The Movie Spoof

What in the hell happened to the movie spoof?  And we absolutely can not count those terrible terrible [insert the genre they are making fun of] Movie movies as spoofs!  They are nothing but taking a scene or character from a good/okay movie and then overdoing it with way too many cliches, making fun of too many movies at once, and there is no actual plot or originality.  Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, Extreme Movie, Dance Flick, Meet the Spartans, and any of the Scary Movies after the first two were all garbage that attempted to be a spoof but failed miserably.  What in the hell is funny about fart jokes combined with The Chronicles of Narnia?  Nothing.  Abso-fucking-lutely nothing.  Hell, they are even working on a Hunger Games "spoof" that is combining The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Potter into a big vat of fucking awful "comedy" and if you pay money to see it, then you might as well have set that money on fire, it will bring you more amusement.

Can you even name the last good spoof movie?  I racked my brain and thought it was the first Scary Movie but then realized that it was written by the same guys who did all of the movies in the previous paragraph, so that automatically rejects it.  Then I thought it might have been Hot Shots! Part Deux.  It starred pre-crazy Charlie Sheen and was genuinely funny, but there was another spoof movie that came out in between those two that I feel is highly underrated and should be shown some respect.  That movie was Galaxy Quest.  It made fun of Star Trek (and only Star Trek unlike the crap that came out recently that spoof half a dozen movies at a time) perfectly, it starred actors you have actually heard of, and it is rewatchable.  Not a single one of the movies in the paragraph above would you ever watch a second time unless you had a serious brain injury and those movies were the only way to relieve your pain.

All I'm saying is that I miss the days when they came out with a good spoof movie that actually made you laugh.  What happened to spoofs like Spaceballs, Airplane!, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Naked Gun, and Young Frankenstein?  Sadly, the answer is that Mel Brooks got old, Leslie Nelson passed away, and the same two idiot writers who keep making today's "spoofs" keep finding work somehow.  One of these days a young Hollywood exec will come along and remember how funny Blazing Saddles was and finally green-light a real spoof movie again and all will be right with the world.  Until then we will have to continue waiting for the release of the next prequel/sequel/remake comic book movie to come out.

"Have you ever wondered where the idea for the Chainsaw Gun came from for the Gears of War games?  Look no further than Hot Shots! Part Deux.  At least, that's my assumption."