lelsie ironically advising nearby crowds that there's "nothing to see

  • here." The seldom used score from Ira Newborn is an upbeat and festive one, that lends itself

  • very well to the goofy action on screen. This David Zucker comedy would not only completely

  • revitalize Nielsen's career, it also spawned two sequels - which although unable to match

  • the humor of the original were just as successful, and rather entertaining. If you enjoy goofy

  • and immature laughs - this is one experience that won't disappoint. The sillier gags will

  • entertain younger audiences, while some of the more adult gags will have older viewers

  • entertained as well. " The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" is an excellent

  • police-detective spoof with non-stop jokes. Here now are some of your thoughts.

  • Our ratings for "Naked Gun"... a NINE and an EIGHT. Many of you enjoyed the silly style,

  • and of course, Nielsen's performance, rating this an AWESOME. Although it's easily the

  • strongest in the trilogy, it's still a bit juvenile to receive anything higher than a

  • GREAT from me. And now, a look at what you're saying about movies currently playing in theaters

  • with some Tweet Critiques.

  • If you see a new movie in theaters, Tweet your review with the #JPMN hashtag. Next weekend

  • we'll continue reviewing my favorite comedy spoofs - but before then, in a special bonus

  • episode, I'll be reviewing three horror classics, "The Exorcist", "Poltergeist", and "Child's

  • Play". If you've seen these films, share your opinions by voting in the polls below, or

  • by leaving a comment review. But that does it for this episode... if you'd like to watch

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  • or Letterboxd for updates between episodes. Once again, my name is Jonathan Paula, thank

  • you for watching and listening. Until next time, have a good Movie Night!

Elaine. No, this is the cockpit, the bowling lanes

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