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A parody film or spoof film is a subgenre of comedy film that lampoons other film genres or films as pastiches, [1] [2] [3] works created by imitation of the style of many different films reassembled together. Although the subgenre is often overlooked by critics, parody films are commonly profitable at the box office. [4]
The 1 Up Fever (2013), mockumentary about Bitcoin and augmented reality video games.; 2gether (2000), spoof of boy bands like N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys.; 7 Days in Hell (2015), a fictional documentary-style exposé on the rivalry between two of the greatest tennis players of all time who battled it out in a 2001 match that lasted seven days.
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
In 'Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, the Doobie Brothers frontman says Moranis later apologized to him for the parody Michael McDonald Was Stoned the First Time He Saw Rick Moranis' Spoof of Him on ...
Usually, an issue of Mad features a spoof of at least one feature film or television program. The works selected by the staff of Mad are typically from cinema and television in the United States. The authors parody the original titles with puns or other wordplay. Characters are caricatured, and lampooned with joke names.
The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday without explicitly noting it was originally released as parody. The video uses many ...
Satirical advertisement on the topic of Australia Day, produced by The Juice Media.. A parody advertisement is a fictional advertisement for a non-existent product, either done within another advertisement for an actual product, or done simply as parody of advertisements—used either as a way of ridiculing or drawing negative attention towards a real advertisement or such an advertisement's ...
Dolphy also played leading roles in other mockbusters, including Wanted: Perfect Father, a comedy-drama based on the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, [31] [32] [33] and Tataynic, a 1998 parody of James Cameron's Titanic. Other Filipino knockoffs include Bobo Cop (a parody of RoboCop) [34] and Rocky Plus V (a spoof of the Rocky series). [35]