Spaceballs Details

Spaceballs

In this spoof of STAR WARS and a handful of other sci-fi flicks from the 1970s and '80s, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-dog/half-man sidekick, Barf (John Candy), must rescue a spoiled Druish princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) in time to pay off intergalatic gangster Pizza the Hut. With SPACEBALLS, director Mel Brooks is at it again, this time with a science-fiction parody with all the blue-screen special effects and weird makeup (though in this film, things are always slightly off-kilter and unpolished). Here, maverick space travelers set out to save the planet Druidia, which is being harassed by the Spaceballs, a sinister group attempting to pilfer Druidia's air resources. Among the many gags and jokes is a hilarious parody of a classic scene from ALIEN. Brooks himself (who appears in two different roles) makes one of his funniest acting appearances as Yogurt, a send-up of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK's Yoda.

Starring	Bill Pullman, John Candy, Daphne Zuniga, Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Dick Van Patten, John Hurt
Director	Mel Brooks
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy
Language	English
Dubbed	French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English, German
Subtitles	Croatian, Danish, Dink, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
Released	DVD: 09 May 2005 Production year: 1987
Format	DVD