ANOTHER LIST


SPOOF and movie are two words that just don’t go together these days. A succession of downright deplorable productions that have been served up like a quickly slapped together Big Mac have given the entire genre a bad name.

They just get worse and worse. In 2008 we were fed the terrible trifecta of Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie and Meet The Spartans.

In the two years before that there was Epic Movie, Date Movie, My Big Fat Independent Movie and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.




The ‘Movie’ set, which has followed the lead of the actually watchable Scary Movie franchise, is more like a big screen version of Mad TV, but even less amusing, and that’s saying something, because that particular skit show is really just a shit show.

And there’s more to come, with Dance Flick, Sci-Fi Movie and Farce of the Penguins to be released in the very near future. I believe filming on those movies is almost complete though the actual writing of the scripts is yet to start.

Would you believe the spoof movie has become so popular (withHollywood producers, not the general public, judging by box-office numbers) that a spoof movie of spoof movies is also beingmade called Not Another Not Another Movie, starring the once-great Chevy Chase, as well as other washed-up has-beens Michael Madsen, Burt Reynolds and Vinnie Jones.




It’s not the first time we’ve had a spate of shocking spoofs though. In the ’90s an ageing Leslie Nielsen, riding on The Naked Gun trilogy wave of success, appeared in Repossessed (1990), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), Spy Hard (1996), Wrongfully Accused (1998) and 2001: A Space Travesty (2000).

Other forgettable entries in the spoof hall of fame were Fatal Instinct (1993), The Silence of the Hams (1997), Plump Fiction (1998) and Not Another Teen Movie (2001).

There was a time though when the spoof movie presented some of funniest comedy on screen, usually thanks to the outstanding talents of the Monty Python team and Mel Brooks, and more recently, but to a lesser extent, Mike Myers, the Wayan Brothers and Simon Pegg.

So, let’s now take a look at the films that actually had time and effort put into them.

These are more like the Big Mac’s that you see in the photos on the wall at McDonald’s. Fat and fresh.