This sendup by director Mel Brooks incorporates the silliest aspects of all the major space adventures of the last decade, and the whole is a hilarious combination of its parts.

| Apr 12, 2024

Spaceballs has the happy air of a comic enterprise that knows it's going right. It just keeps spritzing the gags at us, Borscht Belt-style, confidently and rightly sensing that if we don't laugh at this one, we'll laugh at the next. And so we do.

| Apr 12, 2024

Spaceballs doesn’t aspire to art; it’s perfectly happy to provide at least two good laughs every minute. That’s not a bad batting average.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2024

It is with a great deal of pleasure that I inform you that Spaceballs is twice as funny as the title and that it is funny from blast-off to splashdown.

| Apr 12, 2024

If it isn't likely to generate what Mr. Brooks himself refers to as 'Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money, neither is it anything less than gentle, harmless satire that occasionally has real bite.

| Apr 12, 2024

Although the film is "just" a parody, it's a well-done takeoff. Even the camera shots parody the other films it spoofs, and the special effects are excellent. So go space out. And may the farce be with you.

| Apr 12, 2024

Spaceballs has everything you have come to look for (or dread) in a Brooks movie. Riotous sight gags, terrible puns, rude language, movie and 온라인카지노추천 jokes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2024

It probably will do fairly well with kids and younger adolescents, who haven't heard the bad puns and seen the sight gags a thousand times before.

| Apr 12, 2024

[Brooks] tries to lampoon so many films he ends up with scenes that are hopelessly out of place. The Lawrence of Arabia and Rambo references stretch the laughs a bit too far particularly since he doesn't puncture Star Wars as much as he could.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2024

It's the kind of movie that starts out very funny and trickles down to occasional chuckles. Though it's never bad, the movie runs out of steam as Brooks runs out of gags.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 12, 2024

Parts of it work wonderfully, but whole stretches flounder.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 12, 2024

Though I hate to review a film based upon its budget, I can't help but feel that there's something very wrong with satirizing one $25-million movie with another $25-million movie.

| Apr 12, 2024

Three problems rob Spaceballs of its intended zany bounce: spotty writing, slack direction and some second-rate casting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 12, 2024

One gropes in vain to find substantial pleasures in Spaceballs. The film is basically an empty wasteful retread of the self-conscious approach that seemed so fresh 13 years ago in Blazing Saddles.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Apr 12, 2024

No one is that interested in Star Wars anymore. So watching Spaceballs is like picking up an old copy of Mad magazine and being puzzled about that Jack Palance parody you found so funny years ago.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 12, 2024

Too often, the payoff just doesn’t warrant the buildup.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2024

With his new movie Spaceballs, Mel Brooks proves that he's still the master of both sophisticated hilarity and comic overkill.

| Apr 12, 2024

If Spaceballs were simply a Star Wars spoof, even staunch Brooks fans would tire quickly... But Brooks laces the film with all sorts of extraneous gags.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2024

You’ve got to give [Brooks] credit. If he thinks of a joke or a gag, he throws it up on the screen, knowing that a certain percentage has to stick. Enough of it sticks in Spaceballs to make it a fine, funny, summer movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2024

No matter how dumb it gets, though, Spaceballs goes by so smoothly and briskly that it's hard for a viewer to get cranky. And if parents don't object to a sprinkling of off-color words, the film's silliness could make it a hit with kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2024