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Entertainment Weekly voted the film the "funniest movie on video" in their list of the 100 funniest movies on video. [ 52 ] A number of actors were cast to spoof their established images: prior to their roles in Airplane! , Nielsen, Stack, and Bridges were known for portraying adventurous, no-nonsense tough-guy characters.
Meet the Spartans is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. [4] The film is mainly a parody of the 2006 film 300, although it also references many other films, TV shows, people and pop cultural events of the time, in a manner similar to previous films that Friedberg and Seltzer had been involved in such as Scary Movie, Date Movie and Epic Movie.
The first film parody was The Little Train Robbery (1905), which makes fun of The Great Train Robbery (1903), in part by using an all-child cast for the Western spoof. Historically, when a genre formula grows tired, as in the case of the moralistic melodramas in the 1910s, it retains value only as a parody, as demonstrated by Buster Keaton ...
The film is a parody of Bogart films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. [ 3 ] The ensemble cast includes Madeline Kahn , Louise Fletcher , Ann-Margret , Eileen Brennan , Stockard Channing , Marsha Mason , Sid Caesar , John Houseman , Dom DeLuise , Abe Vigoda , James Coco , Phil Silvers , Fernando Lamas , Nicol Williamson , Scatman ...
Epic Movie is a 2007 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and produced by Paul Schiff. It stars Kal Penn , Adam Campbell , Jayma Mays , Jennifer Coolidge , Faune A. Chambers , Crispin Glover , Tony Cox , and Fred Willard .
Vampires Suck is a 2010 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. It stars Jenn Proske, Matt Lanter, Christopher N. Riggi, Ken Jeong, Anneliese van der Pol, and Arielle Kebbel. The film is a parody of The Twilight Saga franchise (mainly the original film and its sequel, New Moon).
Robin Hood: Men in Tights is a 1993 adventure comedy film and a parody of the Robin Hood story. The film was produced and directed by Mel Brooks, co-written by Brooks, Evan Chandler, and J. David Shapiro based on a story by Chandler and Shapiro, and stars Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, and Dave Chappelle in his film debut.
Wrongfully Accused is a 1998 satirical comedy film written, produced and directed by Pat Proft and starring Leslie Nielsen as a man who has been framed for murder and desperately attempts to expose the true culprits. The film is a parody of the 1993 film The Fugitive, and also parodies numerous other films.